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Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Film referenced for its racist portrayal of Asian characters by Mickey Rooney, compared to casino slot machine imagery

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"Racist caricatures are alive and well! Specifically Asian ones. The shit they put on these machines is insane. I saw slots decked out in illustrations of Asian people that were basically Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's"
"thats it, thats the post. mf sounds like Mickey Rooney in breakfast at tiffany's"
"In a 2008 interview about the film, 87-year-old Rooney said he was heartbroken about the criticism: "It breaks my heart. Blake Edwards ... wanted me to do it because he was a comedy director. They hired me to do this overboard, and we had fun doing it ... Never in all the more than 40 years after we"
Cinematic racism truly peaked with Breakfast at Tiffany's · u/1005thArmbar · ↑28 · 2024-01-28
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