#TurningRed.” O’Connell, who is also the managing director of CinemaBlend, has since apologized. Audiences have empathized w/ white male protagonists forever but you get one Asian girl in animation & these people question their existence. “This is what happens when white males are presented as the default. So many of us have lived through that,” tweeted the new site POC Culture. It’s about a teen growing up, starting to explore their independence & the awkwardness/challenges that come with that phase in their lives. The backlash was immediate: “ Turning Red is a coming of age story that literally anybody can relate to. This was exhausting.” A still from the animation ‘Turning Red.’ The Walt Disney Company./Jose Gegundez (The Walt Disney Company./EFE) If you are in it, this might work very well for you. The target audience for this one feels very specific and very narrow. Which is fine… but also, a tad limiting in its scope.” The review was later pulled while O’Connell doubled down on Twitter: “Some Pixar films are made for universal audiences. By rooting Turning Red very specifically in the Asian community of Toronto, the film legitimately feels like it was made for Domee Shi’s friends and immediate family members. “I recognized the humor in the film, but connected with none of it. The critic Sean O’Connell wrote a widely condemned review for CinemaBlend where he criticized the film for its lack of universal themes. I only see a very small group of people capable of understanding this film,” notes one audience reviewer. But there are also male voices who simply don’t get it, who all express themselves in similar terms: “This is not what Pixar usually does. The first Pixar film to be solely directed by a woman – Shi is also responsible for the award-winning short Bao – has a 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with only light criticism from some corners like Maya Philips of the New York Times, who wondered whether its portrayal of Asian women is representation or stereotype. The band’s songs in the film, by the way, were written by singer Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell. And she needs, nay, absolutely MUST go see her favorite boy band, 4*Town. All that changes the day Mei Mei wakes up transformed into a red panda. Her mother fits the Asian-American stereotype of the “Tiger Mom:” a righteous, unrelenting woman who holds her daughter up as a kind of blueprint for excellence. She gets straight A’s in school, plays the flute in the band, has a gang of rather nerdy friends, and when she finishes her classes, she comes home to help her parents run the temple they dedicate to their ancestors. She is a model only child in a family of Chinese origin. Mei Mei is 13 years old and lives in Toronto in 2002. Cameron Diaz, after retiring from movies: ‘The last thing I think about on a daily basis is what I look like’ĭirector Domee Shi and co-writer Julia Cho have come up with an apt metaphor to describe the discombobulating experience of becoming a teenager and the accompanying changes that happen to one’s body.
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