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* BrokenAesop: The movie seems like it's giving AnAesop about respecting different cultures and traditions, which is utterly broken [[spoiler: by having Taou Yuen first try to kill Nettie and then suicide in order to facilitate a 'happy' ending for Gerrit and Nettie]].
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Taou Yuen speaks perfect English, which makes sense once she's retroactively revealed to be a princess.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Nettie's uncle Edward is implied to have an opium addiction.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: For someone who was involved in a nasty collision with a runaway carriage, Nettie looks great.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: For someone who was involved in a nasty collision with a runaway carriage, Nettie looks great. No bruises, broken bones or even a hair out of place.
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* DeathOfTheHypoteneuse: [[spoiler: Taou Yuen seems like she's prepared to strangle Nettie when she's interrupted by Edward. She then takes poison to kill herself]].
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* DeathOfTheHypoteneuse: DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Taou Yuen seems like she's prepared to strangle Nettie when she's interrupted by Edward. She then takes poison to kill herself]].
* GratuitousPrincess: Tao Yuen being a princess doesn't necessarily serve the plot in any way.
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* MisplacedAccent: Taou Yuen is a Chinese noblewoman that speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent. Her actress Anna May Wong was born in California and had vocal training to get rid of her American accent.
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** Taou Yuen is a Chinese noblewoman that speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent. Her actress Anna May Wong was born in California and had vocal training to get rid of her American accent.
** The film is set in Bristol but none of the characters speak with the appropriate accents. Everyone speaks [[IAmVeryBritish heightened RP]].
** Taou Yuen is a Chinese noblewoman that speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent. Her actress Anna May Wong was born in California and had vocal training to get rid of her American accent.
** The film is set in Bristol but none of the characters speak with the appropriate accents. Everyone speaks [[IAmVeryBritish heightened RP]].
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* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Gerrit has a wife who's a Chinese princess, and also a more modest Bristol love interest who is disgraced for having an unmarried mother.
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''Java Head'' is a 1934 British black-and-white drama film. It is an adaptation of a little known novel by Josef Hergesheimer, and a remake of a silent film from 1923 (which is now considered lost).
Java Head refers to the house belonging to the Ammidons - a wealthy Bristol family of merchants. They are at odds with the Dunsack family - due to a long standing feud between the respective grandfathers. This proves problematic, as Gerrit Ammidon seems to have an attraction to Nettie Vollar, the family's granddaughter. After being warned off by Nettie's grandfather, Gerrit departs for a year long voyage. When he returns, he's married a Chinese noblewoman called Taou Yuen.
The film is notable for featuring the only time Creator/AnnaMayWong was allowed to kiss her white co-star on screen.
!!Tropes:
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Laurel is prone to speaking out of turn, and imitating Taou Yuen in ways that would be considered impolite (though the latter finds her endearing).
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Nettie is shunned by the locals for her mother's 'shame'.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: For someone who was involved in a nasty collision with a runaway carriage, Nettie looks great.
* BigEater: In half of Laurel's early scenes, she's either being offered cake or told to stop eating it.
* BrokenAesop: The movie seems like it's giving AnAesop about respecting different cultures and traditions, which is utterly broken [[spoiler: by having Taou Yuen first try to kill Nettie and then suicide in order to facilitate a 'happy' ending for Gerrit and Nettie]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The opium that Nettie is on after her accident features heavily in the climax.
** Jeremy has a couple of early scenes where he experiences mild chest pains, [[spoiler: foreshadowing his eventual death by heart attack]].
* CostumePorn: Anna May Wong wears a splendid Chinese dress in almost every scene, as befitting a princess.
* CultureClash: Gerrit's Chinese wife and her Buddhist traditions clash with the Christianity of the locals.
