Actress Kim Yoon-jin of Swiri and Lost fame has become the first Korean actress to land a leading role in a Hollywood production:
Actress Kim Yoon-jin, who is currently starring in the popular ABC miniseries “Lost,” has broken into Hollywood with the leading female role in the movie “Georgia Heat” opposite Billy Bob Thornton.
Kim’s manager, Park Jeong-hyuk, said Monday his client has been selected to play the female lead in “Georgia Heat,” which would begin shooting from next June. Two years ago, actor Park Joong-hoon appeared in a supporting role in director Jonathan Demme’s film, “The Truth About Charlie,” but this is the first time a Korean actress has landed a leading role in a Hollywood production.
“Georgia Heat” depicts the turbulent life of a Korean woman who immigrates to 1960s Georgia. In the film, Kim will take on the role of a foreigner who faces discrimination as an immigrant and is caught up in the tensions between two American men.
I came across the motion picture business plan for Georgia Heat, which includes a synopsis of the film which, needless to say, is one big spoiler, but interesting if you feel like reading it anyway. The executive summary does include an outline of the film, however:
GEORGIA HEAT tells the dramatic and moving story of Bonnie, a Korean G.I. wife living in rural Georgia in 1968, who learns that the son she abandoned in Korea thirteen years earlier is coming to visit her. Determined to give him a proper home, Bonnie sets out to build a house before he arrives, only to find herself caught between the life she has chosen and the life she left behind.
Inspired by true events, Georgia Heat unfolds during the racially charged 1960s, at the crossroads of the civil rights movement, the fading Korean war, and the escalating situation in Vietnam. In the tradition of Monster’s Ball and The Deer Hunter, Georgia Heat is a human story about people scarred by violence, about loss and redemption, about clashing cultures and overcoming prejudice, and ultimately about family.
Of course, I’m wondering if Billy Bob is going to get down with Kim like he did with Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball, but then again, my mind is perpetually in the gutter.
The actress, of course, had previously turned down a role in the upcoming Speilberg production of Memoirs of a Geisha. As for her reasons behind the decision:
“Since it is a film by Steven Spielberg and Rob Marshall, I first thought maybe I should just close my eyes tight and just do it,” she said, but in the end decided not to do it. “Even if it is Hollywood, I don’t want to start by playing a Japanese geisha. It’s a matter of pride.”
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You guys supporting her remarks are missing the point. In the first place, it is not really a traditional immigrant role, but one in where she comes to the US as a GI wife. In the eyes of many Koreans, this is already problematic, since more than a few of them are bar girls. So in that sense, her aversion over a geisha role smacks of hypocrisy. Then again, the story as described seems more focused on her as tossed about by the whims of two American men. Not exactly an empowering story line, is it?
I believe Kim Yoon/Yun Jin might be an American citizen, or a least spent much of her younger years in the US.
I don’t pay much attention to entertainment figures but I’ve always liked her for not having a high-toned girlie voice and saying stupid things on television to make herself look like an airhead.
It’s hard to make it in Korean entertainment as an alto who speaks her mind. And that she did recently when she actually sued her management company. The Hankyoreh said she is to be “commended for her bravery.”
?€œEven if it is Hollywood, I don?€™t want to start by playing a Japanese geisha. It?€™s a matter of pride.?€?
what, and this role is an improvement?
Kim is not an American citizen. She studied in America for a long time thus her very good English ability. You maybe surprised how many of us there are.
Geisha is basically a Japanese prostitute. It’s best to stick with the old Hollywood tradition and let a Caucasion with makeup play this role cause I don’t think you will find too many actresses with Asian backgrounds who will want to play Madame Butterfly.
One of the sports rags had her on the cover with the title “Hollywood Queen.”
One movie… that’s all it takes.
Brian
I agree with you Prince Roy. How is this role any better than that of a geisha?
Contrary to popular belief, a geisha is not a Japanese prostitute but an entertaining artist. She is trained from an early age to excel in one of many arts such as dance, the playing of a musical instrument, participation in the tea ceremony, etc. It is forbidden for a geisha to sleep with her clients or to see them outside of business appointments in private.
While many call the profession limiting to women, there are several who have chosen upon their free will to become geishas as it does offer benefits some women may not be able to get otherwise because of family or financial problems. It is also an occupation in which on the very talented can succeed and it brings these women to the international spotlight as the best ones are called to entertain visiting international figures to Japan from all over the world.
