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During a couple of test screenings, Chu says one commenter felt the proposal was derivative: “We’ve seen this scene before,” he remembers. Then a group of college-aged Asian-American women responded with, “Fuck you. We have not seen this scene before. This is ours now. We get that moment of the big kiss, and the big proposal. Now I can replace all those images of romantic comedies with our people.”
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) dir. John M. Chu

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That breathless moment necessitated a very particular kind of wedding dress. “This set is not in the book, and neither is my wedding dress, which is completely mad and amazing,” Mizuno enthuses when I sit down with her between takes. “It’s not like a movie-bride wedding dress at all—it’s completely different from anything I’ve ever seen for a wedding, but it felt so right for me and for Araminta.”
Crazy Rich Asians (2018) dir. John M. Chu