The Evolution of Asian Women in Cinema

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Reinhardt Football is Overrated!
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redundant) was football. More time and
money that I get to waste on something that
I give zero cares about. Reinhardt is
becoming more and more of a popularity
contest. An in-crowd is forming, and the
rest of us are just the walking dead. There is
no harmony within the student population.
It was either attend Reinhardt or sit out a semester.
I’d like to say that I was proven wrong in the end,
that football actually helped improve Reinhardt; but
I can’t because I think football has been detrimental
to Reinhardt’s student body. Why? The football
players themselves are slowly building a little
monopoly and a strange power struggle with the The rest of us (sadly, even other athletes)
have to revere the football players as gods
rest of the student population.
and carry them on our backs - expenses and
Coming back for my sophomore year at Reinhardt all. It’s almost as if football is the only
was when I realized just how bad of a decision sport, and the only thing, that Reinhardt has
football was for Reinhardt’s growth. The new going for it.
freshman population seems to be comprised of 70%
football players, 15% music majors, 10% people Sincerely,
from Cherokee county, and 5% people from other Ryanne Secret
backgrounds. Throw a fishing line anywhere around
campus and you’re bound to reel in a football
player. This wouldn’t be a problem if there was
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diversity amongst the football players themselves.
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Yet, most of them seem to blend in with each other, The Story: After a night of drinking with
having or at least exuding the same mentality. They friends, a photographer and his girlfriend hit
and their fellow athlete cohorts go to the Quad (a a woman who was standing in the middle of
breeding ground for ecstasy and molly) on the road. They decide not to help the young
Tuesdays and get wasted on Thursdays. Granted, woman. Soon, the photographer begins to
such a tradition seems to be a major part of see shadows in his pictures. His girlfriend
Reinhardt’s party culture. It wouldn’t be a problem believes this is the ghost of the girl they
if the football players weren’t so vocal about “how killed. As the people around them begin to
drunk I got last night, bro."
die, the girlfriend decides to research the girl
they hit on the road. She begins to realize
If you, like me, don’t frequent those places because that her boyfriend is more closely related to
they’re just not your scene, then you’re viewed as a the ghost than she originally thought.
loser, and probably won’t get much attention from
that sector of Reinhardt’s population. Remember, What’s Dangerous About The Ghost:
that sector is by far or close to the largest, which Besides being a ghost, the girl the couple hit
leaves you with very few people to interact with. was
actually
the
photographer’s
It’s just draining to walk around campus and ex-girlfriend. When the photographer broke
constantly hear the same conversations. "Where the it off with her and allowed his friends to rape
next party at?"
her, the young woman committed suicide.
She was actually warning the girlfriend. The
College is a time to discover who you are and what photographer and his friends are the true
you want to do for the rest of your life. Most of the monsters in this film, but the ghost still
football players seem to be stuck in the high school haunts them relentlessly, driving them to
mentality where they think they have their whole suicide or catatonia.
lives ahead of them, not realizing that in just three
and a half years they will be shipped out into the 5. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan,
world to make their own contributions. This seems 2000)
to have overtaken the minds of Reinhardt’s
decision -makers as well.
The Story: The precursor to The Hunger
Games, Battle Royale follows a group of
A testament to that is the recent homecoming; and students dumped on an island where they
before that, people posting flyers begging for votes must kill each other in order to survive. The
for said Homecoming; a growing jock culture; last one standing wins his or her life. Most of
coaches helping their players circumvent the rules. the students either try to hide or form
Heck, during my freshman year, the theme for my alliances, but a girl named Mitsuko Souma
First Year Seminar class (a class I already find
proves that she's not there to make friends,
The Evolution of Asian
Women in Cinema
and goes on a rampage.
What’s Dangerous About Mitsuko: Though
she doesn't win the battle, Mitsuko manages
to be the second-deadliest person in the
game, killing a total of 6 of her fellow
students. Throughout the film, she is shown
to use both her body and her mind to get
ahead, seducing two boys (and then offing
them) and convincing one of her classmates
to make an alliance (and then offing her).
4. Alone (Banjong Pisanthanakun
Parkpoom Wongpoom, Thailand, 2007)
&
The Story: Twin sisters, Pim and Ploy, are
born conjoined at the stomach. As children,
they stay in a hospital where they meet a
boy named Wee. They both fall in love with
him, but Wee only has eyes for Pim.
Jealous, Ploy thwarts her sister and Wee’s
union. Upset, Pim asks that they undergo an
operation to separate them. Ploy does not
survive the operation. Years later, Pim is
dating Wee when Ploy begins to haunt
them.
What’s Dangerous About Ploy: Ploy
actually never died from the operation.
When Pim asked for the operation, Ploy
strangled her and assumed her identity when
doctors had to force the surgery to separate
the living sister from the dead one. So,
while throughout the movie we are spooked
by the ghost, we come to realize that the
ghost is really Pim trying to warn Wee of
Ploy’s deceit.
3. Ju-On: The Curse (Takashi Shimizu,
Japan, 2000)
The Story: A man suspects his wife,
Kayako, is having an affair. So, he kills her,
their young son, and the family cat. The
house is now haunted. Anyone who visits
the house becomes haunted by its past
occupants.
What’s Scary About Kayako: Even before
she became a ghost, Kayako’s obsession
and subsequent stalking of a man was a bit
eerie. This is what led to her husband’s
suspicions. Now, she haunts anybody who
steps foot in the house; not only that, her
facial expression and the sound she makes
as she crawls on the floor towards her
victims are true horror staple.
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