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Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 Romantic Comedy film, and an adaptation of Kevin Kwan's book of the same name. It is directed by Jon M. Chu, written by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim, and stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, and Ken Jeong. It is notable for being the first American film in 25 years to feature a predominantly Asian cast following the 1993 film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club.Rachel Chu (Wu), a Chinese-American economics professor, travels to Singapore with her boyfriend Nick Young (Golding) to meet his family for his best friend's wedding. Upon arriving, Rachel discovers that Nick and his insanely rich family are the biggest developers in Singapore, and Nick is in line to inherit everything. This creates tension between Rachel and Nick's family, especially his cutthroat mother Eleanor (Yeoh), who doesn't approve of Nick being with a commoner.Two sequels based on the other two books in the trilogy, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, are in the works.Now with a Character Sheet.
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Costume-Test Montage
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Costume-Test Montage: Rachel gets one while prepping for the wedding. She tries on a variety of dresses and is judged by Peik Lin and Oliver.
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Tamer and Chaster
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Tamer and Chaster: The movie version of Colin's bachelor party, which takes place on a container ship, consists of drinking, loud music, video games, and hordes of bikini-clad women. The book version takes place in Macau and includes cocaine, prostitutes, high-stakes gambling, and a violent dogfight.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Peik Lin says that Nick's family isn't just rich, they're "crazy rich."
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I Am Very British
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I Am Very British: Nick has a posh British accent because he apparently grew up studying in fancy British schools.
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Nick is a kind-hearted, caring Nice Guy and it's not hard to see why Rachel was dating him, well before finding out he was very rich. Colin also qualifies for Araminta as he too is a Nice Guy and more down-to-earth compared to other rich socialites.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: There are many shots of good-looking men without shirts. There is even a shot of Michael coming out of the shower.
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The Ghost
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The Ghost: Nick's father is not present onscreen as he is away on business.note He's not much more of a presence in the book, for the same reason.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: Part of the conflict is because Nick didn't prepare Rachel at all for the classist vultures that comprise his family.
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Childhood Friends
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Childhood Friends: Nick and Colin have specifically known each other since they were "in nappies", explaining their strong bond.
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Nouveau Riche
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Nouveau Riche: Implied Trope with the Gohs, who are well-off but not to the extent of massively wealthy old-money Youngs, Chengs, and their ilk. They live in a renovated mansion and are fairly tacky, but much kinder than them.
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Outside/Inside Slur
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Outside/Inside Slur: Nick's posh Asian family and social circle disapproves of Rachel not only for being middle-class, but also for being American — they don't think she shares their values. As Eleanor puts it, she's not kaki langnote A Hokkien phrase meaning "our kind of people. And as Peik Lin succinctly puts it, a "yellow on the outside and white on the inside" banana.
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Nepotism
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Nepotism: Kitty is a bad actress who gets roles because her boyfriend Alistair is financing projects. Invoked when Amanda tells Rachel that she got the job as the Youngs' general counsel because she grew up around them.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: In her first interaction with Eleanor, Rachel admits that she does not know her father because he presumably died before she was born. This comes back to bite her hard when Eleanor reveals that she used a private investigator to find out more details about Rachel, including who her father really is. Rachel gives a compliment to Eleanor's emerald engagement ring. The ring is later used in Nick's second proposal to Rachel and is actually a message to Rachel that Eleanor approves of their relationship.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Bernard holds Colin's bachelor party on a converted cargo ship in international waters, where everything is practically legal. He makes his point by nonchalantly blowing away a bikini-clad model from the deck with a rocket launcher. Oliver explains that he procures whatever the Young family wants, from golden koi fish to a rare Cambodian gong. When Rachel asks why anyone would buy the latter, Oliver replies "Because they can."
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Dirty Old Man
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Dirty Old Man: Peik Lin's father Wye Mun is a mild example, offering Rachel a see-through negligee during her Costume-Test Montage.
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: As Nick and Colin flee the bachelor party, one of the models is Recoiled Across the Room by an RPG.
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She Cleans Up Nicely
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She Cleans Up Nicely: All of Singapore's upper crust are blown away by Rachel when she arrives at the wedding.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Amanda initially appears unlike the other socialite girls and was friendly with Rachel. Only to be the one to pull a horrible prank on Rachel once her guard was down. Nick's grandmother. She acts nice towards Rachel during most of the film. Even after it's revealed how she gave Nick's mother, Eleanor, a hard time for years before finally accepting her marrying Nick's father because she wouldn't give up. It seemed like age and wisdom had given her a Heel–Face Turn, until towards the end of the film, when she reveals her true colors to Rachel and shows that she is a Silk Hiding Steel type, who still finds every opportunity she can to attack and blame Eleanor for every little thing.
