As someone who's lived in NYC, known native New Yorkers of many ethnicities and known NYU professors ...
I find it hard to believe an NYU prof would put up with any of this crap UNLESS she was really in it "to win it." True love doesn't mean true wimpiness, especially to an elite college professor.
Never mind that she's a specialist in game theory, a field dominated by men to whom she'd have to stand up to on a regular basis.
She isn’t a native New Yorker. The movie may have glossed over it, but in the book it says she is from Northern California and went to Stanford. She didn’t really put up with the crap. After the wedding intervention, she walked away.
shareI don't think that she "put up with it" so much as she proved that she wasn't going to let it decide for her. What those girls at the bachelorette party did was pretty frightening, and she showed them she could rise above it. His mother kept attacking her and telling her she wasn't good enough, and she just kept smiling and finding a way to have a great time. She showed strength, not weakness. Even the Mojang game showed her strength and intelligence. I didn't see her as wimpy at all.
shareYeah ... after reading an explanation of the mahjong scene, I’d agree with you now.
Interesting scene - I knew something was being implied but the filmmakers didn’t want to spell it out
Ooh, where did you read about the Mahjong scene?
shareSeveral articles online
Gist is that Yeoh’s character calls “pong,’ meaning she’s going for proper match-ups
Wu’s character’s lining up bamboo, a derogatory term for overly Amercanized Chinese
Yeoh’s character wins by taking Wu’s discarded bamboo
Then Wu tips her hand, showing that she would’ve won, had she kept that tile
Basically saying, “I had you beat, and you only won because I gave it to you”
Thanks!
shareOh thank you for this , knowing nothing about Mah Jong, the nuances completely passed me by.
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