Dunno if it has been mentioned already but there was an episode of Farscape that had that happen, only not so harsh. But its an ongoing show and he already had a GF off the planet so it was easy to predict
Seriously though, I would like to see a strong willed, non-submissive, tough Asian man cast as the sex symbol in a movie, and he can’t know any martial arts either.
The most ridiculous example of this I have ever seen is the miniseries Shaka Zulu which is the fictionalized life story of Skaka Zulu, BUT they had to use a framing device involving white anthropologists or something.
Seriously though, I would like to see a strong willed, non-submissive, tough Asian man cast as the sex symbol in a movie, and he can’t know any martial arts either.
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Or Es geschah am hellichten Tag (the original version of The Promise), the old black-white version with Fröbe (who later appeared in Goldfinger). Very little blood, but scary.
Not boring, no, but more realistic. Its jarring to me when someone’s looking something up on the computer, they click one thing and this window pops up, doesn’t look like any recognizable software, even if its a word document, and opens directly to the part of the file which they are looking for. They can play it off as suspenseful, to see if the protagonist can find the thing before the bad guys come back into the room or something.
I just hate it when movies and shows create obviously fake props to substitute for real things. If you’re drinking a soda, it should be a Coke or something, or better yet, a less popular but still well known brand if you want to establish that the character isn’t like everyone else. Would it really hurt anyone if someone was drinking an A&W Root Beer or an Orange Fanta in a movie? No!
Also, I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but in scenes where they’re showing people looking around files on a computer, even the mouse movement is fake. The movement of the mouse is always completely smooth, moving from point A to B with perfectly uniform speed and in a direct straight line. Real mouse movements aren’t like that, it really takes me out of the movie when they couldn’t simply film a person moving a cursor around a screen and have to animate it
(off topic) constanze - It is sad but what you posted is most likely very true. Anyone who thinks race isn’t still a huge issue in America is blind - and hasn’t been reading news reports out of Florida. I Would Lke To See - that shooter in jail. (ending off topic)
Agreed. I still curse at Replacement Killers, one of my favorite movies, that they never have sex. One of the few movies I wanted to see the female-male lead have sex, and they don’t. Other than that, Chow is the hero - he just can’t be seen to be having sex with a cute blond. :rolleyes:
Anaamika, drastic_quench - I forgot to give the title of the movie I mentioned earlier with the Asian-non martial arts hero. It’s “Bridge to the Sun”. Caroll Baker is the female lead. I found the male lead, James Shigeta, very sexy.
On tv’s “The Mentalist”, detective Cho was shown having a girlfriend. can’t remember if she was white or Asian.
Telling stories takes a balance of economy. Certain shortcuts need to be made, especially in a movie. Movies aren’t meant to be a completely faithful reproduction of reality. These kinds of shortcuts make sense to me. The same way that conversations, especially telephone conversations, are depicted in non-realistic ways. Because everything that doesn’t advance the plot or the mood or the characters has to be abbreviated.
If you can suspend your disbelief for all the other unrealistic things that happen in a movie, I should think that fake brand names of goods should be easy.
As to the sex scene thing, I agree. WHY is it Ok to show a man’s nipples but a woman’s nipples OH NO! Breasts are natural and beautiful…but this one I can argue until kingdom come and never win it.
Acsenray, it is easy to say “suspend your disbelief for aliens, suspend it for sneakers” but it doesn’t always work that way. Different things catch different people’s suspension of disbelief. For example, if I saw a Limca or something in a Western movie I’d be yanked out even if it was aliens because I’d be like “Why are they drinking Limca? Isn’t that sold in India? I used to love that shit, but I didn’t think they sold it here.”
You see. With Coke it’s “Huh. I guess they must have placed an ad for themselves.” With NotCoke, it’s all “I guess they didn’t want to pay Coke for the ad!”
No matter what it’s going to jar a bit, so I’d rather see them err on the side of being more natural.
And movies that do show nudity – naked female breasts are fine, but no penises! Don’t even mention vulvas. That’s an odd hierarchy, isn’t it? – men’s nipples>women’s breasts>penis>vagina.
Fake brand names are as old as fiction itself. Just for a start, nearly every character works for a company with a made up name. There are all kinds of fake products in fiction. Fake brand names are an integral part of fiction as a genre and have been for more than a century.
