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Big Trouble in Little China Needs A REBOOT | READUS 101
🕑 Added 2021-04-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTCJohn Carpenter’s martial arts movie “Big Trouble in Little China” may have been the visual inspiration for Raiden from Mortal Kombat, but the retrospective I took regarding the cult classic starring Kurt Russell’s Jack Burton, Dennis Dun’s Wang Chi and James Hong’s David Lo Pan shows that there are a lot of problems with the movie when it came to properly depicting Chinese myth, culture and Chinese American history and heritage that a “Big Trouble in Little China” remake couldn’t fix. And no, not one starring Dwayne Johnson.