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Raised by Grandparents
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Raised by Grandparents: Invoked by Eleanor, who chose to allow her mother-in-law to raise her son. Nick explains that this is because Eleanor knew she herself was not seen as worthy of her husband's family, so she allowed her mother-in-law to raise Nick so that he would be considered the favorite and heir-apparent of the Family Business.
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Disappeared Dad
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If the films follow the plot of the novels (and the names of the sequels imply they will), Rachel's Disappeared Dad is going to be a big plot point going forward. Specifically, her biological father is the reason the second instalment is named China Rich Girlfriend.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Some of the dialogues are in unsubtitled Cantonese, Malay, Mandarin, and Hokkien.
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Facial Dialogue: As Kerry helps Rachel pick a dress to make a good first impression on her boyfriend's family, whom she knows nothing about, she struggles with a bout of insecurity:
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Spoiled Sweet: Astrid, a member of one of Asia's richest families. She enjoys the finer things in life, and also maintains a kind and sweet personality. She is also one of the only members of Nick's family to actually befriend Rachel and not judge her for her position as working class. Araminta is the wealthy heiress to a prominent resort chain. Despite this and her general ditzy tendencies, she's still a cheerful, generous girl who openly befriends Rachel and never objects to her background. Peik Lin, Rachel's rich, generous best friend and ex-roommate from college who gives Rachel designer clothes to meet Nick's family and attend Colin and Araminta's wedding.
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Gossip Evolution: A variation. A gossip columnist snaps a picture of Rachel and Nick, and, within a matter of minutes, social media figures out that Nick Young is dating a regular New Yorker. News spreads until it reaches Nick's mother and his aunts.
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Bernard holds Colin's bachelor party on a converted cargo ship in international waters, where everything is practically legal. He makes his point by nonchalantly blowing away a bikini-clad model from the deck with a rocket launcher.
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Make-Out Kids
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Make-Out Kids: Alistair and Kitty are prone to making out exaggeratedly and inappropriately.
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Scary Black Man: The Sikh security guards at the Youngs' mansion come off this way to Rachel and Peik Lin since they spook the two women in the car.
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Eddie Cheng, Nick's cousin, is one of the POV characters in the book who tries to impress his friends and relatives but failed because of his family. In this movie, his attempt to make an impression is still present but his role is reduced to dissing Rachel for her background. He was also Adapted Out of the prologue.
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Love-Obstructing Parents: Eleanor makes it crystal clear that Rachel is nowhere near worthy of joining her family, and all but orders Nick to end the relationship. Ultimately subverted when she eventually relents enough to allow Nick to propose with her own engagement ring.
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I Let You Win
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I Let You Win: Rachel challenges Eleanor to a game of Mahjong, invoking this and Don't Create a Martyr. If Nick chooses Rachel, he loses his family, and if he chooses his family, he will forever resent them for making him lose Rachel. So Rachel voluntarily breaks it off with Nick while reminding Eleanor that this 'lowly commoner' is the one who is the ultimate reason for her family's happiness in the future. The imagery is also displayed in the game they play (see Genius Bonus); Rachel's hand wins, but she voluntarily folds, thus losing the game.
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Foreign Cuss Word: Bernard yells out "kukujiao", which is a Singlish/Hokkien slang term for the male genital. He also introduces himself by grabbing a microphone and shouting "What's up, lanjiao", which is the Hokkien equivalent.
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Plastic Bitch: One of the rich Asian socialites at Araminta's bachelorette disses the middle-class Rachel's appearance, scoffing that she's probably never heard of plastic surgery.
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Costume Porn: Lots of attractive women in very nice dresses.
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Flower Motifs: The queen of the night flower, the one whose blooming Su Yi throws her party to celebrate, is referred to by its Chinese name, tan hua (曇花). It gives rise to a Chinese chengyu (or expression), 曇花一現, tan hua yi xian, the equivalent of the English "flash in the pan", used the same way—to describe someone whose apparent incredible success is or will be short-lived and likely the result of luck. In other words, exactly how Rachel is seen by many of the Singaporean women at the party.
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Alistair ("works with movies") is introduced directing his (bad) actress girlfriend Kitty in a movie, then pausing filming in order to passionately make out with her.
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Heirloom Engagement Ring: Eleanor's emerald ring was purchased by her husband after his mother, who didn't approve of Eleanor, refused to let him have the family's heirloom ring. The second time Nick proposes to Rachel it's with Eleanor's emerald ring, signifying that she's changed her mind and is accepting Rachel into the family.
