2aguy
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Apparently, Tom Cruise put the Taiwanese Flag back into his movie.....and the movie, from what I have heard, especially from my favorite movie reviewer....The Critical Drinker, rocks.........true blue American film....finally....after all the dreck hollywood has been putting out...
Bending over to the Chinese is the tactic hollywood has been doing for over a decade......now that China is starting to really put the pressure on Hollywood to conform...some people are starting to say.......
No.
But there’s one market that may never see the film released. The 1.2 billion consumers of American pop culture in China may not be allowed to see the film because of its unabashedly pro-American messaging.
Paramount Pictures may have also upset the Chinese by adding back Japanese and Taiwanese flags to Cruise’s leather flight jacket after the Chinese backer of the film, Tencent, demanded they be removed in 2019.
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It probably cost Skydance Media, the film’s producer, a lot of money to add those emblems back to Cruise’s flight jacket. But perhaps Hollywood has turned a corner. Perhaps filmmakers have decided that freedom of expression is more important than pleasing the Communists in Beijing.
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When the film was shown in Taiwan, the audience erupted in cheers.
Bending over to the Chinese is the tactic hollywood has been doing for over a decade......now that China is starting to really put the pressure on Hollywood to conform...some people are starting to say.......
No.
But there’s one market that may never see the film released. The 1.2 billion consumers of American pop culture in China may not be allowed to see the film because of its unabashedly pro-American messaging.
Paramount Pictures may have also upset the Chinese by adding back Japanese and Taiwanese flags to Cruise’s leather flight jacket after the Chinese backer of the film, Tencent, demanded they be removed in 2019.
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It probably cost Skydance Media, the film’s producer, a lot of money to add those emblems back to Cruise’s flight jacket. But perhaps Hollywood has turned a corner. Perhaps filmmakers have decided that freedom of expression is more important than pleasing the Communists in Beijing.
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When the film was shown in Taiwan, the audience erupted in cheers.
