I have similar qualms about a film I saw a few years back called "The Forbidden Kingdom". At first I thought it sounded cool: Jackie Chan and Jet Li in a movie set mostly in in a fantasy version of ancient China. How awesome! Then to my disappointment I realised, while actually watching it, that it was about this white dude in modern-day America who gets whisked away to said fantasy ancient China and has to rescue it (with Chan portraying his mentor and Li as the main antagonist). I could have sworn I read somewhere that the film was originally supposed to be about a Chinese-American kid who learns more about his heritage and gets to save that fantasy land. If that's true, why didn't they stick to that? Seeing the Mighty Whitey cliché in action again really ruined an otherwise very enjoyable film for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forbidden_Kingdom
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