tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post794636403633570459..comments2024-02-25T00:28:56.604-08:00Comments on I Will Not Love You Long Time.: The World of Suzie WongJasmine E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03522652913037216705noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-2187638033152575592020-12-27T02:10:24.943-08:002020-12-27T02:10:24.943-08:00As the first person wrote, I love this movie, and ...As the first person wrote, I love this movie, and for the same reasons. I think the attitude of the British characters is not so much based on moral or economic prejudice as it is on race, as seen when the banker talks about his sister who married a Chinese man. This draws disapproving noises from the other guests, until the banker says that the Chinese man is now an eminent surgeon in England. Clearly the guests then show more acceptance to someone who is of their own class. Later the banker admits to Robert that he does not have a sister but that he wanted to stir things up. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-7653109162702750302020-07-08T15:34:14.704-07:002020-07-08T15:34:14.704-07:00prefer the young sailor that dance cha cha with he...prefer the young sailor that dance cha cha with her to the old artist - happy normal couple - the artist is too heavy for herAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049495928976989620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-63218535636703211632018-09-13T20:03:03.761-07:002018-09-13T20:03:03.761-07:00Also Nancy is Eurasian born in Hong Kong. Not Hawa...Also Nancy is Eurasian born in Hong Kong. Not Hawaii.. so no, not your hapa slang.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15954911317593054492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-14905610879676608892018-09-13T19:49:21.944-07:002018-09-13T19:49:21.944-07:00Thank you. That's how most people see this fil...Thank you. That's how most people see this film and love it. I feel the same way. I think young people now just think it's just all "the rage" to put this movie down and they jump on the bandwagon. You see that a lot nowadays. Instead of trying to see where the author of the story was really going with it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15954911317593054492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-13762494512834544442017-07-23T21:43:16.250-07:002017-07-23T21:43:16.250-07:00I love this movie. I love Suzie's character. I...I love this movie. I love Suzie's character. I saw this movie as a 12-year-old, my mother warning me that since I was a devout China-lover she'd permit me to see it, but that it was considered racy. I have been obsessed with China, it's culture, history, literature, language and people for nearly my whole life. As a girl, I admired Suzie's gutsiness, her strength, her devotion to her baby, her ability to create another reality for herself outside her "dirty job". As an adult, I have much on prostitution and the subjugation of women in other countries, about the child sex trade, and lived in Beijing for 3 years--I SAW a lot. As an adult, I also came to realize: in setting up this inner world for herself, Suzie created a powerful totem, a spiritual energy that pulled to her that which she really wanted. Not all children who are poor and abused and end up in the sex trade are pathetic, spiritless, crude or without intelligence--Suzie showed she had something MORE, something that drew to her the fate she deeply felt she deserved: to be loved and cherished by a rich man (be that man be a 'daddy' or a husband). I know Westerners and many Chinese see this movie as horribly racist bullshit, but I cannot class it so simply. Suzie is charming, sure, she is the sexiest girl in the bar, she KNOWS how to work men, but I believe, because she retains this inner image of herself, she is different, special; because she has found this secret, maybe even some of her original innocence comes through--THAT is what Robert sees, not just her beauty. Yes, he has a lot to overcome in order to love and accept her--but Suzie has a lot of adjustments to make too! As a woman in a long-term, loving marriage, I still see my husband’s faults and Suzie can see Robert's as well. She is hurt by him, numerous times, and yet, she can also see he is struggling. That makes a difference! If he was just a rich American pig of a guy who just wanted sex, well, she's had enough of that--the romance in the movie comes from two VERY different people from different cultures trying to find a common ground for Love and Marriage. She's STRONG, damnit! she's feisty, she's as good a mother as a struggling prostitute can be, and she's loyal to her man. All through the story you see how the British view the Chinese--I find their behavior and attitudes FAR worse than Robert's. Issues ARE brought up in the movie that were unique for the time period, and that's what people forget in their urge to peg this as racist crap. It's not the best venue or interpretation for starting a conversation, but it made me THINK and CONSIDER, as a child, the kind of life that Suzie had, it made me want to know more about China, about the problems of women there....and ultimately led me to live and teach there for 3 years, and plan my retirement there. My first real steps toward all this was Pearl S. Buck's 'The Good Earth' which was like a lightning bolt in my life at age 9, and Suzie Wong pulled me right along. I love her character, her strength, her imagination, and always will...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08348380305624943545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-44663585786524275962015-09-27T13:12:10.854-07:002015-09-27T13:12:10.854-07:00I have just found out the basis of the Jacob Mille...I have just found out the basis of the Jacob Miller classic - Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4216232966486625743.post-77309756558242552702010-10-20T23:30:29.354-07:002010-10-20T23:30:29.354-07:00What historical forces "made" the stereo...What historical forces "made" the stereotype of he subservient Asian women? What social forces shaped the lingering Suzie Wong stereotype? Why did Nancy Kwan take this role in the first place?Jasmine E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03522652913037216705noreply@blogger.com