Pastel Debuts as Disappointing Re-make Director
Hollywood CA (GSP). Dr. Amar Patel, the incendiary embalmer and sublime administrative assistant for GSL Enterprises has further left his imprint on popular culture with a remake of the popular Jet Li-Aaliyah film, "Romeo Must Die." Pastel both stars and directs in this remake of the cult classic.
The movie has Pastel portraying Akbar, the Romeo who gets mixed up in the high stakes game of international intrigue and organized crime. His Juliet is played by the luscious Selma Hayek, a beautiful strong black woman called Clair Huxtable whose family does not approve of her associating with a lowly Asian embalmer, Akbar (who is also a kung-fu expert, mathematician and organized crime mogul).
While driving a hearse, Akbar chances upon Clair while she is trying to flee the rough black gang life her father, Dr. Huxtable, lives. Little does she know that Akbar is the head of a rival Asian gang that is engaged in a turf war with Dr. Huxtable.
While the dialogue is slightly different from the original, there are many similarities. Most striking is Pastel's decision not to kiss Hayek in the closing scene, which was the opposite of his original intention.
In the original "Romeo Must Die," Jet Li does not kiss Aaliyah which puzzled people with no racial awareness, enraged the Asian-American community and pleased everyone else.
At the start of filming, in 2004, Pastel is quoted saying, "The reason I am making this film is to remove the negative portrayal of the Asian male in film, pop culture and society in general. You will definitely see this Romeo get some, because this movie is about justice and righting the wrongs in the world. Especially for Asians."
At the initial screenings, all viewers stated their anticipation for the ending so that they may see an Asian male get a kiss from any woman, let alone a woman of color, which has never happened in movie history.
Instead, they were suprised that Akbar didn't even get a hug and instead just walks himself off the screen dejectedly while Clair makes out heavily with Akbar's arch enemy of the film.
Of his choice, Pastel said, "I don't want to hear about it. It was my choice. Selma wouldn't kiss me and the movie consultants said it would be suicide to include something that disgusting in the film. I agree too. [An Asian man kissing a sexy woman] is gross and not something anyone in their right mind would want to see, let alone pay for."
Asian-American political groups are outraged, holding rallies outside of Pastel's mansion and calling for a boycott of the film "Romeo Must Die: The Akbar-Clair Huxtable Story".
The film is set to release in California and New York this Friday.
The movie has Pastel portraying Akbar, the Romeo who gets mixed up in the high stakes game of international intrigue and organized crime. His Juliet is played by the luscious Selma Hayek, a beautiful strong black woman called Clair Huxtable whose family does not approve of her associating with a lowly Asian embalmer, Akbar (who is also a kung-fu expert, mathematician and organized crime mogul).
While driving a hearse, Akbar chances upon Clair while she is trying to flee the rough black gang life her father, Dr. Huxtable, lives. Little does she know that Akbar is the head of a rival Asian gang that is engaged in a turf war with Dr. Huxtable.
While the dialogue is slightly different from the original, there are many similarities. Most striking is Pastel's decision not to kiss Hayek in the closing scene, which was the opposite of his original intention.
In the original "Romeo Must Die," Jet Li does not kiss Aaliyah which puzzled people with no racial awareness, enraged the Asian-American community and pleased everyone else.
At the start of filming, in 2004, Pastel is quoted saying, "The reason I am making this film is to remove the negative portrayal of the Asian male in film, pop culture and society in general. You will definitely see this Romeo get some, because this movie is about justice and righting the wrongs in the world. Especially for Asians."
At the initial screenings, all viewers stated their anticipation for the ending so that they may see an Asian male get a kiss from any woman, let alone a woman of color, which has never happened in movie history.
Instead, they were suprised that Akbar didn't even get a hug and instead just walks himself off the screen dejectedly while Clair makes out heavily with Akbar's arch enemy of the film.
Of his choice, Pastel said, "I don't want to hear about it. It was my choice. Selma wouldn't kiss me and the movie consultants said it would be suicide to include something that disgusting in the film. I agree too. [An Asian man kissing a sexy woman] is gross and not something anyone in their right mind would want to see, let alone pay for."
Asian-American political groups are outraged, holding rallies outside of Pastel's mansion and calling for a boycott of the film "Romeo Must Die: The Akbar-Clair Huxtable Story".
The film is set to release in California and New York this Friday.
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