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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This movie is just not relatable to 89% of America.  Not sure what all the fuss is about.  [/quote]
Does that mean that the majority of shows/movie on tv/theatre aren't relatable to me, an Asian American since they are 89% white cast?

I loved the Cosby show growing up, as I did Friends and Seinfeld.  I also happen to love Jane Austen. How was I ever able to relate to some of those stories from over a hundred years ago, from a different culture/race?

Some people definitely have a closed mind.[/quote]

The most unrelatable part is the extreme wealth.  It could have been crazy rich Bolivians, crazy rich Nigerians or crazy rich Russians. A romantic comedy about a small circle of billionaires, how they spend and how they live isn't groundbreaking cinema.[/quote]

So Pretty Woman was not popular because people could not relate to Richard Gere's obscenely wealthy character.
People did not like Sabrina because neither Humphrey Bogart (original) or Harrison Ford (remake) was at all relateable as characters.
Nobody wanted to watch the Great Gatsby because Leonardo DiCarprio's character was unrelateable to most theater-goers.
People don't watch Iron Man because Robert Downey Jr's character is completely unrelateable.
Why would anyone want to see a completely unrelateable character like Leonardo DiCaprio in the Wolf of Wall Street?
Dudley more was a completely unrelateable "Dud" in Arthur, so who wants to watch that?
And what is more unrelateable than that of a European princess?  Clearly no one wants to see Anne Hathaway in Princess Diaries or the sequel.

Need I go on?  Audiences have absolutely no problem relating to white wealthy characters.  Just because some people cannot see past their own skin color does not mean that audiences will not be able to relate to wealthy Asians.  The situations of love, family, in-laws and culture clash are universal enough for people to relate to regardless of the trappings.[/quote]

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