Posted on 07/22/2019 3:34:38 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
TIM DOESCHER: From The Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Doescher, and this is Heritage Explains.
DOESCHER: Is there anything more American than grabbing a date, grabbing some candy and popcorn, and going to the movies? "Here's looking at you kid," "life is like a box of chocolates," and how about some good old-fashioned Chinese censorship? Wait what?
FOX NEWS REPORTER: It is a question you might never have considered, is China taking over Hollywood? The Chinese are financing some of your favorite films, buying theater chains, it is a growing trend. Major Chinese production companies teaming up with Tinseltown, which is leading to concerns over pro-China propaganda making it's way into major American blockbusters.
NBC TODAY SHOW HOST: Here's an interesting fact. If you go to a movie theater right now, it's a pretty decent chance you're going to be seeing a Hollywood movie with a budget partly from China. That is actually true of two of the top three movies out right now, and it's just one sign of a global power shift in entertainment that's already changing the movies you see.
STEPHEN COLBERT: The Chinese government only allows a small number of foreign movies into China each year, and after America, China is the number two biggest movie-going country in the world. So, it's only natural for American movie makers to try to please the cultural gate-keepers of the Chinese government. They've been doing it for years. In the disaster movie, "2012," humanity is saved because the Chinese government had the foresight to build life-saving arcs. In "Gravity," Sandra Bullock survives by getting herself to the Chinese Space Station. That movie did so well in China, she went back and re-shot "The Blindside" with an underprivileged table tennis player.
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Just like Nazi Germany in the 1930s, controlled Hollywood, because they didn’t want to lose access to the German film market.
I figured Hollywood was too far to the left for Communist China.
communists owning communists?
is that in keeping with Mao’s little red book?
Forget it Jake.
It’s Chinatown.
Don’t know. Don’t care. But I sure am seeing a lot of Bollywood crap on Amazon Prime. Do I look like I bathe in the Ganges River? LEMME SEE THE JOHN WAYNE MOVIES!
The war goes both ways. Warner Brothers bought DramaFever, the largest Asian entertainment streaming service, and then abruptly shut it down, leaving millions of subscribers in the lurch.
Warner Brothers claimed it was because it couldn’t make a profit, but most people think it was because it was a serious threat to American entertainment media watched by folks who had switched to better-quality Asian media, primarily from Korea.
My guess is that some of the things they would censor in China will be allowed here: to further degrade America.
You don’t know how true you are.
Mainland Chinese TV is a lot more wholesome and conservative than what you get on American TV.
The Chinese couldn’t possibly do worse then the filth that run Hollywood now.
China is a major film market for Hollywood...Wouldn’t want to offend or alienate THAT market...American film audience? We can go to Hell if they have China...
This is my all-time favorite Chinese TV drama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xin:_The_Monster_Killer
And it’s G rated compared to American TV and wonderfully done. Totally magical TV.
BS! It’s impossible for communists to take over communists.
How hard can that be?
In the movie Looper, the main character goes to China and lives there for a while as a gangster. The script originally had him going to France, but the Chinese showed up at the studio with a lot of cash. From memory of the DVD commentary track, they gave the studio so much money that they basically financed the entire film, and offered them studio space in China, on condition that the character moves to China instead of France.
China is far from controlling Hollywood...
America is on a nihilism footing.
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