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Gran Torino

-2008 American drama produced by and starring Clint Eastwood

Plot
-Walt Kowalski(Clint Eastwood) is a gruff retired Polish American Ford factory worker and Korean War vet. He's been recently widowerd after 50 years of marriage. His neighborhood near Detroit, in Highland Park, formerly dominated by working class white families, is now dominated by poor Asian immigrants, and gang violence is common. He keeps turning down a suggestion by one of his sons to move to a retirement community, and lives alone with his Labrador Retriever Daisy. Walt suffers from coughing fits and occasionally coughs up blood.

-The Hmong family, Vang Lor, lives next door to him and he initially wants nothing to do with them, especially after he catches the youngest son Thao trying to steal his 1972 Ford Gran Torino. He does this as initiation into a local gang of Hmong teens run by Thao's cousin. Walt confronts them with an M16 rifle and chases them off, earning the respect of the Hmong community. As a way of paying back, Thao's mom makes Thao do stuff for Walt, and the 2 eventually become friends, along with Thao's sister Sue. Walt helps Thao get to know a local popular Hmong girl named Youa, who Walt nicknames Yum Yum.

-The gang contines to pressure Thao and assault him on his way home from work. They do a drive-by shooting on the Vang Lor home, injuring Thao and they kidnap and rape Sue. The enxt day, Thao wants Walt to help seek revenge. Walt makes preparations, buying a fitted suit and confessing to Father Janovich, a young, inexperienced priest. When Thao comes, Walt takes him to the basement and shows him his Silver star which he gives to Thao. Then he locks Thao in the basement for his safety.

-Walt drives to the house of the gang members. When they see him, they draw their weapons. Walt talks loudly, drawing the attention of the neighbors and he puts a cigarette in his mouth and asks for a light. He then slowly puts his hand into his pocket and pulls out his hand in the position of a gun. The gangsters open fire on Walt, killing him. When he falls to the ground, it shows he is unarmed. Sue frees Thao and they drive to the crime scene in Walt's Torino. A Hmong officer tells them the gang will be arrested and imprisoned for the murder of Walt and willing witnesses

-Walt's funeral is attended by not only his family, but alsoby Thao, Sue and many of the Hmong community. He says that Walt called him "an overeducated 27 year old virgin that never knew the difference between life and death." Afterward, Walt's last will and testament is being read. His family think they will get everything and his granddaughter thinks she is getting his Torino, but it comes as a shock to all when his will says to leave the house to the church, the car to Thao. As the film ends, it shows Thao driving off in the Gran Torino with Daisy by his side.

Cast

Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski
Bee Vang as Thao Vang Lor, a young Hmong teenager
Ahney Her as Sue Lor, Thao's older sister
Christopher Carley as Father Janovich
Doua Moua as Fong "Spider", Thao's cousin, shot caller of a Hmong street gang and the main antagonist
Sonny Vue as Smokie, Fong's right-hand man
Brian Haley as Mitch Kowalski, Walt's older son Karen's husband, Josh and Ashley's father
Brian Howe as Steve Kowalski, Walt's younger son and Mitch's Brother
Geraldine Hughes as Karen Kowalski, Mitch's wife, Walt's daughter-in-law and mother of Ashley and Josh.
Dreama Walker as Ashley Kowalski, Mitch and Karens daughter and Walt's granddaughter
Michael E. Kurowski as Josh Kowalski, Mitch and Karens son and Walt's grandson
John Carroll Lynch as Martin, an Italian-American barber friend of Walt's
Chee Thao as Grandma Vang Lor, the matriarch of Thao's family
Choua Kue as Youa; a running gag involves Walt mispronouncing her name as "Yum-Yum"
Scott Eastwood as Trey, Sue's date

Racism Against Chinese and American Chinese

In the late 1800s, there was a an extreme discrimination against Chinese immigrants, and it was furthered by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which led to banning all Chinese immigrants from entering the US until 1943.

