is it really just Asian men... wow. i can't think of another action star that DOESN'T get a girl - even Riddick gets attention, and a crush by the girl "Charlie" in Pitch Black (and he was an evil sociopathic bastard!)
Chow Yun Phat is *CUTE* (so is Jet Li, but not *as* cute)
i think i need to write letters, to Universal and Fox and everyone else who has Hawt Asian Heros Who Don't Get Any (i am being sarcastic but serious. until you pointed this out, i was just annoyed with the two specific movies. even when Jet Li was in part 4 of that Mel Gibson series - the one with Danny Glover and Renee Russo - all he was, was a guy who kicked ass. when he threatened Renee Russo, which is normally the time for the bad guy to *prove his manliness* with misogynistic threats of rape, all he did was hold a switchblade sorta-near her pregnant belly (and not all that near...). i am going to watch a bunch of movies this weekend, see if there are *ANY* where the hawt Asian Hero gets any, but i really think you are right - if there's any "girl reward", it's safely platonic. wow. (i'm babbling, i never put this together before. which is SAD, because if there is one type if movie my boyfriend and i agree on, its the one with marital arts...)
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Date: 2009-04-09 08:08 pm (UTC)but they get SOMETHING.
is it really just Asian men...
wow. i can't think of another action star that DOESN'T get a girl - even Riddick gets attention, and a crush by the girl "Charlie" in Pitch Black (and he was an evil sociopathic bastard!)
Chow Yun Phat is *CUTE* (so is Jet Li, but not *as* cute)
i think i need to write letters, to Universal and Fox and everyone else who has Hawt Asian Heros Who Don't Get Any
(i am being sarcastic but serious. until you pointed this out, i was just annoyed with the two specific movies. even when Jet Li was in part 4 of that Mel Gibson series - the one with Danny Glover and Renee Russo - all he was, was a guy who kicked ass. when he threatened Renee Russo, which is normally the time for the bad guy to *prove his manliness* with misogynistic threats of rape, all he did was hold a switchblade sorta-near her pregnant belly (and not all that near...).
i am going to watch a bunch of movies this weekend, see if there are *ANY* where the hawt Asian Hero gets any, but i really think you are right - if there's any "girl reward", it's safely platonic.
wow.
(i'm babbling, i never put this together before. which is SAD, because if there is one type if movie my boyfriend and i agree on, its the one with marital arts...)