 Asians took over the Oscars this year and it's causing a backlash. Oh man We got to talk about it shout out to everything everywhere all at once Andrew for taking home seven Oscars we're talking about the first Asian woman to win best actress Ki Kuei Kwan Andrew. He spent a year of his life living in a refugee camp. There were so many memorable moments He's hugging Harrison Ford. He was short-round in Indiana Jones. Of course, we got to get into the internet reactions We got to get into our own takeaways. So make sure you like subscribe and turn your notifications Andrew Um if you follow entertainment, especially if you follow cinema, this was a very very big night Right because this was probably the most Asian Oscars ever. Yeah, I mean Oscars is it? That's the fanciest award show They take all year plus an entire year to figure out these awards The last Asian movie that did win a lot of Oscars was slumdog millionaire They won eight Oscars so shout out to them, but that was a quite a few years ago parasite one two Yeah, there's been a lot of Asian directors that won whether that was like Chloe's hour on Lee But we're talking about Andrew the normies Karen now because it's the actors. Yeah when they won the actor award supporting actor Main actress. I mean, I mean, that's a lot of awards I mean, let's just get into the comments Andrew Some people said between Michelle yo speech about you know boys and girls are any children that look like her to Ki-Hue Kwan's speech about being a refugee to the performance of not to not to which is the Indian song Andrew Um, it made them cry. Yeah, no You know, this is for all the boys and girls out there that look like me just for them to know that there are Possibilities. Yeah, and you know It's sort of like Lin sanity making people cry who care about basketball or like You know, I mean like somebody caring about it There's like all these different worlds that Asians care about but obviously there is a large group of Asians that have been Not getting too many wins in past decades and those are the Asians in cinema They care about Hollywood their own production companies that are directors that are also fellow actors Of course Andrew We got to get into the backlash because interestingly enough Andrew some of the backlash from the seven Oscars that EA01 came from non-Asians But also some Asians. Yeah, so typically you would think that obviously a lot of like people would look at the Oscars and like Oh, everything all at once is winning everything. So they're like, oh, well, you know, you're just pandering to the Asians It's the wokeness and it's the Asians here Some people said I didn't know that I was watching the woke Olympics instead of a movie show Right anybody but a white man could get the award nowadays, right now That's the common kind of like regular standard kind of like racial Comment, but there's actually a lot from writers and critiques movie critics These are professional movie critics that are also Asian who are also kind of giving it some critical Well, um Justin Chang who is actually a very known a well-known movie critic sort of came out and said hey By the way guys, I'm a big fan of Asian representation I support Asians, but this movie was like maybe a seven out of ten at best to me And that fire article actually went viral in the LA Times today Yeah, cuz he said basically he did acknowledge that he loved the impact that the movie made But but he just didn't love the movie. Yeah, I mean another guy Ian Wayne came out and said it Here's the truth Andrew. I think for myself. I just support the movie, right? I mean, of course, I get it Do I understand that there is some downstream culture in right now to make sure that Asians get their props after being denied for so Probably I mean there's probably some element of that how well however much you want to say like it impacted the decisions It's probably there, right? Yeah, but I think it's fair for professional critics to criticize the movie Right and even if they're Asian that shouldn't matter because they should be doing their unbiased job So unbiasedly they should be able to speak up out the movie, right? But I also want to say guys This is a competition and it also matters what your competition is and I have not heard a lot of other good arguments That other movies should have won instead of everything everywhere all at once I'm not I think everything everywhere all at once deserved all the Oscars because part of it was it was a great movie But also who else were you gonna give it to right? It's sort of like you're the number one draft picked that year But it also depends on who else was in the draft No, I mean all quiet on the Western front that movie is forgive me about Nazis So I was like, what are you gonna give up that on a sympathetic way, right? Are you gonna give that a bunch of Oscars? So I obviously I think it was a good time It was good timing for I think that it's totally fair for any Asian movie critic to say whatever they think about the movie But they need to lead off with how important it is that Michelle won Yeah, he quake Juan one that everybody won because at the end of the day Who cares