![]() ![]() Besides, there’s a reason that all American movies today come with subtitles. Indians have talented tongues – it’s why we have the Kama Sutra and the best you’ve got is Snooki and her pregnancy. Most of us sound like you would if you opened your mouths and enunciated. The point is: the Indian accent can be a fairly neutral one (for the most part), a concept as alien to Americans as gun control. ![]() Remember a deliberately darkened British actor Max Minghella playing an Indian character in The Social Network? Not. This is, however, a shade better than casting a white guy as an Indian. If he was a radio jockey, people would think he looked as white as Jon Bon Jovi. Is it not enough that we’re stuck with ugly noses, too much hair and epic shortness? Did you have to go and make the way we speak as universally unsexy as Chris Farley in a string bikini, too? Take college flick Van Wilder: The dong jokes are funny and all, but it’s painful to watch Kal Penn trying so hard to (unsuccessfully) repress his American accent and put on an exaggerated Indian one. Not that we don’t have a sense of humour about these things, but hey, if the brown guy’s going to stick around, there are some things we’d like to set straight. No one is sheltered from Hollywood’s stereotypes: If Indians are smart and cheap, the Arabs are terrorists, and the Chinese old and kinda asshole-y. They seem to be either drug dealers or murderers – except, of course, for Sophia Vergara, whose jaw-dropping ta tas have carried Modern Family for three seasons. Apparently, though, we’re still either call centre employees, 7-Eleven owners or spiritual gurus – which was offensive at first, but now that we think about it, a much better deal than the Colombians have been getting. Even when the denouement comes, Eisenberg lets you see the chinks but the wall never comes down.We’re overjoyed that the Indian man finally exists in your universe – even if it only took you 30 years to notice the brown dudes in your midst. It certainly isn't difficult to believe the "youngest billionaire on earth" as having trampled on a few heads on the way.Įisenberg's delicate balance of truth and the way his character obviously imagines it is a classy act his face showing what his mind won't let him. Partly inspired by the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' by Ben Mezrich, and largely written by Aaron Sorkin, it is a convincing portrayal. The Social Network imagines Zuckerberg as a guy who is not bad but who just can't find a way to be good who is far from stupid but who can't see the wisdom in others who cuts cruelly and coldly through the motivations of his accusers but is a sucker for the flaky flashiness of Napster's Sean Parker and who takes and takes without giving much back. How you judge the film will depend on how you would like to see Zuckerberg - as a sophomore 'nerd' wanting to get into the right clubs at Harvard and not knowing how, or the self-same nerd deciding that those walls needed to be pulled down? Would a person such as one that the film portrays, with few friends and an admirable ability to lose the ones he has, imagine a site that finds a whole new way to "stay connected" out of anger? Or would that person be driven by what the real Zuckerberg lists as his "interests" on his Facebook page - openness, revolutions, minimalism? In The Social Network, Zuckerberg would create Facebook and become a billionaire because he wanted to be the guy looking out, not always the one peeping in. ![]() Movie Review: Mark Zuckerberg has said the makers of this film "couldn't wrap their head around the idea that somebody might build something because they like building it". CAST:: Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer, Josh Pence, Max Minghella ![]()
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