| Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 12:55 am EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Even as a joke, your example is based on false equivalencies - WaymanWong 12:13 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Ahhh! Thanks for clarifying! I kinda saw them as human actors who had been cast to play human roles. In none of those performances did I detect a whiff of condescension or mockery in the Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's vein. Naïvete, perhaps. Looked at from a contemporary perspective, of course Asian actors will be cast and I look forward to being introduced to some great new talents, the way I was when I saw Hoon Lee in The King and I (he was new to me, not new to the business). But I refuse to dismiss Yul Brynner's performance as The King just because he isn't considered Asian enough by contemporary standards for a movie made 60 years ago. And to use the Thai government's notoriously strict tradition of lèse-majesté as proof that The King and I is inherently offensive to Thai people is another highly false equivalency. |
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