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Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. This was Eastwood's first starring role since 2004's Million Dollar Baby. The film features a large Hmong-American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film), [4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott.
In the film, “Bitterroot", the Hmong American experience takes center stage. But the movie is also shining a light on Southeast Asian filmmakers here in the Twin Cities.
The film Gran Torino by Clint Eastwood, though set and filmed in Detroit, Michigan, stars five Minnesotan Hmong (Hmongesotan) Americans, and the original story was based on a neighborhood in Saint Paul. It was the first mainstream US film to feature Hmong Americans.
Bee Vang. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: 𖬃𖬰𖬨𖬵 𖬖𖬰𖬜, Chinese-Mandarin: 王陛; born November 4, 1991) is an American actor and activist of Hmong descent. He is best known for starring in Clint Eastwood 's 2008 film Gran Torino as Thao Vang Lor.
The Hmong immigrant population of Detroit is a central focus of the 2008 film Gran Torino, though that city does not have a significant Hmong population. Religious persecution [ edit ] Hmong Catholics , Protestants and animists have been subjected to military attacks, police arrest, imprisonment, forced disappearances , extrajudicial killings ...
Walter Kowalski is a fictional character portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the 2008 American film Gran Torino. Walt is depicted as an irritable and prejudiced Korean War veteran whose aging Metro Detroit neighborhood has become home to Hmong immigrants and is plagued with gang violence . The character of Walt and Eastwood's performance have ...
Several characters of Gran Torino. From left to right, Walt Kowalski ( Clint Eastwood ), Thao Vang Lor ( Bee Vang ), Vu Lor (Brooke Chia Thao), Gran (Chee Thao), and Sue Lor ( Ahney Her ). The following is a list of significant characters who feature in the 2008 film Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood . Casting calls were held in Fresno ...
The third Hmong-American to be elected to the St. Paul school board, Kazoua Kong-Thao, elected in 2003. Mee Moua's sister, Vallay Moua Varro, was elected to the St. Paul school board in 2009. This was the first time that two Hmong officials served concurrently on the St. Paul school board, since Kong-Thao was still in office.