Seriously Disney? You've got to do better.
I was so scared when Disney first announced the live-actionmovie. Was Disney, a predominantly white American media conglomerate, actually capable of making a good adaptation of a Chinese story? I wasn’t totally against this new version, but I was highly concerned that they’d fuck it up. Turns out that was a good instinct.. The director, writers, cinematographer, set decorator, editor, costume designer and most of the producers and art directors are all white.
To make matters worse, the ignorance of the film’s staff is becoming more evident as we learn more about the production. At the premiere, costume designer Bina Daigeler said that her research included going to European museums that had “Chinese departments” and travelling to China for a grand total of three weeks—yet another example of Westerners ~studying~ a different culture or part of the world and then talking like they’re experts.
When asked by a popular Asian YouTube channel if they felt an American company could capture the story well, severalagreed that it depends on the director and how well they understand Chinese history and culture. They all said that Disney needed to staff more Chinese people on the production team. Disney’s been trying pretty hard to show how muchthey’ve done, but they could have just hired Chinese people and skipped that step.
If I’m being honest, I’m still looking forward to seeing this movie—which just goes to show how starved we are for content where East Asian women aren’t dragon ladies/cyborgs/cutesy nerds. But literally everything on-screen will be tainted knowing that it was a white person’s attempt at imitating actual Chinese culture *and* knowing that my money will be helping an American company get richer off a Chinese story that they’ve already butchered once.
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