Understand also that a huge chunk of the foreign DVD market is buying boot-leg product. The studios get zip on those.
The studios get zip on those.
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But the audience still gets the anti-American message, which is the main point of the production.
I happened to see a clip of Meryl Streep on a morning TV show. It must have been on youtube as I don’t turn on morning TV. She was totally inarticulate about this movie. She could not explain what it was about, because telling the truth would not have been very smart, and she was not very adept at waffling.
China is full of bootleg DVDs. One of my student workers a couple of years ago loaned me a Chinese film on DVD after learning that I like Asian cinema. It was bootleg! She had brought it with her from China. And foreign films are even more likely to be bootlegged there.
I thought the picture was a little blurry until a shadow got up on the screen. It was a bootleg copy that they had gotten by just setting up a recorder in the back of the original theater.
Oh, well.