man? Who cares about whether how the movies are ready and somebody said we're finally no longer lepers They now cast in the Western media society in 2023 We're finally acknowledged James Hong got a joke in the Oscars and he's been in more movies than anybody living in Hollywood But nobody cares about him because he's Asian I mean it kind of felt like a good time to give a lot of the Asians flowers and James Hong deserves it He was also in the movie of course, but he's also been in a lot of movies So he kind of does deserve a shout out Do you think it's true that literally probably the the Hollywood fan club for James Hong is probably very small I mean even though he's been in like 650 movies, but I think it's really cool because you know He is pretty old right so we don't know how much longer he's gonna be acting for he's 94 I mean, you know, so it's good that he gets a shout out on the biggest stage because he's probably been in Hollywood for 50 years Just watching like all these Oscars and all the wondering like hey, am I ever gonna even like be in the crowd Right. Why do I always get these like goofy roles? I don't think these roles are gonna ever get me an Oscar So shout out to James Hong Andrew He has a house in the 626 in Monterey Park key way quantum from Alhambra Yeah from Vietnam originally Alhambra shout out to him Somebody said key way Quan and Michelle yo had two very different issues One was a child star and that had a 30 year drought in his career due to biases Whereas Michelle was actually a superstar in Asia, but her fame never just transitioned from the east to the west when I heard key part of his speech when he was saying how he grew up in the refugee camp and he was like You know, I was just living in a refugee camp and I came to America and then I became in the Hollywood and then I This is just like so inspirate He was just so happy like you could just feel that like that immigrant like gratefulness And also that pain that he had went through and it's coming out in every speech So I would say this was it did hit me it did hit me for sure Somebody said let's be honest guys. The Oscars did not want another of another Oscars So white moment, of course, they were gonna give it to Michelle yo over Kate Blanchett. She's so white Somebody of course, this is a comment basically be basically being like oh last year was the black Oscars this year's the Asian Oscars next year It's gonna be the Latino Oscars that what then white people are do up in another two years Hey, man, just tell me another movie. That should have won. Just tell me the other movie That should have won back to key way Quan and we're talking about the American dream Do you think that this shows that the American dream is still live or are all the articles and tweets about how it shows The American dream alive just reading too much into it and extrapolating it too far Nah, man I think it does show that the the immigrant dream a man immigrant American dream is alive because I think That the only people that truly are living out the American dream right now are essentially immigrants they're coming here and They're making it in a way that they would not have thought possible because the Oscars is a lot more of a global event and Global organization than it was even ten years ago, right, right the voters are way more international Yeah, and they're also giving more Awards to non English-speaking movies like it can be in a completely different language parasite one It was in completely Korean. So of course like now it's like a global award So I think that's really cool that like all types of immigrants can be like shine on this stage And I think that does maybe piss some people off because they miss when it was so America centric British centric British or American centric. You're right. Or just English centric You know and all the candidates for MVA MVA MVP are also immigrants Yanis Yoko Jambidin Hey, does it mean hey? I guess you got to say America truly is an immigrant country then somebody said generally Asians We're not and this was a comment from somebody who works in media That's Asian somebody saying generally Asians are not considered compelling identities in the Western world So it was nice to see us finally get recognized and you know people if you just saw through the wacky Issue would see that there were so many themes in that movie that were so strong and I think that there's two interesting points here Andrew I do agree that up until now a lot of West Asian identities in the West were not considered compelling even though They're considered very different. They're maybe not considered super interesting And if you can see through the wackiness of that movie, you can see the genius of EEO Yeah, yeah, I would say that it was and I think that's the thing that a lot of people find it hard to give this movie full Credit is because it was very wacky. It is The multiverse there's some Rick and Morty like aspects It's probably the wackiest movie to ever win a Oscars that doesn't mean it doesn't deserve it But we can acknowledge that it is a ridiculous movie It is somebody said, you know this deep-cut cinema people and other Autours have always known that Asians were really artsy and great, you know at cinematography and directing But it's just the normie casual that finally realizes because normie casual people Andrew only followed like Actors mmm now David moving on to our takeaways man like What is the impact of this movie because I think every big thing that happens whether it's I would say crazy rich Asians was a Big thing because it showed a commercial viability even though that movie is like whatever whatever, right? Yeah I mean, I think even a tour artist movie even some of Ali Wong's like earlier Netflix specials. I saw a bunch of moms like dress up as her The one that made her 10 million. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and then this movie a lot of people whatever makes people dress up as them for Halloween As the Daniels the Daniels the directors of the movie right because you're saying this is like a cultural touchstone This is a moment, but it doesn't touch every Asian of course because Asians are not a monolith and there's so many different types Asians so certain Asians care a lot more if you're probably You know, maybe upper middle class East Asian and into entertainment you care the most Yeah, I think if you're in the Bay Area and you're like a care or if you are in LA Specifically, you probably held at Oscars watch party But obviously we know a lot of people who work obviously across sectors in finance or in tech They're not as tapped into it. I'm not saying that they don't care at all, but they care way less, right? I think right now the Asians fear Andrew is sort of fragmented in the sense that you've got your Asians that care about representation or your representations that work in that field Obviously some glass barriers or glass ceilings just like Michelle. Yo said in her speech have been broken You know, I mean like she the glass that the ceiling is raised now But I will say that that's for those people like in that club You can either be outside of the line waiting to they get in that club or be in line at another club You know, I mean like a different club, which is like another world Which is like sports or politics or et cetera et cetera But theoretically if all the people who get in the club instead of not just be in the line and all these different disciplines link up And build some sort of unified thing. It could really impact everybody. Right, right. So maybe Michelle Yo being the first Asian American first Asian woman period to win best actress I mean that is gonna inspire obviously a lot of actresses a lot to not do winning the best song too That is big that kind of showed you like yo Indians. They really are making some jams. Yeah Yeah, and you what do you think about the criticism even from Asians as well as non-Asians I feel like the tone when the criticism comes from non-Asians is definitely different though Where their heart is that that the move that it was just due to? Wokeness or downstream Politics in Hollywood. I mean, I think any Oscar winner is politics bro last year. Do you know what movie won last year? No Coda, you know what that movie is about. No Me neither Yeah, but like no one watched it. Yeah, like no one knows what that movie is, right? You know what I mean and parasite one the year before I right, right? I believe some people were saying there was a lot of politics the one-year crash one Yeah, cuz crash some people were like, oh, that was sort of like a whatever movie But they had a lot of what I'm saying is I think the Academy when they're selecting a winner They also taken account like timing and the zeitgeist and everything that's even happened with Asians over the past few years Just in the world plays a little bit into it I mean all the the co the pandemic stuff it plays into it and then this movie comes out and it is a great movie And it is so different and so weird it almost you almost rank it on a different metric So it's not it's not the same as those older like slow Oscar-winning movies like no mad man to move about Elvis eaten fried peanut butter jealous sandwiches or you had The sort of like the Nazi movie did you watch nomad land? I watched it the one that one Yeah, the clothes out one, but that is very different than this movie Like it could not be any more different. Yeah, no for sure at the end of the day guys Regardless about how you feel about the technical movie. I liked it a lot. I'll say this man I love love love what it did and what it means for Asians moving forward in society and specifically in the entertainment arts Media field. I mean it was a moment guys you guys let's know in the comments down below what you think because uh, you know Was this a big deal or was it not? I mean Oscars is the most like top Cinematic award you can possibly win and what do you think about it? Some sort of perceived backlash I know to be honest though Andrew a lot of the English language media is not covering it too much Because you know, they're more focusing on other things. Yeah, well the news cycle has already moved on But you know amongst Asians we're gonna keep it lit. Let us know in the comment section below until next time we'd hop out boys We out