Is it a job that has been glamorized and distorted by Hollywood? Most definitely. But is it any less ?€œdegrading?€? than the role of an immigrant woman married to a GI? It?€™s not.
First of all, in my opinion, I see nothing wrong with either role. So why Kim called the role of a geisha a ?€œmatter of pride?€? yet accepted this Georgia Heat part, I can?€™t say. It doesn?€™t make sense to me unless it?€™s the Japanese part that she didn?€™t like.
If Kim (or others) are going to call on Hollywood to make more diverse roles available to Asian actors/actresses, then they?€™ve got to be consistent. The immigrant role is just as limiting as the geisha role. Kim and others should be challenging Hollywood to accept more Asians to play the same parts Julie Roberts and Cameran Diaz are taking if they are going to say to the public that certain roles are being turned down as ?€œa matter of pride.?€?
Being that Kim was insulted by the geisha role offered to her earlier, I?€™m quite confused as to why she isn?€™t turning down the Georgia Heat role for the same reason.
There appears to be, to me at least, a very significant difference between the two roles.
I would have guessed, from the perspective of a Korean actress, a role as a Japanese geisha smacks a little too close to the issue of comfort women to be, well, comfortable. And I?€™m fairly certain that Korean neocons would have attacked that same similarity with savage glee.
However, again from my assumed perspective as a Korean actress, portraying a Korean immigrant along with all the entailed challenges might actually serve to heighten international (and domestic) awareness of Korean culture, intercultural conflict, prejudice and other such topics that honestly do not receive enough time on the silver screen.
Ms. Kim?€™s choice was a no-brainer; especially considering this is her first North American motion picture foray. With the collective eyes of her nation upon her, she could either take a role repugnant to many of her countrymen, or go with a role that might open a few eyes at home as well as abroad.
Under those circumstances, I?€™d make the same choice.
As filming won’t even begin until next year, it would be hard to really pass comment on how “empowering” Kim’s role is. I should mention, however, that writer-director Mora Stephens is half-Korean (her mother being a GI wife and the apparent inspiration to the story), one of the producers is Janet Yang, who also did “The Joy Luck Club” (a film I found highly problematic, just to note).
‘don’t understand why she turns down giehsa role but does not mind role as wife of american gi.’
well, i think there are quite a few marriages between gis and korean ladies. are there many korean geishas in japan? playing the wife of a us soldier is relevant to korea and koreans while the life of some japanese geishas is not.
ah, the geisha. wonder where the japanese got that? intersting that so many things thought of as uniquely japanese have antecedants in korea.
btw, just throwing it out…
‘japan was enculturated by the chinese via korea.’ japanese ‘experts’ in the west
‘you koreans need to shut up about the japanese occupation, ok? they modernized you!’ uncouth expat with no manners
‘well, they didn’t modernize us, we were modernized by the west via japan.’ kim nara
I heard a Chinese chick got the geisha part. According to Hollywood, all Asians are alike and interchangeable.
:”It is also an occupation in which on the very talented can succeed and it brings these women to the international spotlight as the best ones are called to entertain visiting international figures to Japan from all over the world.” - jodi
In other words, Japanese geishas are equivalent to Korean Kisengs - another name for elegent high class hookers who can sing, dance, and “entertain” druken men. If it’s Japanese, it must be the best.
kimbob–they *don’t* sleep with clients! i’ve read a few books on life as a geisha which have dispelled alot of myths. there is no sex involved so to call them hookers is inaccurate. anyway, kim can do whatever she wants to, i just found her reason for turning down the geisha role a little inconsistent with her latest decsion. as an asian woman, i personally don’t see a difference between the two roles. they are both just as equally limiting for hollywood roles making her earlier comment seem sort of stupid.
If I had two choices to pick from, which one would I pick? One choice is another version of Madam Butterfly (oh you are so butifull), a decoration, a China doll, traditional object of Western idealism of Asian women. Another choice is the part where I get to play an empowered role. I get to choose the men.
Which one would I go for? Probably the latter.
i doubt she is going to hook up with billy bob. last i heard she was dating her male co-star from Lost (a white guy).
