As TheFarewell racks up awards buzz, 'Joy Luck Club' producer Janet Yang reflects on how far Hollywood has come in telling Asian American stories
"You have no idea the power you have over me," a daughter says to her mother. Those words are uttered in a shaky, tearful voice in a San Francisco beauty parlor as the two women stare intensely at each other's reflection in a mirror. It's 1992, and we are on the set ofMy mother happened to visit that day and we too stood next to each other, looking at the mother-daughter pair in the mirror, stunned by the parallels to ourselves.
It still took many years before the movie was birthed. There was now a crack team of Wayne Wang directing, Ron Bass and Amy writing and my 800-pound gorilla partner, Oliver Stone, also producing. The film would break so many unwritten rules.
Maybe our superpower is family. Maybe our North Star is filial piety. Even today, respect for elders is an eternal and undeniable foundation of our existence; when we think about where we came from, we are given a compass to where we are going. AARP notes that three-generation households have nearly doubled since only a generation ago, in large part because of the Asian and Latinx diasporas. We are generally loath to abandon our elderly.
, how could they? Each of these movies and each of these roles breaks new ground. They are us, they are everyone, and they make us proud.
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