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The Electric Image Express
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The Electric Image Express examines Asian American identity primarily by revisiting influential Asian and Asian-American cinema. On each episode we invite a guest to share their personal stories on topics such as family, love, living abroad, and representation through the lens of a particular movie. We release episodes at least once a week-- Follow along! You can reach Sean via e-mail: [email protected] or IG/Twitter @electricimageexpress electricdreams.substack.com
Episodes
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Kenneth Pai, Taipei People, and Chinese Identity
Hello! Below is my book critique of Kenneth Pai’s Taipei People. Kenneth Pai is a Chinese literary giant that pioneered modern Chinese/Chinese American literature. I was also honored to get to interview him in the podcast episode attached. In Taipei People, Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) captures a...
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Ep. 23: Don't Worry World. We Got This.
20 years ago, on a balmy suburban summer evening I sat down on the couch next to my father and watched a few plucky Americans save the world. This time the heroes were a group of rugged oil drillers and brave astronauts who detonated a meteor barreling towards Earth. Don’t worry world. America’s...
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Ep. 21: The First Electric Dreams Asian American Athlete Draft
Welcome to the First Electric Dreams Asian American Athlete Draft! A fantasy exercise where 3 General Managers face off to construct their ideal 5-man lineup of the greatest Asian American Athletes of the modern era. The premise is simple: our GMs will take turns picking in snake draft order who...
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Ep. 20: The Future of Chinese Food in America
Imagine you are a resident of an imaginary COVID-free San Francisco. You have just finished Padma Lakshmi’s Taste the Nation episode on SF Chinatown and now crave Chinese Food. You find a list of restaurants she visits. Which would you choose? http://misterjius.com/ https://www.yanksing.com/...
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Ep. 19: Infernal Identities
Asian Americans are born juggling multiple cultural identities. Some labels come with your birthplace, others are given to us by the history and hopes of our family. Although family expectations are not unique to us, our cultural proclivity for long-term sacrifice adds the weight of generations…
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Ep. 18: Hmong America, Gran Torino, and empathy found in our unsung voices
In the 2020 surge in the Black Lives Matter movement stemming from the Murder of George Floyd, an increasing amount of Asian Americans have felt motivated to add their voice to the protest. (This is a good thing!) Earlier in 2020, COVID-19-invoked racism gave us a sharp reminder that we are still...
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A Post-Millennial revisit of Lost in Translation
You won’t find what you’re looking for out there Scarlett. In my wonderful twelve months as an ex-pat in Tokyo, Lost in Translation hardly ever crossed my mind. By 2003 I was already fortunate enough to have visited Japan multiple times. To boil down a centuries-old complicated relationship into…
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Big Hero 6: A Better Tomorrow
Welcome to the inaugural post of Electric Dreams, an accompanying newsletter to my podcast, The Electric Image Express. Lets start by answering some questions you might have: What is the Electric Image Express? If you’re here, you probably came from The Electric Image Express, but to refresh your...
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Akira (アキラ): The Michael Jordan of Sci-fi movies with Mike Nikolakakis
In Episode 15 Mike Nikolakakis joins us from Tokyo to discuss why Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira might just be the most important Sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. We start by breaking down why Akira's stunning visual style stands the test of time (9:42) and how Akira has influenced pop culture from...
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Shaolin Soccer (少林足球): Growing up with Stephen Chow and Mo Lei Tau with Mazy Yap
In Episode 14 Mazy Yap joins us to talk about Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer. Mazy helps us understand what it was like growing up with Stephen Chow's comedies constantly on TV in Hong Kong (10:00) and helps us break down his unique style of absurd, "nonsense comedy" called Mo Lei Tau (13:45)…
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Be Water: Bruce Lee's impact, athleticism, death, and comparisons to MJ + much much more with Trung Phan and Eric Lee
A Bruce Lee 30 for 30 documentary dropping right as our podcast starts picking up steam is, to quote the wise Rob Pelinka: "Manna from Heaven" Trung and Eric come on for our first Triple Threat 3-man episode and we switch up the format into a punchy question and answer roundtable and answer 5 big...
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YELLOW PERIL SERIES #1: Reactions on #BlackoutTuesday, the view from Vancouver, and not burning out on activism
Hey all! Trung, Eric and I were so fired up by everything that happened last week (ending 6/5) that we decided to record an episode only about the George Floyd protests and the surrounding climate. Engagement in understanding, processing, and helping end systemic racism and police brutality is...
