Hollywood applies magic white out pen to the "True Story" behind Extraordinary Measures

[calledinvain]

Harrison Ford: Secretly Taiwanese? Hollywood sure seems to think so!I know, I know. Whenever there's the tag, "inspired by a true story," you always have to take the 'inspired' part more seriously than the 'true story' bit, because Hollywood sez you can't handle the truth if isn't Hollywood-viable and cleaned up for the masses

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[tilmon]

Well, there goes my respect for Harrison Ford. And yet another movie I won't be seeing.

I hate Hollywood's assumptions about race, gender, disabilty and class. No matter what the original material, they turn themselves inside out to make movies about middle class athletic white men. So tired of it.

[takenoko]

Of all the other RaceFail stories I've heard in the past year, this newest one (while still frustrating) is probably the most amusing... Indiana Jones = Taiwanese? Hah.

I'd watch a Takeshi Kaneshiro Ben Franklin biopic...

[wistfulmemory]

It does bug me that there aren't more Asians in American movies and television. There are so many good Asian actors (and Asian actors who speak English better than many Caucasian Americans) out there, so it wouldn't be too hard to find someone to fit the role being filled.