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Original 'Fight Club' Ending Restored in China After Censorship Backlash

lundi 7 février 2022, 05:58 , par Slashdot
Last month streamers in China discovered that Fight Club had arrived on streaming platform Tencent — but with an entirely new ending where local authorities 'rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals.....'

But now there's been another round of changes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 'After widespread online backlash to clumsy censorship of the film's ending, Chinese streaming service Tencent Video backtracked in recent days and restored most of the cuts it had made.'
Crucially, Fight Club's complete ending is now viewable in full in China...

News of the cuts went viral around the world and sparked much debate and embarrassment on Chinese social media about local censorship practices.... [I]t would appear that the backlash has been deemed more troublesome than the fictional film's ending, as Tencent has now restored 11 of the 12 minutes it originally cut from the 137-minute movie. The minute still missing is mostly comprised of brief nude sex scenes between Brad Pitt's and Helena Bonham Carter's characters.

Insider reports that changing the original ending provoked comments like these on China's Twitter-like platform Weibo:

- 'This has become a Chinese-only joke. Even dogs won't want to watch this.'

- 'This is exactly why, even if you have streaming platform subscriptions, you still have to watch pirated versions.'

And it brought massive attention to China's history of changing movies, notes the Wrap since 'word quickly spread across the globe, bringing embarrassment to the country,' reports the Wrap:
Censorship of American films and TV shows at the behest of Chinese officials has become common as Hollywood has made in-roads in the country over the past decade. Last year, an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which the titular family visits China was removed from Disney+ in Hong Kong over a joke made in the film about the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and the Chinese government's censorship of the event.
Even the South China Morning Post reported that Chuck Palahniuk, the author of the novel that inspired the film, 'appeared to mock the move on Twitter. 'Everyone gets a happy ending in China!' he wrote...'
Similar changes have been made to other films in China in the past. Nicolas Cage's 2005 crime film Lord of War had its final half-hour cut and replaced with text reading, 'Yuri Orlov confessed all the crimes officially charged against him in court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the end.'

And another example from the Hollywood Reporter:
After 20th Century Fox's Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody won multiple Oscars in the 2018, it was granted a theatrical release in China — but only after all mentions of Freddie Mercury's homosexuality were cut from the film.

But in this case a global popular outcry appears to have been too embarrasing to endure. According to the Hollywood Reporter now we even have an expected ending to the story of how China tried to censor Fight Club.

'Reversals of censorship actions are extremely rare within China's entertainment industry — but cuts to Hollywood movies are not.'

Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/22/02/07/0452215/original-fight-club-ending-restored-in-chi...
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