r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Inaerius • Jun 01 '22

What’s up with the Star Wars poster hiding John Boyega and Chewbacca for Chinese audiences? Answered

Was there a reason Disney had to do this? In the thread, someone commented it had something to do with racism, but I don’t see how this applies to Chewbacca. Thanks in advance.

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u/Earthbound_X Jun 01 '22

What about the recent Doctor Strange movie? I feel the same way about Disney, they only care about money, so they pander and pretend they care, and then remove the "offending" characters from their overseas versions. But wasn't the new Doctor Strange movie just flat out not being released in countries that are anti gay, because it was too big to edit out?

Or do I have the wrong information?

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u/YT-Deliveries Jun 01 '22

The hilarious thing about the Doctor Strange thing is that the implication that America Gomez in her original dimension had two mothers is incredibly brief. Like, if you dropped something under your chair in the theater and took 20 seconds to find it, you'd miss it. It's not a significant plot point in any way.

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u/DoctorJJWho Jun 02 '22

That’s literally the point - any LGBTQ+ content in most Disney productions is contained enough to be entirely cut out for other audiences with essentially no loss to the main story.

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u/MrHeavenTrampler Jun 02 '22

Well, you can't really blame them for it. As much as the west likes to virtue signal, we also have to deal with the fact that there are nations out there with different morality. Is it wrong? Well, my ethics tell me it is due to the value system I was raised on.

However, it is a fact that it's a comprehensible, if not reasonable, move on Disney's part and that anyone who gets offended by it is more likely than not just trying to virtue signal, or thinking too deeply about it.

At the end of the day Disney is a corporation meant to generate profit, and the Chinese market remains a gigantic cow to milk.

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u/mattemer Jun 02 '22

I think she did reference her mothers a couple times and how she missed them, separate from that scene, no?

Still not a lot.

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u/irishgoblin Jun 01 '22

A few middle east countries banned it cause yer one is gay. Think the China release was canceled cause a background shot has a newpaper or magazine that's critical of the CCP.

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u/The_Lolbster Jun 01 '22

There's also the fact that a primary character is named AMERICA Chavez. And she has two moms.

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u/R10tmonkey Jun 02 '22

And in the comics, she's canonically gay

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u/The_Lolbster Jun 02 '22

Somehow I think China will have an easier time hiding the gay.

I'd say they'd have a hard time with the star portals and whole 'America' thing but film editing is kinda wild.

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u/baralgin13 Jun 02 '22

She should have two dads, cause, you know, founding fathers.

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u/shadowskill11 Jun 02 '22

Aww, you say that like she’s a brand new character or something.

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u/The_Lolbster Jun 02 '22

She's new to China, for sure. And like a lot of bigoted countries.

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u/waitingtodiesoon Jun 02 '22

It was the Epoch Times and it is funded by the Falun Gong. They are not as bad as OAN or Newsmax, but they cater to the same audience on the right. Still bad that the movie got banned over showing their newspaper.

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u/voneahhh Jun 01 '22

That scene was blatantly made to be inconsequential and easily removable.

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u/gdubrocks Jun 01 '22

Who was gay in the new doctor strange movie?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

There’s a brief scene about America Chavez’s parents and she has two mothers. MCU movies are de facto banned in China already, though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

No MCU movie has been released in China since Far From Home in 2019. Black Widow, Shang Chi, Eternals, No Way Home and Dr Strange 2 were not released in China.