Although the daily black Hollywood is becoming boring, it has to be admitted that a large and smooth mature system is often also a necessary condition for innovation. It's a bit like a tropical rain forest with its own system. The big trees block all the sunlight. Only one of the 10,000 seeds that fall to the ground may survive, but once any big tree crashes down in thunder and lightning, it will Thousands of plants began to grow wildly.
For Hollywood, the situation is a bit different: it is not the fall of a big tree that brings new growth space, but the huge shadow that makes more and more creators aware of the crisis, thus expanding the depth and breadth of creation (at least On some levels). Therefore, Trump's election as President of the United States and the changes in the global political ecology have had some positive effects here.
"The New York Times" conducted an exclusive interview with the creators of several Hollywood American dramas when Trump was elected, asking them their views and plans for future creations. I don’t need to repeat your answers here. Look at their recent works. Knowing their response, "War of the Proud" and "Vice President" all did their best to criticize and mock reality from different angles.
Minority groups have also made new voices at the moment. It turns out that the barriers between groups have not been eliminated. The society seems to be standing still and even walking back for a while. So how surprising and shocking the Charlotteville incident is. How reasonable and important is the fire in "Escape from Death".
Therefore, Asians who have been silent for a long time also began to speak loudly. "Golden Romance" still carries Western speculations and imaginations about the past and present of Asia, but it shows a different sense of freshness in the cast and subject matter. The long-term unsexy image of Asian men in European and American cultures has been changed a little bit. Don't underestimate this little bit of sexiness, sex is eternal productivity and can break through stereotypes.
Then there was Huang Ali. When she was mad on the stage with her pregnant belly for an hour, the world was shocked. It turns out that Asian women are not only tiger mothers or tiger mother reserve forces, they can also discuss freely and presumptuously. , Challenge all topics. Huang Ali itself is a disenchantment of the image of Asian women, using a completely different "yellow fever" to end yellow fever and to end prejudice. The valuable thing is that Huang Ali and more and more Asians do not intend to integrate, but to tell the situation straight: we are like this, we go in and change slippers, we do all the things Asians have to do, just deal with it! Because this is the normal state: be free to be yourself.
Going back to this "Two Great No Guess", Huang Ali’s scale is convergent in the film. After all, life is not concentrated in the few minutes on the open wheat stage. The movie tells a regular story, and Huang Ali contributed a regular performance. . Of course, what is fascinating is the presentation of Asian culture in the film: it is no longer Kitsch, it is a way of life, and the comic effect is left to the creation of specific individuals, rather than as a group as a whole to contribute jokes . A prominent example is Huang Ali’s parents in the film, who have always emphasized to their daughter not to take a taxi at the airport, because they have friends who can pick up the airport, so they don’t need to tip. At first glance, it seems that Asians are resistant to and do not understand consumer culture, but they are treated as individual concepts in the play. Later, Huang Ali’s parents expressed their support for their daughter by going to her restaurant to eat, and they did not indicate their identity or demand. Discounted and paid full price. This setting makes some settings considered as Asian stereotypes the characteristics of individuals, a respect for the group, and of course they are more advanced in terms of comedy effects.
There are many similar cultural details in the film that make people smile. For example, the father of the protagonist Marcus will see the already famous Huang Ali years later, and blurt out how much money do you have now? Marcus immediately explained seriously in the narration: He was asking seriously. In the scene of Huang Ali’s niece’s day party, there was a scene that made me laugh. It was a very American and very stereotype party scene. As usual, there were children running happily, but when the children ran into the porch from the outdoors, they changed it. The slippers went on to run indoors, and when they ran to the backyard, they changed to a pair of outdoor slippers. The whole process was very natural, but it had a strong comedic effect. It is not a mockery, nor is it a laughter caused by incomprehension, but a normalization of inherent prejudice: that's it, it's always been this way, nothing is wrong. So let the audience who have fixed expectations of similar stalks are very pleasantly surprised.
Someone in the film commentary exclaimed that there was finally an Asian nude. The male protagonist Marcus showed his butt in a drunk audition. Huang Ali also had a boat scene with the male protagonist, although there was no positive description (many commentators thought it was A regret and compromise), but after all, the film has created a more three-dimensional Asian character. Considering that this is a movie dominated by Asian casts, the three-dimensional characters are just their duty, but when viewed in a larger environment, Huang Ali, who is full of joy, sorrow, joy, and has sex, seems particularly meaningful.
I also remembered the "Severe Sickness" I liked last year. In the film, the male protagonist of the minority ethnic group has completely removed the cultural identity of curiosity. Instead, he devoted himself to telling a story that is unusual in daily life, so relaxed. In the environment at this moment, it is very precious. The same is true of "Two Great No Guess". Daily life means richness and three-dimensionality. No one is a paper man. The core of the story of "Two Great No Guess" is mediocre. This kind of story is already a mature routine in Hollywood. Foreign film critics often mention that this is the Asian version of "When Harry Meets Sally". The mediocre story is In this context, there is a different meaning, which means that it is not a curiosity or a joke. For Hollywood, the quality of the work is ordinary, and it has taken a big step on the cultural level.
Finally, I don't know if Huang Ali was thinking about jokes with her baby, did she think that one day she could slap Keanu Reeves's lips wildly, alas, I really want to hear her feelings.
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