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Ya mean there were other people in the movie other than Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter? Heh, heh. Welcome to the racist-sexist world—more sexist than racist, in my opinion.
To describe the characters in any RE movie as cardboard cutouts is to give them more depth than they deserve. These zombie killer pawns are vapid, 2 dimensional video game entities—a series of ones and zeros. I mean, these electronic entities make spaghetti westerns look like Hamlet, by comparison.
Anyway, I see your points as more applicable to the overall Hollywood and American milieu than to this movie by itself.
According to the actor who played Kim Yong, Norman Yeung, there was no cowering at all. He was shielding his face from bullets or something and yelling out dialogue. http://www.normanyeung.blogspot.com http://www.asiansonfilm.com/2010/09/norman-yeung-…
i completely agree with the author on this one..they should boycott this movie!
I just watched this movie and a quick search online brought me to this website. I agree with everything you say about the weak asian guy stereotype in his movie. Let me just add a few more things that bothered me. U forgot to mention when we first see the asian guy with all the survivors on he rooftop, they all quckly scramble to clear a landing path for alice’s plane. Spanish guy ties the brake cable, black guy moves a few heavy objects…asian guy? Oh hang on, hes too weak to move a metal crate. Black guy just pulls it for asian guy with his left hand. I thought maybe i shouldnt make such big deal out of that but asian guys role got worse and worse in this movie. He does not contribute ANYTHING to the group. Heck, even the pretty english girl provided the food, and she was brave enough to go into the water. Even the pervy old man kept guard of chris in the prison. But asain guy? He did nothing for anyone. He couldnt even help the girls get out of the elevator after it crashed down. We just see him runnin for his chicken shit life, leaving everyone behind. In Normans blog, he mentioned his character discovered the engine sitting outside the tank. But in the movie they editted it and it looks like spanish guy discovers it. All asian guy can do is say “can u fix it?” hes too useless to fix it himself. Oh another thing to insult asian men was when they were getting into the tunnel, chris goes in, then just before black guy goes in, he says kindly, “ladies”. umm hang on, asian MAN is still there jerk. But i forgot, asian men are too scared like a lady. Haha i was jus as relieved as you were when the asian guy got killed. I was thinking Thank god there would be no more mockery made of this asian character. THe question is whydid they bother to put him in the movie at all? He was a nothing character. He never redeemed himself, nor hqd any character arch. He lived a chicken shit and died a chicken shit.
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It’s quite obvious that the white people licensed a Japanese game and abused it to mock asians. Everyone knows that in real life, it’s the africans an europeans who always cower in a group because they are too weak on their own. This is just another african-cuddling white movie, directed by some random Goldberg/Jewowitz.