You're right, it was Suraj Sharma. I'm sorry, I stated the wrong actors name and should have double checked that. That's my fault and caused by my own inattentiveness. Thanks for catching that and correcting me.
Right?? I get it for memoirs because the casting as super controversial at the time because there were so few Japanese people. I remember watching the movie right when it came out, I was kind of okay with it the first time through because I was focusing entirely on reading subtitles and costuming, on subsequent watching I realized this was not a great take. At 14 I found myself feeling wildly uncomfortable. Because as a black woman I know some bs when I see it. Note: I have auditory processing issues.
I had no idea Ang Lee was the director of Brokeback Mountain. I think it’s cool that the first movie with on-screen uncensored gay romance was directed by a Taiwanese person. However, it’s still kinda sad how he won the Oscar for the movie starring white men and not the one starring Asian women. My mom hates reading subtitles, but Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was so good, she made an exception. This also brings up another reason why foreign language films don’t do that well in America and get snubbed. The average American movie-goer doesn’t like reading subtitles. That’s why foreign films were either poorly dubbed in English, or got an American remake with an all white cast. Some examples are Oldboy, Quarantine, The Grudge, The Eye, and The Ring. All of which are inferior to the original version. Also, if you want to talk about people of color getting snubbed in favor of white people, look not further than RUclips. If you look up the top 100 RUclipsrs with more than 1,000,000 subscribers, you’ll find that they’re not a diverse bunch.
What are you getting at with the last paragraph? Snubbed how? RUclipsrs get subscribers based on how many people like their content, there's no org determining how many subs people have. I don't see how RUclips snubs people of color in favor of white people.
@@ericsong5155it's quite likely that the algorithm recommends videos people will click on + whether intentional or not, people's subconscious bias will manifest in their video choices! If you want you can take the Harvard Implicit Biases tests, the results can be interesting!
To try and correct my implicit biases I made a deliberate effort to seek out youtubers the algorithm doesn't prop up ! With books too, I looked back at all the white cishet male authors and was ://// Probably also why I'm so affected by the male gaze, imagine growing up reading books written about women but by men for years? It's rlly interesting to look at your implicit biases because they do affect the way you act and you can't combat those prejudices without acknowledging them!!!!!
The category for foreign language category needs to be fixed. A Nigerian film Lionheart wasn't eligible for foreign language category because most of it is in English. The English were Nigeria's colonisers of course they speak it its the national language because Nigeria is a big populous country with over 500 different dialects. Now say if the Portuguese stayed on the colonise Nigeria like they did Angola and Portuguese was the official language it would be eligible. So Minari being put in foreign language film category even though it is an American production proves some changes need to be made.
@@gamehero6816 but that one is also stupid, because there are a ton of international films in the main category as well (for example 1917, it’s not an American film, but it’s in the best picture, not best international film category). Honestly the whole separating films by language and country thing is problematic as hell. Either make everyone equal or do t put any non-American things in your American award show.
While it'll be hard to make a best picture from around the world because of so many great films out there that won't be watched or submitted to the American Oscars is a conundrum but the onus is on the other countries needing to put more effort into marketing or pay or play their way into the american awards am I right. For the best foreign language category is also complicated as they do need to make a clear distinction and draw the line for what qualifies english language vs native language from a foreign film.
The same thing happened with "Crazy Rich Asians", "Black Panther", "Hustle and Flow" and "Straight Outta Compton". Although, the number of times this has happened with mostly white casts is more or less the same.
I already despised Oscars and Hollywood for discrimination and clearly privileges white people, but making actors of color and their culture props for attracting prizes? That is disgusting! On a more positive note I'll be sure to watch the movies you recommended!
As a brazilian, I always felt mad about Fernanda Montenegro not winning the oscars even tough her acting was so much better than Gwyneth Paltrow, but I knew a brazilian actress speaking in portuguese wouldn't win. After watching your video, I think Fernanda Montenegro probably had an "advantage" because she is a white latina - at least in Brazil she is considered white -, otherwise she probably wouldn't even have been nominated (I mean, she is a brilliant actress, but people of color speaking in a foreign langague appears to be mostly a no no for the best actor category in the oscars)
Parasite was one of the best movies I've ever seen, and the acting was so real, it scarred me for life. Sad, just really sad that the actors didn't get anything. But honestly what did I expect from the Oscars? Lol
I knew the oscars were extremely racist but seeing the basic stats on the extremely few number of Asian and Asian American actresses even nominated for acting awards, much less winning them, is shooooooooking like 😳😳😳😳😳
Thank you for bringing this point to the conversation. Like, I see this playing out with the movie Minari. It is ridiculous how they placed Minari in the foreign movie category because is mostly in korean language. It does not make any sense. US is a community of immigrants, most immigrants first language is not english. Moreover, Minari's story is about an immigrant family moving to US to make a better life, how more american this can be? Award sindicates keep largely awarding and praising projects made by white people and most projects made by minorities are snubbed and disregarded.
Minari is probably the best example of deconstructing/showing the flaws in “The American Dream” and how the system is quite often rigged against immigrants from certain countries. Stephen Yeun’s performance is one of the best I’ve seen in YEARS. If the Academy snubs him for Best Actor like the Golden Globes did, it’s a crime
Oh my god this reminds me of the idea of the perpetual foreigner, where Asian Americans are considered foreign just for being Asian, even when they’ve lived in America for their whole life. Ugh, it’s like they’re asking this film “Where are you from? No, where are you really from?” but in Oscar form.
It still baffles me that a movie like Burning (2018) barely made it into the Oscar shortlist after receiving so much praise. And it had a famous Asian American who totally crushed his part! So crazy.
The Oscars are broken since the very beginning, when you know that they started as a way to distract actors from unionizing by giving them “good job” awards. It’s just kind of ridiculous the amount of attention we give them when they have failed time after time to recognize truly amazing films and actors that deserved so much better than being snubbed
It is so criminal I had to learn about the genius that is Ang Lee and all the movies he was behind. He made some of my favorite movies and I never knew
Strictly speaking they haven’t announced the Oscar nominees this year, but let’s face it: we already know they’re gonna shove Minari into the foreign film category EDIT: the nominees have come out, and I stand corrected
I think the beauty of movies like Alfonso Cùaron’s Roma in 2018 and Parasite in 2019 is that while they are absolutely universal stories that could have been made anywhere, they are also intrinsicly tied to the cultures of the countries the directors are from (Roma plays heavily into the political unrest in Mexico in the 1970s and Parasite is, among other things, a very obvious satire/commentary on the gap between upper class and impoverished people in South Korea, especially Seoul). In my opinion, Parasite didn’t sweep the Oscars because it was a Korean movie and the Oscars wanted to be like “hey, look guys! We’re woke now! We’ve changed!!”, it swept the Oscars cause it was a phenomenally told story that deftly blended many genres. It’s a universal story, but also, if that American remake/reimagining that was rumored around this time last year does come to fruition, I think it will miss the key themes and points of Bong Joon-Ho’s original script
I really enjoyed reading your take on this, would you say that Parasite was such a good movie that it managed to break the pattern of asian oscar baiting or that even though it did win 4 oscars, the fact that no actors won made it still victim to asian oscar baiting ?
