Culture Michelle Yeoh wins the Oscar for best actress making history as the first person who identifies as Asian to win the award - "identifies as Asian" nigga NPR wtf are you smoking?

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For the first time in its 95-year history, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded the Oscar for best actress in a leading role to an Asian woman. Michelle Yeoh accepted the Oscar for her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, in which she plays Evelyn Wang, the Chinese first-generation immigrant owner of a laundromat around whom the film's absurdist multiverse revolves.

Yeoh received a lengthy standing ovation as she walked to the podium to accept her award.

Brandishing the Oscar statuette, she said, "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility.

"And ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you are past your prime."

She dedicated her win to her mother, whom she called a "superhero."

The Malaysian-born Yeoh became a star of Hong Kong cinema before coming to global attention in films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, Tomorrow Never Dies and Crazy Rich Asians. This was her first Oscar nomination.

Speaking to All Things Considered's Alisa Chang last April, Yeoh said she saw a cultural moment where Asians could finally find a larger voice in Hollywood and society.

"We just have to rock the boat and say, look at us," she said. "Give us a chance - because guess what? We exist in your society. We are part of the society and very, very much an intricate part of this whole community. This is the only way we will get more opportunities — if we fight for it and no longer be able to say, OK, I'll turn the other cheek. Dang — no more turning the other cheek."

Before tonight's ceremony, Yeoh's work in Everything Everywhere All at Once garnered her many accolades, including a Golden Globe, an Independent Spirit Award, several local Film Critics Awards, a SAG Award, and nominations for a Critics' Choice Award and a BAFTA Award.

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Overly Serious said:
I liked it for the most part and I liked the message as well. There were a few elements that felt off. For example, Michelle Yeoh's character mixes up he and she and explains it as "in Chinese they are the same" which I'm about 80% sure is not true.
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Sort of. 他 (he/him) and 她 (she/her) are both pronounced "tā", so at least in spoken mandarin they are the same but not in written. The family in the movie are Cantonese too so there might be some nuanced lost there as well. I didn't find the confusion unrealistic, her knowledge of english varies between "universes" and gendered words are notoriously difficult to get into a habit of even if the rule is easy to understand. It could also be that she was mixing them up intentionally to make a point about how disappointed her father would be to learn that his granddaughter is lesbian and doesn't speak chinese.

Overall good movie, but I think it should have gone to Blanchett for Tár.
 
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Brandishing the Oscar statuette, she said, "For all the little boys and girls who look like me watching tonight, this is a beacon of hope and possibility.
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Yes, because if people who look like her want to become actors, they have no other alternative than to do it in Hollywood. It's not like China, a country with a billion people in it, has a huge film industry or anything....

I was on Yeoh's side until she made this statement. Race-baiters gotta race-bait I guess....

As for EEAAO, it's a good movie. I'd call it the Undertale of 2022. A quirky work of fiction that features Millennial meme humor, nostalgia, and LGBT themes, which everyone loves because it's technically brilliant and has a tearjerking ending. It's an object lesson to Hollywood on how to effectively push poz. Even the staunchest, gay-defenestrating Conservatives I knew absolutely loved this film. Of course Hollywood, being Hollywood, will learn nothing and will keep sticking ugly negresses and angry lesbians in established IPs and bitch at audiences for not liking it.
 
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"We just have to rock the boat and say, look at us," she said. "Give us a chance - because guess what? We exist in your society. We are part of the society and very, very much an intricate part of this whole community. This is the only way we will get more opportunities — if we fight for it and no longer be able to say, OK, I'll turn the other cheek. Dang — no more turning the other cheek."
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Yeah because the highest earners in the country sure should be saying "look at us..."
That said, I understand the sentiment. It's Minoritarian strategy through and through, but White people need to start thinking the same way.
 
BobbyBriggs69420 said:
I saw a preview for the movie a while back and as a (mostly) movie/tv hater, actually remembered it looked interesting but if they're giving away racial oscars for it I'm guessing that'd be a hard negative on it being any good?
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It's a good, uplifting film. Give it a chance when you're having a bad day.
 
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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
She's 60? Holy crap. Talk about good aging genetics
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Not only she's Asian as many already mentioned, people forget that, while she's not a trained martial artist, she's done a lot of her own stunts and she's fit and athletic. That keeps your body young too. Cynthia Rothrock is 66 and she still can kick your ass.

I agree with the message that a woman who's over 40 or 50 is not necessarily past her prime (and not all women are gonna do kung fu or physical stunts), but it require efforts. I doubt many women have the resources to train and exercise like Yeoh does, but they won't even make an effort on eating healthy and at least run a couple of blocks every day. It's funny to imagine some fat positive blob listening to Yeoh's Oscar speech and thinking "oh, she means me!"
 
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Cynthia Rothrock is 66 and she still can kick your ass.
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Real life isn't Dragon Ball Z. It doesn't matter how long grandma has been training karate. I punch her in the head once and it's naptime forever.

I agree with the message that a woman who's over 40 or 50 is not necessarily past her prime.
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She's old. She can't have children. Men no longer find her attractive. Her body is breaking down. She's well past her prime.
 
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You sure about that?
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I at least want to see her without her makeup, but I don't think she's ugly.

Even that timeline that's been posted twice depicts Asian women as aging all of a sudden, but still aging (kind of) gracefully.

Meanwhile, American women are out here hitting the wall before they turn 18. Hell's up with that?
 
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