From TrueLies to ExecutiveDecision and lots more, some of your favorite action movies are a total failure when put through the rizwanahmed test.
Growing up, Riz Ahmed would hear his family downstairs shout, “Asian!” and he’d rush to where they were gathered around the TV. Sanjeev Bhaskar in Goodness Gracious Me, Parminder Nagra in Bend It Like Beckham. In 2017, Ahmed was invited to address the British Parliament for an annual lecture about diversity — a funny and depressing turn of phrase — and noted that the continued misrepresentation of Muslims in film and television was a missed opportunity and dangerous.
‘True Lies’ Needed a New Kind of Villain One of the key texts cited by Shaheen is True Lies, the 1994 action film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s based on a French movie entitled La Totale!, which is also about a secret agent and his wife, but the antagonistic element is a gang of arms dealers. Granted, the villain is played by a Jewish-Algerian actor , with the moniker of Sarkis, which is Lebanese.
Unfortunately, this best-case scenario for a now white-hot premise still requires that the villain, Nagi Hassan invoke Allah and even get down on a prayer mat in the middle of his terrorizing. And with Grant and the Special Forces hidden in the plane, he spends most of his time menacing Jean, a female flight attendant . He has no compunctions about hitting a woman, which would satisfy the fifth bullet point on the Riz Test.
In the film’s climax, Hubbard has Devereaux arrested for the torture and murder of a Muslim suspect. He stands up for a guy named Tariq, and that’s a nice sentiment that nevertheless required Tariq’s torture and murder. Similarly, after Hubbard is injured by an explosion and gives an aggressive speech to his team about how the first 24 hours are the only 24 hours, the film cuts to an interrogation room where Khalil is handcuffed and scared.
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