I remember reading "Memoirs of a Geisha" and being confused about why this was written by a white guy. Looking back, there are definite tropes that give this book a male perspective instead of something that should have been a more feminine one: Like how there are female rivalries and over dramatic women (cause women like to cause drama instead of working together?) and how a young girl obsessively fawns over a MUCH older man ( How is this believable?).
that's not even how that world works... it's a lot more nuance. her hair was so wrong too... she was supposed to be wearing black and a ware shinobu... not a plain bun...
What's worse is how the young girl fawns over the older man, who himself by the end reveals he has initiated her into the world of Geisha's (kind of like grooming but with an extra step), and then she actually ends up with him and it's supposed to be happy?? That's.... very unlikely and still has unhealthy implications to it.
Great video! It's a shame particularly about Asian American films not receiving recognition and being cast of as foreign. I'm not Asian but I'm an African immigramy and relate to most immigrant stories. I loved Asian American movies like the Joy Luck Club, The Farewell and Minari. I also really like Indo-British movies (movies about brits of south asian descent living in Britian) like Anita amd Me and East is East
This is exactly why I'm gave up on most movies since about 10 years ago lol. Like, how many more white people stories do we need?? All of them have been told, if not recycled multiple times. There are movies in other countries with just as good, if not better acting, casting, choreography, and stories. Don't even get me started with any stories/movies talked about Filipino Americans (since I'm one lol). There are a few out there, but not as well advertised as the white ones. The more well known are negative stereotypes towards women. I mean come on, there are Filipino American WW2 vets! Serious untapped market on that alone, as well as Filipina American spies or even Filipina guerilla leaders! Latter isn't American, but still awesome imo. Great video and topic, btw! I'm new to your channel 😄
memoirs of a geisha was so historically inaccurate. I read the memoirs of an actual real life geisha of the time (Mineko Iwasaki, strong recommendation here) and was INFURIATED at how a white perspective was forced onto the narrative and the traditional profession in this movie
your ignorance.. is infuriorating!!!! you think reading one filtered book of the richest and most successful geisha somehow represent every traditional geisha life. read geisha book by liza dalby too...dsgtning in medieval to pre modern era being a geisha is not an easy life, mineko have it easy, she even have parents to support her. also mineko wasn't a geisha of its time, she is in 1960s. the movie take place pre and post world war 1, the sesual is banned in 1950-60s a comment by white person... why am i not suprise? thinking they know everything about other culture by reading one book.... learn the history of geisha, etc
Honestly, I think it's interesting people DIDN'T know Ang Lee directed Brokeback. Many news and entertainment outlets often said he directed it while promoting or discussing it. But I have to remember not everyone was an adult and paying attention to films back in 2005 like I was.
I was born in 2002 so I was definitely not an adult at the time lol but knowing it was directed by Ang Lee was a major selling point when I eventually decided to watch it for the first time. it's baffling that so many people didn't know about it :0
Very interesting. Also a few years ago when mexican directors where winning best director and sometimes best picture was for pretty much american films, except Roma (by far the best one, in my opinion), which didn't win best picture, let alone best actress for an indigenous woman... I was so surprised and happy when Parasite won best picture.
Cheyenne's genuine smile makes me so happy, and shows how passionate she is about the topics discussed. Like, she'll be talking and start grinning, like she knows what she's about to say is really smart and important, and I super appreciate that. Also those earrings are a really nice touch, lowkey & classy while definitely drawing the eye and being flashy. Great taste, amazing presentation~
Love this topic -there is so much out there. Considering the ridiculous list of requirements just to be included in the list of nominations, it's not surprising that it is difficult to win.
Plus the whole "art is objective" thing is bullshit. They try to act like it is but isn't. It isn't gonna please anyone by the end of the day so i don't know why they pretend to as well as the elitist tones to this idea
They should do it like the Moscow film festival used to do: not make it a competition, but give out awards based on cultural impact and effort. In the year that Bondarchuk's War and Peace came out and got the Grand Prix award, a Hungarian movie about village politics ALSO got the Grand Prix. Basically, the way the Moscow International Film Festival worked is that if you deserved a prize, you got a prize. So there wasn't just one movie that could win in a category, but multiple films that could get the same prize in the same year. At the same time, the Grand Prix (late the Golden Prize) was given out rarely, not every year. I think that this way of hosting an international film festival is waaaay better. There is no competition, and the more prestigious awards have a stronger meaning because they are quite rare. Instead it was a festival that brought films and audiences from many different cultures closer together. I cannot imagine a prestigious Western film festival giving its highest possible accolades to movies produced in Cuba, Bulgaria, Spain, Brazil, Poland, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Morocco, Senegal or Greece, to say nothing of awarding them to directors who belong to a specific community such as Roma or Jewish and who've made movies specifically about these communities. The USA likes to pretend that it isn't censorial but c'mon: where are the Nigerian or Senegalese or Cuban films??? Hell, where even are the European films? I've seen some fantastic modern-day German comedies like Der Wixxer and Neues vom Wixxer, and they remain untranslated in English! And they only came out like a decade ago!
This topic is so important. This whole issue needs to be discussed way more, but especially the erasure/snubbing of Asian actors I feel. Honestly at this point throw the whole Academy away, it's white supremacist trash.
I’m Japanese and watching Memoirs of a Geisha was a torture. Everything in that movie is fake. The costumes and hair styling were so wrong. It was insulting. The only good thing about the movie is the Japanese actress Kaori Momoi. On the other hand, I appreciate Clint Eastwood for making Letters from Iwojima, which had all Japanese cast and was in the Japanese language.
Thank you! I'm a first year Japanese studies student and we watched this movie to see the western idea of what geisha is...I hate this movie so much, especially that weird oiran inspired dance scene. And it's mind-blowing that it has won a costume design award when, if I'm not mistaken, Hatsumoto was wearing what can only by described as underwear the entire time.
great video! i wanted to note that at the time merle oberon received her nom her race wasn’t public knowledge, she actually spent her life trying to hide her identity in order to have a career in hollywood. it’s such a sad detail and it says so much about how difficult the industry has been for asian creatives.
