Instead, an on-screen script said police 'rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding'.

Last year, Chinese viewers of the classic 1999 film Fight Club noticed that the original ending, in which the protagonist and his alter ego detonate a set of skyscrapers, was not on the version shown on domestic streaming site Tencent Video. Many Hollywood films that screen in the country have certain scenes omitted or altered.Īt times, some viewers note, alternate endings to films diverge far from the original. Huaxia Film Distribution Co and China Film Co, the film's distributors in China, did not respond to a request for comment.Ĭhina places a quota on the number of overseas movies that can be shown in domestic movie theaters. distributor, did not respond to a request for comment outside of normal business hours. 'It's only us who need special guidance and care, for fear that a cartoon will 'corrupt' us,' DuSir wrote in a piece published Saturday. Numerous online commentators mocked the addendum, saying it resembled a power-point presentation.ĭuSir, an online movie review publisher with 14.4 million followers on Weibo, noted that the Chinese version of the film runs one minute longer than the international version and questioned why the extra minute was needed.

In the international version, the film ends with Gru and Wild Knuckles, the story's two thief anti-heroes, riding off together after Wild Knuckles faked his own death to evade capture from authorities. Gru, a co-conspirator of Wild Knuckles 'returned to his family' and 'his biggest accomplishment is being the father to his three girls', screenshots of the film showed. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Register

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