They premiere in China “Fight Club” but with a very different ending

They premiere in China “Fight Club” but with a very different ending

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The final shot of “Fight Club”, before the explosions that were removed in China.

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That conclusion is diametrically opposite in the edit uploaded to Tencent Video. In this, building explosions removed and instead appears a text that narrates how the authorities were able to stop Tyler’s plan before it was carried out. On a black plaque you can read: “Through the clue provided by Tyler (referring to The Narrator) The police quickly figured out the whole plan and arrested the criminals, thus preventing the bomb from going off. After a trial, Tyler was sent to a mental institute for psychological treatment. He was discharged in 2012.”

Until now it is unknown if the editing was done by Disney, who owns the rights to the film since the purchase of 20th Century Fox, by the same streaming platform, or by Pacific Audio & Video, an affiliated company run by the government, which bought the distribution rights in China. It is common for these companies get ahead of censorship and offer an alternative edition adjusted to authoritative standards to avoid problems. “For anyone familiar with how the business works between a movie rights owner and the companies that buy them for distribution in certain regions, it is clear that the company that acquired the rights for the Chinese market sold that version to Tencent Video,” a source close to the platform told Variety.

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The plate with the alternate ending that was shown in the version of

The plate with the alternative ending that was shown in the version of “Fight Club” that was uploaded to the Chinese streaming platform.

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Even, a movie importer He stressed that this is common practice and that “It is better to have 99.9% of the film shown legally to tens of millions of people than not to show it at all.” Previously, in China the film had only premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival, although many later viewed it illegally.

China has policies of censorship and regulation of foreign cultural imports that do not adapt to what is considered by the government of that country. In the same way, own films are created with this in mind. This is not the first case that has gone viral, among others, that of Bohemian Rhapsody (2019), which saw scenes involving drug use or same-sex romance cut.

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