Im so thankful for channels like yours, its like listening to a very smart person that want you to understand and think and not just seeing people talk with superiority. I love it, i hope your yt channel grows way more as it deserve it ♥
Hollywood has also stolen movie plots, I was pretty obsessed with Asian made films a couple years ago then all of the sudden I was seeing “American” movies that had the same plot as the Asian made ones but no credit was given. for example the lake house, when you search it on RUclips you get the USA version first even though it came second to the Korean made one, which is also better 🤷🏻♀️ another movie “the beauty inside” also adapted horrifically and not a word about the Korean version. Adapting is totally fine but not okay when no word about the original is ever brought up.
another amazing video, I'm going to share this with my film class because we are studying Asian films right now and I think they will find this interesting!
love your analysis! growing up as a chinese american, it's always been frustrating seeing movies, music, and performances by majority white creators being uplifted by big institutions like the oscars, grammys, etc. i'm not super familiar with oscars history, so this was rly interesting!
As a fellow Asian American, thank you for making such fantastic and nuanced content about our community!!! It really means so much 💖 Now onto binging the rest of your content
I have watched Farewell My Concubine endless times. It's truly a crime it doesn't have more recognition here in the west. But then again I feel that it doesn't need validation from the Oscar's to be good. But get why it matters. Like the Oscar's are supposed to recognize films world wide and yet it's to this day very white and very American/British. Like not even latinx people can get recognized anywhere besides the directing category.
i loved hearing your thoughts on this, honestly i noticed this when parasite got nominated and none of the main four got any nominations - like the audacity to not nominate park so dam oof
I remember when I was in my late teens, I was tempted to read Memoirs of a Geisha because the cover artwork caught my eye. When I looked at a critics review for the book, it said the author of 'Memoirs' disproved the saying 'write what you know', because the author was able to perfectly create and describe what an authentic life of a real geisha night have felt like instead of a hacky soap opera style story. What I didn't know at the time was that any authenticity in the story came from the fact that he had completely ripped off the life of an actual person and passed off what he stole as legitimate writing skill. 😡
This is really good! You explained all your points very well and clearly are very well researched. I'm glad to see more people speaking up about anti-asian racism specifically and using their voice to educate those of us who are trying to learn more! I have some constructive criticism that I think will help with your engagement though. First of all, I think rendering in at least 720p on whatever video editing program you're using will help a lot! Things like aspect ratio, sound/video quality, etc. can make or break your engagement, especially when you have really high quality content like this but not the best presentation since people on youtube these days associate a high production value with high quality. I'd invest in a better microphone if you have the chance, a blue yeti is a good investment for the cost. In video essays like this a lot of your audience will be listening to it while doing something else, so audio quality is much more important than video quality. Also, please consider downloading the program audacity (it's free) and look up tutorials on how to remove background noise here on youtube (look up something like "audacity professional audio tutorial" it will help a lot! I'd also consider testing the audio in different rooms of your home, as some rooms echo more than others. As for video, I think lighting in the main area you can improve in. Try recording in front of a window so natural sunlight is your main light source. Make sure the light is shining facing you, not behind or overhead. If natural sunlight isn't an option I'd recommend investing in a ring light. Also I'd recommend looking up tutorials on how to adjust the lighting in whatever editing program you're using, as well as how to adjust the colors to make the video look "warmer" and more even toned. Of course investing in a better camera is always a good start, but if you don't want to/can't right now then I'd focus more on clips with your voice over. Hope this helps and good luck!
I love your work I've been aware of these things for years now and have been gaslit by people around me that this doesn't happen and that I quote unquote "always make things about race" thank you for making me feel less alone.♡
Great video! Also small thing but I really liked your use of text in this video (like the no actors oscars for the last emperor, part 1, 2, etc, with the click sound effect). Helped me follow along and I liked the aesthetic.
This is a great video, and the research and commentary is spot on! I obviously knew that there was something going on with the prejudice and racism Asian films and filmmakers face during award season but never knew how to quite verbalize those feelings. You perfectly summed up all my feelings!!
omg i never knew that the people who win oscars are in the committee. that makes so much sense now lol hopefully the poc noms this year don’t get snubbed
Great video! I think a great topic you can talk about if you ever choose to is about when people of color, especially Asian people, do a movie where they are the star or co-lead with a white actor and that movie is a breakout role for that white actor but the actor of color never works again or never gets nowhere near that height fame despite them being great in that movie. ie. Bend it like Beckham. My beautiful Landrette. etc
NEW Sub. From your Post about Racism....I think it was BRAVE of you to Talk and share Your thoughts about injustices and to CALL OUT systematic racism....Bravo and RESPECT has been earned 💜🙏💜
I have only recently happened upon your channel and have been enjoying it a lot ever since. As somebody who is Asian American and I think that your points are extremely important so thank you for taking your time to make videos like this 💖💖💖
The opportunity to mention Minari was missed as its currently in the running for an Oscar nom (noms are tomorrow so we'll see). But this video was great and eye opening.
The 1982 movie Gandhi about the great Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley. Interestingly, Ben Kingsley is half Indian, and was born as Krishna Damji, but had to change his name to Ben Kingsley and pass as white to succeed in Hollywood. The irony is that he had to pass as white to get cast as an Indian man. Had he gone by Krishna Damji, no one would have cast him. The movie also had white actor Christopher Lee playing Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
I think so often people want more from the Oscars when it has always been a way of diverting attention for one means or another, considering it was created to make film makers feel more appreciated so unionizing would be stopped. That being said, it is so influential and domineering in western film history that I really love to hear people actively hoping for better for the future of the institution. Such a good video, thank you, can't wait for the next one.
I just rewatched Memoirs of a Geisha for the first time since 2005 and i had to go and look for commentary on it afterward. Thank you so much for this!
This is the issue about Hollywood and all this "diversity" they claim to be about. E.g. Disney's live-action adap of Mulan, had the chance to really be the Black Panther for Asian people, and really show full Asian Representation, but they just didn't go all the way. It had a full Asian cast, was film in China (which became controversial for all the wrong reasons that we know about already), but yet Disney just didn't want to go there and make it produced, written and directed by Asians.
Hi Cheyenne! Found your incredible channel by accident and I'm marathoning your videos. Just wanted to say- I'm Japanese, been raised in the American school system and live in Brazil! So cool that you live in Brazil too! Anyway back to your video... I'm so happy to have found (high quality!) film and pop culture analysis through an Asian, feminist lens!
