Posted on 07/24/2015 12:39:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In a 2013 script for the movie “Pixels,” intergalactic aliens blast a hole in one of China’s national treasures – the Great Wall.
That scene is gone from the final version of the sci-fi comedy, starring Adam Sandler and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment this week in the United States. The aliens strike iconic sites elsewhere, smashing the Taj Mahal in India, the Washington Monument and parts of Manhattan.
Sony executives spared the Great Wall because they were anxious to get the movie approved for release in China, a review of internal Sony Pictures emails shows. It is just one of a series of changes aimed at stripping the movie of content that, Sony managers feared, Chinese authorities might have construed as casting their country in a negative light.
Along with the Great Wall scene, out went a scene in which China was mentioned as a potential culprit behind an attack, as well as a reference to a “Communist-conspiracy brother” hacking a mail server – all to increase the chances of getting “Pixels” access to the world’s second-biggest box office.
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Chinese government and film-industry officials didn’t respond to requests for comment for this story.
“Pixels” wasn’t the only Sony movie in which the China content was carefully scrutinized. The emails reveal how studio executives discussed ways to make other productions, including the 2014 remake of “RoboCop,” more palatable to Chinese authorities.
In a 2013 email about “RoboCop,” the senior vice president at Sony Pictures Releasing International at the time, Steve Bruno, proposed relocating a multinational weapons conglomerate from China. His solution: Put it in a Southeast Asian country like Vietnam or Cambodia. Ultimately, that change wasn’t made, a viewing of the movie shows.
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See, liberals really don’t mind censorship!
From the headline I assumed to please the Chinese they took out Adam Sandler. Sure would have been a plus with me.
Can’t be hurtin’ the Reichstag. Might be offensive.
When they released, ‘Deliverance’ in China, which scene did they edit?
*SMIRK*
LOL!
Never found Adam Sandler to be one bit funny.
Who does he owe for his accumulation of movie roles - ???
They are pure Marxists-—they censor everything-—every perception since JP Morgan owned all the important AP outlets in the early 1900s.
They infiltrated everything which had power to influence the ideas, esp. of children.
As Alan Bloom stated-—it was the”Closing of the American Mind” and creation of the little socialist, narcissist, sexual and drug addicts filling the universities and given “queer” studies—anything to create useful, ignorant idiots who know nothing and “feel” everything. They created nihilistic minds-—and refused to elevate the mind toward the “Good” and Excellent. Their classes deliberately dragged minds into the sewer.
The Hollywood sodomites, the ones who were raping all the children on the Goonies set, etc, have been “shaping” opinions and desires and destroying Virtue formation in children since SCOTUS opened the floodgates to obscenity in the 60s. And lazy parents allowed the perverts to create Reality and direct desires in their children. Most of the stuff is so subjective and their psychological subversion of children goes right over adult’s heads, since they were educated by the same system and if they are moral, they are working too hard and too long to monitor the content pouring into the minds of their children.
Censorship also is projecting misinformation (lies)-—their main way to create ignorant people....like Reagan stated, It ain’t what you know, it is what you know, that ain’t so.
Rotten Tomatoes hated Pixels.
20% of critics liked it, 59% of audience, still not good.
“Some movies are so interminable that it seems they might never end, while others are assembled with such indifference that you are essentially left waiting for them to start. “Pixels” somehow manages both.”
...of course, if any of the protagonists had been gay in the film, it’d be sitting at 80+% on rotten tomatoes amongst the critics. that’s for sure.
Following the “Raiders” string, it appears that the Nazi Villain meme has died. Communist villains never really got started ... hmmm wonder why? Arab or Arab-appearing villains had a brief appearance but also rapidly died out in Hollywood so now we see the dearth of imagination that results in the most popular Hollywood Villain, a right-wing, military-inclined, white male. There has been nothing so EVIL on this planet as this horde of malefactors!
Now imagine in your mind who would be the very last, ultimate hidden villain because it would be impossible by societal norms for said person to be anything other than a VICTIM!
Nominations Please ...
You gotta admit....watching Bob Barker kick his a*s in Happy Gilmore was funny.
Same as it ever was.
How Hollywood bowed to the wishes of Hitler: 1930s studio bosses censored and dropped films at the requests of Nazis - and one MGM exec even agreed to divorce his Jewish wife
I might have seen it then.
I’m guessing that involved putting in a scene of Adam eating a dog ... or taking that scene out.
WARNING if you get an email with an attachment that claims to be the New Adam Sandler Movie starring Adam Sandler don't open it... because it is the New Adam Sandler Movie starring Adam Sandler...
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