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Clash City Rocker

(3,389 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:13 PM Jan 2020

What do these movies have in common?

Lady and the Tramp
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
A Christmas Story
Sixteen Candles

Just wondering if this annoys anyone else, or if it’s just me. Feel free to add other movies, if you know what I’m talking about.

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What do these movies have in common? (Original Post) Clash City Rocker Jan 2020 OP
I'm guessing Chinese stereotypes... lame54 Jan 2020 #1
+1 Supplies! TheBlackAdder Jan 2020 #2
That's Dong from Sixteen Candles lame54 Jan 2020 #6
The clip was from the movie UHF TheBlackAdder Jan 2020 #12
Yes - it's the same actor... lame54 Jan 2020 #14
Been a long time since I saw Lady and the Tramp rurallib Jan 2020 #3
cats Surrogate Jan 2020 #4
Hey, welcome to DU Surrogate a kennedy Jan 2020 #7
yes - thank you rurallib Jan 2020 #11
Mickey Rooney as the bucked toothed Chinese neighbor lame54 Jan 2020 #5
Mr. Yunioshi. I'm pretty sure he was meant to be Japanese. n/t Glorfindel Jan 2020 #8
I believe you are correct lame54 Jan 2020 #10
Most people don't know who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's SCantiGOP Jan 2020 #9
"The King and I" (Yul Brynner and Rita Moreno portraying Glorfindel Jan 2020 #13
Jerry Lewis as late as 1980 lunasun Jan 2020 #15

rurallib

(62,373 posts)
3. Been a long time since I saw Lady and the Tramp
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:28 PM
Jan 2020

but I recall a stereotyped Italian restauranteur. Maybe it is the idea of stereotypes in general.
I can barely remember Breakfast At Tiffany's.

Surrogate

(11 posts)
4. cats
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:34 PM
Jan 2020

We are Siamese if you please.
We are Siamese if you don't please.

Mickey Rooney hammed-up the irate upstairs neighbor, who just happened to have coke-bottle-bottom round eyeglasses.

Glorfindel

(9,714 posts)
13. "The King and I" (Yul Brynner and Rita Moreno portraying
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 09:59 PM
Jan 2020

Siamese and Burmese characters, respectively), all the Charlie Chan movies, all the Mr. Moto movies, the Mr. Magoo cartoons ["Cholly solly, Missa Magloo!"], practically every production of "The Mikado," "Gunga Din" (portrayed by a Welshman), etc. Most tragically, John Wayne as Genghis Khan and Susan Hayward as a Tartar princess in "The Conqueror." Almost everyone involved with that movie developed cancer and died, as it was filmed very near a nuclear-test site.

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