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Entertainment => Film & TV Talk => Television => Topic started by: MultipleAngles on Apr 14, 2011 at 01:30 PM
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After getting riled about about the CBCP's suggestive censorship of McDonald's "BFGF" ad, I run into this CNN story from China, and I don't feel that bad any more:
Hong Kong, China (CNN) – China has been cracking down on dissent of late, as the recent detainment of artist Ai Weiwei suggests.
But the latest guidance on television programming from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television in China borders on the surreal – or, rather, an attack against the surreal.
New guidelines issued on March 31 discourages plot lines that contain elements of "fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking."
“The government says … TV dramas shouldn’t have characters that travel back in time and rewrite history. They say this goes against Chinese heritage,” reports CNN’s Eunice Yoon. “They also say that myth, superstitions and reincarnation are all questionable.”
The Chinese censors seem to be especially sensitive these days. But for the television and film industry, such strictures would seem to eliminate any Chinese version of “Star Trek,” “The X-Files,” “Quantum Leap” or “Dr. Who.” And does that mean rebroadcast of huge Hollywood moneymakers like “Back to the Future” and the “Terminator” series are now forbidden?
source: http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/china-bans-time-travel-for-television/?hpt=C2
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Whatever the folks at CBCP have been inhaling, these Chinese censors seem to have upped the dosage for themselves ;D ;D ;D
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This ranks up there with: "If you thought the dictatorship of the CBCP was bad, take a look at China..."
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Baka wala pa time machine na made in CHINA kaya bawal pa ;D sorry ot
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Paano na yung hinihintay kong time machine from CDR King? Di na rin matutuloy? :D
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;D ;D ;D may pag-asa pa tayo bro yung galing taiwan
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Paano na yung hinihintay kong time machine from CDR King? Di na rin matutuloy?
Dont worry, once China invents one, time becomes immaterial.
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Basta ang alam ko china is already transforming their citizenry into hybrids. yung toys nila may heavy metals na and yung milks may melamine naman ;D ;D ;D
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baka nakaimbento na sila ng time machine ayaw lang nila bigyan ng idea ung mga citizen nila kasi baka time travel at patayin ung mga emperor nila na communista ;D
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there are things that make you scratch your head and there are things that'll scratch your head. i dont know which of these two is that.
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no Dr.Who new season for china? now that sucks!
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There seems to be a disconnect between this article and something Neil Gaiman said in his lecture for The Reading Agency.
excerpt:
I was in China in 2007, at the first party-approved science fiction and fantasy convention in Chinese history. And at one point I took a top official aside and asked him Why? SF had been disapproved of for a long time. What had changed?
It's simple, he told me. The Chinese were brilliant at making things if other people brought them the plans. But they did not innovate and they did not invent. They did not imagine. So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves. And they found that all of them had read science fiction when they were boys or girls.
Full article here.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming