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Red Dawn: Commie China orders Hollywood to change World War Z, Cloud Atlas, Iron Man 3, MIB3, James Bond Skyfall, The Karate Kid, Red Dawn, Fox News, Firefly

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A scene from the new Brad Pitt movie World War Z had to be changed so as not to offend Chinese state censors, just one of numerous recent examples where American movies are being amended in order to please China’s ruling Communist Party leaders.

“In the offending scene, characters debate the geographic origin of an outbreak that caused a zombie apocalypse and point to China,” a Paramount executive told TheWrap.

Paramount ordered the movie’s producers to choose a different country and redo the scene so as not to upset Chinese censors and threaten distribution in China, the fastest growing film market in the world.

This is by no means the first example of American movie producers being told to edit out negative portrayals of China in order to please Communist Party censors.

“While China has loosened its restrictions on the number of foreign films that can screen in the country, its film board continues to wield a great deal of influence, causing unprecedented changes in plots, release strategies, casting and other elements of Hollywood production,” writes Lucas Shaw.



Concerns that China was interfering in U.S. media were also heard after MGM was forced to delay the re-make of Red Dawn for two years after Chinese state media complained that depicting the invading villains as Chinese “would demonize their state and its citizens.” The bad guys were changed to North Koreans and entire portions of the film had to be revised.

'Red Dawn' star C. Thomas Howell calls new movie's N Korean enemy 'stupid'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2012/11/23/howell-red-dawn-w
olverines/1723011
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The filmmakers were forced to set about, “digitally erasing Chinese flags and military symbols from “Red Dawn,” substituting dialogue and altering the film to depict much of the invading force as being from North Korea, an isolated country where American media companies have no dollars at stake,” reported the L.A. Times.

An alternate version of Iron Man 3 has also been produced to cater to Chinese audiences as a way of satisfying Communist Party censors.

Large chunks of several movies released last year were also cut by censors, including 40 minutes from Cloud Atlas and 12 minutes from Men in Black 3. All scenes taking place in Chinatown were excised.

A scene from the latest James Bond franchise Skyfall that depicted a Chinese security guard being assassinated was also scrubbed.

The 1984 movie The Karate Kid was also censored at the behest of Communist Party officials, who expressed displeasure at one of the villains being Chinese, leading to 12 minutes of the film being cut.

Last year, Chinese company Wanda purchased AMC, the second-largest theater chain in the USA, increasing fears that the Chinese Communist Party was expanding its influence globally as part of a media takeover.

“Beijing is investing heavily in projecting its “soft power,” or cultural influence, by boosting Chinese state media’s presence abroad, including the USA, where the Chinese government has also run advertisements in New York’s Times Square,” reported USA Today.

Stanley Rosen, director of USC’s East Asian Studies Center, said the Communist Party remained “hyper-sensitive to anything that puts China in a bad light.”

While Chinese censors deleting scenes for their own domestic propaganda purposes is one thing, the fact that American movie studios are self-censoring films before they’re even viewed by Communist Party officials illustrates how draconian Chinese media censorship is already being applied to American audiences.


In Firefly the Alliance merged the US flag with the flag of Communist China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_(Firefly)

Which explains why Fox cancelled Firefly before its first episode, since Communist China owned Fox, after Commie Chinese intelligence agent Deng Wen Di married Rupert Murdoch in 1999.


http://piratenews.org/fox-news-owned-by-communist-china.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendi_Deng

Quote:

"On Earth-That-Was, the two ruling powers were once known as America and China. And pot was totally legal, though I probably won't stress that. In fact, forget I said it."
-Joss Whedon, Serenity: The Official Visual Companion, A Brief History of the Universe
circa 2507A.D.

"I never thought much about pop culture's place in the Firefly universe, but the idea of the media is something that you're going to run into when you're dealing with an oppressive regime like the Alliance. Freedom of Speech doesn't really exist in the 'verse, and you have to assume that whatever passes for the media is just a tool of the government."
-Jose Molina, Firefly writer of "Ariel" and "Trash" and Firefly: Still Flying.
http://io9.com/5546866/what-was-it-really-like-to-be-a-writer-on-firef
ly


"As far as Chinese goes, I resented it."
-Adam Tudyk, The Making of Firefly, Serenity DVD
(video censored by youtube)




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Thursday, May 9, 2013 5:35 PM

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Not only is Communist China censored from the Red Dawn film, the words 'Communist' and 'Communism' are also banned...
http://www.reddawnfilm.com




In Firefly the Alliance merged the US flag with the flag of Communist China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_(Firefly)

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Friday, May 10, 2013 1:15 PM

WHOZIT


I heard they changed the endding because it sucked.

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Friday, May 10, 2013 4:02 PM

JONGSSTRAW





Oh PN, you had me at Wendi Deng. Not that Hannity in his kimono and rice paddy hat isn't a huge turn-on as well.

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Friday, May 10, 2013 4:09 PM

JONGSSTRAW


The Karate Kid remake with Will Smith's son and Jackie Chan wasn't as good as the original, but I still enjoyed it. Had some interesting new elements including filming on location in China.



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Friday, May 10, 2013 6:17 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:



Oh PN, you had me at Wendi Deng. Not that Hannity in his kimono and rice paddy hat isn't a huge turn-on as well.



Operative Wendi can kill you with her brain. And her man-hands. And her bionic legs.

Sean Vanity is just a drunk in a lamp shade.

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Friday, May 10, 2013 6:21 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
The Karate Kid remake with Will Smith's son and Jackie Chan wasn't as good as the original, but I still enjoyed it. Had some interesting new elements including filming on location in China.





Jackie Chan is Red Dawn, literally, after the British Empire gave Hong Kong back to Commie China (still a British colony since the Opium Wars).

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