This movie is racist!!!!
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bhilburn — 11 years ago(June 08, 2014 05:00 PM)
There are at least another dozen threads on this subject here.
Racist? no
PC? who cares
Funny? hell yeah?
Goooooonnnnnnnnggggggggg!!!!
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ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch — 11 years ago(August 24, 2014 11:45 PM)
Hughes was just showing how racially insensitive upper middle class whites can be concerning their relations with other ethnic types. Basically he wrote what he knew having been born and bred in that environment.
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aping46052 — 11 years ago(November 12, 2014 06:30 AM)
Read tge trivia section. The Asian actor who played the Asian character, did the audition in a mock if Korean, then spoke PERFECT English. So if there was any racism it was done by Asian actor. Typical liberal response, I don't like something so it's whatever ism fits what you want to see.
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sugar_glazed — 11 years ago(February 24, 2015 02:13 PM)
The part that I found racist was when Sam and her friend were talking about Trans-Ams and boys. Sam says she wants a black one to which her friend responds in a shocked/horrified tone "black guy?!" Sam reassures her she wants a black Trans-am and a pink guy. Her friend sighs in relief. Wow.
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first-things-first — 10 years ago(April 19, 2015 03:22 PM)
It's not as politically correct today. The Black Guy reference, the Asian jokes, the Italian reference, her breast size, the geek, teens having sex, and the inappropriate reference to male homosexuals wouldn't make it today. But I don't think John Hughes was racist, he saw an opportunity to make fun of a lot of people. He was in it for the laughs. So if you got the laugh, it was okay. It's when people are in it to hurt people that we stop laughing. I remember a post that said labels were used to hurt people in some movies. They made fun of you if you were different. That's hateful. Here, they were looking for laughs, 80's style. It might look like an exploitation movie, making fun of teenagers. But if you accept that going in, then it's for the laughs. Like all the 80's horror flicks, you go in knowing the teens will not survive.
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scott-sw — 10 years ago(May 23, 2015 06:53 AM)
People need to stop using the word "racist." It is overused and has lost meaning. Asides from that, we equate it with prejudice and bigotry and there is a difference. We are not going to make any progress on the issue unless as a society we can tell the difference.
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MargiePax — 10 years ago(June 04, 2015 07:22 PM)
I don't think the Asian character was represented in a racist way. He was a horny teenage foreign exchange student. He could have been German, Nigerian, French, Argentinian or whatever. Sure, the grandparents made racist comments and treated him more like a house servant than an exchange student. But it was pretty minor and the norm for that generation back in the 1980s. That was the point.
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phyre_Iyz — 10 years ago(July 03, 2015 06:34 AM)
Exactly. If anything it showed that Dong was just an average teenager and the grandparents who hosted him has issues. He hooks up with a chick, parties, gets drunk, and is hung over the next morning. Pretty typical teenager for the time.
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stolenrays — 10 years ago(January 30, 2016 12:29 PM)
What's the joke about.Race. It is a racial joke then. The character plays on stereotypes. Think about Breakfast at Tiffany's. It is about cultural competence. We should be more aware of prejudice in everyday society.
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alblmfld-1 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 03:37 PM)
Are you Asian, or just offended for the Asian community?
Hey everybody, look that white guy is offended, he must be one of the "good ones". He's definitely not racist because he was so offended by that character.