Hikaru Sulu
yes you can believe it, i'm blogging about hikaru sulu from star trek. if you're anything like me, when you go check out movies and see an asian person you say," OH SNAP! ASIAN!!!" or at least you're thinking it and it probably makes you excited to see them represent (go john cho!!!).
well ton and i headed over to the woodbridge dollar theatre (which is actually $2 for a movie. >;O) and we both agreed to watch star trek again because he's a trekkie and i honestly think it's a great plot. well hopefully most of you have seen it, and if not... what are you waiting for! but did you ever realize that during yellow suited john cho's aka hikaru sulu's fight scene that he woops out a foldable sword and starts doing some flips while kicking a$s? hmm. i thought to myself, don't you have a gun sulu and wouldn't it be easier to use it?
after thinking about it i decided to look up what kind of character sulu is supposed to be portrayed as and our trusty wikipedia provided me with some adequate information. the original sulu (george takei) played one of the first asian characters to be "portrayed in a positive light." so sulu represents all of asia despite being half japanese and half filipino and his hobbies include botany, gymnastics, fencing and ancient weaponry. how many people out there can say that ancient weaponry is one of their hobbies?!
anyways let me know what you think about hikaru sulu's character and how he is portrayed in the 2009 star trek movie!
Actually, "ancient weaponry" is pretty common in geek circles. When you grow up surrounded by television shows, games and comicbooks using swords and other archaic weapons...ot sort of grows into you and all of a sudden you've got a collection of functional swords that look nothing like the wild fantasy ones you dreamed of as a kid. I know four people into "ancient weaponry" but only one botanist.
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