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A 3 page paper which examines the films “Enter the Dragon” (1973) and “Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle” (2004) and how they may stereotype Asians. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Rs and the constant joke of their tourist camera toting personas. In films they can be seen as the intelligent studious individuals or the crime fighting martial arts specialist. There
are numerous ways in which Asians are, and have been, stereotyped in film. But, on the other hand there are films that appear to simply lay out truths, truths that
do not necessarily create a stereotype but yet possess one for in all honesty stereotypes have a foundation of truth or they would not exist. The following paper examines the
Asian stereotype as seen, or not seen, in the films "Enter the Dragon" (1973) and "Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle" (2004). Film and the Shaping of Stereotypes
"Enter the Dragon" is Bruce Lees most infamous film and according to many it was a film that truly established a powerful stereotype for Asians as it involves the marital
arts specialist. One individual, Seung Chung, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, states, "Before Lees time, Asian men had been
largely depicted as emasculated and childlike - coolies, domestics, etc. - in American popular culture" When Bruce Lee came onto the scene Asian men became "tough, strong and sexy. However,
the Bruce Lee craze of the 1970s created a new stereotype of the Asian man: namely, the martial artist, which still permeates in Hollywood cinema" (Robinson, 2005). And, as another
critic indicates, in relationship to Bruce Lees role in the film, "Sure, he is the stereotypical martial arts character, but he did pretty much invent the stereotype for Americans" (KFC
Cinema, 2006). Interestingly enough, two famous Asian actors today struggle with this stereotype while also living it. They are Jackie Chan and Jet Li. While both seem to desire
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