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Despite most of the cast being Singaporean, there's almost no Singaporean English in the film . Most of the characters speak with either British or American accents, justified sometimes by their educations. Awkwafina and Ken Jeong both maintain their American accents despite playing Peik Lin and Wye Mun, with a hand-waved explanation that they somehow picked up heavy American accents while studying abroad for university. Lisa Lu also speaks her Mandarin lines with a heavy Beijing accent.note In the book, Su Yi grew up in Beijing, before moving to Singapore with her family, but this is unmentioned in the film.
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IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
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I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Just as Nick learns to choose his girlfriend over his family, Rachel rejects his proposal. She tells Eleanor that it was because she didn't want him to live with the resentment of his family.
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Your Tradition Is Not Mine
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Your Tradition Is Not Mine: Nick ultimately chooses his love for Rachel over the tradition and approval of his family.
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Dead Animal Warning: Amanda and her friends leave a dead, bleeding fish in Rachel's hotel room along with graffiti accusing her of being a Gold Digger.note Fish are symbolic of wealth in China, as the word for fish yú 鱼 is pronounced the same as the word for wealth or surplus yú 余.
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Sweet and Sour Grapes: Rachel breaks up with Nick because she doesn't want him to live with the resentment of his family. This causes Eleanor to have second thoughts about Asian Americans being selfish, and Eleanor gives Nick her blessing to marry Rachel.
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Fun Personified: Costume designer Mary E. Vogt explained her choices for how the characters dressed. Nouveau riche such as the Gohs and Araminta Lee dress flashy and are all about having fun and going out for a good time, in contrast to the old money who favour classical designs and quieter hobbies.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Eleanor truly loves Nick as her own son, but she's downright antagonistic towards Rachel because, from her point of view, she thinks that Asian-Americans are selfish, but Rachel proves her wrong that she can break up with Nick to find another woman because she was his first love in the first place, making Eleanor accept her. It's also implied that once she sees Kerry for herself, Eleanor feels remorseful for using Kerry's past for her own machinations.
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Meet the In-Laws
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Meet the In-Laws: Rachel flies from America to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family for the first time.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: Astrid meets Charlie during Rachel and Nick's engagement party.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: The Young family estate, an absolutely huge mansion. Made more significant since it's a large house in the famously land-strapped Singapore.note In reality, the house is in Malaysia, the former British High Commissioner's residence.
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: The movie showcases the beautiful and famous places in Singapore. It helps that the Singaporean Tourism Board made a contribution to this.
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Adaptational Alternate Ending
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: The movie ends quite differently from the book. In the book, Nick cuts off his relationship with his family and doesn't repair his relationship with them and Rachel until the sequel while in the movie, he and Rachel get back together after Nick proposes; they are also on better terms with Eleanor. The book sees Astrid, at the urging of Charlie, fix her marriage to Michael, while in the film, she leaves him after learning of his affair.
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Obnoxious In-Laws
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Obnoxious In-Laws: Eleanor tends to get the put-downs and snide remarks from her mother-in-law.
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Your Normal Is Our Taboo
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Your Normal Is Our Taboo: The central drama of the movie is Nick's family not approving of Rachel due to their American vs Chinese Culture Clash. Rachel sees her mother supporting her in her goals of pursuing her passion as a positive, prideful achievement, while that very aspect of her life is deeply offensive to Eleanor, for whom family is everything.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: On the plane, Nick pops open the ring box to propose and his mother's ring is inside, which means Eleanor has changed her mind and approves.
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Crazy-Prepared
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Crazy-Prepared: Peik Lin keeps a variety of dresses in her car, so as to be ready for any occasion.
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Fat Bastard
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Fat Bastard: Bernard is noticeably chunkier than his "friends" Nick and Colin, and much more unpleasant.
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Bookends
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Book Ends: Early in the film, Nick and Rachel travel on a plane in first class. Towards the end, they're together on a plane again in coach. In the first scene, Rachel bluffs in a game of poker. Near the end, she anti-bluffs a game of mah-jong.
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Queer Colors
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Queer Colors: Oliver, a campy member of a stuffy Old Money family, confirms to Rachel that he is gay by saying he's the "rainbow sheep" of the clan.
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the books, there is a Young family fortune but no business, freeing Nick to pursue whatever career he wants. Thus he became a history professor and his parents' desire for him to return to Singapore is merely that: his parents' wish. In the movie, Nick is still a history professor, yet he and his parents both expected him to take over the film-created Young Family Corporation someday, raising the question of why he became a professor and how long he thought he'd be able to put off returning to Singapore.
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Beta Couple
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Beta Couple: Colin and Araminta are happily getting married with little conflict, compared to Nick and Rachel. They also provide a contrast to other couples, like Eddie and Fiona, Kitty and Alistair, and Astrid and Michael.
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The Scrounger
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The Scrounger: Oliver, despite being in his words one of the "poorer relations" and the "Rainbow Sheep" is still accepted and fairly close to the rest of his family mainly because he found a niche as this. Whatever anyone in his family wants he is able to get it for them.
