Whitewashing Alert!

So there's been a movie that had been bugging me for awhile and I was happy that it didn't get any box office success but since it's now on DVD I see ads for it all over the place. The move is call 21 and it's made out to be some sort of true story/action/suspense/gambling movie. On the surface it falls into the category of Hollywood crapfest. Mostly it is but the reason I hate the move and will never see it is because the book and the people its based on are mostly Asian and the only Asians in the movie are goofy horny Asian men and hot Asian women. Hollywood "Whitewashed" the movie by replacing all the lead actors with white people.

Kevin Spacey's character was Asian and had to dress up like a woman to go to casino's because the casinos were trying to kill him. Sadly that's another part of the book that was not used in the movie.

To add insult to injury Hollywood didn't even go with a American whitey. They went with some European actor who had to take English lessons to learn how to speak English.

Are there no Asian actors? Harold from Harold and Kumar? Jet Li? Chow Yun Fat? Jackie Chan? Okay Hollywood might have a point since most of the known Asian actors are either martial arts actors and/or hot Asian women.

I should be thankful that they didn't make all the white actors pretend to by Asian. Sadly a cross-dressing Kevin Spacey with buck teeth and thick glasses might have made a more enjoyable movie.

So what's my point since no one went to see the movie? I don't have one. But if you want to see a good gambling movie check out Good of Gamblers with Chow Yun Fat.