Their depredations in the desolate regions were so severe that porters and horse-handlers refused to travel at night ― even in fairly large groups. Less than a century ago, tigers and leopards prowled the Korean peninsula and ruled the hours of darkness. Courtesy of Robert OechsleĪccording to an old Chinese saying, 'The Korean hunts the tiger six months in the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other six months.' Robert Neff Collection hang on a second.Tiger hunters circa 1905.

And even though there isn’t any actual tiger hunting, Sami does have to demonstrate cunning and bravery in pursuit of the elusive American dream-showing that through patience and hard work, you can capture the thing, and. But movies can be for escaping, and this one’s pleasant enough to watch. Good job, movie!Īny film about immigration is timely, obviously, although this one plays a little Yakov Smirnoff-y with a celebration of “American opportunity,” even as its characters are jammed 15-deep into a one-room apartment, and even as, IRL, we’re living in Trump’s America. The more I write about this, the more I realize this was pretty effectively done. OR WAIT-maybe that’s exactly what it’s supposed to be? Like an immigrant, it’s both things, but neither-never wholly Indian nor American. It’s neither totally Indian, nor totally American. The Tiger Hunter is like if a Bollywood romance and a Wes Anderson movie had a baby, then that baby grew up and had its own baby with My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Even excluding tigers, this movie has quite a bit going on. Oh, and all of this takes place in the 1970s, and Sami is also trying to prove to his childhood sweetheart that he’s a successful microwave engineer. Sami wants to be just like him, but somehow gets it into his head that Chicago is the place to make this happen. Anyway, Sami grows up in a small Indian town where his father-the actual tiger hunter-is a hero.

I like tigers, and that probably would have been sad. But his dad did! We don’t really see any tiger hunting in this movie, which is fine with me. T he Tiger Hunter is the fictional story of an Indian immigrant, Sami, who’s played by Community’s Danny Pudi and who does not, in fact, hunt tigers.

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