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Fictional Counterpart
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Fictional Counterpart: Singapore Airlines declined to let their name and branding be used in what would have otherwise been a justifiednote as they're really the only practical way to fly to Singapore from most of the US Product Placement, so the very similar Pacific Asean Airlines was created for the film.
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Heel–Face Turn
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Nick's grandmother. She acts nice towards Rachel during most of the film. Even after it's revealed how she gave Nick's mother, Eleanor, a hard time for years before finally accepting her marrying Nick's father because she wouldn't give up. It seemed like age and wisdom had given her a Heel–Face Turn, until towards the end of the film, when she reveals her true colors to Rachel and shows that she is a Silk Hiding Steel type, who still finds every opportunity she can to attack and blame Eleanor for every little thing.
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News Travels Fast
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News Travels Fast: An influencer spots billionaire heir Nick Young at a restaurant with his girlfriend and snaps a photo. It spreads like wildfire in the next few minutes and goes viral in Singapore. Nick's mother hears about it and calls him before Nick and Rachel have even finished eating.
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Death Glare
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Death Glare: Kerry, Rachel's mother, gives one to Eleanor as they are leaving the Mahjong shop.
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Sequel Hook
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Sequel Hook: In The Stinger, Astrid encounters an Old Flame, played by (relatively) big-name star Harry Shum Jr. — who appears solely in this one 3-second shot and has no lines. If the films follow the plot of the novels (and the names of the sequels imply they will), Rachel's Disappeared Dad is going to be a big plot point going forward. Specifically, her biological father is the reason the second instalment is named China Rich Girlfriend.
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Multigenerational Household
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Multigenerational Household: Nick's upbringing, as his grandmother is most definitely the matriarch of the family and they all seemed to live under her roof.
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Rich Bitch
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Francesca, Nick's Rich Bitch ex-girlfriend. While she is an antagonist who basically makes Rachel's life a living hell in Singapore, thus playing a significant role in the book, in the movie, she only ends up becoming one of the Those Two Girls who always shows up with Celine Lim, appearing only in a few scenes. Her role from the book instead is given to Amanda.
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Race for Your Love
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Race for Your Love: Near the end of the film, Rachel is boarding a plane to New York. Nick chases after her and proposes on the plane.
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Ivy League for Everyone
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Ivy League for Everyone: Played with. Nick's parents and their close friends are mentioned to have gone to Cambridge, and Astrid was top of her class at Oxford. While this is used to primp the family's pedigrees, it's also an indicator of their extravagant wealth. Rachel is specifically a professor at NYU.
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You No Take Candle
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You No Take Candle: Subverted with Wye Mun, who at first speaks to Rachel in broken English before revealing that it's a joke — he's actually fluent since he studied in America. Specifically Cal State Fullerton.
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Rejected Marriage Proposal
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Rejected Marriage Proposal: Rachel refuses Nick's proposal despite being in love with him because his mother Eleanor does not approve of Rachel and she doesn't want Nick to have to choose between her and his family. However, she does make a point of telling Eleanor that when Nick finally marries a woman Eleanor approves of, it will because of the sacrifice Rachel – someone she looks down upon – made. This causes Eleanor to re-evaluate her opinion of Rachel; Nick ends up Racing For Your Love to propose to Rachel again, this time with Eleanor's ring, revealing she has now given the marriage her blessing. Rachel accepts the second proposal.
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Casting Gag
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Casting Gag: Filipino actress Kris Aquino plays a Malay princess who is a guest at Araminta and Colin's wedding. Aquino herself is, however, a Real Life Crazy Rich Asian, being both a celebrity and a descendant of a landed, oligarchic, mixed Chinese-Filipino family, the Cojuangco-Aquinos, who hold immense economic and political power — no less than her late mother and brother have both been former Philippine Presidents.
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Camp Gay
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Camp Gay: Nick's cousin Oliver calls himself the "rainbow sheep" and has the mannerisms to prove it — catty remarks about fashion, finger snaps, etc.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: The cold open involves the Young family being turned away from a classy British hotel, despite having reservations, for the color of their skin.
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Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
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Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Eleanor and Amanda's mother, Jacqueline Ling, don't really get along in the book. In the movie, they seem to be on friendlier terms, having Bible study together. Eleanor also doesn't socialize much with her sisters-in-law, Felicity and Alix, in the books. This is partly because Alix lives in Hong Kong instead of Singapore but mostly because the Young sisters have never fully embraced Eleanor. In the movie, both Eddie and Alistair are close enough friends with Colin to get invited to his bachelor party. In the book, Eddie thinks this is the case, but only Alistair gets invited. In the movie, Eddie remarks that his family disapproved of his marriage to Fiona. In the books, Su Yi remarks that the Youngs have known Fiona's family for years, and everyone treats her as one of their own. Amanda is actually Araminta's archrival in the books and would never have been invited to her bachelorette party. She was merged with Francesca Shaw for the movie. Nick's father Philip is absent because he's always going to meetings around the world for the family business, rather than because he's fed up with his family's behavior and living elsewhere.
