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Post by thekrez on Mar 20, 2007 6:31:00 GMT -5
Is there a movie that defines the Eurasian experience?
I re-watched Lost in Translation and it has to be one of my favourite movies all time for this.
It expresses the loneliness, the lost feeling, the melancholy of being in a culture totally alien to your own.
Does anyone else have a defining Eurasian movie?
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Post by Miyuki on Mar 20, 2007 8:33:52 GMT -5
^I loved that movie by the way.
Good question....I know there's an indie movie based on a half-Asian character, but I can't think of the title. Other than that I can't think of any movies that are based on a Eurasian character. I think the defining Eurasian movie is yet to be made!
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Post by jenbrook on Mar 20, 2007 12:41:27 GMT -5
Maybe The Lover. Its set in Vietnam and its about the love story between an chinese man and an adolescent french girl (actually played by eursian actress Jane March).
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Post by wibex on Mar 20, 2007 15:07:01 GMT -5
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Post by thekrez on Mar 20, 2007 15:57:38 GMT -5
I dont think it has to have a Eurasian in it, just something that evokes the feelings we all go through, well most of us go through.
Lost in Translation has a lot of this. Like especially many of the scenes where youre looking at some submay map, in a crowd, walking around and being so irrepressibly "lost" despite being surrounded by a sea of humanity.
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Post by Miyuki on Mar 20, 2007 16:28:50 GMT -5
^True, but so many EA peeps don't share that "lost" feeling. I don't, though I did at one time.
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Post by cheeseprata on Mar 20, 2007 16:59:17 GMT -5
Maybe The Lover. Its set in Vietnam and its about the love story between an chinese man and an adolescent french girl (actually played by eursian actress Jane March). I like Tony Leung...totally cracked me up in God of Gamblers 2.
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Post by hapalicious on Mar 20, 2007 17:23:56 GMT -5
^aaaaaaaah !!!! i can t stand that movie ! actually a novel in the first place ... ( Marguerite Duras) . i studied it for a friend (lol...to help her out for her oral since i knew the culture, i gave her plenty of good stuff to tell the examiner, she ended up getting a better grade than i !!! ) and it made me so mad that they chose an EA girl to play the leading role, especialy since the whole plot is based on race (and age) and the writer s white... it makes as much sense as casting a blond to play snow white... ultimate EA movie : East is east ! ^i m pretty sure almost everyone one on here can relate to it, it s incredibly funny, sad, and realistic ! imdb.com/title/tt0166175/
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Post by Aiko on Mar 20, 2007 18:17:20 GMT -5
There's a documentary called "The Daughter from Danang" Story of an Amerasian girl finding her mother in Vietnam. I haven't seen it but I'm sure it's quite the tear jerker.
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Post by catgirl on Mar 20, 2007 18:54:04 GMT -5
I heard that Kristin Kreuk (EA) plays an Indian muslim in the partition or what its called. I havent seen it yet though...Its about two people of different religions I think. youtube.com/watch?v=Yhr2leLh9lw
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Post by dannyd on Mar 20, 2007 23:52:33 GMT -5
I've heard black people rant about Hollywoods habit of using mixed black women to play an attractive black woman. I've heard Asian people wonder similarly about the use of mixed Asians used as Asian images in fashion etc (particularly with men). But a half Dutch/Half Chinese Canadian girl playing an Indian woman? That's gotta be insulting. Particularly when there are so many drop dead gorgeous Indian women to choose from. About as convincing as seeing Jessica Alba play a tribal Malay woman.
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Post by avax on Mar 21, 2007 0:18:19 GMT -5
I've heard black people rant about Hollywoods habit of using mixed black women to play an attractive black woman. I've heard Asian people wonder similarly about the use of mixed Asians used as Asian images in fashion etc (particularly with men). But a half Dutch/Half Chinese Canadian girl playing an Indian woman? That's gotta be insulting. Particularly when there are so many drop dead gorgeous Indian women to choose from. About as convincing as seeing Jessica Alba play a tribal Malay woman. I'll have to agree with you there. It reminds me of how men played women's parts in english plays for centuries. Someone could argue that fair's fair and it depends on their acting ability but she looks like a goof. Never was a fan of her anyway and she made an already painful tv show even worse (smallville). Can't act for nuts. ..Like Keanu.
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Post by jefe on Mar 21, 2007 2:45:58 GMT -5
I had no Eurasian experience vibe from "Lost in Translation" at all -- indeed "Blade Runner, or even Matrix would seem more Eurasian to me than Lost in Translation.
The quintessential Eurasian experience movie to me is "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", but Jennifer Jones, a caucasian, plays the Eurasian protagonist, which is unfortunate. I would like to see a Eurasian play a Eurasian.
Daughter from Danang was sad (for what happened), but it was not moving to learn about the final decision of the main woman -- who decided in the end to be a white person -- she was raised in a white cultural environment and the Asian thing was just too much for her.
"Map of the Human Heart" with Jason Scott Lee was about a half-Eskimo boy falling in love with a metis girl, and meeting up later after many years. Years later, the half-Eskimo man (JAson Scott lee) meets his Eskimo - white - Metis daughter (who appears Eurasian looking). Not exactly Eurasian, but it reminded me of the Eurasian experience and it was SO SAD in the end.
There is another movie that I saw years ago about a Vietnamese born Eurasian boy going to America to find his father, but I cannot remember the title.
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Post by friendswithoutcash on Mar 21, 2007 3:03:25 GMT -5
There is another movie that I saw years ago about a Vietnamese born Eurasian boy going to America to find his father, but I cannot remember the title. Are you talking about The Beautiful Country? That is basically the same plot except the boy is grown up and is an adult. I've been keeping my eyes out for this film but can't seem to find it.
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Post by scott on Mar 21, 2007 3:20:20 GMT -5
There's a documentary called "The Daughter from Danang" Story of an Amerasian girl finding her mother in Vietnam. I haven't seen it but I'm sure it's quite the tear jerker. I've actually seen it, and it's pretty emotional. The ending is actually quite surprising, but I won't spoil it for those of you who want to see it, but haven't.
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