[SeekAndFind]

But When the film was shown in Taiwan, the audience erupted in cheers.

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SOURCE:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb5wd/tom-cruises-jacket-top-gun-maverick-taiwan-moviegoers-clapping

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The blockbuster has not been given a release date in China, the world’s biggest movie box office worth $7.3 billion as of 2021.

Meanwhile, at the movie premiere in Taiwan, the audiences cheered and clapped at the unexpected sight of their national flag, the Central News Agency of Taiwan reported. Some people even flocked to buy copies of the jacket, which is being sold at the price of $1,449.

“To be honest, Tom doesn’t necessarily have to wear the same jacket in the opening scene. There’s no way film producers didn’t know the Republic of China flag would cross the Chinese Communist Party’s red line,” a Taiwanese film writer, who goes by the moniker Knee Joint, wrote on Facebook. Republic of China is the official name of Taiwan. “But they still did it anyway.”

[toddausauras]

Watch Twitter turn against it

[Nashcash]

👍👍👍

[LegendHasIt]

What a pleasant surprise!!!

[TigersEye]

F the ChiComs!

MAGA forever!!!

[SmokingJoe]

This article is much ado about nothing.
The Chinese don't care if the film is pro American.
They object to anti Chinese movies same as Americans would to an anti American movie. .
That Tom Cruise jacket with a Taiwan flag will just have to be removed for the China release and they will talk business.

[Widget Jr]

Paramount Pictures may have also upset the Chinese by adding back Japanese and Taiwanese flags to Cruise’s leather flight jacket after the Chinese backer of the film, Tencent, demanded they be removed in 2019.

Well gosh darn it, that's just too bad. Note to self: Never say to Tom Cruise's face "I am your God" (nsfw), and never tell him how he is going to make what is most definitely his own movie.

[Guenevere]

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[dfwgator]

Chuck Fina!

[Lou L]

I was a Plankowner on the ship that fired all those Tomahawk missiles during the attack scene.

Unless they've significantly enhanced those missiles, they typically can't out-run F-18s, or just about any other fighter jet!

I won't say anything else, for fear of spoiling the movie for those who have not yet seen it.