Comments on: China: Doctoral Student Accuses SARFT of Movie Censorship

By: Pei

Pei — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:34:27 +0000

Re: Meng Zhang

That is one of the reason I favor new-age Chinese directors. Older directors like Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou come to age in a time when western cinema was the de facto standard. They set their mark on how many foreign award and positive review they can get and totally ignore the Chinese audience. It is one of the reasons real Chinese films don’t sell oversea and fake films sell very well but receive less than stiller review at home.

What Ang Lee should have done is to film the movie to Chinese taste and modify (remove historical dialog and add violence/sex) for export. There is no reason why viewers in Taiwan and HK should be subject to a substandard cut.

By: Meng Zhang

Meng Zhang — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:51:13 +0000

To Pei;
It doesn’t matter if the trimmed version is from Ang Lee for Chinese people. Actually,it had been a breaking news in Sep.that Ang Lee had to clarify his Lust,Caution to avoid the same fate like Brokeback Mountain which was totally banned in China. The point is if the adults from Hong Kong,Tainwan or US can see the original version,why Chinese living in mainland should be an exception. Why Chinese adults can’t enjoy the same rights like other people.That’s why the trimmed Lust,Caution infuriate so many movie fans in China.

By: Pei

Pei — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:29:52 +0000

Didn’t Ang Lee said the trimmed version is the real version? Something along the line that he have to squeeze in some nudity and violence to entice western audience and reviewer. For domestic audience, that is not necessary as Chinese audience are not so simple minded.

By: TRUST

TRUST — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:41:08 +0000

Support to all of you, Chinese fellows!! :)

In the late 1980’s, this also happened in Taiwan. The situation was better in ten years (under the same ruling party).