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Dissolving the marriage contract is harder than either imagined. Liang and Wang bemoan the gap between immigrants and their offspring ('The Other Generation') as Master Wang's younger son Wang San gives his own take on the gap to some younger children.

Sammy does his best to dissuade Mei Li from marrying him, introducing her to Madame Liang, the sister-in-law of Master Wang. The Lis arrive at the Celestial Gardens during a show ('Fan Tan Fannie'). Sammy is the owner of a night club, the Celestial Gardens (inspired by the actual Forbidden City nightclub) and already is romantically involved with his leading showgirl Linda Low. While asking where to find Madam Fong, Mei Li performs a flower drum song to earn money ('A Hundred Million Miracles'). After landing, the Lis seek the address of Madam Fong, the mother of Sammy Fong, to whom Mei Li has been promised in an arranged marriage. Plot Sammy Fong (Jack Soo) and Linda Low (Nancy Kwan) in Flower Drum SongĪ young woman named Mei Li emigrates from China to Chinatown, San Francisco as an illegal immigrant with her father. In 2008, Flower Drum Song was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. It would be the last film to do so for more than 30 years, until The Joy Luck Club (1993). It was nominated for five Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.įlower Drum Song became the first major Hollywood feature film to have a majority Asian-American cast in a contemporary Asian-American story. The film stars Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, Benson Fong and Juanita Hall.

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Watch the full clip below.Flower Drum Song is a 1961 American musical film directed by Henry Koster, adapted from the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, in turn based on the 1957 novel of the same name by the Chinese American author Chin Yang Lee. They then proceeded to watch the music video for 'Chop Suey!' while Rubin bopped along and marveled at what System of a Down had accomplished. Why have you forsaken me?' It's wild… The context, it doesn't really make sense to what's going on, it's rad.' 'It's the part, 'Father, into your hands. Rogan followed up by asking what part Rubin was talking about specifically, and Rubin took a second to think before the words came to him. 'He opened it, first phrase he sees: that's what's in the song, and it's a highpoint in the song.

So I said, 'OK, pick a book off the wall.' He picked a book randomly off the wall, I said, 'open it to any page tell me the first phrase you see.' 'And we're sitting in the library in my old house and he said 'I don't have words for this' and we were finishing and it's like, OK. You know that song? It has this big bridge section in it where Serj , lyric writer - the singer - didn't have words for this one part of the song. 'My experience is, when you are open and looking for these clues in the world, they're happening all the time,' Rubin said. 'And they're happening, often right when you need them… This System Of A Down song called 'Chop Suey!'… I think. During a new interview on the Joe Rogan Experience, Rubin recalled a time in the studio during the Toxicity sessions when Tankian needed a lyric to fill out that aforementioned section of the song, but couldn't muster up the inspiration in his own brain.