“…Another choice is the part where I get to play an empowered role. I get to choose the men. Which one would I go for? Probably the latter…”
both who just happen to be white American males. a truly ‘empowering message’, but for whom?
http://www.asianmediawatch.net/
Movie News: Chow Yun Fat Set To Play Abraham Lincoln
By Samantha Sue, Staff Writer
Jade Harvest studio has announced that they produced a new movie based on the life of American president, Abraham Lincoln. The movie, which is set to release next year in Hong Kong and then throughout Asia, before reaching international distribution, will be titled Liberator: The Abraham Lincoln Story. International star, Chow Yun Fat will be playing the role of Abraham Lincoln. The 6 foot 2, slender actor is said to be perfect for the role of the 16th American president. However, there has been rumor of complaints from American media groups of the choice of having a Chinese actor play a Western president.
Ringo Lam, producer of Liberator, said at a press conference, “Chow Yun Fat is incredibly popular in many Asian countries as well as gaining notoriety in the U.S. Everyone wishes for Chow Yun Fat to be the star. No one will watch the film if he is not in it. If he did not agree to do this, the movie will not have been made. Besides, we have the best makeup artists that made him look exactly like Abraham Lincoln.”
Lam also continues to state that he is surprised that Americans have a problem of having an Asian actor play a Caucasian role since he has seen countless American films where White actors play the role of Asians. Lam mentioned movies, like The Good Earth, The King and I, and even the Broadway play, Miss Saigon, where a Caucasian with eye makeup is playing the role of an Asian.
Lam explains that the current script for Liberator is a totally revised version of an earlier screenplay. The earlier version calls for Chow Yun Fat to play the role of a Chinese immigrant who after landing on the shores of the U.S., travels the American frontier, and is suddenly engulfed in a battle during the Civil War. He ends up saving an entire Union calvary and is quickly enlisted in the American army and given the rank of sergeant. Within a three-year
period, he learns to speak perfect English and is appointed the general of his own regimen.
While marching his troops through the South, he falls in love with a rich plantation owner’s daughter and marries her. Abraham Lincoln, after hearing of the success of this Chinese general, asks to meet him to award him the medal of honor for valor during a time of war. Having befriended Chow Yun Fat’s character, the president appoints him as his personal advisor.
From that moment, President Lincoln’s life is told through Chow Yun Fat’s eyes, as the Chinese Union general guides him through the emancipation of the slaves and the reconstruction of the South.The movie ends when President Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth and Chow Yun Fat’s character chases after the killer and corners him, bringing him to justice.
However, protest developed from the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., when they heard of the script. They believed that the script desecrates the life of Abraham Lincoln by inserting a fictional Chinese character into the story when no such figure existed in real life. They further complained that for a film about the life of Abraham Lincoln, the president’s role is reduced to a secondary figure head, giving more attention to Chow Yun Fat’s character.
Due to the mounting pressure from the foundation and numerous disgruntle letters from Americans as well as the fear of negative press, affecting American distributors, Lam totally revised the script by writing a movie that more accurately follows the life of Abraham Lincoln with Chow Yun Fat playing the lead role as the president.
Lam expressed displeasure over the revision, preferring the original version over the current one. Lam remarked that it’s only natural that Asian audience would like to see the life of the American president through the eyes of an Asian star. Lam mentioned that the movie, The Last Samurai, did such a thing by casting Tom Cruise as the star when the title role is inspired by the real Japanese samurai, Takamori Saigo. He said that Ken Watanabe’s character is really the last samurai, based on the real life historical figure. He wondered why Cruise is placed in the starring role in a far-fetched part where Cruise masters the lifelong goal of being a samurai and becomes so skilled in a short period of time that he fights right alongside of the chief samurai which is all done entirely in a blink of an eye without Cruise aging a wrinkle.
At the press conference for Liberator, Chow Yun Fat describes the two-hour makeup procedure he had to endure each day while making the movie. He had a prosthetic nose and he had specialized pins which were placed under his skin near the corners of his eyes which stretched the skin apart, giving him a “rounded eye” Caucasian appearance. Chow remarked that the pins were excruciatingly painful, but they were well worth it because he was the spitting image of Abraham Lincoln when he looked in the mirror.
The Last Teutonic Knight rated(R)
A parody of the ‘Last Samurai’ 2003 starring Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe by ‘Very Angry’ (44 Assassin)
Okay, so I hear bad things about The Last Samurai, and I wonder how in hell people can make SHIT like that and the Last Empire. So I want to think up the most RACIST script I can for a movie catering to the asian market.