* DeathOfTheHypoteneuse: [[spoiler: Taou Yuen seems like she's prepared to strangle Nettie when she's interrupted by Edward. She then takes poison to kill herself]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Taou Yuen reads a story from a Chinese folk tale about a man who loved two women and made them both his wives, asking Gerrit if that would be possible in England. When he replies that he could only love one woman at a time, she understands it as "one love would die, and the other grow stronger".
* DisappearedDad: Nettie's is nowhere to be seen.
* DragonLady: [[spoiler: Taou Yuen briefly slips into this persona as she prepares to strangle Nettie]].
* TheFundamentalist: Nettie's grandfather Bazil is a bible thumper who forbids her and her mother to have any fun. It makes more sense when you learn he was a Puritan in the original novel.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Nettie's uncle Edward is implied to have an opium addiction.
--> '''Taou Yuen:''' China is bad for men like him.
* GoodShepherd: The local vicar is very kind to Taou Yuen and is excited to discuss Confucianism with her.
* GoodTimesMontage: Nettie decides to rebel against her grandfather and we are shown a montage of her enjoying the celebrations for the Queen's birthday.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Lots of 19th century finery on display in most scenes.
* GossipyHens:
** Several saying unkind things about Nettie and Gerrit's friendship at the start.
** And again spreading the news of Gerrit's marriage when he returns.
* HollywoodHeartAttack: [[spoiler: Jeremy dies of one instantly from discovering William's opium deals]].
* LikeGoesWithLike: A LoveTriangle between a white merchant, his white childhood friend and an Asian princess. Guess who's the RomanticFalseLead.
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Gerrit is a wealthy Bristol merchant who marries a Chinese woman. The disadvantaged part of the trope is averted, as Taou Yuen is a princess and presented as an equal match for everyone else's intelligence.
* MisplacedAccent: Taou Yuen is a Chinese noblewoman that speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent. Her actress Anna May Wong was born in California and had vocal training to get rid of her American accent.
* MomentKiller: A positive example. Laurel interrupts Edward's harassment of Taou Yuen by walking into the room wearing her make-up.
* MoralityPet: Young Laurel accepts her uncle's new wife instantly, taking an interest in her make-up and even happily talking about how lucky she is to be the only girl in Bristol with a Chinese aunt.
* RaceFetish: Edward Dunsack has one for Chinese women and makes several unwanted advances on Taou Yuen.
* RelationshipSabotage: Edward tries this to ostensibly have Taou Yuen for himself, ignoring that she wants nothing to do with him.
* SettingUpdate: The novel was set in Salem, Massachusetts but the film updates it to Victorian Bristol.
* ShrinkingViolet: Nettie as a result of her grandfather's conservative teachings.
* SilkHidingSteel: Taou Yuen is a polite and dutiful wife, but show herself to be very strong and brave - turning down Edward's advances and remaining calm when the horses have an accident.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Taou Yuen speaks perfect English, which makes sense once she's retroactively revealed to be a princess.
* YellowPeril: Present, if extremely downplayed. Edward's opium addiction and desire for Taou Yuen could be interpreted as an example of how China 'corrupts' people.
''Java Head'' is a 1934 British black-and-white drama film. It is an adaptation of a little known novel by Josef Hergesheimer, and a remake of a silent film from 1923 (which is now considered lost).
Java Head refers to the house belonging to the Ammidons - a wealthy Bristol family of merchants. They are at odds with the Dunsack family - due to a long standing feud between the respective grandfathers. This proves problematic, as Gerrit Ammidon seems to have an attraction to Nettie Vollar, the family's granddaughter. After being warned off by Nettie's grandfather, Gerrit departs for a year long voyage. When he returns, he's married a Chinese noblewoman called Taou Yuen.
The film is notable for featuring the only time Creator/AnnaMayWong was allowed to kiss her white co-star on screen.
!!Tropes:
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Laurel is prone to speaking out of turn, and imitating Taou Yuen in ways that would be considered impolite (though the latter finds her endearing).
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Nettie is shunned by the locals for her mother's 'shame'.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: For someone who was involved in a nasty collision with a runaway carriage, Nettie looks great.
