Chinese and blacks in Hollywood's eyes, Reivew on Romeo Must Die

The 37-year-old Jet Li and the 21-year-old Aaliyah play Romeo and Juliet respectively. One is a Chinese star and the other is a black girl. This is a creative and challenging idea in itself. In fact, Shakespeare’s story mode has many disguised versions in Hollywood. The most shocking is the brutal bloody battle between the vampire family and the werewolf family of "Underworld" for hundreds of years. In contrast, "Romeo Must Die" is an article. The innocent love of realistic boys and girls (Jet Li of Ben 4 does seem to show a baby-faced feeling in front of the camera), the stubbornness of the little Chinese prince and the cute and playfulness of the little black princess, as well as the sweet embrace of two people like a child, People feel that the screenwriter’s intention is to express a kind of emotional cuteness, even if this cuteness still permeates the typical street culture flavor.
But if you look closely, all Hollywood films hide the shadow of ideology. The two big underworld families in the film, the Chinese and the black Americans, in the final analysis, they all want to be white partners. The yellow race and the black race rush. When I get up, the white people watch from the sidelines and watch the fire from the shore, which is like a metaphor for the Hollywood dream of the international order; furthermore, some ugly characteristics of the Chinese are also fully expressed in this film, and they are told from a gangster. The strong contrast between "Chinese people fight in their nests" and the black boss "tiger poison does not eat children" The strong contrast between the Chinese boss killing his own son, has become a kind of irony beyond the plot of the movie, although Romeo won all the way to the end. , But the family behind his endorsement is a complete loser.

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