Princess Raya in the movie. “Raya and the last dragon god”, the film currently in theaters attracting a large audience of children recently by Hollywood is the latest work honoring Southeast Asian culture in a fascinating fantasy story about dragons. The story of the movie revolves around little Raya, the princess of the kingdom of Kumandra, consisting of many different small lands that represent parts of the dragon’s body. Kumandra Kingdom was built in the shape of an Asian dragon, not a dragon with flaming wings like a European dragon, inspired by the Mekong River flowing through many Southeast Asian countries. Long Tam land with mountains on the sea, like Ha Long Bay. Raya, from a young age, had to witness the various tribes of Long Tam, Long Trao, Long Vi, Long Cot, and Long Nanh split up and scrambling for dragon ball, causing the seal to imprison Druun, the evil demon that transformed people and The rocky landscape escapes and ravages the kingdom of Kumandra. Raya’s father, the king of the Long Tam tribe, also suffered the same petrification as his people to protect his little daughter. Before pushing Raya down the river flowing through the five lands, he also reminded her to find the dragon god to save the kingdom and bring the five tribes back together. Raya grew up, trained herself, and one day, she travels to each land to find the broken dragon ball fragments that had been lost by the tribes before. She met the surviving members of the Long Trao, the Long Coths and the Long Tails after being overrun by the Druun demons. In particular, when going to the end of the Kumandra kingdom, Raya met Sisu, the last dragon of the god. But Sisu is the youngest, weakest dragon, and doesn’t seem to have any talent at all. Raya’s journey with companions of all ages ends at Long Nanh, where she comes face to face with her old friend, who used her trust to take the Dragon Ball, and is The main cause of the seal broke and allowing the Druun demons to escape. By capturing the human affection learned from Sisu, Raya made her friend understand the true value of solidarity, join the army to fight the Druun, protect and revive the kingdom of Kumandra. The film’s story is simple, the situation is easy to predict, many funny and humorous scenes, but there are also many emotional scenes and deeply philosophical about life, “Raya and the last god dragon” bring joy. Look, refreshing for viewers and especially the children who really like the funny and funny appearances and responses of the dragon “whistle” Sisu. Dragon god takes the form of a snake god Naga. However, overcoming a seemingly simple story is an entire Southeast Asian culture that filmmakers skillfully integrate. Kumandra represents the land around the Mekong River, home to the countries of East – South Asia. Long Tam represents wet rice civilization, rich riverine plains and an image reminiscent of Ha Long Bay. Long Cot with giant bamboo forest, reminiscent of bamboo groves of Vietnam, Long Trao with floating markets, rivers and harbors, night market, lantern festival and colorful lantern stalls . Long Nanh with curved roof houses and castles inspired by the Angkor Watt temple complex. Long Vi is a barren sandy land and barren mountains. The dishes and fruits of Southeast Asia in the movie. Southeast Asian culture is meticulously and subtly from small details. Dragon god Sisu is inspired by snake god Naga, the mascot of many peoples of East – South Asia. The move of raising hands to the top of the circle to greet and thank the people of Kumandra is reminiscent of Thailand and Laos clasping hands. The martial arts performances in the film are built from Pencak silas, muay Thai and Vovinam, typical martial arts of Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Many dishes, typical fruits of the tropical Southeast – Southeast Asia are also shown in the film, such as durian, dragon fruit, tangerine … Another appears in the movie. Tomyum, sticky rice on leaves, spring rolls, and banana leaf baked goods also appear in the movie. The pangolin, pet and also the moving carriage of Princess Raya is named Tuk Tuk – a popular vehicle in Thailand … Raya’s pangolin, pet and mount. In addition, the film also has the participation of a team of artists and writers of Vietnamese origin. The voice of Raya’s character is Kelly Marie Tran, born in 1989 in San Diego (USA), to Vietnamese parents. Thalia Tran, another 15-year-old Vietnamese actress, voiced Little Noi, a 2-year-old girl who lost her family while fleeing the Druun demons, leading a gang of petty monkeys. small mix. Patti Harrison, 30, voices Tail Chief, who also lost his family in the escape of the Druun demons, living alone on a large boat, both the captain and the chef serving the guests. river excursion. The writer of the film is Qui Nguyen, who has participated in many Hollywood film projects. He is also the one who put interesting details of Southeast Asian culture, especially Vietnamese culture, into the film. “Raya and the last dragon god” is the film Hollywood wants to set a miracle in the East – South Asian market when it is released. But more than heating up the box office after the raging Covid-19 in many places caused entertainment activities to stall, “Raya and the last dragon” opened an intriguing door for the world to understand. more about East-South Asia rich in identity and legend.