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Don't Create a Martyr
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Don't Create a Martyr: Nonlethal, civilian variant. Rachel confronted Eleanor invoking this and I Let You Win. If Eleanor still won't approve Rachel's relationship with Nick, then Rachel will walk out voluntarily. But with that, Eleanor will forever be reminded that it was Rachel, whom she considered a lowly commoner, who enabled her family to be happy in the future.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerk Ass Has A Point: During the Bachelor party, Eddie says Rachel is just lucky to be with a guy like Nick and Nick is deluding himself for thinking that they are in an equal relationship. He is crass about it but points out that his family gave him a ton of grief for marrying Fiona, whose family is immensely rich, and that Colin's dad only is paying millions for his wedding to Araminta because her family owns a billion-dollar resort chain, not because he particularly cares if they love each other. For the families of these rich kids, marrying wealth to wealth and into good families is more important than individual happiness. As we later see, the members of high society do for the most part reject Rachel because of her middle-class American background.
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Translated Cover Version
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Translated Cover Version: Besides "Material Girl" and "Money (That's What I Want)," we have: Louis Jordan's "I Want You To Be My Baby," twice — the classic 50s cover by Grace Chang, and a second, diegetic, version during the wedding reception, performed by Jasmine Chen. "Yellow" by Coldplay, performed by Katherine Ho over the climax and denouement.
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Lecture as Exposition
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Lecture as Exposition: Rachel's first scene playing heads-up poker against the T.A. Curtis has her win and demonstrate the risk-averse nature of most humans through a successful bluff. It returns back near the climax when Rachel loses to Eleanor in the mahjong game while seemingly implying that the story-long machinations to separate Nick from Rachel had worked...until Rachel reveals she let Eleanor win, both the mahjong match and in the sense that Eleanor got to keep her son's happiness by Rachel turning down his marriage proposal, unafraid of losing Nick in order to protect his happiness and relationship with his family.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Astrid gives an EPIC one to Michael at the end of the film; she decides to leave with her son and tells him that he'll see his dad when he wants to — when he asks where she'll go, she responds that she owns 14 apartment buildings.
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Establishing Character Moment
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Establishing Character Moment: The prologue demonstrates how "crazy rich" Nick's family is. A racist hotel manager refuses to accommodate Eleanor and her family. One phone call later, Eleanor's family now owns the hotel. Nick's descriptions of his cousins are juxtaposed with cutaway moments establishing what they're like. Alistair ("works with movies") is introduced directing his (bad) actress girlfriend Kitty in a movie, then pausing filming in order to passionately make out with her. Eddie ("family man") and his family are posing for a Vogue photoshoot. Once it ends, he berates his wife for her outfit and ignores his children. Astrid ("down-to-earth" and "has the biggest heart") stylishly walks through a posh establishment, pauses to be kind to a young girl, before proceeding to nonchalantly buy a pair of earrings for 1.2 million dollars.
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Wacky Marriage Proposal
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Wacky Marriage Proposal: Lampshaded by Nick when he compares the current circumstances — fighting through a crowded commercial airliner — to the proposal he'd always planned in his head.
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Silence Is Golden
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Silence Is Golden: During the wedding, the scene goes completely silent as Araminta steps onto the aisle in order to emphasize how visually stunning and sweet the whole set-up is.
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Adaptational Nice Guy
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Much of the characters are lighter and softer than in the book. Peik Lin's family has a much healthier dynamic than in the book.
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Sympathetic Adulterer
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Rachel's mother Kerry had her out of wedlock because her husband was abusive. Rachel's father helped her get through it. Zigzagged with Michael. Astrid initially treats him with baby gloves and he's the one to storm off after getting the last word in after revealing his somewhat sympathetic motives. But at the end of the movie, Astrid calls him out and tells him in no uncertain terms that his motives are bullshit and he's just an insecure coward looking for excuses.
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Bait-and-Switch
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The Flapper
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The Flapper: Invoked; Araminta's wedding reception dress is reminiscent of a 1920's flapper.
