On the eve of “Parasite’s” history-making Oscar win, it’s hard to imagine that just 18 months earlier, Hollywood had a crazy rich awakening. Although Asians had long been present in American movies…
On the eve of “Parasite’s” history-making Oscar win, it’s hard to imagine that just 18 months earlier, Hollywood had a crazy rich awakening. Although Asians had long been present in American movies, they were rarely treated as central characters — and even less often as romantic leads. And then suddenly that summer, 2018’s Singapore-set “Crazy Rich Asians” showed that audiences weren’t as hung up on race as the studios seem to have thought.
Now, this is where Netflix starts to think like a Hollywood studio: As soon as execs realized they had a hit on their hands, they greenlit not one but two sequels to be shot back-to-back in which Lara Jean continues to untangle the mess her little sister Kitty made by postmarking a series of soul-baring letters that Lara Jean had written to the five guys over whom she’d swooned in her short 16 years on earth.
Whereas the first movie felt modern , this squeaky-clean followup would have felt awfully square had it come out anytime in the last half-century: It makes everything from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” to “Thirteen” look like Larry Clark’s “Kids” by comparison.
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