Comments on: White-Vietnamese couple in new film “Little Fish”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 May 2006 03:23:25 +0000

play it

By: soulman

soulman — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:49:32 +0000

It was good to see a movie with real asian male characters instead of stereotypes. A hollywood studio would never make this kind of movie.

By: Engelhardt

Engelhardt — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:48:39 +0000

^Was that strange to see?

Years ago, Levis Jeans made a big announcement. They just completed a ground breaking commercial (before Hollywood started ripping off Hong Kong action movies) with Levis’ first Asian male spokesperson, Dustin Nguyen.

It was indeed cool! Too bad Levis decided it was too cool for the US and reserved Dustin’s commercial for the Euro markets.

http://h.t.ioki.tripod.com/Archive/Gallery/Levis.htm

By: justin

justin — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:39:00 +0000

All the publicity that I saw before the movies release was all about Dustin Nguyen, even though Cate Blanchetts character is the central one.

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:47:49 +0000

I always thought Dustin was cool.
Finally- a Jump Street kid, other than Jonny Depp, gets a cool movie gig.
And how can anyone take Cate Blanchett for granted?!

By: justin

justin — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:13:07 +0000

Within Australia, I believe, Dustin Nguyen is more interesting or more of a novelty than boring old local girl Cate Blanchett.
The Movie also has Sam Neil and Hugo (Agent Smith) Weaving. Some countries take their actors for granted.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:02:50 +0000

Dustin’s in a movie with… (long pause)
CATE BLANCHETT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: justin

justin — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:24:06 +0000

I saw the Australian news coverage/publicity and read the reviews after it was released. The impression I got was that the interracial thing was over emphasised because people were so interested in Dustin Nguyen.
Even if the movie isn’t about the relationship, if the movie is good (in this case) the outcome is good. I don’t care for neutral depictions. Depictions should be many and varied, representations of asian men with white women are neither.
This is going to sound paranoid but, a man named Van Tong Nguyen was executed in Singapore. He was used by the Australian media as an anecdote or antidote to xenophobic news coverage/public reaction to the arrest of Schapple Corby in Bali. So there is this very suspect enfranchising of the Vietnamese in Australia recently.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:53:15 +0000

anonymous - not so sure what you’re getting at and it depends what you mean by ‘problem.’ there aren’t a lot of IR relationships shown on oz tv and not a lot of ‘minorities’ unless you watch a certain channel. Is that a problem yes. In this film the fact that the relationship is IR is unusual for oz film/tv generally BUT not for the type of story that’s being told. the film focuses on a part of sydney which is thought of as an asian area so the interracial relationship shouldn’t surprise.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:55:44 +0000

Meg-
I thought IR relationships/minority representation was a probelm on aussie T.V./film?