Yeah, doesn’t he actually end up in an asylum with his acolytes posing as nurses and telling him the revolution is still going strong?
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“We look forward to getting you back.”
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There is a ton of irony that the movie is being changed because of the whims of a authoritative government. In a way it reinforces Tyler Durden’s mission of chaos and subversion and the main character’s desire to break out of his unhappy life
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Credit where it’s due, that’s funnier than anything in the original script.
I assume Chinese people are sophisticated enough to read between the lines here, just as viewers of Cops understand that drunk womens’ boobs are not literally a blob of pixels in real life. It might be cultural vamdalism, but it’s not as sinister as when speech is suppressed entirely, so that you never hear an idea in the first place. Which China also does. Though not as insidiously as how Western regimes do it.
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In case anyone was wondering how communist China really is, that they view private, finance corporations as a symbol of themselves might be a solid indicator. Authoritarianism puts power and control above all
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I know what you’re saying and you’re right though I think it has WAY more to do with producers wanting to make a safe bet on a script that’s already performed well elsewhere rather than stupid american can’t parse accent or read subtitle. I don’t hate a remake btw its like a cover song sometimes its just different in a good way (sometimes)
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Vaguely related to this, the movie adaptation of A Clockwork Orange actually had a more dystopic ending than the book (they omitted the last chapter, which was somewhat redemptive for Alex). This was around the time of Watergate, and the mood in the country did not welcome happy endings.
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Bohemian Rhapsody* withour momosexuality content?
Only in China
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To be fair, it was the American edition of the book rather than the movie which dropped the final chapter. The movie just followed the American edition. I know it’s the popular reading that dropping the final chapter made the book more dystopic, but I’ve always thought it the other way. Without the final chapter, it says that Alex is irredeemable, which is disheartening. But with the final chapter, and Alex realizing that his kids are likely to be even worse than he was, it says that even though people can age out of violence, the cycle itself of violent crime followed by repressive responses from the government will never be over, and it is humanity itself that is irredeemable.
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They shrinked black caractere references, and upscaled robots
Black are black because they are dirty in chinese culture.
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to be fair, we have some issues with Blackness in American and western culture.
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lol, way to remind everyone what the moral of the story was. Please someone pirate it and add a Tiananmen square reference.
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I swear there was a version of the ending where Alex decided his past violence was too small for him and he decided to become an investment banker.
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Sure, it’s fine. Let’s just sell our artistic souls for some good old fashioned cash. I’ve never seen Fight Club and have no interest, but man, Hollywood (and the NBA, and many others) are just more than happy to bend over for authoritarians if they can make a buck, aren’t they.
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Has a very strong Hayes Code feel to it.
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Think there might be a difference between “Robotech” and Fight Club? Robotech is a kiddie cartoon and Fight Club was a huge movie with a bunch of A list stars and serious social commentary. Changing the message behind fight club says to the audience, “Brad, Edward, and Fincher stand behind the message it’s sending.”
Cartoons don’t care what is being said, because …they’re cartoons.
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Perhaps you’re thinking of American Psycho.
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Not sure at all how much control Hollywood, much less the cross, have over Chinese content. The Chinese government is quite likely just doing what they want without asking for either permission or forgiveness. Whatever kind of deal they have with the distribution company it probably allows the Chinese government pretty much free rein.
The “deal” is that the film will be banned unless you make the changes that the censors ask for.
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not to mention how casting adult actors as the child villains completely changed the entire context and meaning of the story
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