It’s all relative – the bar was 3.4 percent Asian characters in 2007, according to the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s latest report.
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Culture Shift: Asian Representation in Movies Rose 12.5 Percent in 16 Years, Study Finds
Submitted 8 months ago by realcaseyrollins to politics@exploding-heads.com
Lovstuhagen@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
Honestly I think the reason is appealing to the increasingly powerful foreign film markets. That’s the big driver.
Plus there’s all these Asian American actors who think they’re creating the Asian American cultural narrative now, and studios are willing to give them small budgets to have Awkwafina and her gang tell some melancholic and pseuodoprofound story.
… Ok some of it is good but I also feel like it is way too ethnocentric.
realcaseyrollins 8 months ago
I do think this means that unfortunately the majority of asian roles are going to the handful of Asian actors who were in Crazy Rich Asians. There should be an Impossible Difficulty challenge to find an American-made Hollywood film starring asians who weren't in Crazy Rich Asians.
Lovstuhagen@exploding-heads.com 8 months ago
lol
btw, Casey, where do you recommend EH users go after this shuts down in less than a week?