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Jing fong eddie huang8/13/2023 ![]() Chin created the blueprint for.ĬHANG: Interesting. I mean, they end up approaching his career and life the way Mrs. Chin character - she's kind of the boss of this family, and she gets to speak out, and she takes control. You know, in a lot of the Taiwanese films or the fifth wave Chinese films, the moms and the women - they're more repressed, and they're not allowed to be as angry. HUANG: I would ask to consider her outside of the spectrum of stereotypes because I watch a lot more Asian Asian cinema, like East Asian cinema, than I do Asian American cinema. Is it fair of me to say that you went more against type for the dad character or for Boogie but not so much for the mom character? But then with the mom, she, in many ways, I thought, conformed to stereotypes of Asian moms. Like, you have this guy who served time for a violent crime. The dad, he is different from most Asian dads we see portrayed in American movies. ![]() Be the humble, meek Asian guy that we're looking for.ĬHANG: Though I have to say, even though Boogie was a way that you defied certain perceptions or stereotypes of Asian men, I found it different with the female characters in this movie, particularly the mom. When Boogie's angry and passionate, it's like, be quiet. And then secondarily, outside of the home, his anger with society is that because of his identity and because of his race, people don't give him the credit for the things he does because other people get to be angry and passionate but Boogie doesn't. And he doesn't feel loved or worthy of love without performing, and that's the greatest source of his anger. He has a very strained relationship with his mother, where the love is conditioned on his performance as an individual and his success. His father has been in jail for a good portion of his adolescent life. HUANG: Basically, with Boogie, he's a guy that has a lot to be upset about. And like many teenagers, he's a kid with some anger. It made me very upset.ĬHANG: Well, Huang breaks that mold in his new movie, "Boogie." It's his first film - the story of Alfred Chin, known as Boogie, a young Taiwanese American man who is a high school basketball phenom with a beautiful girlfriend. And even a few years ago, I remember when Steve Harvey was just laughing at Asian Americans and, like, thought it was so preposterous that any woman would desire or want us. We're always kind of the doormat and the butt of a joke. Well, as for how that myth plays out in pop culture.ĮDDIE HUANG: Well, I mean, we're very weak in popular culture. Throughout his career as a writer and chef, Eddie Huang has tried to capture the piece of the Asian American experience that he personally knows, his own story of struggle as opposed to some story defined by the model minority myth - you know, this fiction that all Asian Americans excel academically and professionally as they seamlessly blend into America.
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