Posted on 10/18/2019 3:13:29 PM PDT by grundle
Quentin Tarantino will not recut “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” to placate Chinese censors, Variety has confirmed. The decision likely means that the Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt buddy dramedy and ode to late sixties Tinseltown won’t be making an appearance in China — at least in non-pirated form.
Tarantino previously ran afoul of higher ups in the country with “Django Unchained” and ultimately agreed to make some excisions that eliminated scenes of graphic violence and nudity after the film was yanked from release. It didn’t matter much. When it was re-released in edited form, the film went on to flop in China, eking out $2.7 million, even as it grossed a mighty $425.4 million globally. “Once Upon a Time,” which boasts DiCaprio, a favorite with Chinese audiences, in a lead role along with another A-lister in Pitt, may have fared better.
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is distributed by Sony Pictures, but Tarantino has final cut on the film, so any alterations have to meet with his approval. Chinese authorities didn’t tell Sony what scenes were objectionable, but an exhibitor source said the movie’s Oct. 25 release was “put on hold” after Shannon Lee, the daughter of Bruce Lee, filed a complaint to China’s National Film Administration. She objected to the onscreen depiction of her late father as an arrogant and boastful man who struggles to defeat Pitt’s characters in a fight. Tarantino has defended his depiction of the “Enter the Dragon” actor, telling reporters at a Moscow press conference, “Bruce Lee was kind of an arrogant guy. The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up.”
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is considered to be an Oscar front-runner and has grossed an impressive $366.8 million on a $90 million budget. Spokespeople for Sony and Tarantino declined to comment.
Tarantino is, basically, a pornographer standing up for his “art”.
Good for Tarantino.
He is standing up against the ChiComs.
That makes him slightly more virtuous than the rest of hollyweird...
Good for Quinton, although I don’t go to his films since most are ultra violent. Still, stand your ground!
This also serves Tarantino as free advertising, because people are now talking about his new movie. Keep stirrin’ tha pot, Quinton.
Good, Quentin.
To Hell with censorship and ChiComs.
Brucely got his butt kicked
Banned in Bejing
Put that on the US re-release poster
Good for Tarantino - very tired of seeing Americans roll over and wag their tails for the Chinese Communists, starting with Kissinger and Nixon when I was a kid.
What a shithole
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was great! The good guys - who were do-nothing, fantasying has-been actors - man up and win in the end. Loved it!
That definitely must make it different for you. I’m from New York but I was living in California when all this happened. Horrible in a way we we hadn’t experienced yet.
One of my favorite films is Inglorious Basterds. It starts off slow, but it really becomes the moment Quentin became a big-time director.
He makes movies of unlikable people doing immoral things to the tune of old music.
“I loved this movie..”
Me and hubby too! Long though. It’s cool you live there!
I know this is not what you are saying, but QT does not use nudity in his movies. In fact, I saw something about how this one ‘covers up’ the Manson family’s propensity to hang around naked when they were at home.
OH yeah, and for the record - EXCELLENT on him to tell them to sod off! Let the Chicoms deal with however many million/billion upset Basketball and movie fans. Sure, that’s a plan China.
in the mid 80’s, i went up to the Cielo Drive house before it was torn down...very spooky even at 2 in the afternoon..
“Gotten away from”?
Hateful Eight wasn’t exactly polite discourse.
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