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**** them and their General Tso's Chicken!Get Out, All Eyez On Me, Girls Trip, The Dark Tower, Marshall, Ride Along 2, Hidden Figures, The Best Man Wedding, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Suicide Squad, Central Intelligence.
All featured black actors in the lead roles. Several were big successes at the box office and profitable for their backers.
But not one of these movies was authorized for release in mainland China’s movie theaters.
It’s not that the Chinese film authorities actively discriminate against films with black actors. But a big part of their job is to import movies that will succeed at the local box office, and their experience and instincts tell them that such films haven’t typically been embraced by China’s moviegoers.
Not that they’ve tried very hard to change the status quo. Movies with black stars in the lead roles sometimes succeed in the Middle Kingdom—Will Smith’s MIB 3 was a top-10 hit there in 2012—but more often than not they are either rejected for distribution or fail to make a splash in the market.
I couldn’t say whether Chinese moviegoers purposefully avoid films with black stars. But I started thinking about the issue as it relates to China back in 2010 when the Karate Kid re-boot released there. The film was produced by Will Smith and starred his son Jaden in the title role opposite Jackie Chan. Despite the fact that it was made as a co-production with substantial backing from the huge and powerful China Film Group, despite the fact that it was given a preferential PRC release, despite the fact that it grossed $176 million in North America and $175 million in other overseas markets, and despite the fact that it featured China’s favorite movie star Jackie Chan in the second lead role, The Karate Kid bombed in China, with a paltry $7 million in box office collections.
The conventional wisdom was that The Karate Kid failed with Chinese moviegoers largely because they didn’t like the premise of a young African-American boy showing up in China and beating the stuffing out of young Chinese boys. It’s only a theory, but it still strikes me as a highly plausible one.
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02-05-2018, 02:54 PM #1uberschwert
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Check out this Black Panther poster
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02-05-2018, 02:57 PM #2Registered User
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Truly pathetic. I'm sure some of them will miss out on buying a ticket for their next tub of skin bleach.
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02-05-2018, 02:58 PM #3Rollerball
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Racism is usually a result of ignorance. It's kinda not that surprising that a closed off group of a billion is ethnocentric and totally racist.
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02-05-2018, 02:58 PM #4uberschwert
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Why is the mask blue too?!Originally Posted by Lucianus
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02-05-2018, 02:59 PM #5☆★Bangin Moms since 03★☆
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hes probably not sponsored my child labor nike
u know lebrons pictures are everywhere in china
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02-05-2018, 02:59 PM #6Bob Ross Reincarnated
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02-05-2018, 02:59 PM #7Registered User
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Jesus I didn't even notice that - i guess they're scared of the colour black that much.Originally Posted by sword_
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02-05-2018, 03:02 PM #8You Never Had Me
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Lmao. They pulled Boyega off the Star Wars posters too.
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02-05-2018, 03:02 PM #9uberschwert
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Thai Food > Chinese food. There I said it.Originally Posted by ElCaballo33
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02-05-2018, 03:02 PM #10Who Nose?
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02-05-2018, 03:03 PM #11Chocolate nipples of peac
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OP, go to China and cuck some of those bastards for me.
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02-05-2018, 03:04 PM #12Rollerball
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hmmm, I dunno about that. I'm kinda partial to dat racist General Tso's chicken.Originally Posted by sword_
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02-05-2018, 03:05 PM #13uberschwert
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My sister and cousin have been to mainland China actually. I think both of them had good experiences funny enough.Originally Posted by Muzzlrpress
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02-05-2018, 03:06 PM #14Registered User
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China and Japan are the most restrictive countries to "outsiders" I have ever seen srs.
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****in dead at the localized poster.
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02-05-2018, 03:10 PM #17the captain
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02-05-2018, 03:11 PM #18Mercenary. Non-negotiable
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02-05-2018, 03:12 PM #19Sponsored by Colgate
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Everyone is racist, but I kid you not asians are lowkey most racist mofo's out there. Source = Asian friends. They rip on every one, just not very vocally. Because they aren't really seen as a threat, no one really notices either. Meanwhile they are silently growing in rapid numbers, taking over everything. But let's focus on those muslims! Whole world will be Chinese in 2050.
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02-05-2018, 03:12 PM #20Wage Cuckin' It
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This brah used to have a popular channel in the China ex pat niche. It was called Loser Laowei, but it was banned.Originally Posted by sword_
This is his 2nd channel, and he want to get out of China for a few reasons.
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02-05-2018, 03:13 PM #21Banned
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Good thing there's no dogs, rhinos, elephants, tigers or animal rights in the movie either.
Lol come at me China brahs
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02-05-2018, 03:14 PM #22Always keeping it Real
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fukked up chitOriginally Posted by CaliSuperSport
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02-05-2018, 03:14 PM #23Registered Bowler
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lmao yeah they are....dunno why theyre even bothering to release this in china
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fukin lmaoOriginally Posted by FriendOfFrank
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02-05-2018, 03:16 PM #25uberschwert
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I don't even see Chewie in the Chinese version let alone the brotha.Originally Posted by CaliSuperSport
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Damn I need to watch this.Originally Posted by BetaAsPhuck
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02-05-2018, 03:16 PM #26My eyes are up here.
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Chewbacca looks too much like lunchOriginally Posted by sword_
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Watch the "Little Yue Yue" video and you will quickly realize to not give a fuk about what they think of any human being.
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02-05-2018, 03:19 PM #29Rollerball
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Lol ITT people get mad about racism and respond with racism.
but I'm down, fukk the chinese and their dog-cooking ways!
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02-05-2018, 03:19 PM #30Mercenary. Non-negotiable
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lol I never even noticed they took out Chewie before.Originally Posted by sword_
oh god that's probably legit why.Originally Posted by DirtyDon123
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