The entertainment industry has always been known as one of the most attractive environments, but also fiercely competitive, with a tremendous rate of elimination, no matter in any country. In particular, Hollywood is considered the highest destination, where most stars around the world want to step into. However, that dream is not easily achieved, especially with Asian artists.

One of the reasons Asian artists have a “narrow door” in Hollywood is that the racist ideology is still heavy. Although there have been many movements over the years fighting for justice for blacks, yellows, and women in the US, improvements are still only moderately and still formal and somewhat forced. Especially when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the anti-Asian situation became more and more serious.

In that context, there are still Vietnamese beauties who have overcome prejudice, struggle and strive every day to achieve remarkable achievements in Hollywood.

Lana Condor

Lana Condor (SN 1997, born Tran Dong Lan), was born in Can Tho, then adopted by an immigrant family in the US at the age of 5 months. Her adoptive father is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and former vice president of Yahoo! Sports.

Lana on “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”.

She entered the Hollywood entertainment industry in 2016, with her debut film “X-Men: Apocalypse” (X-Men: Revelation), playing the superhero Jubilee.

The role that earned her worldwide fame was Asian-born female student Lara Jean in Netflix’s “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” series, with three installments in 2018, 2020 and 2021.

In addition, Lana also participates in many other film and television projects such as “Summer Night” (2019), action series “Deadly Class” (Assassin Classroom, 2018 – 2019) aired on Syfy and Netflix, ” Alita: Battle Angel ”(Alita: Warrior Angel, 2019). Recently, the beauty also confirmed to join the new Netflix series “Boo, Bitch”. The film revolves around a high school girl who suddenly turns into a ghost overnight.

Recently, she was invited as the host of the 23rd Costume Designer Guild Awards to honor the costume designers acting in Hollywood. The event takes place on Tuesday night (April 13, US time) with the online form.

Lana at the Costume Designer Guild Awards.

Kelly Marie Tran

Kelly Marie Tran, whose Vietnamese name is Tran Loan, was born in 1989 in the city of San Diego, California. She became known in Hollywood as Rose in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” in 2017. She is the first Asian actress to have a lead role in the classic Star Wars franchise.

Kelly Marie Tran is famous for playing “Stars War”.

Star Wars brought Kelly’s fame, but also made her the subject of attack from the fans of the film with racist ideas. However, the beauty did not give up, but spoke up and received support and protection from true fans, as well as her Hollywood colleagues.

In 2019, Kelly continues to reappear in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”. However, the time spent for her character, Rose Tico, is only 1 minute and 16 seconds, about 10 times less than the previous installment. This makes fans and critics object, claiming that director JJ Abrams “compromises” with racists.

These difficulties do not make Kelly falter. Recently, she once again resonated when voicing Princess Raya in the Disney animated “Raya and the last dragon”. The film revolves around the first princess from Southeast Asia.

Kelly wears traditional Vietnamese ao dai at the launch event “Raya and the last god”.

In addition to acting, Kelly also works in the creation of short movie videos for the Jimmy Kimmel Live show. The beauty also tried her hand at the role of a film producer. The most famous work of the web series Ladies Like Us (2013), the content revolves around two friends with quirky characteristics, possessing secrets that threaten the world.

In addition, Kelly Marie Tran was honored with 2 male actors Mark Hamill and Oscar Isaac to read the list of nominees and winners in the Oscar Best Short Animation 2018 category.

Jeannie Mai

Jeannie Camtu Mai, also known as Jeannie Mai, was born on January 4, 1979), is a Vietnamese-American MC. She is known through such programs as “How Do I Look?”, “Character Fantasy”, “The Real” (the original version of “We Sisters” in Vietnam), The Real, Asia’s Next Top. Model, red carpet MC Golden Globe Awards …

As a fashion consultant, Jeannie has appeared in many television programs, including the column “Fashion Tips Today” of Today Show (NBC) … In 2019, she was assigned the responsibility of lead Oscar’s red carpet behind the scenes.

Jeannie Mai is MC, famous fashion consultant in America.

Before MCing for TV shows, she was a makeup artist, stylist, and had the opportunity to work with Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys …

Recently, Jeannie Mai shared pictures of her sweet wedding and rapper Jeezy (43 years old). The wedding ceremony took place in March at the couple’s house in Atlanta (USA), with the participation of relatives and close friends.

Before that, she married Freddy Harteis in 2007. Their marriage lasted 10 years before their divorce in October 2017. The two do not have children. Rapper Jeezy has never been married before, but already has 3 children with three different women.

Jeannie Mai just married rapper Jeezy last month.