[NY Post] ‘Jaws’ star Richard Dreyfuss slams new Oscars diversity rules

James Hong was in Big Trouble in Little China

 

I heard the new rule forces the new Godzilla vs Kong movie to be
a giant kangaroo vs. a giant ostrich

for diversity and inclusion
@Xerobull
@J.R.
@JayGoogle

 

I honestly wouldn't lose a microsecond of sleep if they wanted to make it with Latinos or Pakistanis or Klingons.

 

I would watch it if it was Klingons vs Vulcans

 

What about Vulcans vs Others in a game of baseball?

 

What about Klingons ?
@Xerobull

 

It's easy to vilify the film over 50 years after the fact, without the context of intimately knowing a vastly different era. As someone who is old enough to have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's when it came out in 1961, and read some of the reviews at the time (it got great reviews, the Times even praising Rooney's over the top, absurd performance), the film ranks as one of my favorites and I've seen it several times since. It's worth posting this for perspective, because Blake Edwards, the director, insisted on Rooney playing the part instead of an ethnic Japanese actor, who were certainly available and desired by the producer, which is pointed out in this quote. From Wikipedia:

In his audio commentary for the DVD release, producer Richard Shepherd said that at the time of production as well as in retrospect, he wanted to recast the role "not because he [Rooney] didn't play the part well" but because Shepherd thought the part of Mr. Yunioshi should be performed by an actor of Japanese ethnicity; it was director Blake Edwards' decision to keep Rooney.[37] In a "making-of" for the 45th anniversary edition DVD release, Shepherd repeatedly apologizes, saying, "If we could just change Mickey Rooney, I'd be thrilled with the movie."[38] Director Blake Edwards stated, "Looking back, I wish I had never done it ... and I would give anything to be able to recast it, but it's there, and onward and upward."[38]

In a 2008 interview about the film, 87-year-old Rooney said he was heartbroken about the criticism:

It breaks my heart. Blake Edwards ... wanted me to do it because he was a comedy director. They hired me to do this overboard, and we had fun doing it ... Never in all the more than 40 years after we made it — not one complaint. Every place I've gone in the world people say, "God, you were so funny." Asians and Chinese come up to me and say, "Mickey you were out of this world."[39]

Rooney also said that if he had known the portrayal would have offended people so much, "I wouldn't have done it. Those that didn't like it, I forgive them and God bless America, God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them and let's have peace."[39]

The film continues to draw criticism for this character, now widely considered to be a racist caricature, particularly when the movie is selected as a "classic" screened in public spaces, supported by tax dollars. In 2011, a SyFy and Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation screening inspired petitions.[40]

Film historian and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne stated in a Q&A that he would recast Rooney from the picture saying, "that was such a racial slur, out of nowhere, and I blame Blake Edwards for that decision, the caricature was totally embarrassing".[41]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany's_(film)

 

I have no idea what this is.

But the rose goes in the front, big guy

 

much ado about nada