LONG DUK DONG

wtf hughes did home alone

the 'police academy' films are chock full of this kind of shit too

btw I watched sixteen candles and metropolitan within like a few weeks of each other and metropolitan clearly ripped sixteen candles off in the female lead department didn't it?

or they're caricatures that want to anally rape you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfipl5BYBqo

hollywood is vv white btw

I was watching Uncle Buck over Christmas and thinking "this is pretty aggressively heteronormative" but... John Candy. I just love the guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu-p_OQChKQ&feature=related

it's kind of amazing how many scripts i've read which have these kinds of scenes and how many of them got made.

look out! black people!

xp

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

i don't mind offensive humor but the stuff is 99% coming from the minds of rich white dudes, which is why shit like the al qaeda joke in 'crank' is kind of unforgivable to me.

Not to mention the "primitive cultures" line/cutaway in that scene.

xp

ppl will probably be smdh over this in 20 years too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_0ech5F5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_CUV0Er7EE

ppl will probably be smdh over this in 20 years too

that is an ... odd character yes.

the rolling-up-the-window thing is totally funny tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E8-NklZobg

i don't mind offensive humor but the stuff is 99% coming from the minds of rich white dudes

― omar little, Monday, January 9, 2012 4:39 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my friend just gave me his brother in law's (white american dude who works in finance) movie script and 90% of it was this kind of racist bullshit

but it was the kind of bullshit that could easily get made

easily made bullshit

amazed how many scripts include stuff like CUT TO: SCARY BLACK GUY or DOG REACTION SHOT or misogynist bullshit passed off as gospel truth.

if this were a thread about racism in non-comedies i'd just be going on about the fuckedupness of assault on precinct 13

wait, what is wrong with DOG REACTION SHOT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55ArHjeR1c

racist as hell, mostly cringe-worthy & regrettable, but I can't help but lol @ the post-bacchanal exchange b/w the donger & grandpa.

Dong, where is my automobile?

Character is much more richly developed in Dong Is Missing.

Is Borat any different from Long Duk Dong?

not really, but i'm the only person that's going to agree w/ you on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsywLclz8A8

john hughes did papa johns

Revenge of the Nerds is PACKED with this stuff, PLUS it ends with a comic rape scene!

At the weekend, ITV broadcast Disney's One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, complete w/ Sir Peter Ustinov as wiley/ludicrous oriental:

http://www.sirpeterustinov.com/dinopubigcopy.jpg

John Hughes, of course, wrote for National Lampoon magazine in the 70s, and that's incredibly racist a lot of the time

http://i43.tower.com/images/mm107558347/mastermind-zero-mostel-vhs-cover-art.jpg

Zero Mostel, ladies and gentlemen

http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Dr.Lao.JPG

Tony Randall, ladies and gentlemen

oh damn

16 Candles also has the following exchange between MR and her best friend:

And you do it on a cloud

without getting pregnant

or herpes.

I don't need the cloud.

Just a pink Trans Am

and the guy, right?

A black one.

A black guy? (Sounds completely horrified)

A black Trans Am.

A pink guy.

That whole convo was always pretty o_O to me.

"if this were a thread about racism in non-comedies i'd just be going on about the fuckedupness of assault on precinct 13"

The original or the remake?

The last time this was brought up on ILX, I think someone posted a link to an article by an Asian-American writer with a detailed decription of how the image Long Duk Dong affected the way he was treated as teenager (similar to the Adrian Tomine comic). I remember the writer mentioning that before LDD, the stereotypical image of Asian guys was Bruce Lee, but at least Lee was a badass kung fu guy, so Long Duk Dong replacing him was actually a turn for the worse. Can anyone locate that article, I thought it was a good reading on this subject?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88591800

Oh yeah, that's it, I guess I misremembered that it was written by Martin Wong instead of him being interviewed for it.

