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Kee Nang | |
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First appearance | The Golden Child (1986) |
Last appearance | The Golden Child (1986) |
Adapted by | Dennis Feldman |
Portrayed by | Charlotte Lewis |
In-universe information | |
Occupation | Priestess |
Family | The Old Man (father) |
Significant other | Chandler Jarrell |
Home | Tibet |
Kee Nang is a fictional character who appears in
Character arc
Kee Nang is a young Tibetan priestess[5] who tries to recruit[6] social worker[7] and private investigator Chandler Jarrell (Eddie Murphy) in hope of finding and rescuing a mystical[8] Tibetan boy. The boy, who is only known as "The Golden Child" (J.L. Reate), has been kidnapped[9] by an evil[10] sorcerer (Charles Dance) named Sardo Numspa.[11]
Kee tells[12][13] a skepitcal Chandler[14] that it is his destiny[15][16][17] (as it was written in a Tibetan scroll[18] 400-years prior) to find the Golden Child. Chandler at first, plays along but mainly to get close and flirt with Kee,[19] only to soon realize that not only is otherworldly magic real, but so is his destiny.
Chandler was already working on a case[20] involving a missing and eventually murdered girl[21] named Cheryll Mosley, when Kee saw him on television.[22] Sardo Numpa's forces drained Cheryll of blood in order to try and fool the Golden Child into consuming the blood, thus weakening[23] his powers.[24] These powers in particular, consists of telekinesis and the ability to bring dead animals back to life.
When Chandler asks Kee why they were trying to feed the child blood-soaked
Sardo Numpsa later enters Chandler makes a deal with Chandler via a
So Chandler and Kee jet off to
Back in Los Angeles, Chandler and Kee are taken to a safe house. After initially resisting his advances[31], Kee Nang finally decides to invite Chandler into her bed[32] only for him to decline in favor of sleeping on the couch.[33]
But soon, Sardo and his men arrive and take out the guards. Kee ultimately gives her life to save Chandler from Sardo's crossbow bolt[34], but not before telling him that she loves him. Doctor Hong and Kala tell Chandler that he has until sundown[35][36][37] to rescue the Golden Child in order to bring Kee back to life.
After locating the Golden Child's location, which is an empty mansion, they are chased by the Sardo, who has transformed into a winged demon.[38] On the way back to the basement of Doctor Hong's shop, where Kee's body is resting, Chandler is able to kill Sardo with the Ajanti Dagger and the Golden Child is able to restore Kee back to life by lifting her foot[39] of into a beam of sunlight, where it touches her toes.[40]
The film concludes with Chandler, Kee, and the Golden Child taking a walk while discussing the child’s return to Tibet and (as Chandler jokingly suggests) the boy’s prospective fame as a stage magician.
Development and background
Kee Nang initially appears as a mysterious,
Kee is also an expert in
Kee Nang as a character, arguably represents the Lotus Blossom image, with her sexual availability and idea of exoticism. She in particular, is on the surface, very quiet and meek, yet also holds characteristics of being subservient, and willing to sacrifice herself for Chandler.
Charlotte Lewis was at the time, an 18-year-old model-turned-actress.[50][51][52][53] A Los Angeles Daily News article dated on March 25, 1986, announced[54] Charlotte Lewis as the final choice for the role of Kee Nang and claimed it would be the “first time Eddie Murphy has been romantically involved on screen.” Lewis was selected from over 500 applicants.[55]
Eddie Murphy when describing the film said[56] that “It’s about this guy who was living his normal life and this person comes and says, ‘You are the chosen one. You’ve been chosen to save the world.’ He's like, ‘Really?’ My character throughout the whole picture is reluctant to go on this journey. He starts to slowly believe what this woman is telling him. There are strong contrasts in the film. Charlotte's character, Kee Nang, is a mystical, magical person. My character is this guy with strong common sense solving an illogical thing with logic. It's a nice contrast.”
Meanwhile, Lewis said[57] that she actually thought that she was going to Tibet since that was where The Golden Child was set. In actuality, the Tibet as seen in The Golden Child was to be a set at Paramount, with a little location shooting at a ski resort called Mammoth Mountain five hours from Los Angeles. According to Lewis, so much money was spent re-creating Tibet in California that it would have been cheaper to actually fly to the country.
Legacy and allusions
Aiden Mason of TV Overmind suggested[59] that Kee Nang bore similarities to Chun-Li from Capcom's Street Fighter video game series. In August 2020, Lovell Porter from the website Blaque Rabbit, suggested[60] that Jessica Henwick should play Kee Nang in a hypothetical remake[61] of The Golden Child.
Reception
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune said[62] that Eddie Murphy's companion as played by Charlotte Lewis, is a beautiful Eurasian woman who leaps, chops and backflips with all the unflappable springiness of Bruce Lee, but director Michael Ritchie employs her chiefly as cheesecake.[63][64][65] Kehr particularly made note that when Lewis bounds through the air, it's merely an excuse to look up her dress.
Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote[66] that as the inscrutable kung fu princess Kee Nang, the fetching Charlotte Lewis hardly qualifies as a straight woman to Eddie Murphy.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said[67] that Lewis as the preternaturally beautiful heroine Kee Nang, won her an audience of dozens in Roman Polanski's Pirates and that The Golden Child will likely do a lot better. Ebert added that Lewis looks very beautiful, and because that is her role in this movie, she fulfills it flawlessly. Lewis also according to Ebert, succeeds in keeping a straight face while Eddie Murphy uses her as the subject of speculation, rejection, romance and betrayal, and while she uses her effortless mastery of kung fu to protect him.
Candice Russell of the
Nadia Ramoutar in a 2006 study from the University of Florida noted[73] that Charlotte Lewis' character in The Golden Child can leap over tall walls or from high buildings, usually just wearing Eddie Murphy’s shirt and her underwear.
Liz Bourke of
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External links
- The Golden Child at IMDb
- The Golden Child at AllMovie
- The Golden Child at Box Office Mojo
- Colin's Un-official Charlotte Lewis Home Page - The Golden Child