TV Producer: “Asian guys in my show? Not gonna happen!”

Not original commentator but these ones stuck out to me, obviously spoilers

Forbidden Kingdom - fails to mention that the main bulk of the film is Jet Li and Jackie Chan, the White Guy is more or less just a generic main character to make the story work.

The Wolverine - all the Asians are henchmen, all henchmen are usually useless.

Man with Iron Fists - fails to mention that the females are asskicking assassins that kill the majority of the henchmen in the film as well as having female side characters that have a role in the story other than "they are sex objects".

The Last Samurai - the movie is about a white man moving to Japan and having to adjust to the culture which would be hard especially considering the time period, would have made no sense if the dude was Asian. And just because he beats up people and does cool shit does not mean the director/writer hates Asians, they just want the character to evolve.

Pacific Rim - haven't seen this film but IMO the main character is saving the WORLD not just Asian people, it's not racist to feature an Asian country as a battlefield and portraying the citizens as weak because they are (as well as everybody else who isn't trained in destroying gigantic monsters).

Iron Man - the character was changed to middle-eastern ethnicity. If OP should be complaining about anything it should be that. It also isn't racist to make a character a wimp when he should be a bad ass, it's just terrible writing. It could be argued that it is terrible and possibly racist that the character is made a wimp so a white dude can take credit for all the actions that "the mandarin" did and use a nerd who had a bad experience with tony stark over a cool character that could have had a massive storyline with iron man based off his identity and power alone.

Entourage - Lloyd is a developed character with a personality, there is not much negative connotation to the character other than maybe being a bit over the top sometimes.

The Hangover, 2 Broke Girls, Pretty much any comedy with a somewhat Asian stereotype in it - comedies tend to have stereotypes and cross the lines occasionally. Comedy will always offend someone and sometimes it will be Asians. If comedies were forced to not be offensive at any point in time, comedy would become terrible. Is it sometimes terrible how far comedy goes with some jokes? Yes. Are Asians the only ones who fall under stereotypes? No. Pretty much every ethnicity falls under something, and if it makes people laugh it will continue no matter what.

The Interview - it's a movie parodying a dictator, I don't think the comedians making jokes about him are the bad ones here. It's the man who wants to go to war with the world rather than fixing his own country because he is a selfish prick. There were many parodies of Osama bin laden and he deserved it, because he was a cunt that supported the death of thousands and was the leader of a terrorist groups that co-ordinated multiple terrorist attacks over many years. A joke about how he may be an idiot or how he wants to be American is not at all as bad as the crimes that he committed.

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