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Gook: The difference between '92 and '20 with Andrew Noh
In Ep. 12 Andrew Noh joins us to talk about Justin Chon's Gook. Although we scheduled Gook before George Floyd's murder, the movie's human story on how Black and Korean communities suffered in the wake of the acquittal of Rodney King's attackers is clearly relevant to today. Our conversation…
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TRAILER: The Electric Image Express
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Four Lions: Asians as Terrorists and Terrorists as.... people? with Anupam Sharma
Everyone knows South Asians are stereotypically portrayed as terrorists in Western film. But have you considered that all terrorists on film have a stereotypical personality? Chris Morris's dark comedy Four Lions portrays terrorists first as people-- misguided, idiotic, clumsy fools who have been...
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YELLOW PERIL SUPPORTS BLACK POWER: Enter the Dragon with Eric Lee
In Episode 10 Eric comes back to talk Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee,(14:30) but most importantly, the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police as the latest in a long string of institutionalized racist acts against black people in America. (21:55) We share how we have digested the events of...
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Crazy Rich Asians: Family, Money, and Dating in Asia with Shannon Fong
You can't talk about Asian American identity in media without talking Crazy Rich Asians. Shannon Fong, a close family friend and a Taiwanese American who moved back to Taipei helps us wrap up Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month by talking about her personal experiences with family,...
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The Big Sick: Finding love for you and your family (Bag of Devotion not required) with Akshay Singh
In Episode #8, Akshay Singh makes his return to talk about Kumail Nanjiani's The Big Sick with more of his awkward anecdotes and convincing theories on marrying modern love with traditional, asian parents. As two single guys with our parents breathing down our backs, we put on our introspection...
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Apocalypse Now IS Vietnam with Trung Phan
In this episode, we are joined by Trung Phan and his colorful Vietnamese background. We can't hold back the NBA analogies and at (13:30) throw out our desire for a Coppola-style Last Dance. At (17:00) Trung shares some of his experiences from his expat years, backstory on his great-grandfather…
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The Farewell: forging your identity between two cultures with Eric Lee
For our third movie in Asian Pacific American Heritage Month we fast forward to 2019 and revisit The Farewell: one of the standout films of our current "golden age" of Asian-American content. Eric joins us again and takes over hosting duties. We start off with a hilarious story where Eric…
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Better Luck Tomorrow: East Coast v West Coast, Public v Private School with Eric Lee
We continue celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with Better Luck Tomorrow: the movie that has had the most impact on my life and a landmark in Asian American cinema. My former roommate, the less abusive Han to my Virgil, Eric Lee, makes his podcast debut to contrast his East Coast...
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Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and Asian-American stoner comedy with Akshay Singh
Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month everyone! We kick off the month with Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, an all time Asian-American comedy directed by Danny Leiner. Obviously we had to bring on a co-host for this journey, so my good friend Akshay joins as the first guest not related…
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Hero (英雄) and the problems with the CCP with Sean's Mom
This week we talk about Hero, a beautiful but controversial movie directed by Zhang Yimou. We discuss Zhang's up and down relationship with the Chinese Communist Party, how he uses scale and color to emphasize emotions, and compare Jet Li to Elton Brand. At (42:30) Sean's Mom joins to give some...
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Hard Boiled (辣手神探) and the struggle of the Asian American Male in Film with Sean's Dad
This week we use Hard Boiled to contrast the hard, masculine action heros portrayed by Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung with the limited roles given to Asian-American actors and how it affects our identity. We also introduce a new segment: "Sean's Sports Analogy Corner" where we compare Tequila and…
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Eat Drink Man Woman (飲食男女) with Sean Niu and Sean's Mom
Welcome to the inaugral podcast! We kick things off with Ang Lee's classic: Eat Drink Man Woman. I explore Ang's return to Taipei, how this movie is a hall of fame foodie movie, and launch the inaugral Jeremy Lin "Linsanity" award. Special guest appearance by my Mom, Jia-pyng Niu, who talks about...
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The Electric Image Express examines Asian American identity primarily by revisiting influential Asian and Asian-American cinema. On each episode we invite a guest to share their personal stories on topics such as family, love, living abroad, and representation through the lens of a particular movie. We release episodes at least once a week-- Follow along! You can reach Sean via e-mail: [email protected] or IG/Twitter @electricimageexpress
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