#Post Chinatown

[nathanolsenart]

Forget it Jake, it's Pastatown. 🍝

[daisyssousa]

Chloe Bennet as Detective Lana Lee | "Interior Chinatown" 1x01 | "Generic Asian Man"

[mcforwhatiam]

For the 20th anniversary of To the 5 Boroughs, sharing a photoset from the tour in Manchester, UK, taken in December 2004 by Jenny Lewis.

Sorry for the markings/blur in places, it's the best I could get on these.

[263adder]

"You are getting involved with things you don't yet understand."

[systematic-and-somehow-tragic]

1 Actor, 2 Characters - Due South : Chinatown

Only one to report for Chinatown

Ho Chow - Jimmy, one of the kidnappers in Chinatown (S1E6); also appears as the Doctor in Flashback (S2E18)

[meanya]

If you reblog (much appreciated, this is for an experiment) tag with what's stuck in your head right now

[astrangerlately]

bleachers x running

bleachers parallels [1] [2] [3]

[mikeydoesstuff]

Chinatown Philadelphia

[garygoldenbignaturals]

the chinatown theme from vtmb is so good its a shame i do not wana be there for extended periods of time

[mangavita]

-MORE OCS!-

Names:

Qian Lu (淺鷺 /Qiǎn lù) => "elegant lady"

Laohu (老虎 /Lǎohǔ) => "tiger boy"

I created these 2 for a collab on Instagram, whose theme was "fashion in Chinatown".

Qian Lu is a sorceress over 300 years old, she used to be vegan, was a homebody and had a strong connection with nature, but after recovering from what could be a serious illness or strong curse, she completely changed, almost as if she were another person.

Laohu was adopted as a child by Qian, he has a strong personality and a short temper, he agreed to live with Qian because he thought she was too clumsy to be alone; He was completely shaken by what had happened to her, and since then, he swore to protect his only family with claws and teeth

They are gonna live in the same universe as Killian✨️

[daisyssousa]

Chloe Bennet as Detective Lana Lee | “Interior Chinatown” 1x02 | “Delivery Guy” (part one)

[mcforwhatiam]

For the 20th anniversary of To the 5 Boroughs, sharing a photoset from the tour in Manchester, UK, taken in December 2004 by Jenny Lewis.

Sorry for the markings/blur in places, it's the best I could get on these.

[byebyelemonpie]

byebyelemonpie's december 2024 recommendations

My december top 5 movies:

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024, dir: Merlin Crossingham, Nick Park) [First time watch] Best film of the year, I don't care. Wallace unleashes a new wave of robots who become evil thanks to the criminal Feathers McGraw, and our best boy Gromit takes it upon himself to restore peace in the town and save Wallace's name. This is a great commentary on how AI or newer technologies could never take the place of art, and work better if used as tools. I loved it. -

Paddington and Paddington 2 (2014 / 2017, dir: Paul King) [Rewatch after 5 years] This is a perfect duology, and I'm still waiting to see the third one later this month. Paddington is a lovely funny talking bear who finds a family, but keeps his home country in his heart the whole time. It's genuinely joyful. And the prison sequences are amazing. -

The Wild Robot (2024, dir: Chris Sanders) [First time watch] My gosh, this literally made me sob. If you've been reading these posts, you might already know how sappy I get when the story is about different characters who find each other and create a family out of just them. It's everything to me. So you already know this lonely lost robot, this lonely baby duck, and this lonely lone fox are absolutely everything to me by the end of this film. -

Ammore e malavita (2017, dir: Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti) [First time watch, AKA Love and Bullets] This is a musical!!! It's a crime comedy set in Naples, about a mob boss trying to quit the business, a hitman who meets the love of his life, and what all of them need to do to find a way out of that shitty murdery business. It's also very fun, and the songs are mostly in Neapolitan, which is a very lovely language. -

That Christmas (2024, dir: Simon Otto) [First time watch] I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. It was a very lovely fun movie, with some cute scenes and a classic Christmassy feel.

Favourite series in december:

Interior Chinatown (US, 2024) [First time watch] This was really cool. A series which is tagged as a comedy but it delves more and more into meta, almost as a Truman Show heir, to end in an existentialist question the audience has to ask, together with: "What the hell just happened?" I was glued to the screen the whole time. Absolutely recommended. -

Hanno Ucciso L'Uomo Ragno - La leggendaria storia degli 883 (Italy, 2024) [First time watch] When 883 were at the top of their fame I didn't even exist, but I was always aware of at least some of their songs (Music teacher who made us play "Hanno Ucciso L'Uomo Ragno" and "Nord Sud Ovest Est" on the flute, I salute you), so when this series came out and everyone was praising it, I decided to give it a watch and I was really surprised at how fun it was, and - even though not everything in the series has exactly happened that way - it was interesting to see how a slice of the Italian music industry looked like at the time. -

The Devil Judge (South Korea, 2021) [First time watch] As with every show I've seen from S. Korea, the cinematography of this is absolutely gorgeous. This is specifically about a dystopian future in which the government decides to trust a Judge hosting his trials on live television, and letting the audience be the jury by choosing on their phones if the person on trial is innocent or guilty. The high society will not be safe for long, though, as this Judge is trying to get revenge. -

Junior Taskmaster - series 1 (UK, 2024) [First time watch] The original Taskmaster show is absolutely hilarious, and a comfort show for me. This junior version, though, sees 25 children as the protagonists of a tournament who will try to get high scores in several tasks, judged by the Junior Taskmaster. It was an absolute blast seeing those kids being hilarious and really smart!

[byebyelemonpie's 2024 recs]

[systematic-and-somehow-tragic]

Chinatown : 3 Ties

[deductions-and-magic]

On the perimeter of the Int.

so I just watched Interior Chinatown and discovered Archie Kao (and proceeded to start watching his entire filmography as you do) (also i think i really need to read the book Edit: finished the book!! might write a new post)

And I think it is so poignant that he is Uncle Wong

The ABC (American Born Chinese) who has a foot in both worlds (the first to realize the dangers involved and believes it’s his responsibility to protect his people!), who says

"I was born here. In this city. I've been here my whole life."

and yet is so grounded in both cultures

who finds the victims of the systematic violence resulting from the police procedural

is performed by the ABC who was raised on an American farm, who did not know Mandarin when he moved to China a few years back to find his roots and pursued acting there, who is now back in the US (source: his Int. Chinatown interviews), who has always tried to help. to change things (even if small)

In his interviews he talked about how he spent most of his time in Hollywood on procedural dramas

And parallels with Willis Wu who as a "Generic Asian Man" could not be the hero, the lead (on CSI: Enhance! On Chicago PD: Detective but tech guy — so many parallels)

So he, like many Asian Americans, IS Willis Wu (like Uncle Wong was Willis but even more similar)

but more importantly, his path of America -> Asia -> America is the path of so many people who are unsure of “self” and where they stand, thinking about where they come from and what that actually means

What being American Means, What being Asian Means, What being Asian-American Means

so I think it's likely this show represents a culmination of his journey of self discovery

As a Chinese American

And what that means to him.

Not at the intersection of two cultures but Cape Horn -- a confluence

Where oceans crash together and people get submerged

where there is a distinct divide but you can’t see it when you’re in the water

In Chinese there's a saying: "见山是山，见水是水；见山不是山，见水不是水；依然见山还是山，见水还是水", which roughly translates to “Seeing mountains as mountains, seeing water as water; seeing mountains not as mountains, seeing water not as water; still seeing mountains as mountains, water as water"

like you're back where you are before, and it's the same

but it’s different now

Which applies to so many things here.

[sad-manga-problems]