Another great video from you! I don't know if it's just my algorithm but I rarely see youtubers talking about how asian people area also slighted by western media, so I really appreciate your channel :)
Another great video! It seems I forgot to tap the bell because I missed this when it was uploaded. As somebody trying to enter the film industry as a screenwriter and possibly director, yeah the oscars are kinda 😬 On one hand, I really do like that there is such a massive event dedicated to cinema and celebrating performers, but it is overwhelmingly white and American (and I say that as somebody who is both of those things). I had heard of the general problems with all of these films (being a regular participant of the Oscar Discourse™️), but I had no idea that the snubbing was that bad, holy shit. Oscar nominations for dialogue coaches, but not the actors they were coaching? That is a whole other level of stupid and unfair. Also, I think the point about Asian characters and actors being exoticized and overlooked was incredibly salient. As someone writing a book set in Asia in the 1840s (the book is about the last vestiges of piracy in the East Indies, and is specifically about the time the British Empire invited a bunch of American prospectors to Austrailia, and most of them joined up with Indian and East Asian pirates to escape the poor working conditions) My greatest fear is that the audience will mostly resonate with the white American characters and ignore the East Asian and aboriginal ones. Pirate ships back then had super diverse crews, and I want to reflect that fact. It also entails doing a lot of research to make sure I don’t misrepresent cultures that are not my own, something that a lot of other white authors seem to have trouble doing. I actually had no idea how unfair the oscars were to the Indian cast of slum dog millionaire as well. I also had no idea that Asian American movies were being put in the foreign language film category for literally no reason. It seems incredibly unfair that a film about an Asian American family set in San Francisco gets placed in the category, but a film set in Antioch that was literally filmed entirely in Latin and Aramaic wasn’t. There is definitely a harsh bias against Asian filmmakers and actors in Hollywood. Also Ang Lee is incredible. I can’t name a single movie of his I don’t like.
I'm glad I found you channel, great content. As a fellow adoptee from China in the U.K. it's covering a lot of really interesting topics which I wasn't really aware of. Just a side note, the vocal audio is a bit quiet :)
great video! i had some questions in regards to a depiction of a geisha i had seen and thought to myself "i mbet cheyenne lin has some insight on this" and sure enough you did! i was familiar with some of those instances and the broader strokes of these patterns but this explained many new things and brought me very helpful perspective
I just came across a video you made 8 months ago about the anti-blackness in the Asian American community and I’m assuming that you got a lot of negative comments because commenting is disabled on that video. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate what you shared. And I do pray that you are safe. I wish no harm on any group of people. I pray that we will all learn to just love and take care of one another as human beings. I don’t think I’ll see it before I leave this planet but, I hope that it does happen someday in this world. Peace and blessings🙏🏾
I am a scholar who interrogates Orientalism and white supremacy in Korean art history, material, and visual culture studies. I always get asked what I think about movies like Parasite getting so much recognition and have to do this entire video over and over again. Now I can just send people your video! Thank you!
Take my thumbs and my comment! 😄 I love how honest and blunt this is. I don't like having to search &search finding stories I like, but honestly it's worth it
I'm really enjoying your videos! I listen to them, like a podcast, on my way to and fro from work! Thanks for sharing your interests/researched knowledge in video format!
I never really comment in videos, but I just want to say that what you're doing here is really really great. I've been binge watching your videos all morning and I still can't get enough.
just discovered your channel (literally finished watching your fences video a minute ago! LOVED IT) i can't believe you haven't popped up on my recommendations before! your content is exactly my kind of thing - thank you so much and keep it up!
Nossa, descobri o seu canal hoje e já assisti 9 vídeos. Ainda bem que é domingo kkkkkk. Amei suas análises e não esperava de forma alguma você morar aqui no Brasil, que surpresa boa!
I've thoroughly enjoyed and loved every single one of your videos. I had to watch the WAP one twice it was so amazing, your content is amazingly analytical and very reflective. I haven't commented on them because some of them don't allow but I completely understand especially with the hate comments so I'd rather be one of the good ones since you deserve it!
Hello there! I just found your channel a week ago and seriously cannot stop watching your work :) Very insightful, I love how mindful you are of generalizations, your analysis is thoughtful and informed. Keep it up :)
Did Dev Patel really work with Ang Lee in Life of Pi? I can't seem to find any information on that... Suraj Sharma was the lead actor in that movie.
You're right, it was Suraj Sharma. I'm sorry, I stated the wrong actors name and should have double checked that. That's my fault and caused by my own inattentiveness. Thanks for catching that and correcting me.
@@CheyenneLin No worries at all! I make mistakes ALL the time! We all do. 🙏
@@CheyenneLin funny, many people thought it was Dev Patel
god the way NONE of the asian actors were ever nominated for these movies is killing me
@@cremetangerine82 nailed it.
Basically how everyone likes black culture but not black people
@@blackowl641 Still to this damn day.
Right?? I get it for memoirs because the casting as super controversial at the time because there were so few Japanese people. I remember watching the movie right when it came out, I was kind of okay with it the first time through because I was focusing entirely on reading subtitles and costuming, on subsequent watching I realized this was not a great take. At 14 I found myself feeling wildly uncomfortable. Because as a black woman I know some bs when I see it.
Note: I have auditory processing issues.
I had no idea Ang Lee was the director of Brokeback Mountain. I think it’s cool that the first movie with on-screen uncensored gay romance was directed by a Taiwanese person. However, it’s still kinda sad how he won the Oscar for the movie starring white men and not the one starring Asian women. My mom hates reading subtitles, but Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was so good, she made an exception. This also brings up another reason why foreign language films don’t do that well in America and get snubbed. The average American movie-goer doesn’t like reading subtitles. That’s why foreign films were either poorly dubbed in English, or got an American remake with an all white cast. Some examples are Oldboy, Quarantine, The Grudge, The Eye, and The Ring. All of which are inferior to the original version.
Also, if you want to talk about people of color getting snubbed in favor of white people, look not further than RUclips. If you look up the top 100 RUclipsrs with more than 1,000,000 subscribers, you’ll find that they’re not a diverse bunch.
What are you getting at with the last paragraph? Snubbed how? RUclipsrs get subscribers based on how many people like their content, there's no org determining how many subs people have. I don't see how RUclips snubs people of color in favor of white people.
@@ericsong5155it's quite likely that the algorithm recommends videos people will click on + whether intentional or not, people's subconscious bias will manifest in their video choices! If you want you can take the Harvard Implicit Biases tests, the results can be interesting!
