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Writing and Filmmaking Lessons from CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018)
CRAZY RICH ASIANS Video Essay CRAZY RICH ASIANS is the smash hit that proves that, contrary to recent reports, the rom-com isn’t dead. Rachel (Constance Wu) is an economics professor in New York. When her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) asks her to join him in Singapore for his friend’s wedding, she doesn’t know that his family is rich… crazy rich. Trials and tribulations ensue, but chief among them is the stern disapproval of Nick’s mother Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh). Rachel could