You know what would have made their lives easier? Going with a Japanese cast instead of a "Pan-Asian" one...
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
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Jessica - Dec 10, 2004 11:32:07 am PST #7025 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sumi - Dec 10, 2004 11:32:33 am PST #7026 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
My thought exactly.
Tom Scola - Dec 10, 2004 11:34:15 am PST #7027 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I hear they have some pretty good film directors in Japan, too.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 11:34:24 am PST #7028 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They make it sound so virtuous to have an all Asian cast.
Jessica - Dec 10, 2004 11:37:55 am PST #7029 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Well I suppose it is a good thing that they chose to cast Michelle Yeoh and not, you know, Kate Bosworth, but yeah. Asian !=Japanese.
Sean K - Dec 10, 2004 11:40:20 am PST #7030 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Heh, I was reading the pasted paragraph and wondering why Michelle Yeoh would be a language problem, as her English is at least passable, but then I remembered there was the rest of the cast for her to try and communicate with....
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 11:44:16 am PST #7031 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Michelle's English is more than passable -- she's fluent.
Burrell - Dec 10, 2004 11:50:49 am PST #7032 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Language problems on the set aside, I'm wondering what's the big difference between a Chinese actress playing a Japanese character and, say, a Spanish actress playing an Italian character?
Sean K - Dec 10, 2004 11:52:52 am PST #7033 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Or a Welsh actress playing an Hispanic character.
Signed,
Took me a while after Mask of Zorro to realize Catherine Zeta-Jones was not Hispanic, despite the complete lack of appropriate accent.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2004 11:55:43 am PST #7034 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm wondering what's the big difference between a Chinese actress playing a Japanese character and, say, a Spanish actress playing an Italian character?
I think the difference might be huge if you're Italian or Japanese.
I don't think there's any more virtue to casting Zhang than there would be to casting, say, Lucy Liu. But I don't know which meaning of Asian they're using. It just seems they're pleased with themselves for reasons I can't determine.