To try and correct my implicit biases I made a deliberate effort to seek out youtubers the algorithm doesn't prop up ! With books too, I looked back at all the white cishet male authors and was :////
Probably also why I'm so affected by the male gaze, imagine growing up reading books written about women but by men for years?
It's rlly interesting to look at your implicit biases because they do affect the way you act and you can't combat those prejudices without acknowledging them!!!!!
@@ericsong5155 but don't listen to me, listen to this woman who works towards detecting and combatting bias in algorithms
@@ericsong5155 ruclips.net/video/N-Lxw5rcfZg/видео.html
The category for foreign language category needs to be fixed. A Nigerian film Lionheart wasn't eligible for foreign language category because most of it is in English. The English were Nigeria's colonisers of course they speak it its the national language because Nigeria is a big populous country with over 500 different dialects. Now say if the Portuguese stayed on the colonise Nigeria like they did Angola and Portuguese was the official language it would be eligible.
So Minari being put in foreign language film category even though it is an American production proves some changes need to be made.
Replace it with "international film"
@@gamehero6816 but that one is also stupid, because there are a ton of international films in the main category as well (for example 1917, it’s not an American film, but it’s in the best picture, not best international film category). Honestly the whole separating films by language and country thing is problematic as hell. Either make everyone equal or do t put any non-American things in your American award show.
Wow that is so messed up, this is even more of a reason to not take the academy awards seriously
While it'll be hard to make a best picture from around the world because of so many great films out there that won't be watched or submitted to the American Oscars is a conundrum but the onus is on the other countries needing to put more effort into marketing or pay or play their way into the american awards am I right. For the best foreign language category is also complicated as they do need to make a clear distinction and draw the line for what qualifies english language vs native language from a foreign film.
What happened with LIONHEART was at the Oscars, but what happened with _MINARI_ was at the Golden Globes. They have different sets of rules.
Parasite won the Outstanding Performance by a Cast at the SAG awards, but none of the actors was nominated in the individual categories.
The same thing happened with "Crazy Rich Asians", "Black Panther", "Hustle and Flow" and "Straight Outta Compton". Although, the number of times this has happened with mostly white casts is more or less the same.
I already despised Oscars and Hollywood for discrimination and clearly privileges white people, but making actors of color and their culture props for attracting prizes? That is disgusting! On a more positive note I'll be sure to watch the movies you recommended!
It really is volatile. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it before😔
You sound like the kind of person that thinks Marx would vote for Biden. Just saying.
As a brazilian, I always felt mad about Fernanda Montenegro not winning the oscars even tough her acting was so much better than Gwyneth Paltrow, but I knew a brazilian actress speaking in portuguese wouldn't win. After watching your video, I think Fernanda Montenegro probably had an "advantage" because she is a white latina - at least in Brazil she is considered white -, otherwise she probably wouldn't even have been nominated (I mean, she is a brilliant actress, but people of color speaking in a foreign langague appears to be mostly a no no for the best actor category in the oscars)
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Parasite was one of the best movies I've ever seen, and the acting was so real, it scarred me for life. Sad, just really sad that the actors didn't get anything. But honestly what did I expect from the Oscars? Lol
I knew the oscars were extremely racist but seeing the basic stats on the extremely few number of Asian and Asian American actresses even nominated for acting awards, much less winning them, is shooooooooking like 😳😳😳😳😳
Thank you for bringing this point to the conversation. Like, I see this playing out with the movie Minari. It is ridiculous how they placed Minari in the foreign movie category because is mostly in korean language. It does not make any sense. US is a community of immigrants, most immigrants first language is not english. Moreover, Minari's story is about an immigrant family moving to US to make a better life, how more american this can be? Award sindicates keep largely awarding and praising projects made by white people and most projects made by minorities are snubbed and disregarded.
Minari is probably the best example of deconstructing/showing the flaws in “The American Dream” and how the system is quite often rigged against immigrants from certain countries. Stephen Yeun’s performance is one of the best I’ve seen in YEARS. If the Academy snubs him for Best Actor like the Golden Globes did, it’s a crime
@@erikdaniels0n I completely agree.
Oh my god this reminds me of the idea of the perpetual foreigner, where Asian Americans are considered foreign just for being Asian, even when they’ve lived in America for their whole life.
Ugh, it’s like they’re asking this film “Where are you from? No, where are you really from?” but in Oscar form.
Yeah it's an American production so it shouldn't have been on the Foreign film category ugh i'm annoyed.
This is exactly why the Oscars must die.
The Oscars have been dying for years.
It still baffles me that a movie like Burning (2018) barely made it into the Oscar shortlist after receiving so much praise. And it had a famous Asian American who totally crushed his part! So crazy.
The Oscars are broken since the very beginning, when you know that they started as a way to distract actors from unionizing by giving them “good job” awards. It’s just kind of ridiculous the amount of attention we give them when they have failed time after time to recognize truly amazing films and actors that deserved so much better than being snubbed
It is so criminal I had to learn about the genius that is Ang Lee and all the movies he was behind. He made some of my favorite movies and I never knew
Strictly speaking they haven’t announced the Oscar nominees this year, but let’s face it: we already know they’re gonna shove Minari into the foreign film category
EDIT: the nominees have come out, and I stand corrected
I think the beauty of movies like Alfonso Cùaron’s Roma in 2018 and Parasite in 2019 is that while they are absolutely universal stories that could have been made anywhere, they are also intrinsicly tied to the cultures of the countries the directors are from (Roma plays heavily into the political unrest in Mexico in the 1970s and Parasite is, among other things, a very obvious satire/commentary on the gap between upper class and impoverished people in South Korea, especially Seoul). In my opinion, Parasite didn’t sweep the Oscars because it was a Korean movie and the Oscars wanted to be like “hey, look guys! We’re woke now! We’ve changed!!”, it swept the Oscars cause it was a phenomenally told story that deftly blended many genres. It’s a universal story, but also, if that American remake/reimagining that was rumored around this time last year does come to fruition, I think it will miss the key themes and points of Bong Joon-Ho’s original script
I really enjoyed reading your take on this, would you say that Parasite was such a good movie that it managed to break the pattern of asian oscar baiting or that even though it did win 4 oscars, the fact that no actors won made it still victim to asian oscar baiting ?
I remember reading "Memoirs of a Geisha" and being confused about why this was written by a white guy. Looking back, there are definite tropes that give this book a male perspective instead of something that should have been a more feminine one:
Like how there are female rivalries and over dramatic women (cause women like to cause drama instead of working together?) and how a young girl obsessively fawns over a MUCH older man ( How is this believable?).
that's not even how that world works... it's a lot more nuance. her hair was so wrong too... she was supposed to be wearing black and a ware shinobu... not a plain bun...
