Turning Red (2022)
Sandra Oh: Ming, Panda Ming, Young Ming
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Quotes
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[to Mei]
Ming : The farther you go, the prouder I'll be.
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Ming : Did... the 'red peony' bloom?
[Ming's husband cringes and backs away from the bathroom]
Meilin Lee : NO!
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Ming : [as a colossal red panda yelling at the crowd at the concert] Everyone go home! Where are your parents? And put some clothes on!
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[explaining the panda transformation to Mei]
Ming : As you know, our ancestor, Sun Yee, had a mystical connection with red pandas. In fact, she loved them so much that she asked the gods to turn her into one. It was wartime. The men were all gone. Sun Yee was desperate for a way to protect herself and her daughters. Then one night, during a red moon, the gods granted her wish. They gave her the ability to harness her emotions, to transform into a powerful mystical beast. She was able to fend off bandits, protect her village, and save her family from ruin. Sun Yee passed this gift to her daughters, for when they came of age. And they passed it to theirs. But over time, our family chose to come to a new world. And what was a blessing became... an inconvenience.
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Ming : [as she and Mei shoos out intruders] I'm telling your mothers!
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Ming : [Holding Meilin in her hand as a colossal red panda] How could you be so... so... CRASS?
Meilin Lee : [squeezing her way out as a red panda] Oh that's nothing, you wanna see crass?
[starts dancing suggestively and shakes her butt at her]
Ming : [covers her eyes] What are you doing? Stop moving like that!
Meilin Lee : [laughs and continues shaking her butt] What's wrong, is this bothering you?
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Ming : [while being strugled with security guard] Mei Mei! Tell them it's mommy!
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Ming : [finds red panda Meilin crying in her bedroom] Mei-Mei?
Meilin Lee : Don't look at me! Stay back!
Ming : Sweetie, it's okay. Mommy is here.
Meilin Lee : What's happening to me?
[crying]
Jin : [enters the scene] What is it? What... What...
[gasps]
Jin : It's happened already?
Meilin Lee : [stops crying, then looks at Ming and Jin] What did you say?
Jin : Ming, it's time.
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[after Mei runs off to the concert, leaving her talisman cracked]
Ming : [growing angry] How could she? How could she do this to... her own... MOTHER?
[Her talisman broke out of light, freeing the red panda spirit, who lunges into Ming's body. Everyone gasps, Ming furiously yells with transformation...]
Ming : MEI-MEI!
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Meilin Lee : I'm not your little "Mei-Mei" anymore! I *lied*, Mom!
Ming : *What*?
Meilin Lee : It was *my* idea to hustle the panda! *My* idea to go to Tyler's party! It was *all me*! I like boys, I like loud music, I like gyrating! I'm *thirteen*! *Deal with it*!
