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The new movie is being hyped a lot, now. The producers are buying out theaters, not even secretly, to give it a strong opening week. Actresses in the film insist it was important to make this movie, for Asians, presumably.
I don't plan to watch it, myself. But what I find interesting, is that this movie about opulent wealth is being tied to the Asian race in the title. It feels like Asian is a brand that's being promoted as luxurious, or something like that.
Considering how static identity, face, is so important in Asian cultures, I understand why this kind of identity 'boosting' can be seen as important. I just worry that it breeds complacency and conceit. So many tricks are already used to promote Asians as wealthy, successful, sophisticated, intelligent and all that, without the substance necessarily fulfilled yet. The movie Crazy, rich Asians seems to me like another of these claims to superiority, needlessly racialized again, and without much to back it up.
Then again, lots of people watch soap operas with beautiful people in perfect surroundings, so perhaps this is no different. I just don't think that the movie Crazy, rich white people will ever be made. Unless Donald Trump, the great white hope, pays for it. Haha.
On the opposite ...
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Authored by Kinling Lo via The South China Morning Post,
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