What's worse is how the young girl fawns over the older man, who himself by the end reveals he has initiated her into the world of Geisha's (kind of like grooming but with an extra step), and then she actually ends up with him and it's supposed to be happy??
That's.... very unlikely and still has unhealthy implications to it.
Great video! It's a shame particularly about Asian American films not receiving recognition and being cast of as foreign. I'm not Asian but I'm an African immigramy and relate to most immigrant stories. I loved Asian American movies like the Joy Luck Club, The Farewell and Minari.
I also really like Indo-British movies (movies about brits of south asian descent living in Britian) like Anita amd Me and East is East
This is exactly why I'm gave up on most movies since about 10 years ago lol. Like, how many more white people stories do we need?? All of them have been told, if not recycled multiple times. There are movies in other countries with just as good, if not better acting, casting, choreography, and stories. Don't even get me started with any stories/movies talked about Filipino Americans (since I'm one lol). There are a few out there, but not as well advertised as the white ones. The more well known are negative stereotypes towards women. I mean come on, there are Filipino American WW2 vets! Serious untapped market on that alone, as well as Filipina American spies or even Filipina guerilla leaders! Latter isn't American, but still awesome imo. Great video and topic, btw! I'm new to your channel 😄
Yes! This is why I almost exclusively watch foreign films
Another movie to look at is Dances With Wolves. Movie about natives, but focuses on the white actor and has won awards but not the native actors.
Quintisential white savior film
I had no idea Brokeback Mountain was directed by a man of color that's so fuckin cool!! Thank you for this video it turned out really great
memoirs of a geisha was so historically inaccurate. I read the memoirs of an actual real life geisha of the time (Mineko Iwasaki, strong recommendation here) and was INFURIATED at how a white perspective was forced onto the narrative and the traditional profession in this movie
your ignorance.. is infuriorating!!!! you think reading one filtered book of the richest and most successful geisha somehow represent every traditional geisha life. read geisha book by liza dalby too...dsgtning
in medieval to pre modern era being a geisha is not an easy life, mineko have it easy, she even have parents to support her.
also mineko wasn't a geisha of its time, she is in 1960s. the movie take place pre and post world war 1, the sesual is banned in 1950-60s
a comment by white person... why am i not suprise? thinking they know everything about other culture by reading one book.... learn the history of geisha, etc
It's unacceptable that Anna May Wong has no Oscar nomination, if you see Shangai Express you can see that she was the truly scene stealer
Honestly, I think it's interesting people DIDN'T know Ang Lee directed Brokeback. Many news and entertainment outlets often said he directed it while promoting or discussing it. But I have to remember not everyone was an adult and paying attention to films back in 2005 like I was.
I was born in 2002 so I was definitely not an adult at the time lol but knowing it was directed by Ang Lee was a major selling point when I eventually decided to watch it for the first time. it's baffling that so many people didn't know about it :0
The fact that it's even legal for Brad Pitt to win awards for acting is down right diaboical.
Very interesting. Also a few years ago when mexican directors where winning best director and sometimes best picture was for pretty much american films, except Roma (by far the best one, in my opinion), which didn't win best picture, let alone best actress for an indigenous woman... I was so surprised and happy when Parasite won best picture.
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Cheyenne's genuine smile makes me so happy, and shows how passionate she is about the topics discussed. Like, she'll be talking and start grinning, like she knows what she's about to say is really smart and important, and I super appreciate that. Also those earrings are a really nice touch, lowkey & classy while definitely drawing the eye and being flashy. Great taste, amazing presentation~
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Love this topic -there is so much out there. Considering the ridiculous list of requirements just to be included in the list of nominations, it's not surprising that it is difficult to win.
Cant imagine a world where the award systems aren't rigged
If only life were perfect
Plus the whole "art is objective" thing is bullshit. They try to act like it is but isn't. It isn't gonna please anyone by the end of the day so i don't know why they pretend to as well as the elitist tones to this idea
They should do it like the Moscow film festival used to do: not make it a competition, but give out awards based on cultural impact and effort. In the year that Bondarchuk's War and Peace came out and got the Grand Prix award, a Hungarian movie about village politics ALSO got the Grand Prix.
Basically, the way the Moscow International Film Festival worked is that if you deserved a prize, you got a prize. So there wasn't just one movie that could win in a category, but multiple films that could get the same prize in the same year. At the same time, the Grand Prix (late the Golden Prize) was given out rarely, not every year.
I think that this way of hosting an international film festival is waaaay better. There is no competition, and the more prestigious awards have a stronger meaning because they are quite rare. Instead it was a festival that brought films and audiences from many different cultures closer together. I cannot imagine a prestigious Western film festival giving its highest possible accolades to movies produced in Cuba, Bulgaria, Spain, Brazil, Poland, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Morocco, Senegal or Greece, to say nothing of awarding them to directors who belong to a specific community such as Roma or Jewish and who've made movies specifically about these communities. The USA likes to pretend that it isn't censorial but c'mon: where are the Nigerian or Senegalese or Cuban films??? Hell, where even are the European films? I've seen some fantastic modern-day German comedies like Der Wixxer and Neues vom Wixxer, and they remain untranslated in English! And they only came out like a decade ago!
And it shows just how bad The Grammys are in comparison that they're even more behind than The Oscars. :/
as a bts stan you are so right (our boys had BETTER win this year or i will throw hands)
i was looking for this comment. the grammys are so shitty
This topic is so important. This whole issue needs to be discussed way more, but especially the erasure/snubbing of Asian actors I feel. Honestly at this point throw the whole Academy away, it's white supremacist trash.
I’m Japanese and watching Memoirs of a Geisha was a torture. Everything in that movie is fake. The costumes and hair styling were so wrong. It was insulting. The only good thing about the movie is the Japanese actress Kaori Momoi.
On the other hand, I appreciate Clint Eastwood for making Letters from Iwojima, which had all Japanese cast and was in the Japanese language.
Thank you!
I'm a first year Japanese studies student and we watched this movie to see the western idea of what geisha is...I hate this movie so much, especially that weird oiran inspired dance scene. And it's mind-blowing that it has won a costume design award when, if I'm not mistaken, Hatsumoto was wearing what can only by described as underwear the entire time.
great video! i wanted to note that at the time merle oberon received her nom her race wasn’t public knowledge, she actually spent her life trying to hide her identity in order to have a career in hollywood. it’s such a sad detail and it says so much about how difficult the industry has been for asian creatives.
