“Pixels” changed his argument to avoid offending China – El Diario de Yucatan

         

     

BEIJING (EFE) .- The producers of the Chris Columbus film “Pixels”, which this week has been released in Hollywood and in major European markets, changed the script to prevent it had references to China with In order not to offend sensibilities in the country and that the tape could be released in cinemas.

That is clear from the documents of the producer Sony Pictures leaked by the Wikileaks website in recent months, after that the company was allegedly attacked by North Korea in response to the release of the comedy “The Interview”, which parodied asesinaba–and the current leader of the country, Kim Jong-un.

In one of the thousands of emails leaked by Wikileaks, sent in 2013, one of the managers of Sony in his office in China, Li Chow, recommended that the film starring Adam Sandler did not include a scene in the script that the aliens Earth attack pierced the Great Wall.

The scene “not benefit premiere in China,” the email, a suggestion that eventually had to be heard as aliens in the film (which in this film They take the form of video game characters of 80) do not attack the defense known monument, but the Manhattan district or the Indian Taj Mahal

In addition, the film has achieved permission for release in China. – country are allowed only thirty foreign films in their large screens each year, and will reach its theaters on September 15.

In the mail filtering also suggests that in the scene where the Government US analyzes the first attacks not mentioned that China can not be behind them because “has the necessary technology” or the possibility that Chinese hackers have intervened is suggested.

In addition arises in the post which is better than the Japanese capital, Tokyo, and not the most populous city in China, Shanghai, is one of the main stages, because “it implies (scenes) destruction throughout the city, and that could hurt sensibilities “.

Among the recipients of the mails are producers and Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures (a subsidiary of Sony), who in a letter of reply states that take into account the suggestions sent from China.

“Pixels”, released on Friday in the US, Spain and several Latin American countries, tells the story of an alien attack on Earth where you popular characters like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong attack the planet after a cargo misinterpreted aliens video games launched into space by the US in 1982.

Sony, who condemned the leak by Wikileaks of thousands of confidential messages, has declined to comment on the alleged involvement of Chinese censorship, or self-censorship in the plot of this film, which in any case would not be the first that has been changed to try to please Beijing.

In the film “World War Z”, for example, the script is slightly changed and removed the suggestion that the virus returning zombie humans originated in China

And in one of the films in the saga of James Bond, “Skyfall” scenes in which a Chinese soldier was killed withdrew, and references to the villain of the film (played by Javier Bardem) was part of their wickedness to having been tortured in a prison in China.

These and many other changes are justified script at a time which the Chinese market, even with great potential for growth, is becoming the most important outside of Hollywood, and sometimes in lifeline of blockbusters that fail in the West but not in the East.

               
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