# 16 Candles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 13, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-candles/678620 "2014-01-13T00:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-candles/678620/63 "2020-09-25T15:43:43Z")
I’m old enough now that when I see how Jake’s parents’ house get trashed, I feel sorry for them. I know it’s a comedy, but there’s many thousands in damage. (And yet, for some reason, I don’t feel sorry that Cameron’s dad’s classic car is destroyed in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.) ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-candles/678620/64 "2020-09-25T16:57:29Z")
Yeah, I remember loving _Revenge Of the Nerds_ back in the day. I actually bought the DVD a couple years ago from the bargain bin, and watching it did not bring the same joy and laughter it once did. I think it has not aged all that well - especially the moon room scene. Here is an interview with Gedde Watanabe from 2014. He discusses the stereotype, among other things… [Gedde Watanabe Discusses 30 Years of _Sixteen Candles_ and Long Duk Dong](https://www.vulture.com/2014/05/gedde-watanabe-long-duk-dong-sixteen-candles-interview.html) _ **You’ve heard a thousand times that Long Duk Dong is an offensive stereotype of a young Asian man who just arrived in this country, I’m sure.** _ _Yes, and all I’ll say about that is that because there weren’t enough Asians onscreen, comedy was kind of looked down upon. I was not in the film business. I was studying theater in New York. It was my first movie and I had no idea what I was stepping into. I know that periphery is loosening. But because there were so few Asian actors onscreen at that time, people were looking for Kurosawa in a comedy and Sixteen Candles wasn’t that kind of movie._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/16-candles/678620.md?page=3)