This movie is 'clearly the most personal thing I have ever done,' director Alan Yang tells Newsweek.
The fictional character Long Duk Dong is an Asian exchange student caricature—a socially and sexually inept loser—who appears in John Hughes' 1984 comedyHe is most remembered for his creepy one-liners such as:"Ohh, no more yanky my wanky. The Dongle needs food!" For years, Asian men had been fighting this racist on-screen stereotype, and Asian American youth in the '80s later complained of being called"Donkers" in school as a result of the Long Duk Dong character..
The film perceives the world not as a series of conflicts to be overcome, but as a series of learning experiences to be had, understood through the tales of those who raised us. It believes in people, in hardship and the ability to close the distance between immigrants and their first-generation children."Part of the movie's message is that it's a two-way street," Yang says.
Asian American representation in the mainstream media experienced a watershed moment in 2018, when Jon M. Chu'sbecame a global phenomenon. The film was the first major Hollywood project with a predominantly Asian American cast in quarter of a century, after 1993's. Its worldwide box office gross of $239 million enforced the idea that diversity could be both popular and financially viable.was released as Yang was writing his film, and as his script incubated, progress accelerated.
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