Hakuho's first acting gig? They could make him look pretty mean/bad ass...
Christian
· 9 months ago
I heard about this too. The buzz immediately after the first movie was that the next villain would be The Mandarin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(comics) ), who I'm given to understand is a pretty confused mix of stereotypes about "eastern" folk in general. I'd imagine they'll continue in that vein this time around too...
And depending on their definition of "gangster," then I can think of a few dozen UB rappers who would probably love to cross over into acting.
Argentum Vulgaris
· 9 months ago
Bram Stoker did it to Romania with his Dracula... the world is always looking for a villan... unfortunately.
This makes me think of what a "typical Mongolian" would be (look, talk, act) like. Seriously, can anyone describe a Mongolian stereotype? Then perhaps we can get to the "Mongolian gangster" stereotype...
Reader
· 9 months ago
My proposal for the part would have been Yul Brynner. Totally hot. And dead, unfortunately.
bilgoon
· 9 months ago
he claimed to have been of a part-Mongol heritage. I don't know. Could have just been an attempt to appear a bit more exotic.
Argentum_Vulgaris
· 9 months ago
This is the fourth comment, second here, that I have tried to leave over the last few days. None have been successfull... maybe
There's a criminal motorcycle gang that's been in the news over here (northern California) who call themselves "The Mongols", Unfortunately, most westerners only know about Mongolia from the stories about Chinggis Khan cutting a path of destruction across Asia, not how he united your country and was your lawgiver. So there's an attractive association with violence for some people.
I think that Iron Man is from a comic book, yes? So I don't think there will be any lasting damage other than to perpetuate an existing stereotype. I post about Mongolia every Monday on my blog partly to share my love of your country, but also to educate people about "The Real Mongolia" of friendly people who are proud of their culture, an amazing landscape and interesting wildlife.
We're having a Tsaagan Sar party tomorrow for a Mongolian friend, her husband and some other friends. We're going to make buuz and sample the Chinggis Khan vodka we brought back from our trip last fall. Also look at pictures, listen to music (love Nomin Talst) and play ankle bone games. I've forwarded your posts to the other attendees so they'll know a little more about the holiday.
bilgoon
· 9 months ago
That sounds like a fun Tsagaan sar. And thank you for doing your part in educating people about Mongolia :)
heesco
· 9 months ago
There were a few instances in the past where the hollywood went for mongolian baddies: The Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quest_(film)) - a Van Damme movie with Roger Moore? The main bone breaking baddie was meant to be Mongolian. I've seen that actor continue using the "Mongol" monicker for after the movie onto some cable tv wrestling show. The dude doesn't look anything like a Mongolian, he was a stereotype though, basically a mean blood hungry heap of muscles.
And another one i remember, was in Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle. I was completely caught off guard when the movie started with Angels kicking some remote Mongolian outpost soldiers' asses. It was completely weird.
Reader
· 9 months ago
Oh yeah, that one... Grrr... Was watching it with high-school friends, so that was pretty awkward. Apparently the most common depiction of "the Mongolian" is a dumb (makes sounds like a Neanderthal) bozo numbskull who wears a lot of fur, has a fat face with no features other than a mustache and devours meat like an animal. A Mongolian gangster? Remove the bone from his hand and give him a gun, voila. Actually, I think my favorite depiction of bad-ass Mongols is in Mulan...
will
· 9 months ago
I was a mongolian gangster once, i paid for lunch at banana-mala with 8000 tugriks worth of fifty tugrik notes.... 4 big wads of cash on the table, man i was cool...
btw im starting up my new darfur blog in a few weeks, i just hope they let my camera come in the country with mee... eeek!
miss ya bil!!!
W
bilgoon
· 9 months ago
haha, i'm gonna do that next time i'm there. i've got loads of 50s, 20s and 10s now, walking around with a fat wallet. cool, look forward to reading your darfur blog. miss you too, man. you should stop by UB on your way to sudan, should be on your way. kinda. =P
bio
· 9 months ago
Tolkien's orcs are the ultimate Western stereotype for villainized Mongols - coming from the east, yellow skin, slanted eyes, eating each other or devouring carcasses, violent and aggressive, but not stupid, rather very cunning and physically strong. Go orcs! Kick some hobbit butt!
heesco
· 9 months ago
yeah, Uruk-hai sounds kinda Mongolian too.. i been thinking that while reading it a long time ago...
a Mongolian gangster is a guy with sword on a horse. mean mother fucker who punches chinese babies wherever he goes ... lmao
baasandorj
· 9 months ago
the Mongol gangster always keeps a chinese baby in his pocket just in case if he got angry. like Chuck Norris punching Mexican babies when he is about to fuck some shit up. also the Mongolian gangster sniff dirt and smoke rabbit shit all the time. that is how hardcore they are... when he gets drunk he pulls out his bow and arrow to fuck shit up... he always shits on different places to mark his territory. These are the symptoms of a Mongolian gangster...
