It always shocks me when I read about China’s strictness with the movies it shows, and now they have edited Miami Vice, and done a worse job than the original editors! They could have made it a better movie. The folks over at yahoonews.com give us this:
BEIJING (Hollywood Reporter) – Twenty minutes, including steamy sex scenes between Gong Li and Colin Farrell, will be cut from “Miami Vice” before it opens in China at the end of October, a Beijing newspaper reported Wednesday. A 120-minute version of Michael Mann’s big-screen remake of the 1980s TV cop show will open on the mainland three months after its world premiere, the Beijing Morning Post said, citing official industry sources. Each year, China allows just 20 imported films to keep a percentage of their box office take and maintains a tight watch over content, often cutting scenes that offend Communist Party censors.
Yeah, it’s wrong. It’s just as wrong as when Blockbuster does it to our video’s at home. But China is a very different place, I’m just saddened by their poor editing skills. Of all the stuff to cut, they cut the sex scene? That was almost twenty minutes in itself.
If the censors had truly cared for their people (and were really concerned about American propaganda) they would have cut all of the advertising shots, the close ups of the fancy cars and pricy watches every ten seconds. Plus if they had taken away maybe half of the serious expression close ups from Farrell it would be a perfect fast paced 120 minute movie.
Shame on you China, Shame.