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It Seemed Trivial: Nick didn't tell Rachel about his family and background before they head off to Singapore, which eventually causes problems in their relationship later on. Though Nick is able to tell her about his family members while traveling, he forgets to tell her some of the very important details such as his family being one of the richest and most famous in the city and him being the supposed heir of his family's fortune and one of the most popular figures in Singapore. Because of this, Rachel finds out this information from Peik Lin and later, Amanda. Nick also didn't inform his family that he's bringing his girlfriend to the wedding and that he has no intention of going home and inheriting his family's fortune. It takes a gossip columnist to take a picture of them together and spread it among the Singaporean elite until it reaches Nick's mother and his aunts. This eventually causes problems with Rachel and Eleanor, who assumes that the former is a gold digger and is responsible for taking her son away from home.
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Always Identical Twins
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Always Identical Twins: Peik Lin's younger sisters are identical twins. There's also a pair of identical twins at Araminta's bachelorette party.
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Rule of Symbolism: Eleanor's emerald Enormous Engagement Ring is not the Young family ring but rather one commissioned by Nick's father. He Married For Love... against the wishes of his family, who judged Eleanor as The Unfavorite. So when Eleanor sends Nick to propose with that exact ring, she signals, very explicitly, that Rachel is ready to follow Eleanor's footsteps.
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Take a Third Option
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Take a Third Option: It becomes obvious to Rachel that if Nick stays with her, it means losing his family, while breaking up with her might mean he eventually comes to resent his mother for forcing that choice. Rachel surprises Eleanor with the third option: She breaks up with him first.
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Not So Above It All
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Not So Above It All: After Eleanor and Nick's Aunties snub Rachel at the wedding and turn to walk off, one of the Aunts quickly and quietly turns to Rachel and compliments her on her outfit before turning her back to her again and running off.
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Fairy Tale Motifs: Rachel at one point is mockingly referred to as Cinderella, seeing how she was able to date Singapore's most eligible bachelor. Her "fairy godmothers" are Peik Lin and Oliver who dressed her up for the wedding ceremony. Also after running away from the wedding reception, there was a shot of her bare feet, as if she had lost her heels (she was simply holding them).
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Not with Them for the Money
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Not with Them for the Money: Invoked with Nick and Rachel; Nick kept his family's wealth a secret while in New York so he could form real connections with people not with him for his cash. Even after Rachel finds out, she quickly grows disillusioned with the Singaporean upper class's standards and attitudes.
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Foreshadowing: Rachel's monologue about TA Curtis playing not to win, but to avoid losing, is of course relevant to Eleanor. Eleanor's just so afraid of losing that her behavior means that there are no real winners among them in the end; if she succeeds in driving Rachel away, Nick will still resent her forever. Nick's aunt Alix suggests a private investigator early in the film. Eleanor apparently took her up on this idea and had Rachel's background investigated, which comes to a head at the climax.
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Standard Snippet
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Standard Snippet: A Chinese Translated Cover Version of "Money (That's What I Want)" when the Youngs buy the Calthorpe Hotel. "Ride of the Valkyries" during the helicopter ride to the bachelor party hosted by Bernard. A Cantonese Translated Cover Version of Madonna's "Material Girl" during Rachel's Costume-Test Montage and subsequent arrival at the wedding.
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Double-Meaning Title: "Crazy Rich Asians" can mean "Asians who are obscenely wealthy" or "insane Asians who have a lot of money." Both meanings are just as applicable.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The film's heavy emotional moments are usually blunted by a lighthearted comedic moment immediately afterward, such as following Eleanor's destroying Rachel's self-esteem with Peik and Rachel clucking like chickens.
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Only Known by Their Nickname
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Only Known by Their Nickname: The family's matriarch, Shang Su Yi, is only ever referred to by the Hokkien honorific "Ah Ma".
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Mood Dissonance: The scene of Rachel running away from the wedding reception after Eleanor reveals the truth about Rachel's parents is supposed to be sad, but it briefly cuts to her running past Bernard and Kitty getting it on with his pants down. Colin and Araminta's wedding scene is a happy event, with many couples including Rachel and Nick gazing lovingly at each other, but the happiness becomes bittersweet when the camera lingers on Astrid, who had just confronted her husband on his cheating.
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The Friend Nobody Likes
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Bernard, a flashy, Nouveau Riche party animal who annoys the more chill, down-to-earth Colin and Nick.
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Cowardice Callout: Astrid calls her husband Michael a coward for his insecurities and ego, telling him that it's not Astrid's parents' wealth that's the problem in their married life: it's him.
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Adaptational Jerkass
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Adaptational Jerkass: In the book, Michael pretends to have an affair just to make Astrid leave him because he is unhappy for being put down by her relatives. In the film, he does actually have an affair.
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Held Gaze
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Held Gaze: During the wedding ceremony, Nick and Rachel frequently exchanged these looks.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: In the first scene, Rachel is teaching a class on game theory. Her understanding of non-zero-sum games comes in handy, when she declines Nick's proposal and then explains to Eleanor why stopping the marriage will leave Eleanor worse off.
