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| re: Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:27 am EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. - portenopete 12:55 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| 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. Asian enough for contemporary standards??? What are you talking about? He was zero percent Asian. |
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| re: Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:55 am EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. - Chromolume 01:27 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| According to Wikipedia, Brynner had Swiss-German, Russian and Buryat (Mongol) ancestry. | |
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| Mongol ancestry and the creation of "Asian" | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 03:42 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Even as a rebuke, your comment is thuddingly obvious and predictable. - Michael_Portantiere 10:55 am EST 02/14/21 | |
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| A connection to the Buryat people, who are indigenous to Siberia, does not connect him to East Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry, which is germane to the discussion of portraying a Thai king. Again, we get into the thorny territory of how "race" is determined and where we choose to draw geographic boundaries to connect people into a singular identity. If you want to create a very broad definition of "Asian" that includes the entire map of the Asian continent and any people who are connected to that map, then sure, Brynner was Asian. But that's a hell of a stretch, especially when part of what made Brynner "Asian enough" for the part were his own fabricated stories of his parentage. |
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| re: Mongol ancestry and the creation of "Asian" | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 04:26 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
| In reply to: Mongol ancestry and the creation of "Asian" - Singapore/Fling 03:42 pm EST 02/14/21 | |
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| Has there ever been a Thai actor playing the role? | |
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