The World of Suzie Wong

       I love this movie a lot. I was so surprised by how they make two social classes crash when a lady of the night and a wealthy man fall in love in the movie The World of Suzie Wong. It is like a Chinese version of Pretty Woman. A pretty girl called Suzie who makes a living as a prostitude met the American architect Robert Lomax, who travels to Hong Kong to paint. Suzie met him on the boat pretending as a high-society heiress. She tries to imagine herself not as ashamed as her job at night in another role but an elegant virgin with a rich father. When the night comes, she has to go to the reality and has to face what she most hates deep in her heart. This movie was shot in a huge studio where looks like the real Hong Kong. The actress herself, Nancy Kwan, a Hong Kong-born Eurasian-American. The World of Suzie Wong can be seen the first formal work piece on the screen to Nancy Kwan. After auditioning Stark, she was luckily chosen to feature the role of Suzie in the movie. However, from the record, the reasons don't sound very comfortable to me. Stark wanted an Asian actress because slanting the eyes of a white actress would merely look artificial. He also praised Kwan's features: an "acceptable face" and "being alluringly leggy and perfectly formed". In most of the Hollywood movies, Asian woman always play the one who do anything to get a white man to like her. They have been viewed as a gentle China doll all the time. This made a lot of people think that an Asian woman would be the best wife who serves her husband on anything in order to making him happy. This point has been shown in the movie of Sayonara as well. The story was shot after WWII when the inter-racial marriage was not allowed. But  three American soldiers feel in love with the local Japanese women. One out of three got married with a Japanese lady and built their cozy  Japanese style home. We can see how a timid doll-like housewife the Japanese lady is and how lucky the American soldier thinks he is in the world. It is always like this and the stereotype of Asian woman implants in the society and hardly to erase.