[Marvel Movie] Shang-Chi

Saw two movies this year with Asian leading men.

All my life and The Sun Is Also a Star.

In both movies, they could have had the main character be another race and have it still work.

 

I agree that marketing this as some sort of Asian empowerment was kind of dumb. I really enjoyed the movie. Just make a good movie and focus on whatever ethnic/cultural background stuff that you want to focus on. We don't need to be told that it is some sort of Asian representation bs thing for marketing. It was a good story and I just enjoyed it.

This movie doesn't focus on all "Asians" either. It is Chinese in focus. China isn't all of Asia. The marketing was dumb, but the movie was enjoyable. Hopefully, Marvel just stops with the check a box marketing and keeps making good movies.

 

I have little interest in seeing a character that "acts white" but is not white.
There has to be some nuance in them that is representative of their culture. . .esp in long term series
To put a non white character into a spot and act like their are white or their ethnicity is invisible . .. bothers me.
I don't need Will Smith screaming. . I'M BLACK!!!
but I don't need him walking into a klan rally and everyone is cool with it either
I get that it should not be the focus. .. . but it should matter

Pandering is ok to an extent . . .esp when the alternative is ignoring
I liked this movie
I loved Black Panther

Honestly. . .some of the things I loved most were outside of the story
(Costuming was RIDICULOUSLY GOOD IN Black Panther )
The Lore .. . tHe Richness of the scenes . . .etc. . . .

I mean . .. how many different versions of Middle Earth . . .aka Midievel Europe have we had
Show me some Asian Dragons!!

Rocket River

 

movie was fire AF.

 

Call me old school but I wasn't planning on watching this in the theater but then I realized...****ing Tony Leung is in this movie. When will I get a chance to watch this legendary actor from my most impressionable years on the big screen. It was the same way with Jackie Chan and it was the same way with Donnie Yen. It very much felt like an asian drama movie but with marvel humor sprinkled in. Some for the better and some for the worse. Tony was great. He was the highlight of the movie for me but I might have been biased but he did not disappoint. Being that the movie was asian drama lite to me, some things I felt were missing. If this was Asian cinema, they probably would have shown the tragedy. Simu would have had to really show his acting chops. The revenge scenes would have been more graphic and we would have gotten to see Tony really go all out. There was a lot of Mandarin spoken in this which I enjoyed, but wish they would have just kept to it at the end. They already committed in the beginning. Why not end with it on a strong note. Overall I enjoyed it more than Black Widow and I'm curious to see how Shang Chi ties into the MCU but as a stand alone flick, it was above average but the storyline did feel a little handcuffed.

 

I pretty much agree, Believe these films are more than necessary, but they won't change too much. Because, many of these type of films have been seen, before. Though, not promoted, like Disney/MCU movies, it's a platform that has already been presented. Like, Black Panther, Shang Chi is put more onto an international scale and on the higher end of Hollywood production. It's still a Disney movie, and as you say still does not really change people's perceptions about Asian people/cultures. I agree, completely with your last two paragraphs.

 

I likely won't see it inside a theater, so my b****ing about propaganda will have to wait for another month...

 

Simu upset someone and now his post history is out.. uh oh.

Simu was out here wildin in his reddit days.. oh boy. Marvel didn't go deep enough in this guys past. I dont think we will be seeing him in anything for a while, lol

 

wat he do?

 

Not good. What a dumb****.
https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/121678772.html

 

oh shiii! is shang chi finna be played by jackie chan now going forward?

 

Given how he completely caved working with Marky Marky after calling him out as a nobody years before...and not even making a burner for his ugly reddit posts...

Who said all Asians were smart?

Jerry Lin warming up from the bench, throwing 3 hail marys for his next 15 mins.

 

I spent about 3 minutes trying to figure out what he did, but I couldn't figure it out. All I'm left with is thinking people have too much time on their hands.

edit...i spent another 3 minutes trying to figure it out and i still couldn't

 

I'm not going to burn him at the stake just yet. Is there something that is pointing this as being from Simu other than "I'm a Canadian actor"? I don't know the guy's filmography enough to know if he ever played a pedophile on screen.

 

Like you I, too, am surprised that Disney/MCU didn't do a better job of vetting this out....or maybe this did and decided to move on with Simu? They basically fired James Gunn past tweets but then faced backlash from fans and their GotG cast so...are they hoping the same kind of fandom/defense will be high enough to keep Simu if all of this is true?