Lets Switch Roles..

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo drift, has always been one of my favorite movies to watch. But recently as I was watching the movie, I realized that this film, has some relation to the Yellow peril stereotype. Haven't you found it interesting, that the main character is a caucasian male, and the so called evil character is asian? relating to the yellow peril in the way where asians are the ones who look bad or are the undesired characters in films. It kind of makes sense to me, On why the characters roles were set up that way. Its just that audiences would rather see the asian as the bad guy and the Caucasian as the hero, then for it to be the other way around. Think about it, how many movies have you seen were the asian character is antogonist and the most likely white character is the the one to save the day....... ALOT! Now how many movies have you seen that introduce the white character as the antagonist and the asian as the hero? Yeah, i couldn't think of a film either. I did find it interesting however with the fact that this movie was directed by famous Asian-American director Justin Lin, and that he would actually choose to have the Asian as the bad guy and the white as the good guy, knowing that he is one of the Asian-American directors who have been trying to burry Asian stereotypes to the ground with movies such as "Better Luck Tomorrow"