I'm bitter that during the whole "pirates vs. ninjas" Internet meme fad they made it into a West vs. East thing when the biggest Pirate Empire in history was run by a Chinese womanhttps://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1319130991210844162 …
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I'm bitter that during the whole "pirates vs. ninjas" Internet meme fad they made it into a West vs. East thing when the biggest Pirate Empire in history was run by a Chinese womanhttps://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1319130991210844162 …
Arthur Chu added,
1800 ships compared to Blackbeard’s FOUR!!!!https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-chinese-female-pirate-who-commanded-80000-outlaws …
The most frustrating thing is they TEASED us by having Ching Shih in Pirates of the Caribbean appear as one of the "Brethren Court" but then she doesn't actually do anything It's just to set up Chow Yun-Fat's character, who's supposed to be her son
And then he doesn't really do anything either Ugh I'm on record on saying I would rather have Yellow Peril-style cackling Asian villains in a movie that actually DO SOMETHING than Asian characters who are just kind of there and get wasted
(Big example: Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian as "the real Mandarin" in Iron Man 3 The political message, that the threat of Yellow Peril foreign terrorism was really driven by white American arms dealers, is fine What's not fine -- Asians *don't actually get to be in the movie*)
Ok, so does Ben Kingsley not count because his mum was white or because he was raised in the UK?
Ben Kingsley was a tease and a fake-out, that's the whole frustration -- Trevor Slattery ends up being a joke and a nobody
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