Whitewash
Published on 2. August 2022
287 pages
978-0-7022-6717-8 (ISBN)
Description
It sounded like a good idea at the time: A Hollywood spy thriller, starring, for the first time in history, an Asian male lead. With an estimated $350 million production budget and up-and-coming Hong Kong actor JK Jr, who, let's be honest, is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but probably the hottest, Brood Empire was basically a sure thing. Until it wasn't. So how did it all fall apart? There were smart guys involved. So smart, so woke. So woke it hurts. There was top-notch talent across the board and the financial backing of a heavyweight Chinese studio. And yet, Brood Empire is remembered now not as a historical landmark of Asian representation that smashed the bamboo ceiling in Hollywood, but rather as a fiasco of seismic proportions. The Whitewash is the definitive oral history of the whole sordid mess. Unofficial. Unasked for. Only intermittently fact-checked, and featuring a fool's gallery of actors, producers, directors, film historians and scummy click-bait journalists, to answer the question of how it all went so horribly, horribly wrong.
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Content
- Intro
- Author Biography
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Cast
- Introduction
- Act I: America
- 1: Fu Manchu
- 2: Charlie Chan
- 3: Yee Haw!
- 4: Bruce Lee
- Act II: Hong Kong
- 5: Kung Fu
- 6: Wire Fu
- 7: Gun Fu
- 8: White Fu
- Act III: China
- 9: All-Asian Cast
- 10: China's Soft Power
- 11: COVID-19 Remix
- Coda
- Acknowledgements
- Film Appendix
