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I don’t see why, if they’re so desperate for Chinese money, the studio couldn’t just make two cuts of the movie with different maps, one for China and one for t

by rcarr 3y ago

I don’t see why, if they’re so desperate for Chinese money, the studio couldn’t just make two cuts of the movie with different maps, one for China and one for the rest of the world. Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just because the other one exists? And vice versa with Vietnam? Being that scared/desperate to not upset China is super weak.

ceejayoz 3y ago
> Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just because the other one exists? They sometimes edit themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#List_of_edited_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#List_... My favorite are the ones where they make sure there's a "happy ending" where the authorities win, often with a title card like the Simpsons's "Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet" joke. > In 2022, Fight Club was released in China with an altered ending: a text screen explaining that the authorities triumphed after figuring out Project Mayhem's plan, and that Tyler Durden was committed to a psychiactric institution. This prompted backlash and the film's original ending was subsequently restored. > The Chinese release of Lord of War cuts the final 30 minutes from the film and replaces it with a text screen summary stating that Yuri Orlov confessed to all crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. Why permit two versions when you can flex your muscles and force everyone to see the version you want, though?
- Karellen 3y ago
  But also, interestingly: > The Narrator finds redemption at the end of the film by rejecting Tyler Durden's dialectic, a path that diverged from the novel's ending in which the Narrator is placed in a mental institution. > An online release in China from Tencent censored the bomb blasts at the end and replaced the ending with a message that Project Mayhem was thwarted, with Tyler Durden being arrested by law enforcement and placed in an insane asylum until 2012, adapting the ending of the original Fight Club novel. [...] The novel's author Chuck Palahniuk believed the censored version partially restored the books ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club
Eric_WVGG 3y ago
… or, leave the map out of the movie… if the barbie movie turns out to pivot on geopolitics I'll eat a one inch hot pink pair of pumps…
justrealist 3y ago
> Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just because the other one exists Yes, without a second thought. China isn't trying to convince people inside China that the South China Sea is their sovereign territory. They're trying to push the belief on the rest of the world.
atlasunshrugged 3y ago
Yes, China will absolutely ban them because the other version exists. The point for China isn't just to manipulate their citizens, but control what the world sees as well... they have a billion+ person market and they know how to wield it to get what they want from corporations desperate to show good quarterly profits.

by rcarr 3y ago

ceejayoz 3y ago

> Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just because the other one exists? They sometimes edit themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#List_of_edited_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#List_... My favorite are the ones where they make sure there's a "happy ending" where the authorities win, often with a title card like the Simpsons's "Note: Poochie died on the way back to his home planet" joke. > In 2022, Fight Club was released in China with an altered ending: a text screen explaining that the authorities triumphed after figuring out Project Mayhem's plan, and that Tyler Durden was committed to a psychiactric institution. This prompted backlash and the film's original ending was subsequently restored. > The Chinese release of Lord of War cuts the final 30 minutes from the film and replaces it with a text screen summary stating that Yuri Orlov confessed to all crimes and was sentenced to life in prison. Why permit two versions when you can flex your muscles and force everyone to see the version you want, though?

Karellen 3y ago
But also, interestingly: > The Narrator finds redemption at the end of the film by rejecting Tyler Durden's dialectic, a path that diverged from the novel's ending in which the Narrator is placed in a mental institution. > An online release in China from Tencent censored the bomb blasts at the end and replaced the ending with a message that Project Mayhem was thwarted, with Tyler Durden being arrested by law enforcement and placed in an insane asylum until 2012, adapting the ending of the original Fight Club novel. [...] The novel's author Chuck Palahniuk believed the censored version partially restored the books ending. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club

Eric_WVGG 3y ago

… or, leave the map out of the movie… if the barbie movie turns out to pivot on geopolitics I'll eat a one inch hot pink pair of pumps…

justrealist 3y ago

> Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just because the other one exists Yes, without a second thought. China isn't trying to convince people inside China that the South China Sea is their sovereign territory. They're trying to push the belief on the rest of the world.

atlasunshrugged 3y ago

Yes, China will absolutely ban them because the other version exists. The point for China isn't just to manipulate their citizens, but control what the world sees as well... they have a billion+ person market and they know how to wield it to get what they want from corporations desperate to show good quarterly profits.