Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu, from a screenplay by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, based on the 2013 novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. The film stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Lisa Lu, Awkwafina, Ken Jeong, and Michelle Yeoh. It follows a Chinese-American professor, Rachel, who travels to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick and is shocked to discover that Nick's family is one of the richest families in Singapore. The film was announced in August 2012 after the rights to the book were purchased. Many of the cast members signed on in the spring of 2017, and filming took place from April to June of that year in parts of Singapore, Malaysia and New York City. It is the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Chinese descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. Despite such praises in the United States, the film was also criticized for casting biracial actors over fully ethnically Chinese ones in certain roles. Additional criticism was also directed at the film for failing to acknowledge Singapore's multiracial demographic by including other Singaporean ethnic groups—such as Malay and Indian actors—as characters, as well as perpetuating stereotypes of East and Southeast Asians. Crazy Rich Asians premiered on August 7, 2018, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles and was released theatrically in the United States on August 15, 2018, by Warner Bros. Pictures. A major critical and commercial success, the film grossed over $238 million on a budget of $30 million, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy of the 2010s, and received high praise for the performances of its cast, the screenplay, and production design. The film received numerous accolades, including the 76th Golden Globe Awards nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Wu. It received a nomination at the 50th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture. It also received four nominations at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards, winning one for Best Comedy, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Two sequels, based on the novel's follow-ups China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, are in development.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING] Thanks for meeting me here. Don't worry about them. They're half deaf and they only speak Hokkien. My mom taught me how to play. She told me Mahjong would teach me important life skills. Negotiation, strategy, cooperation. You asked me here. I assume it's not for a Mahjong lesson. Pong. My mother taught me, too. I know Nick told you the truth about my mom. But you didn't like me the second I got here. Why is that? There is a Hokkien phrase. [SPEAKING HOKKIEN] It means, "Our own kind of people." And you're not our own kind. 'Cause I'm not rich? 'Cause I didn't go to a British boarding school, or I wasn't born into a wealthy family? You're a foreigner. American. And all Americans think about is their own happiness. Don't you want Nick to be happy? It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about. You don't know me. I know you're not what Nick needs. Well, he proposed to me yesterday. He said he'd walk away from his family and from you for good. Don't worry. I turned him down. [SIGHS] Only a fool folds a winning hand. There's no winning. You made sure of that. Because if Nick chose me, he would lose his family.
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And if he chose his family, he might spend the rest of his life resenting you. [SIGHS] So you chose for him. I'm not leaving 'cause I'm scared or because I think I'm not enough. Because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am. I just love Nick so much. I don't want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know that one day, when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the tan huas are blooming and the birds are chirping, that it was because of me. A poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.
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What? Don't worry about packing your things. You bought this apartment, you keep it. We're leaving. What do you mean you're leaving? Where are you gonna go? I have 14 apartment buildings that I own, so probably one of those. And you'll see Cassian when it's good for him, not when it's good for you.
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-Hey! -[SIGHS] Look, you know, it's not just my fault that things didn't work out. You're right. I shouldn't have kept things from you. Hidden my shoes, turned down jobs, charity work, worrying that it might make you feel lesser than. But let's be clear. The problem with our marriage isn't my family's money. It's that you're a coward. You gave up on us.
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