Comments on: Calling the bluff: Is ‘21′ racist?

By: asd

asd — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:37:10 +0000

sfd

By: The Flip Side

The Flip Side — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:36:36 +0000

For all the posters who so nonchalantly claim nothing is wrong with “21″, consider the reverse scenario; you are an ethnic white minority, and a movie based on a true story replaces all the white minorities with the majority “__” because the minorities are 1. viewed unfavorably; 2. rendered to stereotypical, subordinate movie roles; 3. won’t draw a large audience simply for being white. It’s so easy to ignore these racial issues if you have never experienced racism (both local and structural) in your life. And I’m not trying to demonize all whites as ignorant, because many of my white friends agree with me. Call racism for what it is- “21″.

By: asd

asd — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:31:18 +0000

sfd

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:31:03 +0000

By: Big O

Big O — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:12:41 +0000

I definitely see changing the story in this way as very, very stupid. Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth are not such powerful names that they could not have been changed. Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne were the big names in the cast.
The producers would probably have seen a bigger box office if they had cast John Cho in the Jim Sturgess part. And for what it’s worth, Liza Lapira is as stunning looking and talented as Ms. Bosworth.
And, irony of ironies, is that this is released by SONY … isn’t that company headquartered in the Far East?
A stupid decision that makes absolutely no sense!

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:43:28 +0000

GGG,
Fucck you scumbag!!! This movie’s definitely racist. Hollywood can GO TO HELL.

By: Vinny Q. Vienn

Vinny Q. Vienn — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:03:55 +0000

Lisa: That doesn’t make sense. It was an adaptation from Hong Kong to Boston. IMO the rationale for not seeing the movie is very flawed. If the point of the film is to relocate it to the USA, it would be natural to cast Americans of any color; Hong Kong has mostly Asians and Boston has people of many groups. The original Hong Kong trilogy is available in the USA.
Anyhow – “Director Robert Luketic only exacerbates this point when he typecasts Asian actors Lisa Lapira and Aaron Yoo as buffoonish, clumsy sidekicks who compulsively steal and can barely manage a sentence.” – One of them stole insignificant stuff (chocolates from a maid’s cart). The other enjoyed playing a different game. I forget which is which.

By: JJJ

JJJ — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:49:07 +0000

ggg:
People like you need to be exterminated. May you live a short pointless purposeless life, die a long excruciating death in agony, and then rot in hell for eternity. And may your children never survive.

By: ggg

ggg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:42:17 +0000

So the slanty-eyed bastards cry “racism” because the film’s team is mostly white but they weren’t practicing racism when they made sure the actual team was mostly slanty-eyed?
What, you mean all those white and Jewish kids as MIT are affirmitive action cases who can’t keep up a count?
What goes around comes around you chink bastards.

By: LMK

LMK — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:08:32 +0000

To Mike,
You’re not even make a logical point here. No one is accusing white decendants of “Self-absolved white descendents of slaveowners, land-grabbers, and religious conquistadors like yourself [to] take full account of your “race”s behavior.”
People are rightly concerned that the movie has distored reality significantly. If you’re going to make such encompassing statement claiming “America and it’s media machine has portrayed Asian and Asian-American men in a fair(god forbid flattering) light” you’d better back it up with hard facts. This isn’t your junior high school playground where you can just make random statements with no evidence…oh wait…I forgot this is the internet and it’s full of half-brained intellect like yourself. So please forgive me if I don’t agree that the Media has been flattering to Asian Americans.