
OMG! I can finally sleep now that I am certain Russell, the cute kid in Disney/Pixar’s Up, is in fact Asian. I mean, just look at the colour scripts for the film — Pixar was sensitive enough to have foreseen debates around Russell’s background and provided us confused and lost Asians with these handy colour scripts. Because we all know that those 45 degree, upward lines in place of eyes are codes for “Asian.”
All those online debates about Russell’s ethnic background can end now. After these scripts, there cannot be any more debate. The verdict is clear: Russell is one of us.
(thanks to Jun’s post on 8asian’s tumblr)
9 Comments to “Proof that Russell of Disney/Pixar’s Up is Asian: The Color Scripts”
Linda Chan wrote:
I love it! We need more “Russells” in mainstream roles in entertainment.
Posted on 03-Jul-09 at 9:29 am | Permalink
Amanda Zhang wrote:
Not gonna lie: this made me laugh so hard. How ironic.
Posted on 03-Jul-09 at 10:20 am | Permalink
johnklin wrote:
I think that it was pretty obvious at the end that Russell is Asian when you see his mother at the Wilderness Explorer ceremony.
Posted on 03-Jul-09 at 8:08 pm | Permalink
Christin wrote:
Whoever wrote this article is clearly an idiot.
Also, it's clearly a spoof cartoon character of Martin Scorsese.
Posted on 06-Jul-09 at 10:15 pm | Permalink
mitsuru_mitsuru wrote:
@ Christin
wow. whoever wrote Christin's comment is clearly an idiot.
Also, it's clearly a spoof of how there is so much hype and confusion over the character's ethnicity.
Posted on 08-Jul-09 at 8:14 am | Permalink
Joe wrote:
You guys make me laugh.
He’s just an Asian-American guy. He doesn’t belong to any Asian ancestry.. he’s just… Asian.
Yes, he is confirmed an Asian-American cartoon character.
If you want to know the background of Russell: The animators played around and drew a picture of one another. One animator drew a picture of another animator, Peter Sohn, A Korean-American. The guy who voiced Russell is Japanese American.
So in short:
Russell’s looks was based from Peter Sohn, the main animator, a KOREAN-AMERICAN
Russell’s voice was from Jordan Nagai, a JAPANESE-AMERICAN
RUSSELL, THE CHARACTER HIMSELF IS JUST AN ASIAN-AMERICAN.
If you don’t believe me, here’s a Korean newspaper interview of Peter Sohn:
Title: THE KOREAN FACE OF PIXAR’S LATEST STAR:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/06/03/2009060300484.html
Posted on 20-Nov-09 at 1:55 am | Permalink
Moye wrote:
Oh, my bad. I didn’t know you could just be Asian.
Posted on 20-Nov-09 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
Joe wrote:
Yep. You can just be Asian.. especially in a cartoon. Since he looks Asian and he’s American.. and nothing else. He mentions no Asian countries. … Hence Asian-American.
Posted on 20-Nov-09 at 8:02 pm | Permalink
Joe wrote:
it’s kind of common sense.
Posted on 20-Nov-09 at 8:02 pm | Permalink
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