From restaurant owner, to memoir writer, to ABC sitcom executive producer, Eddie Huang wore many hats. But now it moves from Fresh off the boat to the young filmmaker, making his directorial debut with the basketball drama Boogie. see the Boogie trailer below.
Boogie Trailer
Eddie Huang is best known in pop culture circles for writing the memoirs that the beloved ABC sitcom Fresh off the boat it is even based on lending his voice to narrate the show, of which he was an executive producer. But he broke up with the series after the network “tried to turn my memories into a cornstarch sitcom and me into a mascot for America.” But there is no concern to smooth the edges of the Asian American immigrant in his film Boogie, with which Huang makes his debut in the direction of feature films.
The film tells the story of Alfred “Boogie” Chin (played by Huang’s former assistant Taylor Takahashi), a Chinese-Taiwanese American basketball star who dreams of playing for the NBA amid turmoil at home and among his classmates in Queens, New York. The film, also starring Taylour Paige, Jorge Lindenborg Jr., Pamelyn Chee, Perry Yung, Mike Moh and the late rapper Pop Smoke, is an inspiring classic sports drama, but anchored in the experience of the Asian immigrant. But instead of drawing on many previous sports dramas, Huang told Entertainment Weekly that the story of Boogie was inspired by Good Will Hunting, which was also the film that convinced him to enter the cinema.
“That movie was the moment when I said, I would like to make a movie that would change another child’s life,” he told EW. “The way they were able to humanize domestic violence and these relationships opened my eyes because I didn’t know that you could talk about things like that in the movies.”
I must admit that I don’t like Eddie Huang very much, mainly because of his controversies about criticisms of cultural appropriation. I liked Fresh off the boat for all the “sanitized” reasons he didn’t like (it’s an ABC sitcom, which you expected!), but I admire him for taking his creative vision into his own hands and taking the leap to the cinema.
Here is the synopsis of Boogie:
From acclaimed writer, producer and restorer Eddie Huang arrives his directorial debut BOOGIE, Alfred’s coming of age story “Boogie”Chin, a basketball phenomenon living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on winning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, school, rivals on the court and the weight of expectation.
Boogie will debut in theaters in March 5, 2021.
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