renaissance of discourse that is scene in the advent of Spike Lee’s film, Do The Right Thing (1989). In that film, Lee raised the bar in the discourse of America’s racial and ethnic divides. The martial art films ushered by Bruce Lee are arguably exploitive as well and films such as Better Luck Tomorrow and The Wedding Banquet offer a transition to the Asian males’ conquest of the masculine ideal. The emergence of the Asian American masculine male is now more apt to be seen in films like Harold and Kumar (2004) and The Namesake (2006), where the Asian main characters are not achieving their manhood through violent measures or having to actually have on screen sex with a woman. Instead, filmmakers are creating films with Asian characters that audiences of all races can relate to and identify with in an age of online social networking and the diverse society in which the