Gran Torinoís Hmong Lead Bee Vang on Film, Race and Masculinity
Bee Vang, of Minneapolis, played the Hmong lead Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood's 2008 Gran Torino. He was sixteen when he shot the film and had no acting training. For 27 days on location in urban Detroit he played before a Hollywood crew opposite an icon of the film industry doing multiple ta...
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| description | Bee Vang, of Minneapolis, played the Hmong lead Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood's 2008 Gran Torino. He was sixteen when he shot the film and had no acting training. For 27 days on location in urban Detroit he played before a Hollywood crew opposite an icon of the film industry doing multiple takes of each scene and camera angle. The shoot was full of unexpected twists and turns some of which he recounts in these interchanges with Hmong media expert Louisa Schein of the Departments of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Over several conversations, condensed here, Vang and Schein talk about Gran Torino, about acting and film critique, about immigrants and stereotypes, about masculinity and sexuality, and about Vangís vision for what needs to change to address problems of race and
inequality in and beyond media worlds.
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8e7c322408d429ba22bc9828a9f4bf22023-01-10T16:55:39ZengHmong Studies JournalHmong Studies Journal1091-17742010-12-01111111Gran Torinoís Hmong Lead Bee Vang on Film, Race and Masculinity Louisa ScheinBee Vang, of Minneapolis, played the Hmong lead Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood's 2008 Gran Torino. He was sixteen when he shot the film and had no acting training. For 27 days on location in urban Detroit he played before a Hollywood crew opposite an icon of the film industry doing multiple takes of each scene and camera angle. The shoot was full of unexpected twists and turns some of which he recounts in these interchanges with Hmong media expert Louisa Schein of the Departments of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Over several conversations, condensed here, Vang and Schein talk about Gran Torino, about acting and film critique, about immigrants and stereotypes, about masculinity and sexuality, and about Vangís vision for what needs to change to address problems of race and inequality in and beyond media worlds. https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/scheinvanghsj11.pdfhmonggran torinoasian stereotypes |
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| title | Gran Torinoís Hmong Lead Bee Vang on Film, Race and Masculinity |
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