[Epoch Times October 22, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Wu Ruichang comprehensive report) This year, the director Zhao Ting shot a new film “The Eternal Family” for the film “A Place Without a Dependence” which won many international awards. But the world premiere missed the mainland Chinese cinema. Some experts analyzed that the film could not be released in China, and it should be related to the CCP’s blockade of Zhao Ting, which was used by the CCP to warn the Western film industry.
Marvel’s latest movie “Eternals” (Eternals) is scheduled to be released globally in early November and will also be the closing film of the Rome Film Festival on October 24 this year, but China is currently not included in the world premiere in early November.
The Wall Street Journal quoted a source in its October 10 report as saying that Disney had submitted the film to the CCP’s censorship department for censorship, but had not yet received permission for several films including “The Eternal Race”. Some speculated that this matter It may be related to director Zhao Ting.
Zhao Ting is the director of the film. On April 26 this year, she won the 93rd Oscar for Best Director for “Nomadland”. On the morning of the award, many congratulatory words appeared on social platforms and networks in China, but in the afternoon these congratulatory words were officially ordered to be deleted. At the same time, the Chinese media are also prohibited from reporting about her. Currently, only sporadic news about Zhao Ting can be found in Chinese search engines.
It is believed that the reason for being taken down was that someone found Zhao Ting in an interview with Filmmaker during the promotion of the film “Songs My Brother Taught Me To Sing” in 2013, saying that “China is a place full of lies.”
The Wall Street Journal quoted an unnamed executive who worked in China as saying that some foreign films have been released in China, such as “Freeman” and “Crula”, and were handed over to the CCP for review by the film dealer. It was approved two or three days after the film.
Dr. Katherine Chu from the School of Political Science and Asia-Pacific Studies at California State University, Dominguez Mountain, told the Voice of America on October 16 that the CCP will continue to block Zhao Ting in order to send a message to foreign film industries who want to enter the Chinese market. warn. “When you say something negative about China (the CCP), even a slight negative has to pay a price… you want to enter the Chinese market, you can’t criticize China (the CCP) publicly.”
Earlier, the Marvel movie “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) also had a closed door in China. At that time, the film was a film marketed in China and other Asian regions, but it was not approved for release in China. One of the reasons is that the media expressed dissatisfaction with the Chinese Canadian protagonist Liu Simu’s performance of the film, thinking that one of his works is suspected of “humiliating China”.
Liu Simu said on Canada Day in 2017 that his parents told him when he was a child that the CCP had let many Chinese starve to death. Fleeing from the CCP is because they think Canada is a free world that can give children a better life. @
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