資料
- 類別：
- 娛樂及藝術 - 電影
- 簡介：
- The main characters of Bringing Down the House are Jeff Ma and Mike Aponte, former real-life MIT students who are both Asian American men. Jeff Ma is played by Jim Sturgess, Mike Aponte is played by Jacob Pitts, and John Chang is played by Kevin Spacey.
Please help boycott this film and tell Hollywood that it's okay to portray Asian American men in lead roles as three-dimensional characters with personalities, feelings, and a sense of humor. You know. Regular Americans. Is that too much to ask... (read more) - 隱私等級類別：
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- Jason (召集人)
基本資料
- 名稱：
- Boycott 21
- 類別：
- 娛樂及藝術 - 電影
- 簡介：
- The main characters of Bringing Down the House are Jeff Ma and Mike Aponte, former real-life MIT students who are both Asian American men. Jeff Ma is played by Jim Sturgess, Mike Aponte is played by Jacob Pitts, and John Chang is played by Kevin Spacey.
Please help boycott this film and tell Hollywood that it's okay to portray Asian American men in lead roles as three-dimensional characters with personalities, feelings, and a sense of humor. You know. Regular Americans. Is that too much to ask... (read more) - 隱私等級類別：
- 開放性社團：所有內容對外公開。
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- 新聞：
- CHRONOLOGY
The beginning...
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/03/25/count_her_out/?page=full
"Willis, 38, who grew up in Mount Vernon, Ill., had never played blackjack when she joined the team in the early 1990s. Then a student at Harvard Law School, Willis and her boyfriend were both "math geeks." They were also friends with Jeff Ma, an MIT student who was one of the ringleaders of the school's clandestine blackjack club. "Jeff would occasionally have an expensive bottle of wine or champagne, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Then he told us about Vegas," Willis says. "I think it dawned on him that we could play blackjack and also give the team, which was mostly Asian and male, a little diversity."
What was planned for the movie...
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N43/43vegas.html
"During the talk, Mezrich mentioned the stereotypical Hollywood casting process — though most of the actual blackjack team was composed of Asian males, a studio executive involved in the casting process said that most of the film’s actors would be white, with perhaps an Asian female."
What actually happened...
http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=1114
"Perhaps in response to criticisms that 21 was “White-washing” the story, the filmmaker also cast Asian American actors Lisa Lapira and Aaron Yoo in the movie, but they remain secondary characters, distantly-removed from the story of the White male and female protagonists."
How the Asian American characters were portrayed...
http://www.enterprisenews.com/entertainment/x1565506635
"The previous year, the scholarship Ben seeks went to a one-legged Korean student. He’s not the only Asian character “21” cuts off at the knees. The real-life students mostly were Asian-Americans, but “21” whitewashes its cast and disappointingly lumps its only major Asian actors (Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapira) into one-note designations as the team’s kleptomaniac and a slot-playing “loser.”
FREQUENTLY BROUGHT UP ARGUMENTS
The "Hollywood is a business" argument.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=24381965401&topic=4643
Arguments about the book, the real-life team, and how the movie was promoted as being based on or inspired by the true story.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=24381965401&topic=4556
Would it be racist if the situation was reversed?
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=24381965401&topic=4653
If Jeff Ma isn't bothered by the casting, why should anyone else be?
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=24381965401&topic=4607