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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“I remember watching Mission Impossible here and they garbled some of the
dialogue,” said Dan Mintz, the head of DMG, a Beijing production
company that is shooting the next Iron Man movie in China later this year.
Iron Man 3 is the largest movie to be co-produced in China to date, as
Hollywood wakes up to the potential of the Chinese market.
However, given the Communist party’s determination to make sure China is
always shown in a good light, filmmakers are facing serious hurdles in
getting movies past the censors.
“Unless there is a flattering image of Chinese people, you are going to
run into a challenge from the State Administration of Film, Television and
Radio (SARFT),” said Robert Cain, a partner in Pacific Bridge Pictures,
which specialises in Chinese productions.
“The list of taboos is so long it is very often too difficult to make
anything entertaining,” he added. “I had a friend submit a script
and the censors asked him to change the name of one of the characters. He
could not understand why so he asked them and they said it was the pet name
that Deng Xiaoping (China’s former paramount leader) used for his
granddaughter.”
However, Mr Cain said there is room for negotiation with the censors,
particularly if a film is more nuanced and if there is a balance between
good and bad Chinese characters.
Mr Mintz said the situation has improved in the past two years: previously
Chinese censors would simply block films they did not like from entering the
market.
Salt, a thriller which opened in a prison in North Korea, China’s close ally,
was denied entry. MGM is still said to be suffering from a decision to
remake Red Dawn, an anti-Communist action film, even though Chinese villains
were substituted in the film for North Koreans.
“We are still in transition from propaganda to entertainment,” said
Mr Mintz, while adding that Chinese censors were sympathetic if characters
were more nuanced, and that their demands were part of a chorus of other
hurdles facing filmmakers.
“When you get to the level of making a thought-provoking film, you would
be surprised at how much the State Administration of Film, Television and
Radio (SARFT) is not a problem. You have lots of other problems: actors,
executives, and so on,” he said.
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