The Last Teutonic Knight is about this Southern Tang general who flees to Europe to escape his Emperor’s treachery. This would be in 1200AD, which is something like 200 years BEFORE Jan Ziska. The significance of this little detail will be revealed below. This general finds himself in Bohemia as a mercenary to an effeminate gay king. Why is the King gay? First of all, it is to caricature and demonise gay people. By doing so, we can call the movie equally bigoted to everybody and thus make it seem okay. Secondly, making a person gay makes all his failings, perversities and weaknesses even worse. So this King being gay and not good at governing keeps the general more out of amusement than anything, but his racist counsellors and knights are not happy. One day they ambush the Tang general and his entourage. They use full plate armour and longswords, flails, and halberds, but the Tang general kills them all with his chinese sword rapier. There won’t be any flying kung fu, arty farty fighting shit like Chen Kaige and Ang Lee likes. All moves will be brutal, economical and efficient. An english guy sees this and starts his own fencing school many years later back in England. But for the meantime he becomes the chinese guy’s sidekick.
After killing the junior knights of the round table, the Tang general flees to the countryside to escape the Holy Roman Empire’s elite. He finds a peasantry ruthlessly oppressed by the nobility, and this goes against his Confucian values. Subjects owe their master loyalty, but the master also has the duty of care to his subjects. Leading the hunt for the Tang general (ok, lets call him Li Jing from now on because I’m too lazy to write tang general again and again, and because I don’t know a suitable name to give and must thus plagiarise) is the Teutonic Knight Manfredd von Okterrichht or some other nonsensical pseudo-german name. Li Jing lays an ambush for Manfred by laying ropes on the ground, and with the help of militant peasants armed with crossbows and billhooks, kills off Manfred’s armed entourage and mounted guards. The english guy is completely hopeless, and if it weren’t for a few tricks Li Jing showed him, he wouldn’t have been able to kill this large brutish teutonic knight in plate armour wielding dual flails by jamming a pithcfork in his arse at the last minute. So far so good. Then, trouble. Li Jing carries the fight to Manfred’s estate to seize his armoury. He finds Manfred’s wife there. She is this hot blonde chick, not like the other chunky peasants. She is svelte. She was previously another noble’s wife, but Manfred courted her with courtly love when she became a widow. Her original husband fought against the Poles and died. After becoming his wife Manfred’s attitude changed. He used her as a cumdumpster, and was raping and raping her everyday, all the time. This is important to show the teutonic knights’ hypocrisy and bestial nature. So, the widow-again, lets call her claudia falls in love with Li Jing who is very handsome. More handsome than Manfred. She begs and begs him to take her with him, and finally he relents. But Li Jing is still pining for his true love back in China. Now, typically the movie would have this couple fall in love and the guy would teach the woman how to love again, and treat her well. Li Jing treats her well alright. But while he is atracted to her large breasts and exotic poontang, he is not looking for love. He only cares for her, just not that way. Trouble arises when it turns out that the years of spousal rape and abuse has turned Claudia into a painslut, and she cannot get an orgasm by any other way. Li Jing satisfies her lusts regularly, but not before curing her of STDs from traditional chinese medicine. Don’t ask me how he found the herbs in europe.
The emperor is deposed and killed by the nobility who organise a massive army to hunt down Li Jing and the epasants he stirred up. The knights are eager to kill and rape their own people, as are their lackey men at arms. Scared, the peasantry of Bohemia turn to Li Jing as saviour. He is calm in facing the armoured assault, because he is not impressed. He first seizes the resources necessary for making gunpowder. Then he arms his peasants with basic weaponry, crossbows, and trains them with army drills. All this in a couple of months! He uses armoured wagons, and when the two sides meet he protects his infantry with a wagon laager. The first teutonic knight charge mindlessly against the armoured wagon, break their horses backs against it and are flung into the air, then torn to pieces by peasants billhooks. The surviving knights at the back say “Not fair” and declare the use of wagon laagers ‘unchivalric’. What the fuck do you expect when you ram your head against a brick wall??? So they order their infantry mob to attack the wagon laager, holding the knights back to use in a decisive moment. The men at arms are the biggest collection of crackers ever assembled. They have bad teeth, do not wipe their arse after shitting, regularly practise sodomy, and the mass funk they generate is incredible. The peasants on the other hand have been taught hygiene and emergency battlefield medicine. So these crackers are shouting shit like “Chink! Gook!” and “Me gonna love you long time!” and all that other crap. They approach the wagons, and Li Jing unleashes a surprise. Because the wagons not only carried supplies, but also Organ Guns and Serpentines loaded with chain shot. This is like 300 years before the west used gunpowder, and the same time before the Koreans used organ guns against rapacious Japanese samurai in 1592, and 200 years before Jan Ziska and his Hussite army kicked knightly ass. I’m trying to say that the Czech national hero got his idea from a chinese guy. So the mob is utterly killed. The knights flee, but some of them are enraged and charge. The chargers die. Li Jing pursues the routers back to their castle, where he blows them all up with gunpowder.