* BigEater: In half of Laurel's early scenes, she's either being offered cake or told to stop eating it.
* BrokenAesop: The movie seems like it's giving AnAesop about respecting different cultures and traditions, which is utterly broken [[spoiler: by having Taou Yuen first try to kill Nettie and then suicide in order to facilitate a 'happy' ending for Gerrit and Nettie]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The opium that Nettie is on after her accident features heavily in the climax.
** Jeremy has a couple of early scenes where he experiences mild chest pains, [[spoiler: foreshadowing his eventual death by heart attack]].
* CostumePorn: Anna May Wong wears a splendid Chinese dress in almost every scene, as befitting a princess.
* CultureClash: Gerrit's Chinese wife and her Buddhist traditions clash with the Christianity of the locals.
* DeathOfTheHypoteneuse: [[spoiler: Taou Yuen seems like she's prepared to strangle Nettie when she's interrupted by Edward. She then takes poison to kill herself]].
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Taou Yuen reads a story from a Chinese folk tale about a man who loved two women and made them both his wives, asking Gerrit if that would be possible in England. When he replies that he could only love one woman at a time, she understands it as "one love would die, and the other grow stronger".
* DisappearedDad: Nettie's is nowhere to be seen.
* DragonLady: [[spoiler: Taou Yuen briefly slips into this persona as she prepares to strangle Nettie]].
* TheFundamentalist: Nettie's grandfather Bazil is a bible thumper who forbids her and her mother to have any fun. It makes more sense when you learn he was a Puritan in the original novel.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Nettie's uncle Edward is implied to have an opium addiction.
--> '''Taou Yuen:''' China is bad for men like him.
* GoodShepherd: The local vicar is very kind to Taou Yuen and is excited to discuss Confucianism with her.
* GoodTimesMontage: Nettie decides to rebel against her grandfather and we are shown a montage of her enjoying the celebrations for the Queen's birthday.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Lots of 19th century finery on display in most scenes.
* GossipyHens:
** Several saying unkind things about Nettie and Gerrit's friendship at the start.
** And again spreading the news of Gerrit's marriage when he returns.
* HollywoodHeartAttack: [[spoiler: Jeremy dies of one instantly from discovering William's opium deals]].
* LikeGoesWithLike: A LoveTriangle between a white merchant, his white childhood friend and an Asian princess. Guess who's the RomanticFalseLead.
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Gerrit is a wealthy Bristol merchant who marries a Chinese woman. The disadvantaged part of the trope is averted, as Taou Yuen is a princess and presented as an equal match for everyone else's intelligence.
* MisplacedAccent: Taou Yuen is a Chinese noblewoman that speaks with a mid-Atlantic accent. Her actress Anna May Wong was born in California and had vocal training to get rid of her American accent.
* MomentKiller: A positive example. Laurel interrupts Edward's harassment of Taou Yuen by walking into the room wearing her make-up.
* MoralityPet: Young Laurel accepts her uncle's new wife instantly, taking an interest in her make-up and even happily talking about how lucky she is to be the only girl in Bristol with a Chinese aunt.
* RaceFetish: Edward Dunsack has one for Chinese women and makes several unwanted advances on Taou Yuen.
* RelationshipSabotage: Edward tries this to ostensibly have Taou Yuen for himself, ignoring that she wants nothing to do with him.
* SettingUpdate: The novel was set in Salem, Massachusetts but the film updates it to Victorian Bristol.
* ShrinkingViolet: Nettie as a result of her grandfather's conservative teachings.
* SilkHidingSteel: Taou Yuen is a polite and dutiful wife, but show herself to be very strong and brave - turning down Edward's advances and remaining calm when the horses have an accident.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Taou Yuen speaks perfect English, which makes sense once she's retroactively revealed to be a princess.
* YellowPeril: Present, if extremely downplayed. Edward's opium addiction and desire for Taou Yuen could be interpreted as an example of how China 'corrupts' people.
