CHIN 2052 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hercule Poirot, Peter Lorre, Frank Chin
25 Apr 2016
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Enormous success; hailed by nytimes as masterpiece. Asians were depicted with long nails/talons as a sign of exoticism, the camera lingers on those as a sign. Etc the rose and the fabric, he hands those things to her in a way that is worshipful. She moves as though she just wants the treasures. Idealistic young man, turns to opium in london: degeneracy of chinatown. But tension between compassion and romance: tale of forbidden love . Conclusion: father discovers, beats her to death; cheng shoots father, stabs himself beside lucy: the father finds out that lucy was hiding in cheng"s house and drags her back to his house and beats her to death. One of first sympathetic portrayals of chinese in movies: but idealized depiction and reflects fears of miscegenation: cheng dies by her side, film portrays the chinese man (western portrayal)