The original or the remake?

didn't know there was a remake. original came to mind after people were talking about john hughes' terror @ inner-city black people. precinct 13 seems like it comes from the mind of someone who's never been in a city and thinks that black people are all sociopathic sadists who will kill your innocent white daughter as she eats her ice cream cone.

oh for fuck's sake i just remembered it was my blackface/golliwog friend that made me watch it

I think you should refer to him as that, to his face.

introduce him to people that way

"Hi, this is my friend, Mr. Blackface Golliwog."

"..."

"Well its not offensive in England."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sxjPDDtsXdc/Ti_-g1K8EUI/AAAAAAAAESE/WyzwbzSFRYk/s1600/marlon-brando-the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon.jpg

precinct 13 seems like it comes from the mind of someone who's never been in a city and thinks that black people are all sociopathic sadists who will kill your innocent white daughter as she eats her ice cream cone.

?? All the bad guys in the movie are pretty much a mix of white, Latino and black -- and the one who shoots the little girl is as white as white can be, noted weirdo Frank Doubleday:

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsD/4803-939.gif

And the hero of the movie looks like this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jCtQBPsvASY/Sfps1jvRuVI/AAAAAAAAAg8/Y9bWaPP71dE/s400/16581-939.gif

I don't think the film's racial politics are anywhere near how you're describing them here. Granted it's been a long time since I've seen it, but that doesn't jibe with my memory of it.

I was wondering that too, I thought maybe he was talking about the remake, which I've never seen. I don't remember the original being as problematic as most of the other films itt, but like you I haven't seen it in over a decade.

Here's how to do it right:

http://www.mastermindboardgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/mastermind-board-game-original-cover-art.jpg

My grandparents used to have that game!

I was a teenager in the 80's and I didn't much like Hughes movies. I know that sets me out of the norm but they all seemed so tedious to me.

I like Tomine's take on the character. If the humor had been at all subversive or insightful, it might have been slightly more palatable. Instead, we have a lucky generic Asian who gets to learn from suburban white ppl how to hang out in trees or whatever.

And nail Joan Cusack. Don't forget that.

not really, but i'm the only person that's going to agree w/ you on that

no I totally agree that Borat is racist bullshit

sad misreading of Precinct 13 upthread wtf

What race is Borat denigrating, exactly?

Let’s not invent some “always punching up” narrative about the show that gave us Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel

Al Jean has been running the show for 18 years. I imagine lost touch with reality some time ago

It's definitely pro-gun in that seemingly every other adult (I think including Krusty and Bee Guy??) in Springfield is a responsible gun owner.

https://media.giphy.com/media/32V6UqfX4ffHO/giphy.gif

It's definitely pro-gun in that seemingly every other adult (I think including Krusty and Bee Guy??) in Springfield is a responsible gun owner.

pro-gun is the default stance in America, not something one party does and another does not.

look at all the gun legislation during Obama's 8 years in office. we had a Democratic congresswoman shot in the head and she still supported gun rights.

that's a pretty shitty way to frame her considering she has been adamant about pushing for gun control legislation for 7 years

i love this thread's detour into high school architecture

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/25/entertainment/hank-azaria-apu/index.html

Don't know if this has been posted before.

https://la.eater.com/2018/4/30/17303328/yellow-fever-restaurant-backlash-over-name

Omg that name

Wtf

Even overlooking the racial aspect naming your restaurant after an illness is pretty dumb

"Dengue Dave's"

Matt Groening Says Debate Around Apu Is 'Tained'

er, 'Tainted'

Groening is being so fucking dumb about this, like anyone would care if they stopped putting Apu in a show that everyone agrees has sucked nuts for like 15 years

I don’t think anyone at the Simpsons saw my film #TheProblemWithApu so they make the same points over & over. Points I have already acknowledged & responded to in a 49 minute documentary that is readily available on iTunes. https://t.co/QDvNYTTZgo

— Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) July 18, 2018

For my interview, Netflix stipulated that I not ask Groening about Apu controversy. I asked Netflix, "Is Matt declining to comment on Apu?" They declined to answer that, so I went ahead and asked Matt about Apu. Netflix halted the interview immediately and disconnected the call. https://t.co/RCf3lpwjvI

— Brad Wheeler (@BWheelerglobe) July 18, 2018