fight club is finally visible in China in its original version. David Fincher’s film was posted online at the beginning of the year on the local platform Tencent Video, twenty-three years after its release in the United States and in the vast majority of countries around the world…
Only, the end was truncated and ended with this message: “The police foiled the project and arrested all the criminals, preventing the explosion of the bombs. “It was also indicated that the character played by Brad Pitt had been interned in a psychiatric hospital.
These major changes had amazed moviegoers and launched a controversy. The ramdam has borne fruit: the Chinese public can now discover the feature film as the director put it together. Tencent did not comment on the restoration of the original version and it is unclear whether the changes were imposed by the authorities.
Common censorships
The communist power authorizes the distribution of only a handful of foreign films each year and the censors do not hesitate to delete scenes considered disturbing or subversive.
In 2019, several scenes of Bohemian Rhapsody referring to the sexuality of Freddie Mercury, the singer of the group Queen, had been erased from the version broadcast in China.
Hollywood studios sometimes take it upon themselves to cut certain scenes from films in the hope of obtaining clearance for the Chinese market. Of the director’s cut to the dictator’s cut ?