It follows a Chinese-American professor who travels to meet her boyfriend's family and is surprised to discover they are among the richest in Singapore. The film was announced in August after the rights to the book were purchased. Many of the cast members signed on in the spring of , and filming took place from April to June of that year in parts of Malaysia , New York City , and Singapore. It is the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in

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These are the core obsessions that drive our newsroom—defining topics of seismic importance to the global economy. Our emails are made to shine in your inbox, with something fresh every morning, afternoon, and weekend. The steely dialogue between the two women is interspersed with shots of intense gameplay. Director Jon Chu told Vulture that the story could have ended immediately after that scene because it was the most important in the movie. The mahjong scene is an Eastward-facing shift from the many Hollywood blockbusters that assume viewers have full knowledge of American football, baseball, soccer, or poker. Mahjong is a tile-based game that originated in China, and while it is especially popular in Chinese communities, it is played by various cultures around the world you can learn how to play here. I am Chinese-Malaysian, and playing mahjong is a uniting pastime for my family.


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But the book is the first installment in a trilogy about sweethearts Nick Young Henry Golding and Rachel Chu Constance Wu and their families and hangers-on. Seriously, last chance before the spoilers. In the books, the two were engaged to be married when they were younger but her family disapproved of Charlie. Of course, Astrid then married Michael Teo, an aspiring entrepreneur who does not remain faithful to her. The history of Asian-Americans in movies has spanned more than a century, before the inception of color film.



This climactic moment also encapsulates the challenges of making a crazy rich movie on a sane, modest budget. Tacky it is not. All of the vegetation is real, with the exception of the three-foot-tall grass, because real grass would wilt under the lights throughout days of filming.