You gotta love how Lucy and her roommate are two white girls living in Taiwan and they still only date white guys. Lucy would rather date a manipulative, flakey criminal than an Asian guy. After that, all the Asian guys are depicted as disgusting rapists, assexual automatons, or little more than moving targets for Lucy's gun.
shareHow does them being white, have anything to do with who they date?
It's just preference, some date white guys, some date Asian guys, dark skinned guys, etc.
You realize this is a film, right? Why are you defending the choices of imaginary characters as if they're real people? This post is a criticism of Hollywood for yet again creating a film where Asian men are depicted as undesirable. Lucy's roommate pointing out very starkly that her one-night-stand is "not Chinese" is very telling, too. They're in a place where 99.5% of the people are Asian and they seemingly seek out other white foreigners to date on purpose - Guys who are sleezy and unethical to boot.
shareI could tell you the same thing, your criticizing the choices of fictional characters, Asian men aren't depicted as undesirable, every race has bad eggs, it's not because of their race, it's because of who they are, the 'bad' Asians in Lucy were just showing what corruption and materialism leads to, the people demonstrating this just happened to be Asian, you couldn't figure that out for yourself and had to take a jab at Hollywood for that?
Again, what's wrong with dating whoever you like? just because your in a foreign location doesn't mean you HAVE to date foreigners of that location, Lucy's room mate was just pointing out that the man she slept with was not Chinese, just to not confuse Lucy most likely since they live in Taiwan , I mean, that's what I got from it, even so, I wasn't even focusing on her little naughty story, I only cared about Lucy at that moment.
Once again, I'm criticizing the choices of Hollywood in this film - The people who created this film, not the fictional people appearing in it. You seem to be arguing that Lucy is a real person.
Wake up. There are hardly any Hollywood films that depict Asian males with the same depth as men of other races - They can be nerds, they can be side kicks, they can be villians, they can be comedic relief, but they'll rarely ever be heartthrobs.
You really are a delusional person.Maybe you should go check for DPD.
shareOnce again, I'm criticizing the choices of Hollywood in this film - The people who created this film, not the fictional people appearing in it.It was created by a French man, not an American.
You just said it, the guy she dated was a manipulative criminal, not much better than the koreans.
What I found strange is that her roomate seems to study in Taiwan and yet doesn't even try to learn the language. Somehow that doesn't fit.
Luc Besson happens to love Taiwan, that's why it started there. And because he didn't want to make Taiwan look bad he decided to make the villains korean, lol! My taiwanese wife was happy with this but when you think about it, most movies are like this. You always blame it on the foreigners and make them look bad. Especially Hollywood productions. Basically everyone in this movie was bad except for the scientists (american) and police (french). Luc Besson is french and this movie is an american/french coproduction, go figure. Even the german guy was depicted as a whiny guy always complaning and asking to speak with authorities until he got shot for it.
I am german btw. Over here we call this kind of things "propaganda". And the best propaganda is the one that you don't notice.
What I found strange is that her roomate seems to study in Taiwan and yet doesn't even try to learn the language. Somehow that doesn't fit.
I am german btw. Over here we call this kind of things "propaganda". And the best propaganda is the one that you don't notice.
Another thing about languages:
When Lucy talks to the receptionist and the receptionist is talking to the gangsters (the scene in the lobby) he is talking in chinese/taiwanese. But later the gangsters talk korean and the receptionist is translating in korean.
About the propaganda thing:
I was talking less about this movie and more about Hollywood in general. They have been doing this forever. It may be subtle for you if you were raised like this, but this is the dangerous part of it. But let's not have this discussion, I don't feel like that.
When Lucy talks to the receptionist and the receptionist is talking to the gangsters (the scene in the lobby) he is talking in chinese/taiwanese. But later the gangsters talk korean and the receptionist is translating in korean.
I was talking less about this movie and more about Hollywood in general. They have been doing this forever. It may be subtle for you if you were raised like this, but this is the dangerous part of it. But let's not have this discussion, I don't feel like that.
That line the roommate said did strike me as well for being subconsciously racist. "That guy is so hot". "He's not Chinese" like she had to qualify "well of course the hot guy isn't Chinese" when they are in a country with only Chinese people. I've visited Taiwan and I think they had more White people in one room in this movie than I saw in 4 weeks there, so that was weird as well.
At least they portrayed the Koreans as being pretty efficient whereas the French police were pretty incompetent, which may be true in reality.
Well, some people are like that. Maybe that was the character?
shareIt's not racist. Consider the context. "Who understands Chinese? I don't understand Chinese... this one guy, he's not Chinese." She doesn't speak Chinese, she's probably going to go for a guy she can actually communicate with.
Besides, being attracted to one race over another doesn't make one racist. That would be like saying a gay man is misogynist for not being attracted to women.
Good point.
sharePlenty of Chinese people can speak English to varying degrees, so it's still weird that she's qualifying nationality and not language.
shareFYI saying you're not attracted to an entire gender is racist just as saying you're only into a specific race is, because you're defining a person by their ethnicity.
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Where are you getting all this *beep* from?LMAO
shareWell, girls don't come to the US from India and date Black and Mexican guys. They look for successful Indian, or possibly White or Asian guys. Just the way it is. Some White guys move to Japan and hunt for White girls there, either from the US, Europe, Russia or Australia.
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