"... now comes the squat that is taking America by storm."

How to Do the Asian Squat

Tagline: "You Don't Know Nothin' If You Don't Know Squat!"

2002; ?; 5 min. 

Director: Daniel Hsia

Screenplay: Daniel Hsia

Music: Alison Plante

Cast:

Dr. Mario Ezekiel Chang-Goldstein, Narrator - Michael McConnohie

Man in Suit - Ewan Chung

Spokesmodel - Yee Yee Lee

Asian Squat Student - Jeff Lam

Western Squat Student - Paul Apelgren

Cool Cat #1 - Schumetta Lanier

Cool Cat #2 - Garrett T. Thompson

Sexy Legs - Garz Chan

We watched this short film as our first short film of the course, although I just got around to blogging about it now. (It really should have come right after "North By Northwest" in true chronological blog fashion.) The film is a documentary, possibly a "mockumentary," of a new Asian form of squatting. The film is set in a 1950's style, in black and white. The film uses "scientific" examples to prove that the Asian squat is far more effective than your average Western squat. The film is pretty funny, and definitely is worth watching. What I found amusing was when I googled the Asian squat, it actually came up with numerous hits! Apparently this squat is totally legitimate! After the film, Mr. D had us do the squat, because we were obviously all itching to try it. It's actually somewhat difficult to do - I guess I wasn't brought up squatting Asian-ly (Yes, I know that's not a word!). So go watch this short film and practice your Asian squat!

iRate: 3.5/5 squats

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?=vy76UbfBr5vo

*NOTE: This is not really a trailer, either, because it's technically the whole film. So, now you can watch the film in it's entirety with the link above.