There are nearly eighteen million Asian Americans living in the United States; they represent six percent of the population. Many Asian Americans here are doctors, lawyers, engineers and CEOs. Despite this, Asian Americans are portrayed as geeks, gangsters, or geishas in Hollywood films. When it comes to leading roles, they rarely get the roles they deserve and they are often portrayed as stereotypes. During the 1930s, the film industry was primarily run and financed by Anglo-Americans, including playwrights, producers, actors, actresses, and others. member. Westerns were popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and in these films, white men behaved like Asian Americans rather than hiring Asian Americans. As Hollywood film industries progress further focusing on wider audiences and becoming more profitable. Film industries started introducing other characters. During the early 1950s and 1960s, various minority roles were introduced in Hollywood films. Most roles were stereotyped and marginalized by a single dimension such as servant, maid, etc. These are Cambodians, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, Indians, Indonesians, Laotians, Malaysians, Thais and Vietnamese all coming together on the same continent. Fifteen years after World War II, Vietnamese in the United States still suffered the pain of the exile of their identity in media and films. They are former generals, former peasant spy school teachers, and doctors, but in the films they play servant characters. Asian Americans make up 10% of California's population, but of that 10% only 1% work in television. Every movie shows Asian women as a white man's girlfriend. They are always shown a sexualized character... middle of paper ... an Asian guy, which Hwang called yellow face casting. When the show first opened in New York in 1990, most Asian theater artists protested, including David Henry Hwang. Thus, we see that the film industry is a powerful form of mass media in our society that provides the perception of what Americans are like. what culture looks like and how we treat each other in society. The Hollywood film industry is driven by box office profits and glamour. There is virtually no history of financially successful films starring an Asian American or any other minority group. Filmmakers don't even consider minorities as potential customers. Even today, most of the time, big companies are reluctant to invest in or promote films for which they do not generate a significant return on investment. Making money is the underlying theme of these industries.