“They were like, ‘Whoa, we can’t do that, what do you think people will say?’ And I told them, ‘Well, a white director couldn’t do it,'" Chu said. Initially, both parties rejected his request. and Coldplay to let him use the song, which proved difficult because the band and studio were worried about the connotation of "yellow" as a racist slur. It felt to me like a critical part of what we were trying to do.”īut before the scene could be possible, director Jon M. “That crazy blend of identities and cultures that makes up who we are. “I wanted to take hit American songs and make them Chinese, to give audiences a sense of how we feel as Asian Americans,” Chu said of the soundtrack in an interview with Quartz.
And playing over the scene is a Mandarin cover of Coldplay's "Yellow," performed by 19-year-old Chinese-American singer Katherine Ho. After two hours of paying tribute to Asian culture and tradition, this final scene feels as much like a celebration of representation in Western cinema as it does a celebration for its two lead characters. C razy Rich Asians is a Hollywood triumph, and in the end, it's only fitting that the closing scene of this film is a magnificent party high above Singapore.
0 kommentar(er)