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Setting Update
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Setting Update: Downplayed. While the book takes place in 2010, the movie takes place in then-present day 2018.
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Fish out of Water
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Fish out of Water: Middle-class Asian-American academic Rachel is out of place with Singapore's upper class.
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Gossipy Hens: Nick's aunts are more inclined to chat about Nick's love life than focus on their bible group.
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Enormous Engagement Ring
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Enormous Engagement Ring: Subverted with the engagement ring Nick intends to propose Rachel with, the stone looks fairly reasonable-sized. Played straight with Eleanor's humongous emerald ring, given to her by Nick's father when they got married. Nick surprises Rachel with Eleanor's ring when he finally proposes to her as she's about to head back to New York.
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Demoted to Extra
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Demoted to Extra: Charlie Wu, Astrid's ex-boyfriend. In the book, he has a lot of involvement in Astrid's storyline and is the one who encourages her to go back to her husband despite his unrequited feelings to her. He is absent throughout the entire movie until The Stinger where he meets Astrid. Eddie Cheng, Nick's cousin, is one of the POV characters in the book who tries to impress his friends and relatives but failed because of his family. In this movie, his attempt to make an impression is still present but his role is reduced to dissing Rachel for her background. He was also Adapted Out of the prologue. Francesca, Nick's Rich Bitch ex-girlfriend. While she is an antagonist who basically makes Rachel's life a living hell in Singapore, thus playing a significant role in the book, in the movie, she only ends up becoming one of the Those Two Girls who always shows up with Celine Lim, appearing only in a few scenes. Her role from the book instead is given to Amanda.
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Penny Among Diamonds
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Penny Among Diamonds: This is part of what makes Rachel such a Fish out of Water (the other is that she was raised in America). She's a middle-class woman raised by a single mother who is suddenly thrust among Singapore's elite, who place great emphasis on family wealth and history.
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Distant Prologue: A prologue set in 1995 features Eleanor buying out a hotel just to spite its racist manager.
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Sudden Soundtrack Stop: During the wedding scene, the film is momentarily completely silent when Araminta steps onto the fairy-lit, flooded, flower-covered aisle in her beautiful wedding dress, emphasizing how stunning and sweet the set-up is.
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Compressed Adaptation
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Compressed Adaptation: The book has an enormous roster of characters that simply wouldn't have fit into the movie.
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Uptown Girl
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Uptown Girl: Nick and Astrid, scions of one of Singapore's richest families, are far wealthier than their partners Rachel and Michael. The latter even lampshades it when Astrid says that he'll like Rachel, asking if it's because they're both commoners. The conflict of the film is Rachel being out of place with the wealthy Nick's social circle. The socioeconomic difference between Astrid and Michael is part of what destroys their marriage, since Michael is unhappy with how Astrid keeps trying to please her rich family while Astrid is constantly downplaying herself so he fits in.
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And Starring
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And Starring: With Ken Jeong and Michelle Yeoh.
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Break His Heart to Save Him
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Break His Heart to Save Him: Rachel attempts to break up with Nick in an attempt to help him preserve his relationship with his family. However, it's this action that finally earns her Eleanor's respect and blessing, as it is her Emerald ring which Nick uses in his second proposal to Rachel.
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Nice Guy
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Colin also qualifies for Araminta as he too is a Nice Guy and more down-to-earth compared to other rich socialites.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Colin and Nick somehow manage to steal a helicopter and fly it to a private part of the island when they have enough of the bachelor party.
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Luke, I Am Your Father
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Luke, I Am Your Father: A variant where the character learns this from a third party. Rachel learns from Su Yi that her father did not, as her mother had long told her, die before she was born, but is in fact alive in China.
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Cast Full of Rich People
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Cast Full of Rich People: The film wastes no time in establishing just how conspicuously wealthy Southeast Asia's 0.1% is. The Youngs (real-estate moguls) have a Big Fancy House in famously land-strapped Singapore, Astrid casually buys a pair of earrings costing over a million dollars in her Establishing Character Moment, and Colin's and Araminta's bachelor/ette parties are a rave on a luxury cruise ship and a luxurious getaway on a private island, respectively, to say nothing of their royal-wedding-worthy nuptials. Rachel winds up being a Penny Among Diamonds, unsure of her status among them.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: The movie does away with the book's biting satirical voice and presents itself as a straight rom-com rather than a cynical soap opera. Among other changes, Astrid and Michael's subplot is more morally clear-cut, and the movie opts to end with an emotional resolution rather than a Cliffhanger.
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Genre Throwback
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Genre Throwback: To the romantic comedies that were popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It contains a number of standard tropes including a female Fish out of Water lead, a Meet the In-Laws scenario with a hostile parent, a Second-Act Breakup, and a scene at an airport where one lead chases down the other and saves their relationship.
