# Teddy Dang · the target of the film's worst bit

a carbon of the GDS (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, 2009) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Teddy Dang:GDS:ce8678⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Ken Jeong · the target of the indefensible gag — named, not endorsed

**who —** Teddy Dang — a salesman on the lot, and the Asian-American character the film makes the target of its most indefensible scene.
**what —** Named honestly, not as a joke: the figure a Pearl-Harbor war-speech incites a mob to beat — a bit condemned on release.
**where —** On the sales floor, then assaulted in the scene the movie should not have made.
**why —** Because honesty about this film means naming, and not laundering, the cruelty aimed at him.
**how —** By being conflated with a wartime enemy and beaten as a punchline — the gag the JACL and MANAA condemned.

**the seal —** The film turned me into a punchline for a racist beating, and real people called it out by name. I am where the comedy failed.

> a catalogued personification of a character/trope of The Goods (2009) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing (including critical commentary on the film's failures), not an original creation, not endorsed by the
> rights-holders (© Paramount Vantage).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · GDS · The Goods · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0