How is The Wolverine blowing it on the racial justice front? Jenn of Reappropriate goes in on our ne
How is The Wolverine blowing it on the racial justice front? Jenn of Reappropriate goes in on our new favorite blog, The Nerds of Color!Some have heralded “The Wolverine” for its predominantly Asian cast, and to that end, I’m always happy to see Will Yun Lee get work and be able to pay his cellphone bill. And hey, at least we weren’t cross-cast, right?But I ultimately have to disagree with this faint praise. Poor representation is hardly better than no representation at all; and we’ve certainly seen better Asian/Asian American characters this summer than the entire cast of “The Wolverine” (to wit, Mako Mori of Pacific Rim). Like “Miss Saigon”, “The Wolverine” is nothing but a potpourri of flattened anti-Asian stereotypes writ large in a two-dimensional world where everybody and everything Asian exists only to facilitate the personal evolution of our heroically White, heroically male protagonist. We’ve seen these tired tropes before, and other than the adamantium claws, “The Wolverine” offers nothing new to this pastiche. -- source link
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