Photo: Mary Grace Pingoy
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Crazy Rich closes in on the 6th highest grossing rom-com of all time (North American box office). In the 4th and last part of our Crazy Rich special, we talk whether big-budget movies fail when they don’t deliver a society steering message or if they can just be plain old fun. All parts to the Crazy Rich Asians podcast are here.
Footnotes & Followups
Photo by Mary Grace Pingoy. More adorable photos.
Searching – Jon Cho
Music by Lee Rosevere – Thank you!
Gavin Hee is an occasional contributor to Ricepaper. He aims to connect people throughout the world interested in relatable, meaningful content by Asians. He was born and raised in North Vancouver and spent his formative twenties in Seoul where his concept of globalism transformed. He is particularly fond of pan-Asian themed stories of inter-cultural exchange and he is the founder of weshareinterests.com, a site he thinks you might enjoy since you are reading this. He encourages marginalized voices to build their own world so they are not stuck in someone else’s. Click on his name in the tags below to see all posts.