"Left can't meme. Chinamen can't fly. Stick to Rickshaw.".
Posted on 03/24/2023 11:10:04 PM PDT by libh8er
In the last few years, China has put regulatory hurdles in front of big Hollywood movies from releasing in the country. This is the next best thing to an explicit ban. However, this hurts the American film industry, for China is an important market for its films. That was not so earlier. But it all changed when 2009's 'Avatar' brought in an unheard-of $200 million to 20th Century Fox, and then big studios began to do everything they could to secure a China release. And to pass the country's stringent censors, they had to cut everything that the Communist Party might find unpalatable, including the obvious ones like nudity and sex but also less obvious ones such as homosexuality, actors of colour, imagery of recognisable American symbols like Statue of Liberty, and so on.
Even as China has tightened the censors, it has made attempts to match the scale and scope of epic Hollywood movies in projects bankrolled by the government, and there have been successes like 'The Battle at Lake Changjin', which was the second-highest grossing movie of 2021 globally after 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'.
But there was one project as ambitious and expensive called 'Born to Fly' that was unceremoniously abandoned. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the film was meant to be the Chinese answer to Tom Cruise-starrer 'Top Gun: Maverick'. Just like 'Maverick' the film, produced in association with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force, was going to be a showcase of China's airborne firepower, specifically the stealth fighter jet J-20.
It was going to be released on September 30 and many pegged it as the next Chinese success. But it was abandoned, with a statement saying it was postponed to show "better production effects.”
As per THR, the filmmakers realised after watching 'Top Gun: Maverick' that their movie's visuals were far inferior compared to the Hollywood movie and they, along with Chinese Communist Party feared that the country and its film industry will be a subject of mockery and derision around the world.
But what now? Can the effects be improved and the movie might see the light of day? As per a THR source, nothing is certain, and it is possible that the movie may never release at all.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie from a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks, 'Maverick' was the sequel to the 1986 classic 'Top Gun' and brought back Cruise in the role of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who is now a test pilot and flight instructor. The film was a huge success, almost earning $1.5 billion worldwide.
China can’t do much of anything if left to their own devices. They have to steal the ideas and technologies from others.
So rather than not bend to China's market and demands, they willfully go woke and cluck that US audiences are the backward and intolerant ones. Got it. 🙄
"Left can't meme. Chinamen can't fly. Stick to Rickshaw.".
The movie put the audience into the cockpit and showed you much of what modern attack jet flight is really like.
I'll bet that the Air Force is steaming that the navy got such a great movie about them!
My son was a Navy Captain and he had several buds that were Navy pilots, and they constantly derided and joked about the air force and how soft the air force had become.
I know that way back when I was in the Army, the ground pounders had little to no respect for the air cargo carriers.
We were jealous of the better accommodations the AF jocks received while we slept in the mud.
I will say that anyone that received air cover when the cong were blowing the GIs to pieces, were thankful they got it, and didn't give a rat's ass that the fly boys slept between clean sheets at night.
They are some copyin’ mofo’s ain’t they? SMH
They are indeed. It’s their culture. Innovation isn’t rewarded under communism like it is in a capitalist society.
There was nothing like it in the world, being in IRQ when the A-10s would come over, watching C-130 gunship flying over in a figure 8, all of them watching over our convoys up and down hwy 10 between Baghdad and Fallajuh. Same thing on the Pakistan border in AFG, A-10s were the sounds of the calvary coming to the rescue.
Lol. Top Gun Maverick with Godzilla type affects. Would probably be hilarious!
The Air Force was the first to jump onto the Top Gun coattails and had a recruiting surge after the first movie.
You underestimate the public's ignorance in distinguishing between the Air Force and Naval air when it comes to flying.
Realistic?
The source of your expertise, please?
Sex?! There are over one billion Chinese. Surely they have no problem with sex!
The US movie makers have done the same. I learned decades ago that movie releases are often tailored to the area of the country it is to be released in, and I still remember scenes in movies that are no longer there, not even in “official” DVD releases.
A PATCH OF BLUE had scenes removed for release in the South.
Disney’s DAVY CROCKETT had scenes of Thimblerig removed no longer there today.
THE COMMANCHEROS has a scene of John Wayne walking down the gangplank and the girl walking up, they meet, he tips his hat and she notices his Texas Ranger badge. This is mentioned later in the film.
GUNN (1967) had hot, HOT, scenes of Sherry Jackson removed in the US but still in the European release.
THE PROFESSIONALS has a scene where Claudia Cardinale tries to seduce Burt Lancaster and drops her top. WOW! Now a black fog covers her womanhood in all releases. Film, VCR, DVD. All have the black fog in the lower right corner of the film.
Many other releases were cut to 2 hours for popular showing after an official release of 3 hours. Thankfully those cuts have been found and replaced in the film.
The Chair Force as my Army son calls them. But my Navy SIL pilot has a lot of respect for AF pilots.
What's offensive about that?!
It is not offensive but it is mentioned later in the movie when Wayne goes to the Comanchero camp and there is instant recognition of him and the girl.
She even mentions to Michael Ansara that this was the man she had told him about from Galveston.
But the scene of them meeting on the gangplank in Galveston is no where to be seen today.
As per THR
As per a THR source,
Authored by: Kshitij Mohammed Rawat
What kind of garbage writing skills are we importing from 3rd world countries like India and Pakistan, where English taught is replete with mistakes and awkward phrases lifted from their native languages?
“However, this hurts the American film industry, for China is an important market for its films.”
Anyone who has spent time in the PRC knows full well that black-market items will be there forever! Especially bootleg software, videos, knockoff goods, etc. China will get all of this for nominal prices. So being an important market, China will do just fine. >8)
In the last 5 years or so, Russia consolidated most of the outer space, rocketry, etc. Instead of spreading and encouraging experimentation, innovation, they did the opposite. Then, the graft and larceny went beyond ‘regular.’ The head of the space program stole so much money, they began to have trouble just launching. I am sure that person is taking his long dirt nap. The innovation in the free world can do wonders. It’s too bad that SpaceX / Musk has to deal with the Obama / Biden Regime. They refused to let Starship launch before the ridiculously expensive Artemis. It took NASA 15 years and billions and billions for one launch. The other day SpaceX launched twice in one day. NASA did not want Starship to launch before Artemis. The Obama / Biden Regime are putting obstacle after obstacle, with red tape and delays with no specific reason other than jealousy and hate. While they contract SpaceX to perform, they slow it down and stop real progress.
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