http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:26:24 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/14/235250.php#comment-104725 he didn't make up the plot for the movie, that shit happend in orange county in like 1992 except the guy virgil was based on was mexican, the guys went to sunny hills high school, I knew the mom of the guy ben is based on, she was my dads friend. 104725@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:26:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/14/235250.php#comment-61851 Thanks, all, for writing. Originality just isn't that important aesthetically, especially when it comes to story elements, and has very little connection with "talent." Shakespeare isn't "original" in that sense. What's interesting to me about the movie is that the boys who become criminals aren't from the social stratum of Asian-American society that populates the gangs. They're middle-class guys who could easily get in to Ivy League schools. Through these characters Justin Lin is <i>fantasizing</i> about being a gangsta. That's what gives the movie its pull. 61851@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 09:00:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/14/235250.php#comment-61844 There are Asian gangs pretty much everywhere there is a high concentration of Asians. I knew a an L.A. cop whose partner was killed by a Vietnamese gang member. 61844@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 08:32:43 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/14/235250.php#comment-61824 Actually, the notion Asian-Americans are never involved in crime is misleading. Often the crime is off the beaten track, focusing on robbing, prostituting or selling drugs to people in the same ethnic group. Police departments have trouble penetrating such crime rings. We tend to hear about them when something goes wrong, such as robberies when multiple victims are killed. 61824@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 02:39:54 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/14/235250.php#comment-61821 Justin Lin fails to say in all his PR work for the film that he stole the idea from a newspaer clipping in the Orange county Regsiter nearly a decade ago. The death scene of steve is an mirrow image of what happened to a Sunnyvale highschool student (Tay). Orginal? no...Mr. Lin , confess you have no talent and that you used that artical is am exact blueprint for your film. At least cut the dead kids family a royality check 61821@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 02:10:24 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/05/14/235250.php#comment-61820 Justin Lin fails to say in all his PR work for the film that he stole the idea from a newspaer clipping in the Orange county Regsiter nearly a decade ago. The death scene of steve is an mirrow image of what happened to a Sunnyvale highschool student (Tay). Orginal? no...Mr. Lin , confess you have no talent and that you used that artical is am exact blueprint for your film. At least cut the dead kinds family a royality check 61820@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 May 2004 02:09:50 EDT