There are some days where I can craft a series of misinformed, unfunny, and barely literate thoughts about things. Today is one of those days. Cross posted from my LJ.
Since I know people hardly read this, I know these jokes will be safe.
Also, I didn't wanna spam Facebook status updates with my observations from today.
Anyway, the Karate Kid remake trailer with Will Smith's kid has been unleashed on the world. And today the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus called on MTV to cancel Jersey Shore, citing that it promotes promotes derogatory ethnic stereotypes and is "wildly offensive."
I do think the two are slightly related.
It's the Karate Kid, right? Like Karate? Like Japan? Then why Jackie Chan, in Beijing? It's Kung-Fu.
I think the disappointment that there will be no epic eight minute long tie-in music video featuring Sisqo or a CG dancing alien with lyrics that explain the plot of the film eclipses the disappointment that the remake actually happened. Although I do wonder what sort of misguided and misinformed marketing and promotion campaign will occur. I'm sure it will involve pot stickers and hachimaki (via All You Asians Look Alike Anyway).
Do you think that when China invades the US, the American survivors (now under Chinese colonial rule) will cite this remake as kind of a flash point in American history? You know amidst all the talk of China becoming an economic superpower, post Beijing Summer Olympics, etc etc etc...there's a part of me that thinks that those survivors would be wishing if they only had the foresight, they would have done something, and it was because this film was produced/released, they're all being subjugated by the Chinese. Also, white slavery.
This film represents a more global world. It's no longer about Jersey to So Cal. You have to go halfway around the world to become a man or whatever. Or go half way around the world to beat up Chinese kids. Because it's not a hate crime there? Was Ralph Macchio being Italian the closest thing the original Karate Kid had to multi-culturalism?
I would have been more satisfied if the Karate Kid remake was really just a series of vignettes featuring Jackie Chan beating up elementary aged school children for ninety minutes. I think I will peruse this idea, and take it on the festival market, to which people will praise the cinema verite styling and gritty, guerrilla form of filmmaking. To which I'll reply, we just went around Beijing with a camera and filmed Jackie Chan beating up real kids for two months. In addition to the festival praised, I think I just opened up a new video television mail order industry. A new infomercial for late night television.
And Fort Minor, really trailer editor? Hearing that Fort Minor song in this day and age is like visiting a friend from your past who was super cool back in the day. But instead of the nostalgia you had for this friend, you quickly begin realize that, your friend hasn't changed a lick since you last saw them. And you just can't help but feel pity for them.
(This is where any semblance of any informed thought goes out the window. Well if there was any to begin this post.)
I think this is (in my dome at least) intersections begin to develop between the new Karate Kid and Jersey Shore. Where does the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus get off calling something as derogatory and racist? I find the racism in their supposed anti-racist sentiment. Given the current landscape of the representations of non-white heads in media, I find that them crying foul about something like Jersey Shore, gives me the right to be butthurt every time someone makes a joke about Oakland being ghetto (I am citing the 1996 film, Big Bully starring Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold.) And the Oakland in Romeo Must Die was not Oakland, but rather Vancouver.
There's plenty of racism in the media to go around, and while it don't make it right, I don't think that getting Jersey Shore off the air isn't going to make much of an impact on that end.
Do you think that the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus will want to boycott Viacom products and sponsors of Jersey Shore in order to exert their economic pressure? Will stock in hair gel, ricotta cheese, and the new Super Mario game for the Wii plummet because of this? What of the ricotta cheese makers?
And besides, Italians? Yall got Cake Boss, Assassin's Creed 2, Rachel Ray, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Super Mario, and Goodfellas. Speaking as Filipino, all we got are the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi, and half of Lou Diamond Phillips.
So to cap things off - fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.
Since I know people hardly read this, I know these jokes will be safe.
Also, I didn't wanna spam Facebook status updates with my observations from today.
Anyway, the Karate Kid remake trailer with Will Smith's kid has been unleashed on the world. And today the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus called on MTV to cancel Jersey Shore, citing that it promotes promotes derogatory ethnic stereotypes and is "wildly offensive."
I do think the two are slightly related.
It's the Karate Kid, right? Like Karate? Like Japan? Then why Jackie Chan, in Beijing? It's Kung-Fu.
I think the disappointment that there will be no epic eight minute long tie-in music video featuring Sisqo or a CG dancing alien with lyrics that explain the plot of the film eclipses the disappointment that the remake actually happened. Although I do wonder what sort of misguided and misinformed marketing and promotion campaign will occur. I'm sure it will involve pot stickers and hachimaki (via All You Asians Look Alike Anyway).
Do you think that when China invades the US, the American survivors (now under Chinese colonial rule) will cite this remake as kind of a flash point in American history? You know amidst all the talk of China becoming an economic superpower, post Beijing Summer Olympics, etc etc etc...there's a part of me that thinks that those survivors would be wishing if they only had the foresight, they would have done something, and it was because this film was produced/released, they're all being subjugated by the Chinese. Also, white slavery.
This film represents a more global world. It's no longer about Jersey to So Cal. You have to go halfway around the world to become a man or whatever. Or go half way around the world to beat up Chinese kids. Because it's not a hate crime there? Was Ralph Macchio being Italian the closest thing the original Karate Kid had to multi-culturalism?
I would have been more satisfied if the Karate Kid remake was really just a series of vignettes featuring Jackie Chan beating up elementary aged school children for ninety minutes. I think I will peruse this idea, and take it on the festival market, to which people will praise the cinema verite styling and gritty, guerrilla form of filmmaking. To which I'll reply, we just went around Beijing with a camera and filmed Jackie Chan beating up real kids for two months. In addition to the festival praised, I think I just opened up a new video television mail order industry. A new infomercial for late night television.
And Fort Minor, really trailer editor? Hearing that Fort Minor song in this day and age is like visiting a friend from your past who was super cool back in the day. But instead of the nostalgia you had for this friend, you quickly begin realize that, your friend hasn't changed a lick since you last saw them. And you just can't help but feel pity for them.
(This is where any semblance of any informed thought goes out the window. Well if there was any to begin this post.)
I think this is (in my dome at least) intersections begin to develop between the new Karate Kid and Jersey Shore. Where does the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus get off calling something as derogatory and racist? I find the racism in their supposed anti-racist sentiment. Given the current landscape of the representations of non-white heads in media, I find that them crying foul about something like Jersey Shore, gives me the right to be butthurt every time someone makes a joke about Oakland being ghetto (I am citing the 1996 film, Big Bully starring Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold.) And the Oakland in Romeo Must Die was not Oakland, but rather Vancouver.
There's plenty of racism in the media to go around, and while it don't make it right, I don't think that getting Jersey Shore off the air isn't going to make much of an impact on that end.
Do you think that the New Jersey Italian American Legislative Caucus will want to boycott Viacom products and sponsors of Jersey Shore in order to exert their economic pressure? Will stock in hair gel, ricotta cheese, and the new Super Mario game for the Wii plummet because of this? What of the ricotta cheese makers?
And besides, Italians? Yall got Cake Boss, Assassin's Creed 2, Rachel Ray, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Super Mario, and Goodfellas. Speaking as Filipino, all we got are the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi, and half of Lou Diamond Phillips.
So to cap things off - fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.