Each year, succeeding thirty-four american films take themselves through the eye of the needle to the lucrative chinese box office hit. Common to them is that they do not contain any chinese villains, good-hearted tibetans or quirky bears (”Christopher Robin & Winnie the Pooh” was stopped because the president Xi Jinping dislike the comparisons with the rundlagde the bear).
to cope with thinning recruits Hollywood more and more asian stars to their movies, but ”Crazy rich asians” is actually the first since ”The Joy Luck Club” (1995), who has a cast consisting entirely of actors of asian background. The film has been highlighted as an example on the basis of this change can be seen right now on several fronts.
the first woman with an asian background, which was nominated for an Emmy in the category of best actress (for television series “Killing Eve”) and in the fall, Henry Golding, who also plays the lead role in ”Crazy rich Asians”, just for once play the first person lover against Blake Lively in ”A simple favour”.
Here he plays the New York-based rikemanssonen Nick who, in connection with a wedding, returning home to Singapore in order to introduce his girlfriend Rachel for her mother and the rest of the chinese society.
Singapore has the highest concentration of millionaires in the world, and Kevin Kwan, who wrote the novel on which the film is based on, is itself a part of the city’s elite. He also is related with Nancy ”China’s Brigitte Bardot” Kwan, one of the few asian actors in Hollywood in the 60’s, gives the project an added dimension.
Much of the film’s humor is based on situations arising when Singapore’s upper class unfurl their peacock feathers and measuring themselves with each other. . Rapper Akwafina (Nora Lum), which is the film’s great benefit, dismisses some of the colorful märkesklänningarna as ”clowntamponger” and ”slutty ebola viruses”.
”Crazy rich Asians” is entertaining is beautiful and spotless, but there is in addition to the not so very new. Like so many other romantic comedies from the U.S., it is very predictable in its idea that the goal of all love is marriage. It differs, however, from other bröllopskomedier, as ”My big fat Greek wedding” (2002) and ”Bröllopskaos” (2014), by highlighting the class in front of the culture as the reason for the conflict. Rachel’s good chinese, and the fine degree can not hide the fact that she comes from a poor chinese immigrantfamilj.
The former Bond girl Michelle yeoh posted nuances, however, the stereotype of the wicked mother-in-law by making a quite touching portrait of a proud traditionalist who is afraid of losing their privileges.
See more. Three other films and tv series where the actors have an asian background: ”Carnival in San Francisco” (1961), comedian Margaret Chos series: “the All-American Girl”(1994-1995) and the canadian Netflix series: ”Kim’s convenience (2016-).
