Bruce Lee, yo; / Star Trek
For those of you with Spike TV, they are doing a Kung-Fu week, and tomorrow at 7pm they will be showing Enter the Dragon, a Bruce Lee movie.
Rotten Library the archive of unpleasant / politically incorrect / societally 'impolite', has this to say on the subject of Bruce Lee;
It's a sad, but true fact. You will never, ever, EVER be as cool as Bruce Lee.
It's not your fault. No one will ever be as cool as Bruce Lee. Hollywood star, philosopher, master martial artist, cinematographer, author... Bruce Lee was an unprecedented mix of serenity, poise, charisma and intellect, and an unstoppable ass-kicking virtuoso to boot.
Wannabes need not apply to my attention span. Jackie Chan is a fucking joke, which in itself, is okay. I like action/humour, I like movies like Nina In the Dragon's Den (1982), the original Star Trek a lot and the Adam West batman too, though I only caught a few of the later and it's not as religious as my love for the original Star Trek, haha. Seriously, Star Trek > JudoChristianIslam canon, it's anti-slavery for example, today's rerun, Cloud Minders really got to me in their presentation of racism. At first I was charmed by the very charming daughter of the cloud city's Stratos's high adviser, but Droxine , like her father, is a racist. Though Droxine is less deliberate. Whereas her father actively seek to prevent the masks that would protect Troglytes from the neurologically damaging effects of the gases in the minds, because then the Troglytes may challenge their oppressors. I really wanted to choke Droxine when she so sincerely defends her people's superiority over the Troglytes, and therefore their right to a life of leisure made possible through the Troglytes's slavery, because the Troglytes are simply too inferior to enjoy the Strato's lifestyle. *URGETOSMASH* I find her redeeming at the end though, when she seek to go to stay at the mines and educate herself about the situation there in the end.
Anyways, the problem with Jackie Chan is, other than the fact that his movies bore me with their cheapness, he's a blasphemy against what Bruce Lee fought for; respect for the Chinese people, independent of the ridicule and approval of white people. During the times of Bruce Lee, there was still much discrimination against Chinese overseas, and ill treatment of Chinese in Hong Kong. There were members of the British navy who just didn't understand what NO means coming from Chinese women. There were signs in places that expresses their ban of 'dogs and Chinese'. Bruce Lee movies addressed that, without demonizing teh whities since there were definitely those of them who were mature enough in spite of their prevailing environmental framework, to recognize that hey, racism is stupid.
Jackie Chan, I don't remember much of his earlier movies anymore, though I tried to watch one today in which he's a lawyer, where the opening scene is immediately offensive where a man who raped a nightclub worker was acquitted due to her occupation and it was not condemned. I drifted off in the middle and switched to Star Trek after yet another 'the women doesn't know what's going on' scene. A movie that definitely sticks out in my mind is Shanghai Noon (2000), in which I suppose some 'credit' can be given over their honesty in terms of their intention; that Asians must seek the approval of white people by abandoning their own ways, with the repeated reminders that "This is the West, not the East". (...and before anyone voice that immigrants should seek to fit in, I would like to say, this goes for countries where the natives are the majority, but not North America. I do try to learn as much as I could about what's left of the aboriginals though) Shanghai Noon also features orientalism in the form of singling out the Chinese culture as sexist without looking at their own sexism, and therefore condemning Chinese culture by setting up the straw man that sexism is an essential part of Chinese culture and not a facet of the period. Yes, let's spotlight on how the Chinese princess must marry, but make no mention that Queen Victoria's husband was chosen for her. Or that the women of the West can either marry well, or suffer, or be tavern whores until no one would pay for her anymore.
Rotten Library the archive of unpleasant / politically incorrect / societally 'impolite', has this to say on the subject of Bruce Lee;
It's a sad, but true fact. You will never, ever, EVER be as cool as Bruce Lee.
It's not your fault. No one will ever be as cool as Bruce Lee. Hollywood star, philosopher, master martial artist, cinematographer, author... Bruce Lee was an unprecedented mix of serenity, poise, charisma and intellect, and an unstoppable ass-kicking virtuoso to boot.
Wannabes need not apply to my attention span. Jackie Chan is a fucking joke, which in itself, is okay. I like action/humour, I like movies like Nina In the Dragon's Den (1982), the original Star Trek a lot and the Adam West batman too, though I only caught a few of the later and it's not as religious as my love for the original Star Trek, haha. Seriously, Star Trek > JudoChristianIslam canon, it's anti-slavery for example, today's rerun, Cloud Minders really got to me in their presentation of racism. At first I was charmed by the very charming daughter of the cloud city's Stratos's high adviser, but Droxine , like her father, is a racist. Though Droxine is less deliberate. Whereas her father actively seek to prevent the masks that would protect Troglytes from the neurologically damaging effects of the gases in the minds, because then the Troglytes may challenge their oppressors. I really wanted to choke Droxine when she so sincerely defends her people's superiority over the Troglytes, and therefore their right to a life of leisure made possible through the Troglytes's slavery, because the Troglytes are simply too inferior to enjoy the Strato's lifestyle. *URGETOSMASH* I find her redeeming at the end though, when she seek to go to stay at the mines and educate herself about the situation there in the end.
Anyways, the problem with Jackie Chan is, other than the fact that his movies bore me with their cheapness, he's a blasphemy against what Bruce Lee fought for; respect for the Chinese people, independent of the ridicule and approval of white people. During the times of Bruce Lee, there was still much discrimination against Chinese overseas, and ill treatment of Chinese in Hong Kong. There were members of the British navy who just didn't understand what NO means coming from Chinese women. There were signs in places that expresses their ban of 'dogs and Chinese'. Bruce Lee movies addressed that, without demonizing teh whities since there were definitely those of them who were mature enough in spite of their prevailing environmental framework, to recognize that hey, racism is stupid.
Jackie Chan, I don't remember much of his earlier movies anymore, though I tried to watch one today in which he's a lawyer, where the opening scene is immediately offensive where a man who raped a nightclub worker was acquitted due to her occupation and it was not condemned. I drifted off in the middle and switched to Star Trek after yet another 'the women doesn't know what's going on' scene. A movie that definitely sticks out in my mind is Shanghai Noon (2000), in which I suppose some 'credit' can be given over their honesty in terms of their intention; that Asians must seek the approval of white people by abandoning their own ways, with the repeated reminders that "This is the West, not the East". (...and before anyone voice that immigrants should seek to fit in, I would like to say, this goes for countries where the natives are the majority, but not North America. I do try to learn as much as I could about what's left of the aboriginals though) Shanghai Noon also features orientalism in the form of singling out the Chinese culture as sexist without looking at their own sexism, and therefore condemning Chinese culture by setting up the straw man that sexism is an essential part of Chinese culture and not a facet of the period. Yes, let's spotlight on how the Chinese princess must marry, but make no mention that Queen Victoria's husband was chosen for her. Or that the women of the West can either marry well, or suffer, or be tavern whores until no one would pay for her anymore.