Casual Review of "Model Minority" the film

Today I watched a movie called "Model Minority".
It was pretty good. Since I am in Los Angeles now, it is so real and so close to home.
The great thing about it is that I was expecting a more Asian-stereotype focused film but this wasn't. It was more like a story which happens to happen to an Asian family. Not an Asian family portrait but an American family portrait with the father that happens to be Asian. This is in a way breaking a stereotype in its own. Which is great! And so real because I am sure any family could experience this.

As an Asian, I thought the family was NOT Asian at all. They are like Americanized, which they are. And only a trace of Asianness is left, for example calling grandma's ba-chan, I see that in my Japanese American friends. And the conflict with white people and black people, that is so real and such a reflection of an Asian American kid growing up in LA.

I just wondered how this family is so conflicted, do they love each other? Sometimes they do, when their mom was in trouble, the sister was quick to leave the drugdealer boyfriend to take the mother home.  But then the mother is abusive and the sisters don't give a f and seemed to give up on their mother and go hang out with their cool friends. The dad never appeared until the end. The grandma cared a little and then stopped caring until the sister is in jail, then she started caring again. That is one strange family.

Both sisters are great actresses. Perfect for the roles. The dad's face is so chiseled and handsome he doesn't look like a construction worker. And why is there a white trash mom who doesn't love the family and is a drug addict? The dad and mom are one odd couple for sure.

But yay for another great raw film reflecting a raw piece of life. Great thing marijuana is legalized so we hopefully wont see something like this happen too much.

New Website update!

Hey yall!

I am doing very fine during quarantine. Staying home and staying up to date with my training/skills.
Also launching my new website!

officialsadie.com

It's official!
Check it out!
Under "portfolio" are my reel clips. You don't want to miss me doing my zombie move, do you?

More coming up, including a play I read on zoom with a team, and Captain Planet parody, made over zoom with a bunch of friends over on the East Coast, where I get to play, you guessed it, Gi!

Stay put and praying for peace every day.

Student film school tours, I mean auditions

Week into 3/23
I had a fruitful week in auditions.
It is interesting because I had 3 auditions and basically did a film department tour of LA film schools lol.

So 3/20 I went to New York Film Academy. Someone tell me beforehand how hard parking is! because it took me seriously 30 minutes to find a spot 1 mile away! And walked 1 mile to the school.  The whole street was full and then it was WB studio next door so no parking there as well. It was a nightmare, especially for someone who cannot drive well like me.

The audition went horrible. First I shook hand with the wrong person who I thought was the director, because the assistant looked more like the director. But the young looking kid sitting in the back was the director! OMG she looked 18 and in super casual clothes.. Oh well.
And then she was not giving clear instruction as to what I should do. Very unclear. And her face was as if bird poop had just landed on her hair or something, for the whole duration of the audition. I hope I wasn't the cause....

The same night I went to USC. Their film school department looked better than a 5-star Cancun resort. It was so fancy, with water fountain and arches... Thanks to Mr. Lucas, I suppose. This one didn't go well either because they needed me to cry on cue. I couldn't at that point. But at least the director was a normal human who smiles and holds normal conversation.
Interestingly all the auditions this week were Chinese student film projects.

The third one I went to later in the week was at American Film Institute. No one told me it was on a hill! I took the metro because it was in the middle of Hollywood and must be hard to find parking. And I was right on! There was no parking or free/cheap parking! Props to me for going by metro!
It was at night too, everything was dark and it would make driving harder.

I had to walk a while to get to my destination. When I did, I almost doubted my google maps. Where was I? It was almost magical actually, walking past homeless people and empty bars and barren LA streets, and finding yourself looking at a castle among woods. Yes the school looks like a Harry Potter castle! Maybe it was the perfect weather for walking, maybe it was the stars and clear sky, but I had an enjoyable trip walking into the castle that was AFI. See how much happier not having to park has made me? lol

The audition was for a Mandarin student film. I played a speech teacher. At first they were like, you are too gentle. So the next time I showed them my inner evil side haha. And they were like oh girl you can be mad too.

I thought I did pretty well, and this time actually had a friendly conversation with the directors. They were nice people. That and the starry sky and the view overlooking Los Angeles completed the happy night for me.

Hustling on...