Every Rom Com
Every Rom Com
Jennifer Howell
Every Rom Com 12: Crazy Rich Asians
1 hour 52 minutes Posted Apr 15, 2021 at 1:13 pm.
-5:04 Intro, What was your most luxurious vacation experience?
-10:13 Trailer, Basic Info, Opinion of the Film
-26:00 Cast & Crew In-Depth
-31:06 Singapore Basic Info
-53:03 Plot & Filming Locations, Spoiler-Free
: SPOILERS BEGIN
-1:07:11 Plot & Filming Locations, Spoilers Okay
-1:08:16 Singapore Travel Suggestions
-1:14:11 Themes: Relationships Across Class/Cultural Differences
-120:32 Themes: Anti-Asian DIscrimination/Critical Response to the Film
-1:25:27 Themes: Tension Between Different Groups of Asian People
-1:33:40 Themes: Excess/Wealth
-1:39:08 Costume Design, Production Design, Set Design
-1:42:27 The Soundtrack
-1:46:08 Favorite/Least Favorite Scenes
-1:52:52 Double Feature Recommendations
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This week on Every Rom Com join Jen, Sophia, and Serena on a first-class trip to Singapore for “Crazy Rich Asians”! We’ll talk about the powerhouse cast which made this 2018 film a milestone in Asian representation. We’ll talk about the amazing Singapore locations visited and glimpsed in the movie, to give you a head start on post-Covid travel-planning! And we’ll explore various critiques of the film, while giving our own opinions on how crazy rich is too crazy rich! All this and much more as our travel series continues!
 
 
 
 
On Adele Lim Pay Disparity:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/crazy-rich-asians-screenwriter-adele-lim-exits-sequel-pay-disparity-dispute-1236431 
 
On Kevin Kwan:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/kevin-kwan-crazy-rich-asians/612229/ 
 
On Michelle Yeoh:
https://www.gq.com/story/michelle-yeoh-has-kicked-ass-for-three-decades 
 
Ronnie Chieng’s Take-down of O’Reilly & Watters World: “O’Reilly Factor Gets Racist in Chinatown”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX8jZTN0CdU 
 
 
 
 
 
On the Mahjong Scene:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/17/17723242/crazy-rich-asians-movie-mahjong
https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/crazy-rich-asians-mahjong-scene-explained.html
 
On Filming Locations:
https://www.travelagewest.com/Travel/Asia-Pacific/Travel-to-These-Top-Crazy-Rich-Asians-Filming-Locations-in-Singapore-and-Malaysia 
https://www.vogue.com/article/crazy-rich-asians-movie-singapore-travel-guide 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rick Steves as Example of Altruistic Millionaire
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2017/04/14/rick-steves-donates-homeless-apartments-lynnwood.html 
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/10/rick-steves-travel-empire-is-on-hold-but-hes-still-paying-his-employees-to-serve-their-communities.html 
Some Critiques of “Crazy Rich Asians”:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/asian-americas-great-gatsby-moment/568213/ 
https://usa.inquirer.net/15159/class-biases-crazy-rich-asians-hidden-plain-sight  
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/12/crazy-rich-asians-racial-triumph 
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/17/17715124/crazy-rich-asians-movie-singapore 
 
 
Production & Set Design:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/crazy-rich-asians-sets
https://fortune.com/2019/03/16/crazy-rich-asians-production-design/ 
https://www.setdecorators.org/?name=CRAZY-RICH-ASIANS&art=film_decor_features&SHOW=SetDecor_Film_CRAZY_RICH 
 
 
More on the Soundtrack:
https://ew.com/movies/2018/08/17/crazy-rich-asians-soundtrack-coldplay-madonna-kina-grannis/ 
https://www.bustle.com/p/all-the-songs-in-crazy-rich-asians-that-youll-want-to-listen-to-over-over-again-10239631