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Im so thankful for channels like yours, its like listening to a very smart person that want you to understand and think and not just seeing people talk with superiority. I love it, i hope your yt channel grows way more as it deserve it ♥
Hollywood has also stolen movie plots, I was pretty obsessed with Asian made films a couple years ago then all of the sudden I was seeing “American” movies that had the same plot as the Asian made ones but no credit was given. for example the lake house, when you search it on RUclips you get the USA version first even though it came second to the Korean made one, which is also better 🤷🏻♀️ another movie “the beauty inside” also adapted horrifically and not a word about the Korean version. Adapting is totally fine but not okay when no word about the original is ever brought up.
Credits were given for _Lake House._ It is an official remake. I don't know about the other one.
another amazing video, I'm going to share this with my film class because we are studying Asian films right now and I think they will find this interesting!
Ive been binge watching your videos all day today and I love your takes
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love your analysis! growing up as a chinese american, it's always been frustrating seeing movies, music, and performances by majority white creators being uplifted by big institutions like the oscars, grammys, etc. i'm not super familiar with oscars history, so this was rly interesting!
Anna May Wong is literally one of my fave actors from the 30's. She was lovely in Shanghai Express
As a fellow Asian American, thank you for making such fantastic and nuanced content about our community!!! It really means so much 💖 Now onto binging the rest of your content
I have watched Farewell My Concubine endless times. It's truly a crime it doesn't have more recognition here in the west. But then again I feel that it doesn't need validation from the Oscar's to be good. But get why it matters. Like the Oscar's are supposed to recognize films world wide and yet it's to this day very white and very American/British. Like not even latinx people can get recognized anywhere besides the directing category.
i loved hearing your thoughts on this, honestly i noticed this when parasite got nominated and none of the main four got any nominations - like the audacity to not nominate park so dam oof
Slumdog Millionaire was SUCH a big deal. The Pussycat Dolls covering Jai Ho was a very random thing to come out of its success.
"And, as seen in Crash (Ellis, 2018) [...]"
Great video. As an early eyeball spawn, it's great to watch your channel grow.
I remember when I was in my late teens, I was tempted to read Memoirs of a Geisha because the cover artwork caught my eye.
When I looked at a critics review for the book, it said the author of 'Memoirs' disproved the saying 'write what you know', because the author was able to perfectly create and describe what an authentic life of a real geisha night have felt like instead of a hacky soap opera style story.
What I didn't know at the time was that any authenticity in the story came from the fact that he had completely ripped off the life of an actual person and passed off what he stole as legitimate writing skill. 😡
This is really good! You explained all your points very well and clearly are very well researched. I'm glad to see more people speaking up about anti-asian racism specifically and using their voice to educate those of us who are trying to learn more! I have some constructive criticism that I think will help with your engagement though.
First of all, I think rendering in at least 720p on whatever video editing program you're using will help a lot! Things like aspect ratio, sound/video quality, etc. can make or break your engagement, especially when you have really high quality content like this but not the best presentation since people on youtube these days associate a high production value with high quality.
I'd invest in a better microphone if you have the chance, a blue yeti is a good investment for the cost. In video essays like this a lot of your audience will be listening to it while doing something else, so audio quality is much more important than video quality. Also, please consider downloading the program audacity (it's free) and look up tutorials on how to remove background noise here on youtube (look up something like "audacity professional audio tutorial" it will help a lot! I'd also consider testing the audio in different rooms of your home, as some rooms echo more than others.
As for video, I think lighting in the main area you can improve in. Try recording in front of a window so natural sunlight is your main light source. Make sure the light is shining facing you, not behind or overhead. If natural sunlight isn't an option I'd recommend investing in a ring light. Also I'd recommend looking up tutorials on how to adjust the lighting in whatever editing program you're using, as well as how to adjust the colors to make the video look "warmer" and more even toned. Of course investing in a better camera is always a good start, but if you don't want to/can't right now then I'd focus more on clips with your voice over. Hope this helps and good luck!
I love your work I've been aware of these things for years now and have been gaslit by people around me that this doesn't happen and that I quote unquote "always make things about race" thank you for making me feel less alone.♡
Great video! Also small thing but I really liked your use of text in this video (like the no actors oscars for the last emperor, part 1, 2, etc, with the click sound effect). Helped me follow along and I liked the aesthetic.
Thank you!! 🥺 I worked so hard on the text and stuff it means a lot that you liked it and that it looked aesthetically pleasing
Congratulations on such beautiful work. And a pre-emptive congratulations for that silver plaque that's well on its way ❤️.
This is a great video, and the research and commentary is spot on! I obviously knew that there was something going on with the prejudice and racism Asian films and filmmakers face during award season but never knew how to quite verbalize those feelings. You perfectly summed up all my feelings!!
Your videos are always SO comprehensive and well researched, incrediably instructional both in content and form
Thank you so much!!
omg i never knew that the people who win oscars are in the committee. that makes so much sense now lol hopefully the poc noms this year don’t get snubbed
Great video! I think a great topic you can talk about if you ever choose to is about when people of color, especially Asian people, do a movie where they are the star or co-lead with a white actor and that movie is a breakout role for that white actor but the actor of color never works again or never gets nowhere near that height fame despite them being great in that movie. ie. Bend it like Beckham. My beautiful Landrette. etc
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I have only recently happened upon your channel and have been enjoying it a lot ever since. As somebody who is Asian American and I think that your points are extremely important so thank you for taking your time to make videos like this 💖💖💖
Thank you! I’m glad you liked the video 💖
The opportunity to mention Minari was missed as its currently in the running for an Oscar nom (noms are tomorrow so we'll see). But this video was great and eye opening.
your content is seriously so underrated. you do such good work, recently discover you but i love your channel
Engagement engagement engagement! :D Love your work!
The 1982 movie Gandhi about the great Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley. Interestingly, Ben Kingsley is half Indian, and was born as Krishna Damji, but had to change his name to Ben Kingsley and pass as white to succeed in Hollywood. The irony is that he had to pass as white to get cast as an Indian man. Had he gone by Krishna Damji, no one would have cast him. The movie also had white actor Christopher Lee playing Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Originally they were going to cast either Dustin Hoffman or John Hurt...........
I think so often people want more from the Oscars when it has always been a way of diverting attention for one means or another, considering it was created to make film makers feel more appreciated so unionizing would be stopped. That being said, it is so influential and domineering in western film history that I really love to hear people actively hoping for better for the future of the institution. Such a good video, thank you, can't wait for the next one.
