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18 Nov
Asian Film Twitter needs a non-snipey discussion about Hollywood remakes of Asian cinema.

My possibly unpopular opinion: Remakes are great when they are significantly different from the original—while respecting and paying homage to their antecedent—and we should encourage them.
There’s little merit in being wedded to canon. That’s the attitude fueling the toxic fandoms that infest all too many franchises.

Meanwhile Asian creators constantly mine Hollywood for inspiration (even if their remakes aren’t official)

Lee Sang-il remake of “Unforgiven” 👇 Image
Reflexively hating on every remake just because the original is beloved is an argument for isolating our creative innovation from the global conversation. It also means works with Asian cultural themes can’t be reframed and recast to make opportunity for Asian AMERICAN artists.
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17 Nov
HOLY CRAP THIS IS THE HULK MOVIE I NEVER KNEW I ALWAYS WANTED
#TurningRed, a movie that finally gets to the heart of Asian American double consciousness: Passive and aggressive
Is it too much to ask for a cameo by Russell from Up, @Pixar
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18 Sep
So I’ve alluded to what’s been going on with my family and people have reached out with concern. I figured I should just explain.

My sister, who’s an urgent care doc and sees multiple (mostly unvaxxed) covid cases a day, got breakthrough covid.

Then my vaxxed parents got it.
They got Moderna early—January and February. They’re in their 80s with stacked risk factors. Because my sister was in quar I flew out to NY to help out my parents. But the day before I flew my dad had a fall, was taken to the ER on precaution—and promptly put in covid isolation.
He couldn’t get visitors. Even though—thanks to the vaccine—neither he nor mom had any symptoms.

The lack of communication drove us up the wall. They wouldn’t set up a FaceTime for us and my dad’s phone was dead. I dropped off a charger and no one plugged it in.
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16 Sep
Hey @ScottMendelson, I appreciate what you’re trying to say but your analysis is exactly wrong, and unfortunately, in line with Hollywood’s overriding views on inclusion: That the “limits of diversity” are it only “works” when people “already want to see” a film.
“Diversity” isn’t a magical lure to drag people into theaters.

Inclusive development and casting allows you to tell different, more meaningful, expansive AND specific stories. It allows you to market films to different audiences. And it makes old stories feel new again.
But it’s absurd to blame “diversity” for not doing enough to lift films that were badly marketed (Snake Eyes) or had no perceptible connection to diverse audiences (uh, Malignant?? Bundling that film into a “diversity” space is a supernatural stretch)—during a global pandemic.
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25 Jun
Who else is shipping Loki with hirself after watching this episode
Loki is clearly narcissexual
OMG Hiddleston was putting Loki x Loki out there ALL ALONG 🤯

HT @AliceMeichi

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15 May
To those fueling the current media trend of attacking masks as “unnecessary virtue signaling” now that the “pandemic is over” is that:

A. the pandemic isn’t over and
B. you’re going to get people harassed and hurt, and a disproportionate number of them will be Asian
Mask wearing has always been a prosocial behavior, not a selfish one. But it’s generally hard to convince Americans to do anything that doesn’t lean into self interest, so getting them to wear masks was messaged as about protecting YOURSELF. It isn’t.
qz.com/299003/a-quick…
When you wear a mask, you protect OTHERS if you happen to be infectious. And it works best when mask wearing is normalized—or at least not actively condemned—because like vaccination, it’s a herd wellness phenomenon. And yes, people mask up in Asia regularly during flu season.
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