How AlanYang convinced his father to let him tell his story in Netflix's 'Tigertail'
When Alan Yang first started developing the Netflix film "Tigertail" years ago, other movies centered on the Asian diaspora — like "Crazy Rich Asians" and "The Farewell" — had not yet been made. And…Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot.
Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot. Over two days in January 1972, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin — she was 29 at the time — sweeps into the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts in front of a congregation and testifies to God in song. The blessed thing took nearly half a century to come out because director Sydney Pollack failed to sync the image with the sound.
“[We’re] getting to a point where the variety of Asian stories can really start to be told because, quite frankly, it can’t be told with three movies or five movies or ten movies,” Yang, who wrote and directed “Tigertail,” tells Variety on the “Variety After-Show.” “You look at the entire history of Western canon or the history of American movies.
The film follows Pin-Jui, played by Tzi Ma, across decades, first as a young, carefree man working in a factory in Taiwan then to a husband immigrating to the U.S. with his new wife and finally a stern, slightly bitter old man with a strained relationship with his daughter, played by Christine Ko.“The story is, ultimately, about Pin-Jui’s relationship with the four most important women in his life: it’s his mother, the woman he loved, the woman he married and then his daughter.
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