Asian Hollywood porn classic: The World of Suzie Wong
I had been prepared enough, so I was not offended, unlike other Asian American who are relatively political conscious but not enough to use the material to theorise. One thing that obviously occurred to me was how this movie resembled to The Quiet American. Once you recognized it, you can’t really tear yourself off from the whole architecture that almost appears to be a parodied response to the Anti-American nature the former had had and its political connotation. I have not read the original novel, but this movie apparently exploits the original essence incorporated by a British author, just exactly like Graham Greene’s novel and the Hollywood movie based upon it, I highly suppose it was written in the pretext Graham Greene’s work unfolded, and odds are the author of Suzie Wong, Mason was very conscious to follow, mimic and develop the precedent that represented the case study of interracialpolitics and strong crticism against America, the new colonizer in the era.
The movie Suzie Wongwas made into the very Hollywood no brainer style in terms of transforming the whole idea into Americanism from rather Anti-American world view as the novel connoted. All the more, that is how I detect the obvious resemblance between two and the Hollywood’s manneristic method to defend the American society in a very bland, no brainer vocabularies.
There were some scenes that I still could not help cringing even after some inhumane effort to let them all pass, for I was watching it for a research sake, not for any entertainment purpose. One of them was that the movie repeatedly portrays how much the idea Suzie and other hookers had about men women dynamics looked like they were calling for violence against them from men, and those women had the perverse pleasure out of getting beaten up. This was, too much, and found it really offensive, given it was promoting the groundless preconception of Asian Women as submissive piece of meat, you can do just as anything you want. Let’s organize a rally to protest in Hollywood, if not too late.
