tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post3884283123027308133..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Daily Links, Oct 5, 2009Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-54465759397557595712009-10-07T14:56:29.869+08:002009-10-07T14:56:29.869+08:00Patrick, you're ranting because you're pro...Patrick, you're ranting because you're probably sensitive to the "white" part. Formosa Betrayed refers to a MOVIE here, not the book. There certainly is a strong white guy saves the world (and the Asians, and the Africans, and the ____) current in Hollywood cinema. <br /><br />As a simple thought exercise, try to think of a movie where the East Asian guy comes in and saves the Americans from disaster. And the East Asian guy is the one that smoothly floats across cultures and language and gets the girl. Then substitute that for lots of other minorities. Probably the one group that does okay these days, as an exception, is the American black male. <br /><br />But even that situation is quite precarious. Watch Blackhawk down for what happens when "black" is put in a foreign context. Though you get in TEXT at the end that 4000 Somalis died versus a very small handful of Americans, you feel deep empathy for the soldiers, and you feel like the Somalis are ants to be stamped out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-8001923565712677112009-10-07T00:49:27.122+08:002009-10-07T00:49:27.122+08:00"I think Formosa Betrayed is just the latest ..."I think Formosa Betrayed is just the latest installment of the tired old white knight rides to the rescue of the yellow people genre (Shogun, Killing Fields, Joy Luck Club, etc.)."<br /><br />We're lucky to have his account, very lucky. No white Knight saving Taiwan. Just one guy who happened to be here when 30000 were getting slaughtered by "their own" and who possessed the stones to write it down. What would you have him do? The tired white (and non-white) knights were those that cynically looked the other way. <br /><br />Why do you assume only "white people" care about Taiwan? I am married to a Taiwanese woman who would explain it to you much differently. <br /><br />I was talking about stones. If you had any, you wouldn't be "Anonymous".Patrick Cowsillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12904899672214340947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-73589269554083310812009-10-06T16:41:48.365+08:002009-10-06T16:41:48.365+08:00The first Anon was making the comments as if (s)he...The first Anon was making the comments as if (s)he had seen the whole movie, but why then was (s)he asking for the movie to come soon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-90350419974686177872009-10-06T16:14:19.238+08:002009-10-06T16:14:19.238+08:00Michael, you wrote:
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Will, can we have it her...Michael, you wrote:<br />- - -<br /><i>Will, can we have it here in Taiwan, on the ground, before the election?</i><br>- - -<br /><br />You know what's gonna happen if we can't -- it'll get shown in settings like "The 10 Conditions of Love" was, and there will be an even greater demand. I hope somebody seeds it for BitTorrent.<br /><br /><a href="http://taiwanmatters.blogspot.com/" title="Taiwan Matters!" rel="nofollow">Tim Maddog</a>Tim Maddoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16943522529132663780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-7455853136043039332009-10-06T13:03:24.980+08:002009-10-06T13:03:24.980+08:00Didn't Timothy Keating make similar comments j...Didn't Timothy Keating make similar comments just two weeks ago? Is this some sort of extended swan song on his part?Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552370490869601403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-11205462553285159592009-10-06T06:00:21.959+08:002009-10-06T06:00:21.959+08:00"Will, can we have it here in Taiwan, on the ..."Will, can we have it here in Taiwan, on the ground, before the election?"<br /><br />I think Formosa Betrayed is just the latest installment of the tired old white knight rides to the rescue of the yellow people genre (Shogun, Killing Fields, Joy Luck Club, etc.). FB doesn't fail to hit every standard Asian stereotype, it even features the tired old "dragon lady" charater.<br /><br />Of all the real Taiwanese heroes of the pro-democracy movement who could have inspired the lead, it's disappointing that FB's central character is an FBI agent. <br /><br />I understand that it is sometimes necessary for commerical reasons to play to your audience (white people), but I had hoped that FB had a higher calling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com