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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Vanessa Zoltan and special guest Professor Matt Potts meet at a mansion in Singapore to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered, all about Crazy Rich Asians.
This week we discuss the tension at the heart of Asian American identities, how family pressures preserve class divides, and the allure of opulence. We finish the episode by calling journalist Jiayang Fan to talk to us about the important cultural impact of the film.
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0:00.0 | Getting money from clients can feel like trying to wrestle honey from a grizzly bear |
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0:21.0 | Aw. |
0:21.8 | On a really soft sofa, while watching your favourite soap. |
0:24.9 | I can't believe she was his mother. |
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0:30.1 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground. |
0:36.2 | Sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, |
0:41.1 | not a care in the world as you simply lean back, and before you know it, you're there. |
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1:06.4 | novel by Kevin Kwan that came out in 2013. Kwan started the project as a series of satirical short stories, inviting his audience to |
1:16.8 | simultaneously judge his characters and covet their lives. |
1:21.8 | It eventually occurred to Kwan that these short stories could be intertwined into a novel if he put a love story at the center. |
1:31.1 | So he invented Nick Young and Rachel Chu as the center of his ultra-successful novel. |
1:40.4 | When Crazy Rich Asians came out as a film in 2018, there was a lot of concern about how the film had to represent all Asian people, because there had not been a predominantly Asian cast of a Hollywood film in 25 years since Joy Luck Club. |
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