2D Avatar pulled in China
p2pnet news view Politics | Movies:- The state-run China Film Group “has instructed cinemas nationwide to stop showing the 2-D version of Avatar from January 23 on orders from Beijing’s propaganda chiefs,” according Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, quoted by Times Online.
How come?
Among other things,it might clash with a locally made flick “loosely based” on the life of film being released Confucius, “including his supposed romantic attachment with a concubine,” says the story.
“First released in Beijing on Jan. 14, it stars Chow Yun-Fat and was produced by Dadi Shidai Ltd,” it says.
Not only but also, the authorities apparentlyhave two other reason.
First, Avatar “has taken in too much money and has seized market share from domestic films, and second, it may lead audiences to think about forced removal, and may possibly incite violence,” says Times Online, going on >>>
China’s favourite blogger, Han Han, a twentysomething writer and racing-car driver, was among those who quickly spotted the similarity between the film’s plot and real life. He wrote: “For audiences in other countries, such brutal eviction is something beyond their imagination. It could only take place on another planet — or in China.”
Popular views of the film as an allegory for predatory property developers across China will not have gone down well with the Propaganda Department in Beijing. Blogs are buzzing with the news of Avatar’s imminent disappearance.
Box-office takings “hit a record 56 million yuan for a single day and IMAX cinemas which show the full 3-D version are booked up for weeks,” it adds.
(Cheers, Em)
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