Avatar has become China's most successful movie, but that hasn't stopped the country's government pulling the film from some of its cinemas over fears that it could cause political unrest. The China Film Group, which is run by the state, believes the plot of human colonists attempting to demolish an alien village for its resources steers too close to a very sensitive issue in China at the moment Millions of Chinese people have been evicted from their homes to make room for high rises and government infrastructure projects, reports The LA Times. Avatar's success has also angered some Chinese officials, who fear the film's popularity takes too much market share from their domestic films. 2D showings of Avatar will now be pulled from Chinese cinemas, but film fans can still see 3D showings of the sci-fi epic. However, there are so few 3D cinema screens in China, it's essentially a theatrical ban for the Golden Globe-winning movie. So, instead of Avatar, Chinese film fans can look forward to the Chow-Yun Fat biopic of the ancient philosopher Confucius in its place. An Asian media consultancy, Wolf Group Asia, however, insists that the decision to choose Confucius in favour of Avatar was all to do with the Chinese New Year holiday, which begins in the middle of February. A spokesperson added, "There are certain windows in the year that are held for domestic films. We're coming up on Chinese New Year, so this can be expected."
Meh... the chinese version will not be the original! So the government has banned it because they feel guilty to evict those people out of their rooms to rebuild something else? lawl
there isnt any chinese version of avatar, u misread i guess, what they said is chinese "should" go to see the biopic of Confucius, starring Chow Yun Fat, instead of avatar cus its chinese & it suits the CNY theme, they're banning avatar (based on the article) cus:
The problem within the PRC is, that everything and anything can take a political undertone, and the direction of which can be as varied as the daily weather. Welcome to the great Proletariat struggle, eh? :laugh:
For the matter, even the Catholics have a bone to pick with Avatar. I guess everyone loves a winner, eh? LOL...:rolleyes2:
lol no idea, if there is a catholic here maybe they can give their thoughts on the movie, but still reckon they should show Animal farm, translated of course, very educational, i think its the first (maybe only) political movie i ever watched.
There's nothing political about this move. But it really takes a lot of bias to make this story political though lol Don't knock on China too hard. Other countries have legal screening quota systems in place to block the dominance of Hollywood imports, like Korea, France, Spain, Italy etc. Surely what's happening here is no worse than what's going on elsewhere. Similiar to what KaY_xD said, this is the film they are replacing with. Confucius is kinda a big deal to China.. [video=youtube;vvlu5wzyo_4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvlu5wzyo_4"[/video]
Hollywood movies are typically dubbed in Mandarin for the Mainland China viewers. There might be Chinese subbed prints with English audio out there but dubbed is usually how they watch it.
I swear the God, what the government has done is simply lagging the creativity of the Chinese people. damn conservatives.
