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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End has been censored for Chinese cinema audiences, according to trade magazine Variety.
Some scenes with Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat - who plays Singapore pirate Captain Sao Feng - have been trimmed

Violence

On Chinese web forums, many people have criticised the film's image of Chow's character - who is bald, has long nails and is dressed in Qing dynasty style.

They have said it is the image of the Chinese in the eyes of Hollywood producers.

China Film Group, which distributes the film, initially said it had made no cuts, then declined to comment on a Beijing News report that it had cut scenes involving too much violence and horror, Variety said.

The report said the cuts make the film difficult to follow

"The sudden debut of the captain confused the audience at the Beijing screening," the report said.

Variety reported that the cuts included Chow's reading of a poem by Tang dynasty poet Li Bai (701-762) called Guan Shan Yue (The Moon Shining Over the Mountain on the Border).

The previous instalment in the film franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was banned by the Chinese film bureau because of scenes of cannibalism and ghosts.

Censors the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Film,

Radio and Television were unavailable for comment http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6744245.stm



My goodness! Chow is one of my favorite actors aside from Jackie Chan, but if he is depicted as somebody bald with long nails what happened to his good looks?

Kidding aside- where does we draw the line between cutting
and editing from a substantial angle?

 
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China also censors shows involving plastic and
transsexual surgery.

more on chinatattlers posted article-

NO Sex Change on Chinese TV-

http://www.chinatattler.com/indexheadlines.html

Let us know your thoughts--

i for one will say:
with the rising middle class and elites in china
who are interested in this kind of shows,and with
china opening up, they will
find it perhaps somewhere else..

^__^





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