i could care less if animal chin gets cancelled. but isn't animal chin basically giving the same kind of nod to kung fu theater of the 70s/80s that wu tang does? doesn't that whole stereo type come from asian cinema itself? i grew up in south east asia in the 70s and 80s and used to watch asian martial arts shows over there all the time growing up and to me animal chin was just the old wise "keeper of ancient secrets" character that was featured in almost ever show i saw as a kid. tarantino had a similar character in kill bill.
by saying this i'm not saying that these images don't or shouldn't offend people now but i do think that when a part of pop culture doesn't age well like this and becomes offensive in todays cultural climate that doesn't mean that the people who created it, our enjoyed it 20 years ago were racists or being insensitive. maybe folks should ask more questions and pass less judgement when calling out these things.
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i wonder if my gif avatar is racially offensive today. i'm assuming not because it points to source material but it seems like at some point it could be because conceptually it's exploiting the same stereotypes. i've actually got a bruce lee wall hanger in the garage too. i'm probably also a victim of kung fu theater fandom over here...
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It’s hard to watch anything from the 80s now because they’d shoehorn the same LOL ASIAN PEOPLE jokes into every movie. Animal Chin was corny anyway, when was the last time anyone watched it? The ramp at the end was cool but the rest is booooooring.
For real, and a lot of the shit in the 80's has aged..... Let's just say poorly.
I saw sixteen candles without the Nostalgia that people from that era have about that movie and all i could think was "What the fuck is going on with all the date rape in this movie?"
Try not to think about Indiana Jones and Marion’s backstory in Raiders of the Lost Ark. “I was just a child!” “You knew what you were doing”
Rewatched Temple of Doom a few months back for the first time since i was a kid, when it was my favourite movie. Holy shit that has aged very badly.
i started watching die hard with my daughter as an xmas tradition 2 years back and one of the opening scenes this 9 months ish pregnant lady's boss tells here to stop working and go have a drink, lol.