(06-20-2023, 11:31 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(06-19-2023, 07:11 PM)mikesez Wrote: I haven't seen the movie, and the Atlantic article came out first,  but I got the impression that if the CNN reviewer hadn't connected "fire people = my parents", they wouldn't have enjoyed the movie.  All they wanted to talk about was the Asian thing.

I remember I read a lot of stuff about Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, before and after I saw it.  A lot of that stuff barely mentioned that the main characters were Asian immigrants.  They mentioned how it defied categorization and expectations and was really fun, and then maybe they mentioned the creators were Asian.

Representation of minorities is a good thing.   But it's no good by itself.  If it's the main good thing you can say about a new movie, it's probably not a good movie.

Representation is where the entertainment industry has been headed for some time but now they're demanding it over talent. If we thought movies and television shows were getting bad before we haven't seen anything yet. 

I don't care about representation I care about who is qualified or in this case who is talented. No one other than Jack Nicholson could've pulled off his character in The Shining. Could you see anyone other than Tom Selleck as Magnum P.I.?

No I really couldn't.  I can imagine a story about a black man going crazy and trying to murder his family, or an Asian man hunting down bad guys, but they are different stories.  Different types of folks need to get in the game at all levels to invent and flesh out the stories us white folks haven't heard yet.

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