Wack things in China

[Marco]

@TT

Chinese Streaming Service Changes the End of Fight Club | Time

Booooo!

[lostinasia]

Holy crap that alteration of Fight Club was real?! I saw it in Twitter earlier today but assumed it was some kind of parody.

[TT]

@TT

Chinese Streaming Service Changes the End of Fight Club | Time

Pure. Gold.

Foreign filmmakers have watered down or altered content for years to get past Beijing censors, but it’s rare for entire endings to get reversed—particularly on older films that millions would have seen pirated copies of already.

“When people tell you that the hero of Shawshank ended up in prison again, there’s no explosion in Fight Club, and Nicolas Cage [in Lord of War] was arrested, you’ll question if your memory exists for real,” said one commentator on China’s Twitter-like Weibo.

[lostinasia]

Star Wars is going to become a five-minute film. Princess Leia gets caught, and then …

Through the clue provided by Leia Organa, the Imperial forces rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully protecting the Death Star from attack.

[MikeN1]

When The Godfather first screened in Taiwan, a line was inserted by the government that six weeks after the end of the movie Michal Corleone turned himself in to the police.

[lostinasia]

@lostinasia

Star Wars is going to become a five-minute film. Princess Leia gets caught, and then …

I honestly did think of this before seeing Edward Snowdon’s tweet:
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1486118166262689797?s=20

[yyy]

That is so unimaginative. At least in the Star Wars edit there’s an explosion!

[KINGKONGDONK]

Jonathan Scott

[afterspivak]

@MikeN1

When The Godfather first screened in Taiwan, a line was inserted by the government that six weeks after the end of the movie Michal Corleone turned himself in to the police.

The KMT and the CCP, despite appearing to be enemies, are so often cut from the same cloth.

Guy

[lostinasia]

It seems like this Twitter account is unreliable? Knowing the truth of this way above my skill level.

Ken Westin

[ponlaihop]

yeah would like to know…

[MalcolmReynolds]

@lostinasia

Holy crap that alteration of Fight Club was real?! I saw it in Twitter earlier today but assumed it was some kind of parody.

@Marco @TT @lostinasia
Hey. It’s been restored!

‘Fight Club’ No Longer Ends With a Whimper in China Following Explosion Over Censorship

Chinese video platform quietly restores 1999 cult film’s conclusion, but 2005’s ‘Lord of War’ still comes with new, harmonious ending

Summary

[jdsmith]

Hilarious

[marasan]

Chinese anti-pandemic workers beat pet dog to death | Taiwan News |...

[MalcolmReynolds]

SCUM OF THE EARTH!

I would bludgeon them to death.

[finley]

I can’t believe people would actually watch that.

I imagine they were copying the previous killing. And I doubt the State has any real objection: China seems to be going through one of its regular paroxysms of violence against its people, presumably to make sure they understand who’s boss, and that the boss or his agents can do anything they like.

The statement said that Snowball was likely infected with COVID-19 since it had lived in the same apartment as the owner’s boyfriend (who had tested positive for the virus).

This obsession with animals carrying COVID seems to be the new thing in China. It looks to me as if they’re in imminent danger of another “let’s kill all the sparrows” bout of collective insanity.

[MalcolmReynolds]

I’d really like to see just how much of a socially inept geek his son is.

Looks like that one-child policy has really come back to bite them in
the ass! It’s now a gold-digger’s paradise.

In February of 2022, China’s National Bureau of Statics released the census of last year’s collected data, indicating that the gender ratio of China’s population in 2021 was 723 million males to 689 million females, according to Statista.

The census data showed that the number of men in the marriageable age range of 20 to 40 was 20 million more than that of women.

In an effort to prevent a further decline in the population and balance the gender ratio, last year China initiated the Three-Child Policy to encourage citizens to have more children.

A desperate father gifted his son 20 properties to help him attract a wife,...

‘How bad is he?’: father gives desperate son almost 20 properties to lure wife

Father in China gifts his son 20 properties to help him attract a wife

Father gifts son 20 real estate properties to help him attract a wife

Father in China gifts his son 20 properties to help him attract a wife

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And yet, they reject Taiwanese women:

Matthias Sander

[BigDave]

Taiwan’s beautiful women throw their arms around you???

As an 18 year old, that sounds like heaven.

Edit. As a 12 to 99 year old, that sounds like heaven.

[afterspivak]

That is a seriously crazy ad / public “service” announcement.

Guy