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That Came Out Wrong
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That Came Out Wrong: When Rachel is telling Nick about the dead gutted fish left in her hotel room his response is "Is that all that happened?" Which made it sound like he didn't think it was a big deal and earned a Death Glare from Rachel before he backpedaled and clarified what he meant.
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Cool Old Lady
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Cool Old Lady: Nick's grandmother zigzags this. She treats Rachel far better than Eleanor and most of the people in the Young family's social circle. Then even she turns against Rachel after learning about her mother. However, she also has several Pet the Dog moments towards her family, such as accompanying Astrid to a wedding when Astrid is feeling downcast about her estranged husband. She also realizes that she is the reason why Eleanor is the way she is, mistreating her for being of the 'wrong sort', and blames Nick running off after Rachel even after being told they could not marry on Eleanor being a poor mother.
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Reaction Shot: When Peik Lin tells the Gohs that her boyfriend's name is Nick Young, the camera cuts to each member of the family reacting to the news.
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Slave to PR: Reputation is very important to the Singaporean old money families, and they will sabotage relationships in order to preserve the family's image.
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Araminta is the wealthy heiress to a prominent resort chain. Despite this and her general ditzy tendencies, she's still a cheerful, generous girl who openly befriends Rachel and never objects to her background.
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Rejecting the Inheritance: Nick gets fed up with his meddling mother and grandmother after they drive his fiancée away and threatens to renounce the family fortune unless they back off.
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Composite Character: Philip Young buys the hotel in the prologue instead of Henry Leong (Astrid's father).
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Family Honor: A deleted scene shows Eleanor and Nick arguing about Rachel after it was discovered she was conceived via an adulterous affair, with Eleanor insisting that sacrifices must be made to preserve the reputation of her family, including whatever it is that makes Nick the happiest. Nick, however, is adamant in his stance that Rachel is what makes him the happiest.
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But Not Too Gay: Oliver is out and proud, but has no love interests at all.
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Secretly Wealthy
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Secretly Wealthy: Nick's family wealth is very famous in Asia, but he purposely downplayed his wealth to Rachel so she is unaware of it at the start of the film. The trope is deconstructed as keeping her in the dark left her completely unprepared to deal with the Culture Clash and judgement that come with her being a "commoner" dating the heir to one of the most prestigious upper class families in Singapore and it nearly wrecks their relationship.
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Makeover Fairy: The team of stylists who Oliver brings in to dress Rachel for the wedding.
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Billionaire Wristband: The uber-wealthy Astrid gifts her husband Michael a vintage Rolex Daytona Paul Newman (worth hundreds of thousands of dollars) to help him look the part of a CEO.
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A Minor Kidroduction: The movie's prologue is set in 1995 with Nick and his cousin Astrid as kids.
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Pet's Homage Name: Astor, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller are the names of the Nouveau Riche Gohs' dogs.
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Food Porn: The movie spends a good time showcasing the different Singaporean delicacies and food in Nick and Rachel's hangout with Colin and Araminta, Eleanor's scene at the kitchen, and the Young family's dumpling making.
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Product Placement: Among all the high-end fashion labels that come up during the movie, Bottega Veneta gets a special mention from Oliver, since actor Nico Santos used to work for them. Several female characters are outfitted in the creations of Singaporean labels Thomas Wee, Ong Shunmugam, and Frederick Lee Couture.
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Gold Digger: Rachel is believed to be this by Nick’s mother and friends, and this is a major source of friction in the movie. Even discussed, as she compares herself to a soap opera villain out to steal his fortune. Played straight with Kitty, who ditches Alistair for Bernard as soon as she learns the latter is the sole heir to his family fortune.
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Matriarchy: Upper-class Singaporean society certainly seems to be this from the film: the most venerated and respected character is Su Yi, the Young family matriarch, rarely addressed by her actual name, and women, from Eleanor to Araminta's bachelorettes, exercise all the real power over Rachel that makes her miserable near the end. The Young patriarch, by contrast, is only mentioned a few times and never seen, the most significant male actor within the Young family is flamboyantly gay, and the other men are largely depicted as physically attractive catches for the women to validate their social status by winning. Of course, almost any movie that takes place largely during the runup to a wedding and has a female protagonist is going to seem this way.
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Running Gag: Eddie Cheng taking a stiff, stone-faced, unnatural pose every time he's photographed because he thinks it's his "optimal angle." Rachel might be a person looked down on by most of Singapore high society, but they all love the way she looks at these parties (thanks to some help from Peik Lin and Oliver).
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Theme Naming: The Goh dogs are named Astor, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller, for rich American business families.
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