MovieChat Forums > Crazy Rich Asians (2018) Discussion > Asians, correct me if I am wrong ...

Asians, correct me if I am wrong ...

posted 4 years ago by brux (14666)
9 replies | jump to latest

... but I see the title of this movie as "Crazy Rich Asians" and I think it is weird because what they really mean is "Crazy Rich Chinese", but that would be non-inclusive, and politically correct and not serve the "global Chinese agenda" of subsuming or absorbing all of Asia under the Chinese nation.

I know a fair amount of Asians, and in America I find a lot of Asian people are not Chinese and resent being thought of as Chinese, and in fact a lot of Asian countries and people resent the Chinese.

The point is that not all Asians are crazy rich, and even the Chinese who play crazy rich business owners are often part of families who are rich because they exploited other Asians and came to America with lots of money.

Just some of these movies seem like commercials for China, and it is a bit like Russia interfering in our Presidential elections, but is China interfering of trying to manipulate the images of Chinese when an awful lot of these "Crazy Rich Chinese" come to America to do anything but be American, whereas a lot of Asians from other countries really get America and join the society ... or whatever is left of it; for example Japanese and Vietnamese.

But to the average American who lumps Asians and Middle Easterners together they never get to see some of the broad differences in people and cultures. Is that fair to say, or not?

[–] Moonglum9 (10702) 4 years ago

I think they were an Asian gang or something. They were speaking another language. I'm pretty sure it was Asiannnnnnnn!

[–] hootiehome (408) 4 years ago

Winner!!

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

but I see the title of this movie as "Crazy Rich Asians" and I think it is weird because what they really mean is "Crazy Rich Chinese" [...] But to the average American...

I guess what you really mean is "average US citizen", isn't it?

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

It's about Singapore, not China.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

Thanks ... but the actors are Chinese, no? The movie producers are Chinese, no? Taiwanese? I don't know, it's not the kind of movie I would be interested in seeing. Singapore is pretty fair away from China though, so, point made.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

While it was mostly about ethnic Chinese characters, it was pretty separate from China as a country.

The producers are white Americans. One of the five production companies involved is based on Hong Kong (which as we can see from recent events is still at odds with mainland China), while the other four production companies are American, headquartered in Los Angeles. From what I can tell, none of the main actors are citizens or residents of mainland China. Constance Wu is Taiwanese-American born in the US (Taiwan and China are not exactly best buddies). Henry Golding is Malaysian-British. Gemma Chan is British-Chinese, born in England, whose father is from Hong Kong and mother grew up in Scotland.

Significantly, this movie was not a big hit in China.

[–] brux (14666) 4 years ago

> While it was mostly about ethnic Chinese characters, it was pretty separate from China as a country.

Why, is kind of my point.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Indeed.

[–] Rolltide (964) 3 years ago

I do not think a single actor in this film is actually from China. Most actors come from English speaking countries(USA,UK, Australia) as well as Malaysia and the Philippines. Some from both. You can basically tell by the accents except Nick's character does a good job trying to sound more American.

The princess Intan character is Kris Aquino from the most famous family in the Philippines.