When the first Transcontinental Railroad began construction, a massive majority of the people working on it were either Chinese or Japanese immigrants. They were often delegated to doing the dangerous work of blasting the tunnels with TNT for the trains

Chinatown: a big neighborhood where a large amount of people of Chinese ancestry live

December 3, 2009: 26 Asian students were attacked and beaten brutally by their black peers throughout the day, 13 of them ended up in the hospital. This all occurred at South Philadelphia High School. There was a major history of violence towards the Asian population of the school. It goes as follows: 64.6% black, 22.4% Asian, 6.3% white, 5.8% Latino

Vincent Chin: American-born Chinese man beaten to death on June 23, 1982. He was an employee of the Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan. He was beaten to death by plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his stepson Michael Nitz. On June 19, 1982, a fight occurred at the Fancy Pants strip club where Chin was having his bachelor party. Him, Ebens and Nitz were thrown out of the club. Nitz and Ebens were throughly angry that auto industry jobs were being lost to Japanese workers. Ebens and Nitz repeatedly called him a Jap even though he was an American born Chinese man. Ebens and Nitz and him started fighting, but Chin got away. Ebens and Nitz even paid a guy $20 to help find Chin before finding him in a nearby McDonald's. He tried to get away, but Nitz held him down while Ebens beat him senseless with a baseball bat. He slipped into a coma and was rushed to Henry Ford Hospital where he died 4 days later on June 23, 1982

Racism Against Japanese and American-born Japanese

History

What: forcible relocation of all who were Japanese-born and living in the US or all American-born citizens of Japanese ancestry or parentage
When: 1942. shortly after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial Navy
Approximately 110,000+ American-born Japanese citizens and Japanese-born citizens living in the US that lived along the Pacific Coast were moved to "War Relocation Centers". While any Japanese that lived along the West Coast were interned in Hawaii, where 150,000 of the internees made up 1/3 of the territory's population.
Of the 150,000 people who were interned, nearly 62% were Americans
This was part of Executive Order 9066, which stated that all American-born citizens of Japanese parentage and Japanese-born citizens in the US were to be put into camps.
The Japanese people were put into camps because they were suspected of being spies for the Japanese troops in the air, land and sea, and also some were suspected of loyalty to their homeland.

Internment Camps:

Manzanar: 10,046 people

Tule Lake: 18,789 people

Poston: 17,814 people

Gila River: 13,348 people

Granada: 7,318 people

Heart Mountain: 10,767 people

Minidoka: 9,937 people

Topaz: 8,130 people

Rohwer: 8,475 people

Jerome: 8,497 people

Tule Lake became a detention facility for those deemed "high security risk", for those deemed "unloyal" abd for those who would be deported back to Japan

The conditions were simply horrible:

Barracks of simple design with tar paper roofs, without plumbing, or cooking facilities
The barracks were based on a military style design and not made for cramped family living
Heart Mountain had a barbed wire fence surrounded compound with no partitions in the toilets, cots for beds, budget of .45 cents per meal. Most of the West coast living families had little time to pack so they were unable to pack good clothing to brave the sudden climate changes.

Asian Media Stereotypes

In pop culture, there was a character named Charlie Chan, who was supposed to be a Chinese-Hawaiian detective, which was based on an actual Chinese-Hawaiian detective named Chang Apana. The character Chan was not once played by any and I mean ANY Asian actors, but white British or just white actors, such as Sidney Toler, Roland Winter, or Warner Oland.

An example of the martial arts expert is that of Chow Yun-fat's character in the 2003 movie Bulletproof Monk, where he played the Monk with No Name, who was an expert at martial arts, despite Chow Yun-fat not knowing martial arts in real life, he is not a martial artist but simply an actor.

An example of the supergeek stereotype is that of Long Duk Dong, a geeky Chinese foreign exchange student played gy Gedde Watanabe in Sixteen Candles.

An example of the asexual martial artist is that of Jet Li's character Han Sing in the 2000 movie Romeo Must Die. There was supposed to be a scene at the end of the movie where his character and Aaliyah's Trish O'Day share a kiss, but some people felt it would be bad to show an Asian man and a black woman kissing and also to portray an Asian man in a sexual light.

These stereotypes are very common, along with movies showing Asians as being part of the Triads or Chinese Mafia, basically this gives everyone the impression that Asians are bad people.

Famous Asian people:

B.D. Wong