All in all censors in Beijing cut the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Men in
Black 3, by 13 minutes to remove all
Chinese baddies from the film.
Chinese baddies from the film.
The makers of the film might not have realised that setting parts of the movie
in New York's Chinatown would cause offence on the other side of the world.
But the Chinese government apparently saw plenty of political resonance in one
scene where Will Smith, playing a US secret agent, erases the memories of a
group of Chinese bystanders.
"This could have been a hint on the use of internet censorship to
maintain social stability," commented China's Southern Daily newspaper.
Meanwhile two other scenes, including this one, where unsavoury aliens
disguise themselves as Chinese restaurant workers, were also judged to have
cast China in a bad light.
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