Gran Torino: Lost Scenes "Thao Does Walt"

The table reverses on Walt...in this satirical spoof of the barber shop scene from the Gran Torino movie, Thao reverses the table and teaches the old timer racist Walt to be a "man". In keeping with the original movie, this re-version is full of racial and racist dialogue, as well as taking on homosexuality. But here, not only is there lots of recognizable Asian stereotypes; lots of less recognizable racial epithets and stereotypes of white people are thrown in for good measure. if you can take the play on racial jokes in the movie, you can take the jokes in this spoof as well. Be a "man" like Walt and take it where it counts.
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[kangvang]

That is too cool! Bee Vang playing the old man this time! Hahaha!!!

[GTCritic]

@kangvang Very cool of Bee Vang to take this on and sort of reprise his role from Gran Torino in a different, and critical, guise. Kudos!

[Razious1]

Sooo the homosexual barbershop owner is emasculating Walt by telling him how to be a proper asian to act more feminine? That seems a tad weird. Obviously not all asians are gay.

[GTCritic]

@Razious1 Yes, it's weird, same as the original scene is weird that Walt and the barber is manning up Thao by telling him to be a proper man by being crude, racist, and "properly" masculine. If the original is acceptable, why not this?

[tnuoc1000]

NICE. i love this parody bc honestly the original scene just pissed me off. the original scene basically showed that asians should conform to the "white" way of doing things to "be a man", that whites are superior. smh.

[nujtxeej]

I think this cause more stereotype than trying to make a point.

[abaskcasckbackj]

@GTCritic Beacuse thats how that generation actually was.

[TheMagmagoblin]

@tnuoc1000 What if you were a white guy who moved to an Asian country? Would you not appreciate someone teaching you to fit in and stand up for yourself? Some of the most repellent characters in Gran Torino are Walt's white, spoiled children and grandchildren. He learns that Thao and his sister are far more respectable. Racist jokes and machismo are universal.

[MabiChao]

Toad's acting is improving exceptionally since Gran Torino, bravo!

[Kisho3]

Lol.  "White savior syndrome."

[Wonderwice84]

lol nice spoof. I thought the original version was pretty screwed up.

[iiChewyy]

I Love the way how you guys put the old skool song by RARE at the end, still one of my fav song haha

[leurseng]

ok

[DRAGONEmperor60]

A wonderful spoof that illuminates the emasculation of Asian male as portrayed in western (Hollywood) film. The spoof deconstruct the normative performances of masculinity as prescribed by the hegemonic western (white) perspective. Asian males are often performed and therefore fixated as "weak", submissive, feminized, bottom, hyposexual, etc. (also keep in mind Asian female = hypersexualized while submissive = double standard). The original perpetuates the misrepresentation of race, identity...