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In reply to the discussion: So you can't badmouth China or they ban you and your work. [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)but they do have the market power and the US film companies choose to make a movie that Chinese censors like, just to make more money.
China has an an unelected authoritarian government so it's kind of sad to see them having such influence over the Hollywood.
Whether it is a via legal power or via market power, the result is a degree of influence by the Chinese censors over American film and culture. It's not really a free choice on the part of the film companies; they are required make decisions to help maximize profits.
It's fine by me if US movie companies adjust movies to appeal to a foreign market. But in the case of China we are not doing it to appeal to a foreign market. We are appealing to the authoritarian government censors. When "we" do that, we are enabling and abetting the anti-democratic government.
And actually worse, we are helping them to censor the movies we see in America. This could make it a little more difficult for Hollywood to make movies about human rights abuses.
Yeah Red Dawn is like totally cheesy.