6.11.2012

the paramount photo: spot the asians!



To celebrate its 100th birthday, Paramount Pictures assembled 116 of the biggest names to ever work at the studio for a big-ass photo.

It's epic, grand... and stunningly white. This shouldn't come to a surprise to anyone. But come on, you know I had to say something. For the purposes of this blog, I spot George Takei, John Cho, Tommy Chong and Ben Kingsley.

And don't think I didn't notice that George Takei and John Cho are there for playing the same character, Hikaru Sulu, in two different iterations of Paramount's Star Trek movie franchise, decades apart. I love Sulu as much as the next guy, but it seems odd that a single character accounts for a significant portion of the meager Asian representation in this photo. A closer look:



John Cho, seated next to Ernest Bornine, Molly Ringwald and Lando Calrissian. No, Molly, that's not your Asian co-star from Sixteen Candles.



George Takei is just chillin'. See the full photo here.

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