Happy ending. Li Jing embraces his new chick, who has gone all Goth, and says “We are safe for now.” The chick becomes aroused and says “take me from behind, take me from behind now, and use my other passage” to which Li Jing says “No, that is not a fit place to do it”. And his word is final because of his Confucian values, teaching men all over the world how to stand up to crazy nymphomaniac chicks.
This script has absolutely no merits, but I’m hoping to attract a large crowd by using famour a-list sellout directors and actors, and using lots of violence, sex and gore. To attract more people, we could do a special DVD feature on Li Jing and Claudia’s intimacy ala Last Tango in Paris, but with more detail. Oh ya, the setting is germany but everybody will be speaking english.
Some Korean men are known to tell their wives, “No honey, I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WITH HER. She just poured my drinks.” Then casually he would hide the receipts for $1000 dollars for her valuable services. Some people say that call girls provide counseling services–counseling men from the debilitating effects of loneliness or… er… certain pent-up frustrations.
The economics of training young girls to adulthood in the “world of flowery willows” just doesn’t make sense considering the sheer number of women who became geishas—not to mention, it seems only economically destitute people offer up their daughters to become these noble artists.
Maybe the Japanese men were more noble than me and I am projecting my vile self in them. But if I was a 18th century Yangban noblemen at a Gisaeng’s house, they better be giving me more “service” other than pouring drinks, making small talks, and pluckin’ strings. Otherwise, I would spend my coins somewhere else.
^^ Hey you. Isnt it way past your bedtime? It must be quarter past 3 in the morning over there.
Perfect choices on her part. The local headlines will love her for the Georgia Heat movie. You have to think of these things in terms of Gross National Pride (GNP).
Starring role in Hollywood movie = +50
Role is as love interest to American GI = -20
Net effect = +30. Press will grumble about the bad points to some degree but net headlines will be positive. “?œ¤????§?: ??¸????? ?¨¹?????¤”
However…
Starring in a movie as a Japanese character = -50
Starring in a movie as a geisha (essentially a Japanese prostitute to the Korean media who isn’t known for their hard work on detailed nuances) = -100
Declining to star in a Hollywood movie as a geisha due to a “matter of pride” = +20
Smart analysis on her part means overall net effect of +50 points added to the Korean GNP. Just enough to counter the 2005 2006 effects of the “Yonsama is so 2004″ effect.
virtual wonder,
you can’t hide a $1000 dollar reciept from a korean woman. they are trained from an early age by their mothers on how to catch a man cheating.
“Memoirs of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden
Only a white boy would be presumptuous and arrogant enough to think he knows enough about geikos, maikos, and geisha, despite the fact that even Japanese people themselves admit that they know little about the secretive tradition that is mostly localized in certain quarters of Kyoto, to write an entire book about it. As if Asian people aren’t already fed up with the bullshit James Clavell-esque vision of Zipangu as a place of strange and mysterious customs, exotic submissive Oriental women (the perennial object of all white boy’s fantasy wet dreams), and a place of ‘adventure’ for the orientally creepy white boy.
Here’s the real life story of how one geisha got fvcked by a white boy:
http://www.asianweek.com/2001_.....eisha.html
Lawsuit of a Geisha
Subject of best-selling novel sues author
By Hillel Italie/AP
At a 1999 reading of his million-selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha in Providence, Rhode Island, Arthur Golden allegedly told the audience the inspiration for his novel, Mineko Iwasaki, was proud of having set a record for the amount of money for which her virginity was sold ?€” approximately $850,000.
Now, she?€™s suing. In papers filed on April 24 in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Iwasaki accused Golden and his publisher of violating a verbal confidentiality agreement and distorting her life story in promotional events.
