The movie "The Foreigner" is about to be released, and kung fu superstar Jackie Chan has changed his comedic image to play a serious "avenger".
However, according to the US BuzzFeed website reported on June 29, because Jackie Chan played a Vietnamese, some Vietnamese were not happy.
The film tells the story of a Ruan Yuk Minh (Jackie Chan), who participated in the Vietnam War and opened a restaurant in britain, because his daughter was killed by a IRA bomb attack, the British government did nothing, he decided to take revenge on the terrorist organization alone.
This complex role is very much anticipated by fans.
However, Vietnamese netizens with sharp eyes can see from the trailer that Ruan Yuming is a Vietnamese, why should he ask Jackie Chan to play?
A netizen who was briefly described as a sexual minority and Vietnamese-American directly said that this was nonsense, and gave three reasons.
British Showdown is based on the 1992 novel The Chinaman by British writer Stephen Lesser, and although it is called "Chinaman", the protagonist is Vietnamese.
In the original work, Nguyen Ngoc Minh was born in North Vietnam and first served as an explosive bearer in the North Vietnamese army.
After his father was killed by viet congregation, he switched to South Vietnam and was highly regarded by the Americans. After the liberation of Saigon by the North Vietnamese, he was thrown into a labor camp, and after being released, he fled with his family to Hong Kong, during which time a pair of twin daughters were tragically killed.
Ruan Yuming later came to the United Kingdom to open a restaurant called "Double Happiness", but unexpectedly, his wife and young daughter were killed by terrorists...
He asked the leaders of the "relevant departments" for information about the killer, but he was contemptuously called "the Chinese guy", so he used his explosive knowledge and embarked on the road to revenge.
Some netizens believe that the title of the novel itself is full of racial discrimination, although the Vietnamese are the protagonists, but it is for the entertainment of non-Vietnamese.
At a time when foreigners were arguing about whether Jackie Chan should play Vietnamese, observer network found that the domestic media and social platforms introduced Jackie Chan's role as "Chinese" and "Chinese Vietnam War veterans".
This pot may be thrown to the subtitle of the trailer, Chinese the translation uses "Chinese", but the English line does not appear.
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