Hong Kong Cinema/Martial Arts Films: Big Fight in Little Corona

[Liar Revealed]

National security law: Hong Kong censors told to ban films that breach Beijing-imposed legislation
Well, that's not good.

[rabidtictac]

Depictions of violent acts that might amount to an offence under the security law or cause serious disruption to public order, such as rioting, arson or criminal damage, should not be permitted in a film if showing them could encourage or incite copycats.

Under this shitty definition, The Water Margin could be classified as a subversive threat to national security.

Key criteria going forward would be whether the film “explicitly or implicitly encourages or suggests” the audience might follow the crimes shown on screen and if the piece had a “reasonably apparent” intention to incite viewers to commit the acts.

Water Margin, again. A lot of hong kong films made by Chang Cheh have a martial outlaw perspective and glorify the outsider who lives in the martial world. They're hyper-masculine films about defying corrupt authority and either succeeding or dying in service of what they believe is right. The overarching plot of 36th Chamber of Shaolin (one of the most famous HK martial arts movies) is about rebelling against unjust government. At the end of the film, the monk teaches common people kung-fu so they can form a peasant army and revolt against corrupt officials.

It sounds like this is only applying to new movies though, so it won't affect me. Just people trying to make relevant films in HK. Like the article said though, HK cinema is dying. China is largely producing trash now, aimed at the absolute lowest common IQ.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Also doesn't help that Wuxia in general is set in some kind of parallel society of outlaws. Three Kingdoms also seems a bit suspect under the new rules.

At least some people over at Hollywood must be literally shaking right now.

[Le Redditeur]

The Hollywood people are happy to keep producing CPP-friendly capeshit garbage that will nonetheless bomb in China because it features dyke-looking women, trannies, and niggers.

[Guest]

Hong Kong cinema died in 1997. There hasn't been a Heroic Bloodshed movie since 2004. It's all tame boring CCP propaganda now about heroic communist cops fighting evil drug dealers.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Bet the protags of these flicks aren't as cool as Duterte.

[Guest]

Bet the protags of these flicks aren't as cool as Duterte.

By Duterte do you mean the flip cunt who won't let people leave their homes unless they get the Pfizer death shot and openly said he doesn't care if you die? Or do you mean some other Duterte?

Because there's a lot of words I would use to describe Duterte but 'cool' ain't one of them

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I meant the part were he installed anti-drug death squads.

[Guest]

I meant the part were he installed anti-drug death squads.

And then forced his constituents to take a drug. Yeah, no. Fuck him

[rabidtictac]

Hong Kong cinema died in 1997. There hasn't been a Heroic Bloodshed movie since 2004. It's all tame boring CCP propaganda now about heroic communist cops fighting evil drug dealers.

Truth. They've also been trying to copy western films with their own fucking horrible versions of capeshit.