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"The Joy Luck Club" is best when it remains true to the subtlety of Tan's novel. But it comes dangerously close at times to ruining that fragile effect. Like many directors who adapt novels, Wang doesn't seem to trust the audience to grasp the themes and messages of the film. He ties up the stories and relationships too neatly and adds a morality speech in the end, just in case the audience didn't get it the first time.
JOY: Not just about women
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Another weak spot is the casting of Andrew McCarthy in a short role as the husband of one of the daughters. Ming-Na Wen as the lovely and captivating June leads a cast of refreshingly unknown actors and actresses. McCarthy sticks out like a sore thumb among such an unassuming cast.
But a few weaknesses could never spoil the richness and purity of emotion Wang has achieved with "The Joy Luck Club." This is a moving portrait of relationships that anyone with a family can relate to.
WANG: Created interest in film
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"The Joy Luck Club" isn't just a story about women, Wang said. "It also brings out the relationships between family members who are struggling with ideas of separate and merging cultures."
"It's a true immigrant story," Wang said. "We're all immigrants in one way or another, and it tells how the next generation deals with that."
Wang said the biggest obstacles he faced in making the movie were trying to make a complicated story fit into a movie genre, and finding a movie company that would provide financial backing.
"When we first approached people about the story they said it was too complicated, or that it wouldn't work because it was about a group of Chinese women," Wang said. "I got together with Amy Tan and another writer, and we wrote the script based on speculation. Once producers could see how emotional it was and how it could all come together, there was more interest. That's when Disney got involved."
daughter relationships. Wang does not have sisters, but said he had a similar relationship with his father that some of the characters in the movie had with their mothers.
"It's a good idea for mothers and daughters to see it together," Wang said. "I've been with a lot of people who've seen it that way and one of them will say, 'See, you're just like that!' and a lot of communication comes out of it."
In making the movie Wang took his crew to parts of San Francisco and China.
The film deals mainly with mother-
"Going to China was, in a way, sort of like going home," he said. "China is changing so much so part of it was scary and frustrating."
Wang took special care not to stereotype the Chinese-American characters.
"It's important for us to understand that these young women are very American," Wang said. "Unlike their mothers, they don't speak Chinese, or if they do, they're not fluent. They think and act like Americans because that's what they are."
"The Joy Luck Club" has opened in larger cities and debuts in Kansas City Friday.
Weird: Fake police officer sought for Illinois toe-sucking incidents
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Three weeks apart in March, a High Point, N.C., couple and a Clyde, Ohio, couple reported that someone had stolen approximately 50 recently used cloth diapers from their front porch and garage, respectively, before the diaper service showed up. No other items were taken.
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Two California physicians, co-authoring a piece in the March 1993 issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, reported on the deaths of two men who suffered mishaps while suspended naked on construction vehicles' hydraulic shovels. The doctors reported both men were attempting to heighten sexual gratification but that one went little too
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State police in East St. Louis, Ill., arrested Eddie Glens, 36, during a routine traffic stop and charged him with impersonating a police officer after he tried to avoid charges by presenting a badge. They also announced that Glens was a suspect in several area incidents in which a man claiming to be a police officer stopped female motorists and asked to suck their toes.
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