Jessica B Ochoa
AS 3451
Charlie Chan/Fu Manchu
November 8, 2012
Charlie
Chan is an actor who is always been critized of speaking English with a heavy
accent when in reality his English is perfect. This critique leads to movies
viewers to see this actor with a good or bad stereotype because is creating a
false image to the others of Asian people not speaking good English and having
a very heavy accent. The world is full of stereotypes; blacks are criminals, Spanish
are poor, whites are rich, Asians are smart, bad drivers and men have small
penis. These stereotypes in most cases
are not true, but movies transmits this false ideas to the public and this same
public without realizing it learned this unreal stereotypes and began to judge
others without any support.
Adventures
of Dr. Fu Manchu is another movie representing an Asian Dr. played by a white
actor with fake mustache and speaking English with a heavy accent. Dr Fu Manchu
is smart, has a strong and pacific personality, he is capable of killing innocent
people in order to obtain power by using atomic bombs and making a relationship
with Hitler who he helps to change his facial structure via a plastic surgery.
Charlie
Chan and Dr Fu Manchu both represent an unrealistic Asian male far away from
reality making others learned and believed a fake idea of Asian males in a
negative way. Also, the fact that Asian roles in this movies are played by
white actors and not real Asian people in a way shows lack of respect and lack
of job opportunities to this culture who
is just another kind of many human beings in United States.
With
all this been said, one of my main concern is how are these producers and
writers getting their information about Asian culture and Asian people if they
are reflecting the wrong image of what in reality it is. I believed more
discretion, knowledge and respect to others cultures, in this case Asians,
should be given even before thinking of making a film about something else
rather than your own culture.
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