Plus, the backstory of Seattle’s resident dragons and earthy books for Mother’s Day.
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Cast members (left to right) Brian Le, Andy Le and Phillip Dang rehearse a fight scene for ‘The Paper Tigers’ at an empty pool in Shoreline, Aug. 22, 2019. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
In most films set in Seattle, the “establishing shot” comes courtesy of the Space Needle — just a glimpse and we know exactly where we are. But in the new locally made movie
The Paper Tigers, that job falls to a
red and yellow dragon curled around a utility pole. It’s on screen only for a moment, in the opening shot, but locals know immediately: We’re in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.