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"Last Samurai" Premiere After-Party Launches Racism and Exotification
Thanks to Mike Murase
posted 12/1/03
CASTING CALL: Casting beautiful Asian women for Warner Bros.' The Last Samurai Premiere After-party to be held in Westwood on Dec 1st. Women will be dressed as village women from the film's wardrobe department and mingle 'in character' through the party, helping to create the ambience of ancient Japan, circa 1870's. There is no pay, but a chance to be part of this year's biggest Hollywood premiere with a guest list including Tom Cruise and the rest of The Last Samurai's fantastic cast!! If interested please forward a picture and information ASAP to: Cheryl Rave Entertainment Producer Warner Bros. Special Events (818)954-3549 phone (818)954-3011 fax Cheryl.Rave@Warnerbros.com
Response #1
by Wyn Ngo
"Last Samurai" Whore Recruiting Miss Cheryl,
If you were promoting a film that depicted historical African slavery would you dare consider luring in black people who'd be "in character" as the party's "negro servants." Perhaps you might do the same with a film about Jews where the after-party would have starved Nazi camp prisoners celebrating themselves "in character". Would you dare walk that ground amongst the blacks & Jews in Hollywood? (But Asians are always fair game? IF YOU THINK THIS, THEN YOU'RE WALKING A VERY DATED PATH SOON TO BE PAVED.) You are playing upon WHITE MEN'S racist novelty / fetish for ASIAN WOMEN as docile import sex-furniture. (How convenient that you'd exclude ASIAN MEN as a COCK-BLOCKING presence amongst the white men at the party who rule Hollywood. Really hard for white fat-cats to leisurely hit on Asian "Geisha servants" when the ASIAN MALE "WARRIORS" ironically depicted in your film would stare them down during the party.) AN INSULT AT TODAY'S ASIAN-AMERICANS LIVING NEXT DOOR TO YOU: (Particularly for Japanese Americans.)
The recklessness of your advertisement reflects the very dynamic of racial power differential you practice in bias for white-dominated Hollywood. (Where Asians and only the chosen "subservient" women are for the good ol' boys of the white country club to smack on the ass.) WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Are you this culturally stupid despite your formal education which I imagine is culturally bias to white social power differential. Learn how to live in California amongst TODAY'S Asian Americans who will be the future employers of your white children (spawned from your white male husband) after they go to college with them. Bare in mind that TODAY'S Asian American showbiz executives and creative authorities are on the rise in Hollywood. WE WILL NOT FORGET THE PEOPLE WHO STEPPED ON US ALONG OUR WAY UP THE LADDER. So if you do not respect us out of deeper intelligence then perhaps you ought to apply your business sense.
TODAY'S Asian AMERICANS are a proactive force in America with a higher education mixed with sophisticated social awareness of a dual cultural identity. This includes life experiences of RACIAL tension inherent with the American upbringing. As new incoming generations of AMERICANS WHO ARE ASIAN enter the higher status of the American society they bring with them a vigilant pride fed by their multi- cultural sensibility. So be careful that if not just for yourself your children will not keep up with us. They may inherited from you a dated sense of racial social perspective that elevated their parents' social position "back in the day" but now serves only to alienate them in the racial future of America. PAY ATTENTION TO WHO WE REALLY ARE. As we are paying close attention to HOW YOU PORTRAY "WHO WE ARE".
