Bonus, we can watch a different version of Hollywood films in China

In china, there is a large group of people who are fancy with Hollywood films. The interesting thing is, in most of time, the version we watched is different with American audience. So how lucky we are, China as a ‘special’ distribution place for Hollywood films, we are exceptional.

There is a trend for Hollywood films to cooperate with Chinese and to border their market, but Chinese government just want to show the positive images of China in those films. Therefore, if Chinese film censorship thinks Hollywood make Chinese character with bad stereotype, or some sensitive plots about Chinese government, they will remove the scenes and do not allow Chinese audience to watch it.

Such as, In Black Man 3, Chinese government removed the scenes in totaling 13 minutes. Even with the scene, a Chinese waitress attracts Agent J with her alien tongue. The waitress portrayed as an alien, therefore, she as a strange person but not as a Chinese woman with the positive image. Chinese audience just feel ridiculous about that and cannot believe that the version they watched have 13minutes less than the original one.

This situation is not the first time happens in China, and actually, it is a normal situation. As a film fans, I am personally really angry with this problem. Hollywood film tickets are usually more expensive than local films; but Chinese film censorship cannot even guarantee audience to watch the entire film, which makes me really disappointed.

The point is more scenes removed by Chinese government, more stronger feeling of curiously of Chinese audience; they still will use as many methods as they can to find the scenes have removed. That is one of the most important reasons, that there are lots of piracy problems exist in China. How ironic it is.

It seems that the Hollywood films in Chinese version, there is no bad Chinese, nothing bad about Chinese government, no negative with Chinese army in history, no bloody scenes, no violence, no naked characters and so on. Poor Chinese editors, they need to spend time on this bloody important and difficult work.

There is the other thing I have to mention, it is lucky for Inception, because it is the only entire Hollywood film been shown in Chinese cinemas in recent years. We think that is because editors do not have enough ability to understand the story, therefore, it is too hard for them to edit. Anyway at least, they did a contribution for Chinese film censorship, so God bless them. Let’s just take this exceptional advantage and enjoy the different version of Hollywood films. After all, this privilege is not for everyone.