Iwasaki, who has been openly critical of Golden, alleges her reputation has been ?€œtarnished?€? by his citing her ?€œas his primary authority on geisha life, and then inaccurately portraying many of the customs, ceremonies and rituals she described.?€? She says Golden wrongly declared she was sold into the geisha world, and that her virginity was auctioned to the highest bidder.
Golden has said there was no confidentiality agreement and that she agreed to let him tape their discussions, during which she spoke of losing her virginity.
According to the court papers, Iwasaki is seeking an amount ?€œno less?€? than an ?€œappropriate percentage?€? of what she believes is $10 million in sales for the novel. Iwasaki?€™s attorney, Dorothy Weber, says a fair basis for royalties would be 50 percent of however much of the book relates to her client.
Also cited as defendants are Golden?€™s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, and Random House Inc., Knopf?€™s parent company. Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House Inc., said April 24, that the allegations were ?€œtotally without merit.?€?
Applebaum said Golden would not make any comment until he was able to review the lawsuit with his attorneys.
Published to great acclaim in 1997, Golden?€™s novel documents a geisha?€™s rise from a Japanese fishing village to life in high society. Golden, a Harvard and Columbia graduate who spent several years researching the book, interviewed Iwasaki a number of times in 1992 and has thanked her often.
?€œShe turned my understanding of the life of a geisha on its head,?€? Golden once said.
The novel has sold millions of copies, Applebaum said. Steven Spielberg will reportedly direct a film version.
Iwasaki, now 50 and a resident of Kyoto, retired in 1980. She says she only met with Golden on the condition that her and her family?€™s identity remained protected. There is no written contract.
Golden has said he originally wrote a third-person story that included a geisha as a secondary character. After interviewing Iwasaki for background, he wrote a first-person narrative about a geisha, relying often on what he learned from Iwasaki.
?€œIn the course of my extensive research, I am indebted to one individual above all others … Mineko Iwasaki,?€? Golden wrote in the book?€™s acknowledgments.
What kind of chinaman would come to the West, settle here, pretend to know everything about it, and then denounce it?
Is that any less ridiculous than charging white people in Asia with all sorts of accusations?
Captain Scarlet,
Hey I agree with you. But men are known to try stupid things regardless. And then there are also women who believe what they want to believe despite facts pointing to the contrary. Which is also my point.
Captain Scarlet, I don’t recall my mother training me on how to catch my hubby cheating….
#25 bluejives - you’re right… anti-American sentiment and resentment of Western opinions and values is clearly something lacking everywhere in the world - especially in Asia and on the Internet. Kudos for going against the grain!
“#25 bluejives - you?€™re right?€? anti-American sentiment and resentment of Western opinions and values is clearly something lacking everywhere in the world - especially in Asia and on the Internet. Kudos for going against the grain! ”
do you think i go against the grain simply for the sake of going against the grain?
one person (ie myself) may be insane. but if different people of vastly different backgrounds are saying the same things about the same thing, then MAYBE they have a point?
dont worry too much. actually, most kyopos and loads of koreans even, pander to white sensibilities. whiteness is like the American Express Card, membership has its priviledges.
call me
It doesn’t look like they had a problem casting among many other asian actresses.
http://michelleyeoh.info/Movie.....eisha.html
Former Miss Malaysia, Michelle Yeoh, (and Chow Yen Fat’s costar in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) is in one of the lead roles.
Zhang Ziyi, (also from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), is THE female lead.
Anyone consider the possibility that the other man is an Asian-American draft dodger? The role hasn’t been cast yet. I’m thinking if Sang’s father was another white guy, he would have given him an English name. Also, this other man is viewed as an outsider. Unless they’re saying the townfolk were ultra-patriotic and had no use for a draft dodger, I think he is an “outsider” because he looks like one of the few asians in the community. Then there’s the issue of going back (figuratively), which would be visually more powerful if the other man is asian, which would represent the tugging of her character between the two cultures.
BTW did anyone see the CNN special about The New Immigrants? I caught the tail end of one segment. It appeared to be about a Korean woman in her 40’s married to a older white guy in the South. She was filing for divorce citing differences, including cultural. The commentator closed with “tearing a family apart.”
This dovetailed nicely into the next segment about a Mexican woman living in Los Angeles trying time and time again to get her kids over the border to reunite her family.
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