Icon David Carradine Dead at 72

Very sad indeed. This could be bullshit, but some reports are stating that not only was he naked, but had some rope tied around his junk....autoerotic asphyxiation, anyone?

Anyway, I'll say his best performance was in Kill Bill volume 2.

yes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article...

Too bad The Daily Mail isn't a reliable source. Find a better source.

Too bad The Daily Mail isn't a reliable source. Find a better one.

What a great loss, so sad. RIP

A sad day indeed. RIP

I believe it was also the daily mail who broke the Nessie story with "the surgeons photograph" am I not correct?

First let me say, R.I.P. David Carradine. He was a familiar and quirky spot on the cinema landscape and he seemed like a nice guy and i personally enjoyed seeing him in campy roles here and there.

Let me also say, as an Asian American, i didn't like David Carradine - or more specifically i didn't like what David Carradine was the representation of - namely the racist replacement of Asians in film by Caucasians.

Of course i don't blame Carradine personally, he was just an actor who wanted a job. He didn't personally screw Bruce Lee over - that was the network executives. But because of that, Carradine became the visible symbol of what all Asian Americans hate - the Asian equivalent of White Americans doing Blackface routines. Many people would be horrified to see someone Caucasian paint their face with shoe polish and tap dancing, but Caucasians putting on Fu Manchu moustaches, squinting, and doing completely inaccurate "Oriental" voices, were commonplace all the way up to the late 70s/early 80s and still pop up even today here and there.

On top of the racist and completely inaccurate stereotypes portrayed of Asians by non-Asians, there is the simple matter of not giving a place at all in media for Asians which is analagous to saying Asians don't have a place in American society. Asian food, Asian martial arts, Asian interior decorating are all exotic and cool and desireable, but apparently not Asian people. Of course things have gotten better since the times of Carradine in Kung Fu but not as much as one might think, expecially in the media.

Like i stated earlier, i don't personally place even 1% of blame on David Carradine, and Bruce Lee thankfully was overcame and was recognized by the mainstream later, but he should never have been placed in a position to "have to overcome" anything in the first place. The only reason i mention this is because that same racist prejudice or "marketability" exists today to a lesser but similar degree. Asians make up 8% of America and yet we are represented less then 0.5% in the media. When was the last time you saw an Asian woman not cast in a vampy, sexy role? When was the last time you saw an Asian man not cast to do martial arts, gangster, or posessor of ancient mystical knowledge? When is that last time you saw an Asian actor cast as a person who just happens to be Asian? Sandra Oh, Daniel Dae Kim, and arguably maybe 3 or 4 others...

The "Carradine Kung Fu" problem still exists today and i hope people will refuse to accept it complacently as an acceptable form of racism.

You have a point. Even Star Trek enforced the "Asians are awesome at swordplay" stereotype that you see in a lot of films.

Bad taste "An Asian Guy"

Yes, you have a legitimate point - No, this is neither the time nor the place.