LONG DUK DONG

brando
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTpICKGgZXI

burgess meredith, james mason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnbq_tUQ2DA

having read the thread I vaguely remember being grossed out by rapiness too, was that the car thing I was thinking of? anyway, horrible horrible movie and any country that gets up in arms about b&w archival editions of Tintin Au Congo with contextualising introductions but allowed this on video shelves should be cast out of the EU IMO

some of the Chow stuff in Hangover made me a bit squeamish, but Leong is a great clown so

How does a movie like The Party fit into this issue, it occurs to me? I mean I love that film, but I did always wonder about Seller's character in it.

anybody catch that Last Comic Standing from a few years ago (the year Iliza Schlesinger won) in the preliminaries, where that one dude did 'sketch comedy' where he pretended to be a Japanese fighter pilot getting taken down by an American?

that was like the worst thingin the history of man

The Party is another one where I saw it as a grown-up after everyone in the world had been going "lol this movie is a classic everyone can enjoy over and over again" for years and my reaction was "wtf this shit is disgusting"

how fuckn old are u

Ugh, I think The Party is my Dad's favourite movie.

i've never seen it but looks fucking awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGx3P5THJs

claudine longet at her best

longet duk dong

Sellers does some of his alltime best bits in The Party.

from that trailer it looks like he could have played a goofy dude of his own ethnicity and it would have been just as fucking awesome

i have to see this movie

LOL I dont remember that "you meshuggah!" "I'm not your sugar!" joke.

Also yeah OTM on the fact he could have just played himself. which is why I mentioned this film - its like, what was the point of being indian? was being a goofball meant to be excused by being a naive "ethnic"?

well he couldn't have played himself because then the movie would be about a super weird asshole

"who would invite HIM to a party?" smdh oh boy i bet this fuckin punjab sure fucks this party up good

what's next, black people golfing?

i see yr The Party and raise you Curry and Chips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd_Vjq5MEeQ

Somehow also related: the German dub of "Harold and Kumar" has Kumar speaking with an absurd Apu from the Simpsons accent throughout, done by a German actor -- the dudes who dub his father and brother do not have the comedy accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQTAg7lN9A

i cant tell that that is an apu accent in german so i have to take your word for it

I promise you that that is a very poor comedy Indian accent. (Someone else who speaks German back me up here, please.)

i don't speak german but i can hear it in places. which i guess means it's pretty strong.

For comparison, here is the German Apu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jwF7fQBwI

lol I'm guessing the makers of H&K approve of that anyway

what was the point of being indian?

Re: "The Party", I because the comedy Indian doctor was a character he'd already played in "The Millionairess" which in turn had led to the the hit single (with Sophia Loren), "Goodness Gracious Me".

I guess it's also kinda dodgy that the German trailer for Harold & Kumar advertises John Cho as "the Asian from American Pie"... Especially since Cho has exactly one line in AP, and it has nothing to do with being Asian. (He's one of the two guys discussing the meaning of "MILF".)

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think the character in the party is different from the one in the Millionairess? spike milligan, of course, was born in India, which may have rubbed off on sellars in some way...

I wonder if the German trailer for Pulp Fiction had "the black guy from Jurassic Park as Jules"?

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How do you say MILF in German?

Merkel

MIMF?

(Mutter ich möchte ficken)

think the character in the party is different from the one in the Millionairess?

Yes, definitely, but, probably more because of the record, I imagine it was a comic character he became associated with, one of his "voices"

I think the US promotion did the same thing: "the asian guy from american pie" & "the indian guy from _____ [something else?]"?

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yeah, tbf i think it was a pretty knowing reference

I always find it crazy that John Cho never headlined a movie outside of Harold and Kumar!

what are the movies with Asian leads that he's missing out on?

yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying, even movies like "21" that should have Asian leads were white-washed, which is dumb because the fact that the dudes were Asian was a part of the "real" story

I guess I don't really know too many Asian-American actors but Cho always seemed to be a lot better than the roles he got (well, H+K is classic in its own way)

good news though, from checking IMDB it seems he'll be reprising his role as "Milf Guy #2" in American Reunion

He's Mr. Sulu now, he doesn't need your mercy cameos.

lol did you guys not see the titles from that german clip?

KUMAR, der Indar aus "Party Animals." und HAROLD der Asiate aus "American Pie"

do the translation y'all, Germany still refining the racism game

thats how it was adveristed in the US, too
i'm not sure how pointing out a guy's race is "refining the racism game", bad taste for sure but kinda like a 1/10 on that scale

I think lingering on Apatow films might be dodging some of the other offenders that are worse. Did I ever mention on ilx that I was tired and just wanted to stay in my hotel room on a trip a few weeks back and "Hall Pass" seemed like an OK movie to order? I forgot to check the directors and thought it'd just be dumb, but... it was the Farrelly brothers.

Party Animals=Van Wilder

i think he's referring specifically to the translation of "Asiate"

um, pointing out a guy's race is pretty much the racism game for sure

The plot of the first Harold and Kumar movie, outside of their quest for sliders, was an examination of what it means to be Asian-American! It was all about the expectations Kumar's dad had for him to live up to as kind of a cultural signpost, Harold being the guy who gets shit on at work because he's a conscientious worker, the interaction with the Asian student club that they run into at the school...

racist, not funny, but the racism isn't why it's "not funny"

― reconstituted pork offal slurry (get bent), Monday, January 9, 2012 4:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ otm

They did consciously cast them as specifically Indian and Chinese, though, and their charcaters are written true to certain stereotypical notions so it may be less the distributors as the whole enterprise that has a whiff of racism about it not that Kumar's whole scene imagining living with his bag of weed and NPH didn't kind of redeem that for me.