What’s small, dumb, yellow, and…promotes the rule of law? A Minion. In any case, according to the specially modified version for China of the new film in the franchise, what makes it succeed is the moral.
Minions 2: Once Upon a Time Gru opened on August 19 in Chinese theaters. This is the fifth installment in the series. Me, ugly and bad. This prequel narrates the youth of Gru, the supervillain of the franchise. But unlike the other international versions, the mainland Chinese version offers an alternative conclusion.
20 years in prison and back “on the right track”
The animated film footage was left unedited, but a series of stills and commentary were inserted at the end.
In the original film, Gru’s mentor Will Karnage, an attempted thief, escapes justice after faking his death. But in the version broadcast in mainland China, the character is caught by the police and sentenced to 20 years in prison, where, calmly, he continues “his passion for acting” by “setting up a theater company”, underlines the final text. . .
As for Gru, he has become a role model father and is “back on the right track,” the alternate ending states, ignoring the reality of the previous films in the franchise.
censorship committee
Television and film works, both Chinese and foreign, must pass through a censorship committee before they can be broadcast in China. Therefore, it is not the first time that a foreign film has been modified to conform to what the authorities present as more “healthy” values, in particular for productions aimed at young audiences.
At the beginning of the year, the end of the cult film by David Fincher fight club (1999), with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, had also been modified for broadcast on the Chinese platform Tencent Video. Once again, the police had disrupted the macabre plans of the protagonist, indicates a text at the end of the film.
The return to China, on a streaming platform, of the American series Friends in February it had also provoked the incomprehension of the spectators, who had noticed that dialogues that evoked the homosexuality of a character had been deleted.
It is not immediately clear whether the end of the minions 2 in mainland China it has been changed at the request of the censors or the production.
Source: BFM TV
