Posted on 08/19/2018 11:59:10 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu has shared the note he sent Coldplay requesting the licensing rights for their 2000 hit “Yellow.”
Coldplay initially rejected Chu’s request, and the film’s studio Warner Bros. remained concerned that the song’s title and placement in the romantic comedy would be problematic (yellow is a derogatory term against Asians), but Chu wanted to use the song to reclaim the word. “We’re going to own that term,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “If we’re going to be called yellow, we’re going to make it beautiful.”
But Chu didn’t give up. Instead he wrote a personal letter to Coldplay members Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion explaining why he needed “Yellow” in Crazy Rich Asians. “[The word ‘yellow’] has always had a negative connotation in my life … until I heard your song,” he wrote.
“I remember seeing the music video in college for the first time on TRL,” Chu’s note continued. “That one shot with the sun rising was breathtaking for both my filmmaker and music-loving side. It immediately became an anthem for me and my friends and gave us a new sense of pride we never felt before.”
Chu follows Greta Gerwig’s lead in sending a snail mail request for licensing songs. The Lady Bird director had penned personal letters to Justin Timberlake, Dave Matthews Band and Alanis Morissette requesting the rights to “Cry Me a River,” “Crash Into Me” and “Hand In My Pocket,” respectively.
While Chu can’t say that his letter changed the band’s minds, within 24 hours of sending it, Coldplay approved the director’s request to use “Yellow” in the film.
In Crazy Rich Asians, a Mandarin cover of the track by University of Southern California freshman and The Voice Season 10 contestant Katherine Ho is used.
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For everyone else it will be 'the Y word'.
In everyday, flyover, Trump country USA, Asian people are just people and no one thinks twice one way or the other about them. They are just Americans who play by the rules just like everybody else. It's only the elites who demonstrate hate and prejudice toward Asians.
Jesus loves the little children
All the little children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
We ate our PB&J sangwidges at Vacation Bible School and never knew what a pack of little racists we were.
That makes me sad.
Springsteen is a racist. Who knew. I hate these people just a little more each day.
Yellow is a term Asians use to describe themselves. It is not derogatory. Chinese are the ones who say Americans are Bananas, white on the inside yellow on the outside. The PR people are crazy. And should never be listened to.
The Chinese used to call the Japanese “brown dwarves.”
The movie has plenty of American music, rock, jazz Everly Brothers as well. Saw it yesterday and would recommend. Hollywood should be making this instead of bad racist cop, comic book and trans normalization flics.
I remember that too. I really do think there was less racism years ago. I’m not talking about a few bigots I mean the average person doesn’t want to see color as making us different. Growing up I thought skin color differences was just like hair color differences.
It’s never too late to denounce yourself.
Beyond that I know of no one in the non Asian world who sees Asians as less desirable than humans of any other race. In fact, most probably see them in the most positive of light.
“It’s never too late to denounce yourself.”
Yeah, I feel so guilty.
China movies are Communist propaganda trash.
China should make a movie about China cutting livers out of Christians.
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