#by making him a white dumbass who's in over his head & totally incompetent compared to the chinese characters who are doing most of the wor
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fully convinced that the only reason the opening lawyer's office scene in big trouble in little china exists is to establish that the film is secretly part of the x files universe
#screaming into the void#x files#big trouble in little china#like. hi deep throat nice to see you don't worry i won't tell them you're not a real lawyer etc etc. but in all seriousness#the scene is. SO POINTLESS.#it feels like a studio demand to make jack burton look more competent after they saw the final draft or something#even though the whole dang point of his character is that he's at least an /attempted/ deconstruction of the white savior trope#by making him a white dumbass who's in over his head & totally incompetent compared to the chinese characters who are doing most of the wor#even with that opening scene excised the deconstruction and portrayal of the chinese characters wouldn't work 100%#but it would at least come across in whole as more “this dumbass lucked his way into killing a 2000 year ghost”#& less “this dumbass lucked his way into killing a 2000 year ghost & all the chinese people are too starstruck to realize his dumbassery”#which i think is where what the film is trying to say about the white savior trope really fails AND IT'S (MOSTLY) THE OPENING SCENE'S FAULT#anyway. this has been:#media analysis for me and me alone#going to go back to staring at the clock waiting for it to be texas chainsaw time now
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