I think the storyline should go like this...
When Iron Man comes back home from work, he finds himself in a wierd situation. His newly adopted chinese baby is gone and there is some shit on his girlfriends vagina... He figures that a Mongolian did it ... and the action starts...
the fight scene: The Mongolians charge into Iron Man with their bows and arrows. Some Mongols were so fucked up from smoking the rabbit shit that they brought some chopsticks instead of their bows. Iron Man throws a granade in the middle and shit turns nasty...
the romantic scene: Iron Man comes back from Mongolia with the chinese baby beaten to retarded. he finds his girlfriend in bed with Borat and there is some shit on Borat's back. And also the chinese baby that Borat brought is stolen.
ahaahahahaha i am sooo high
Ariel
· 8 months ago
And out here recently -- don't know how old the conversation is -- they did a casting call for "exotic Asians" for some movie based on a cartoon called "Airbender" -- see Washington Post link here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar... ) And so they went to the Mongolian School here in Arlington, VA. All the kids put on their Mongolian clothes and all the parents were excited, "Finally they'll put some of our people into a movie about the Mongolian Empire, even if it's just the kids!"
The school has a growing and very good reputation as the center of culture and education on Mognolia and for Mongolian-American kids, and people were a bit disappointed to ehar they weren't actually looking for "real Mognolian culture".
No, they just were looking for "exotic Asian Empire" type stuff... the next hor they went over to a Cambodian neighborhood and did the same thing.
Bullshit. But your commenters are right: whenever they want to look for soemthing Eastern, exotic, and 'hard-core' they go to the Mongols -- but mostly it's because tey don't anything about the Mongolian culture or people.
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And depending on their definition of "gangster," then I can think of a few dozen UB rappers who would probably love to cross over into acting.
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I think that Iron Man is from a comic book, yes? So I don't think there will be any lasting damage other than to perpetuate an existing stereotype. I post about Mongolia every Monday on my blog partly to share my love of your country, but also to educate people about "The Real Mongolia" of friendly people who are proud of their culture, an amazing landscape and interesting wildlife.
We're having a Tsaagan Sar party tomorrow for a Mongolian friend, her husband and some other friends. We're going to make buuz and sample the Chinggis Khan vodka we brought back from our trip last fall. Also look at pictures, listen to music (love Nomin Talst) and play ankle bone games. I've forwarded your posts to the other attendees so they'll know a little more about the holiday.
And another one i remember, was in Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle. I was completely caught off guard when the movie started with Angels kicking some remote Mongolian outpost soldiers' asses. It was completely weird.
btw im starting up my new darfur blog in a few weeks, i just hope they let my camera come in the country with mee... eeek!
miss ya bil!!!
W
miss you too, man. you should stop by UB on your way to sudan, should be on your way. kinda. =P
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_almyIcHiNmY/R9X1xAodG...
also the Mongolian gangster sniff dirt and smoke rabbit shit all the time. that is how hardcore they are... when he gets drunk he pulls out his bow and arrow to fuck shit up... he always shits on different places to mark his territory. These are the symptoms of a Mongolian gangster...
I think the storyline should go like this...
When Iron Man comes back home from work, he finds himself in a wierd situation. His newly adopted chinese baby is gone and there is some shit on his girlfriends vagina... He figures that a Mongolian did it ... and the action starts...
the fight scene:
The Mongolians charge into Iron Man with their bows and arrows. Some Mongols were so fucked up from smoking the rabbit shit that they brought some chopsticks instead of their bows. Iron Man throws a granade in the middle and shit turns nasty...
the romantic scene:
Iron Man comes back from Mongolia with the chinese baby beaten to retarded. he finds his girlfriend in bed with Borat and there is some shit on Borat's back. And also the chinese baby that Borat brought is stolen.
ahaahahahaha i am sooo high
And so they went to the Mongolian School here in Arlington, VA.
All the kids put on their Mongolian clothes and all the parents were excited, "Finally they'll put some of our people into a movie about the Mongolian Empire, even if it's just the kids!"
The school has a growing and very good reputation as the center of culture and education on Mognolia and for Mongolian-American kids, and people were a bit disappointed to ehar they weren't actually looking for "real Mognolian culture".
No, they just were looking for "exotic Asian Empire" type stuff... the next hor they went over to a Cambodian neighborhood and did the same thing.
Bullshit. But your commenters are right: whenever they want to look for soemthing Eastern, exotic, and 'hard-core' they go to the Mongols -- but mostly it's because tey don't anything about the Mongolian culture or people.