I just rewatched Memoirs of a Geisha for the first time since 2005 and i had to go and look for commentary on it afterward. Thank you so much for this!
This is the issue about Hollywood and all this "diversity" they claim to be about. E.g. Disney's live-action adap of Mulan, had the chance to really be the Black Panther for Asian people, and really show full Asian Representation, but they just didn't go all the way. It had a full Asian cast, was film in China (which became controversial for all the wrong reasons that we know about already), but yet Disney just didn't want to go there and make it produced, written and directed by Asians.
Hi Cheyenne! Found your incredible channel by accident and I'm marathoning your videos. Just wanted to say- I'm Japanese, been raised in the American school system and live in Brazil! So cool that you live in Brazil too! Anyway back to your video... I'm so happy to have found (high quality!) film and pop culture analysis through an Asian, feminist lens!
Thank you so much!! And cool :D i haven’t really met many Asian Brazilians so thanks for sharing and glad you liked the video :)
Another great video from you! I don't know if it's just my algorithm but I rarely see youtubers talking about how asian people area also slighted by western media, so I really appreciate your channel :)
Another great video! It seems I forgot to tap the bell because I missed this when it was uploaded.
As somebody trying to enter the film industry as a screenwriter and possibly director, yeah the oscars are kinda 😬
On one hand, I really do like that there is such a massive event dedicated to cinema and celebrating performers, but it is overwhelmingly white and American (and I say that as somebody who is both of those things).
I had heard of the general problems with all of these films (being a regular participant of the Oscar Discourse™️), but I had no idea that the snubbing was that bad, holy shit. Oscar nominations for dialogue coaches, but not the actors they were coaching? That is a whole other level of stupid and unfair.
Also, I think the point about Asian characters and actors being exoticized and overlooked was incredibly salient. As someone writing a book set in Asia in the 1840s (the book is about the last vestiges of piracy in the East Indies, and is specifically about the time the British Empire invited a bunch of American prospectors to Austrailia, and most of them joined up with Indian and East Asian pirates to escape the poor working conditions) My greatest fear is that the audience will mostly resonate with the white American characters and ignore the East Asian and aboriginal ones. Pirate ships back then had super diverse crews, and I want to reflect that fact. It also entails doing a lot of research to make sure I don’t misrepresent cultures that are not my own, something that a lot of other white authors seem to have trouble doing.
I actually had no idea how unfair the oscars were to the Indian cast of slum dog millionaire as well.
I also had no idea that Asian American movies were being put in the foreign language film category for literally no reason. It seems incredibly unfair that a film about an Asian American family set in San Francisco gets placed in the category, but a film set in Antioch that was literally filmed entirely in Latin and Aramaic wasn’t.
There is definitely a harsh bias against Asian filmmakers and actors in Hollywood. Also Ang Lee is incredible. I can’t name a single movie of his I don’t like.
You are becoming one of my favourite commentators. Keep up the good work!
I'm glad I found you channel, great content. As a fellow adoptee from China in the U.K. it's covering a lot of really interesting topics which I wasn't really aware of. Just a side note, the vocal audio is a bit quiet :)
Another excellent video where I learned a lot! Thank you for all the hard work and research you put in 💚
great video!
i had some questions in regards to a depiction of a geisha i had seen and thought to myself "i mbet cheyenne lin has some insight on this" and sure enough you did! i was familiar with some of those instances and the broader strokes of these patterns but this explained many new things and brought me very helpful perspective
Loving the dressed up presentation for a video on the oscars, so on theme ✌️✨
Thank you for making these videos!!
Hey I don't know what to comment but here I am helping the algorithm! I'm so glad to have found your channel! Keep up the good work! :D
Thank you!
I just came across a video you made 8 months ago about the anti-blackness in the Asian American community and I’m assuming that you got a lot of negative comments because commenting is disabled on that video. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate what you shared. And I do pray that you are safe. I wish no harm on any group of people. I pray that we will all learn to just love and take care of one another as human beings. I don’t think I’ll see it before I leave this planet but, I hope that it does happen someday in this world. Peace and blessings🙏🏾
I am a scholar who interrogates Orientalism and white supremacy in Korean art history, material, and visual culture studies. I always get asked what I think about movies like Parasite getting so much recognition and have to do this entire video over and over again. Now I can just send people your video! Thank you!
Take my thumbs and my comment! 😄 I love how honest and blunt this is. I don't like having to search &search finding stories I like, but honestly it's worth it
I'm really enjoying your videos! I listen to them, like a podcast, on my way to and fro from work! Thanks for sharing your interests/researched knowledge in video format!
I never really comment in videos, but I just want to say that what you're doing here is really really great. I've been binge watching your videos all morning and I still can't get enough.
This was really hard to watch, like it made me so furious. But it NEEDS to be said! Keep it up, girl, you’re gonna go far!
This was very informative. Thank you
Really informative, thank you!
Thank you for continuing to show me and other viewers perspectives that have been actively hidden from us by mainstream media.
You deserve all of the likes and comments ever. Keep up with the amazing editing and research 🙏🏻
This channel is a relief to watch.
Just came across this channel and love it 😀
This was so insightful. Ty!
this was super enlightening, thanks so much for all your amazing videos
Commenting for that algorithm but also bc I’m learning so much from you. Thank you❤️
I'm having an Oscar virtual watch party and will definitely be referencing this video! Great work, yet again!
Thank you!
Absolutely Fantastic. I can't wait for you to blow up. You're utterly charming and the essays are super informative. 💜
Just found your channel last week and i have binge watched almost everything. Love your commentary !!! Hugs from MX
just discovered your channel (literally finished watching your fences video a minute ago! LOVED IT) i can't believe you haven't popped up on my recommendations before! your content is exactly my kind of thing - thank you so much and keep it up!
Love your videos ever since I found them 💕
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Amei suas análises e não esperava de forma alguma você morar aqui no Brasil, que surpresa boa!
I've thoroughly enjoyed and loved every single one of your videos. I had to watch the WAP one twice it was so amazing, your content is amazingly analytical and very reflective. I haven't commented on them because some of them don't allow but I completely understand especially with the hate comments so I'd rather be one of the good ones since you deserve it!
Hello there! I just found your channel a week ago and seriously cannot stop watching your work :) Very insightful, I love how mindful you are of generalizations, your analysis is thoughtful and informed. Keep it up :)
Thanks for the video! x
watched it from start to finish.. learned a lot
Thanks for watching!!
Fantastic video!!
watching this after the grammys failed asian artists and poc artists overall yet again🎉