'Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle' is actually a subversive take on the American Dream
On the surface, 2004 movie Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle is about two guys who get stupidly high and start to crave"those tender little White Castle burgers with those little, itty-bitty grilled onions that just explode in your mouth like flavor crystals."
"Whenever we saw Asian or Indian characters on-screen, they were nothing like our friends, so we thought we would write deeper characters just like them," the film's writer, Jon Hurwitz, told the New York Times in 2008. And for Hurwitz , Harold and Kumar was a bold step in a new direction.Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle let its leads—Kal Penn and John Cho —play fully formed characters after years of being pushed to the side.
Yet during the film's slick 90 minutes, Harold and Kumar work their way through this unequal world and somehow find inner peace. In one pivotal scene, Harold, locked up by an incompetent racist cop for jaywalking at 3am, speaks to a Black man who has also been arrested. His crime? He bought a book from Barnes & Noble. The latter tells the former:"I'm fat, I'm Black, I can't dance, and I have two gay fathers. People have been messing with me my whole life.
The fact Harold and Kumar both navigate careers in exactly the kind of industries Chinese and Indian Americans are expected to thrive in, is also a clever way of reclaiming the lazy stereotypes present in Hollywood slacker comedies, and attempting to turn them into something more deep and meaningful.
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