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[Victor Omega]

 

[FunkMiller]

The excessive pandering to the CCP is one of the most disgusting recent, greed fuelled trends in Hollywood.

 

[Nobody_Important]

The excessive pandering to the CCP is one of the most disgusting recent, greed fuelled trends in Hollywood.

Money > Morals

 

[MastaKiiLA]

The excessive pandering to the CCP is one of the most disgusting recent, greed fuelled trends in Hollywood.

Hollywood is like,

 

[thefool]

Pandering to ccp vs pandering to hollywood loonies

 

[HoodWinked]

Unsee?

All of these examples I remember sticking out when I first watched them in theatre

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Good for China

 

[Artoris]

Don't sell this one to China

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[FunkMiller]

Pandering to ccp vs pandering to hollywood loonies

Pandering to Hollywood loonies is relatively harmless. Pandering to an authoritarian regime that condones genocidal activity... not so much. Neither is good. One is far, far worse.

 

[MisterFalcon]

I doubt many rewrites were needed to not have the Dalai Lama in the Warcraft movie. The rest just seems like something marketing would do anyway to appeal to a huge market.

There have been reports of far more extensive alternations mandated like the bad guys not being allowed to win or the government cannot appear to be powerless against Godzilla or aliens.

 

[Revolutionary]

I was going to say "no shit", but this video is from 2017 so yes, this is well known in 2022.

It's a major reason why Monster Hunter bombed so horribly. It was counting on that Chinese money, but a joke made by a Chinese-American actor in the trailer was seen as racist (Weibo aka Chinese Twitter is just as retarded as our Twitter btw), so China boycotted it and doomed the movie to complete failure.

Monster Hunter film pulled from China after scene sparks backlash

Screenings cancelled one day after release following anger over pun seen as racially offensive

www.theguardian.com

 

[kraspkibble]

i don't mind appealing to the chinese audience but the government? fuck off.

 

[nush]

It's a major reason why Monster Hunter bombed so horribly. It was counting on that Chinese money

Good. Make a good product, don't make money because you can throw audience numbers at it to "Get out of jail free".

 

[Lady Jane]

Pandering to ccp vs pandering to hollywood loonies

Spoiler: They're the same people

 

[Raven117]

This is news to you OP?

 

[Wildebeest]

The US can never outdo Wolf Warrior in the Chinese market.

 

[ManaByte]

South Park did it better.

 

[FunkMiller]

Spoiler: They're the same people

Only if you’re dumb.

 

[AJUMP23]

In Transformers they had the Chinese building US military robots.....I was like what? The US would not outsource military hardware to China.

 

[Tieno]

Pandering to ccp vs pandering to hollywood loonies

I WANT THEM TO PANDER ONLY TO ME FFS! I AM THE TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC!

 

[Elysion]

Pandering to ccp vs pandering to hollywood loonies

Indeed. At this point Chinese censorship is probably the only thing preventing Hollywood from just saying ‘fuck it’ and turning well known characters into full blown transvestites with necrophilia fetishes or something lol. They would love to do it, but they also know that it means being excluded from the massive Chinese market.

I’m genuinely curious how this will work out in the long run. Hollywood is only getting more and more degenerate, while China has recently started to move in the opposite direction, telling its domestic media to get rid of ‘sissy men’ and depict more masculine role models. At some point Hollywood (and western entertainment in general) will be culturally so far removed from Chinese (and other non-western) sensibilities that the age of the international blockbuster might eventually be coming to an end.

 

[22:22:22]

Great channel although no one will watch this vid lmao

Also hollywood is a cesspool

No wonder they don't give a fuck

 

[Mikey Jr.]

Don't sell this one to China

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I never understood the Winnie Pooh reference.

Then one day I randomly saw him walking on tv and instantly made sense.

I was fucking laughing so much lol.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I still think the United States is the best country in the world.

 

[saber45]

I still think the United States is the best country in the world.

Oh yeah?

 

[TonyK]

I thought the video would bring curiosities nobody could think about it, but all was pretty obvious. It was like a video about flirting with girls and said take a shower and don't grab her tits at first sight.

 

[Sub_Level]

Blink was one of the best parts about Days of Future Past so Im glad they pandered to China in that particular case lol

 

[22:22:22]

Nvm

 

[Pejo]

I prefer bing chillin'

 

[///PATRIOT]

Yikes....

 

[Alebrije]

Well , not just China but also México, more than before You have actors coming to México promoting movies , I know it's not the scope of China's case. But it seems Hollywood needs more than ever the money from markets outside U.S.

 

[jimmyd]

Y'all seen that latest Minions movie?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

The best part is when they pander to both CCP and woke Westerners at the same time.

The infamous same sex kiss in Lightyear was cut when the film was submitted to China's censors for release candidacy. The film wasn't approved for release in China anyways.

 

[ManaByte]

i don't mind appealing to the chinese audience but the government? fuck off.

 

[spawn]

I rarely go to the movies because most of the bullshit out there doesn't appeal to me. The last movie I went to go see was John Wick 3.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Hollywood is an absolute shell of its former glory.

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

Whether or not they were trying to pander to China Rogue One is still the best Star Wars movie released under Disney.

 

[jason10mm]

I Thought China kept like 80% of the BO there so is it really worth pandering to that audience for a mere 20-40 million?

 

[Victor Omega]

I'm surprised ppl aren't aware of this more

 

[GymWolf]

Pandering to ccp vs pandering to hollywood loonies

I prefer to pander to the one who didn't completely fucked the world in the past 2 years, but that's just me.

 

[lifa-cobex]

Chinese exposition

 

[Cyberpunkd]

i don't mind appealing to the chinese audience but the government? fuck off.

Here's the deal - you don't appeal to the Chinese government, your movie will not be released in China. Not to mention many Chinese are brainwashed and will defend their government no matter what nonsense.

 

[jason10mm]

How did they go through that entire discussion and not mention the Chris Hemsworth Red Dawn remake where they had to go back and CGI out all the CCP flags for North Korea?

 

[Batiman]

I have to admit that Shanghai is a great setting for most of the movies that film there. That bond scene was one of the best shot scenes in all of the Craig films. Transformers was trash but it is a cool city to see robots fighting each other in.

 

[SlimySnake]

lol I laughed at all the times that actress was cast. Shes terrible too.

 

[bitbydeath]

I prefer to pander to the one who didn't completely fucked the world in the past 2 years, but that's just me.

You’re gonna have to be more descriptive.

 

[jshackles]

This video came out 5 years ago.

It's gotten way worse since.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Whether or not they were trying to pander to China Rogue One is still the best Star Wars movie released under Disney.

The random awkwardly inserted Bulletproof Jedi Monk in Rogue One was actually unironically one of the best characters. This says more about Rogue One than it does about China though.

 

[SentientStone]

I have to admit that Shanghai is a great setting for most of the movies that film there. That bond scene was one of the best shot scenes in all of the Craig films. Transformers was trash but it is a cool city to see robots fighting each other in.

This. I have no problem when the settings or products actually fit.

But then again, we are used to “Western” brands in our media, so it’s easy to notice when there’s some Chinese brands instead. Like I don’t see anything too wrong about placing some Chinese drink over Coca Cola, for example, in a particular scene.

Then again, I’m ethnically Chinese myself and self-identify as Chinese but with Western characteristics (pronoun: Chwest).

 

[UnNamed]

Transformers Age of Extinction was embarrassing on this topic.

At some point they went to Hong Kong for no reason and there is this 5minutes fighting scene with a Chinese actor who don't say a word and the movie don't waste time to introduce him. And don't forget the Chinese government who have its role to save the day.