Index on Censorship » Men in Black 3 http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Men in Black 3 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org China: Censors erase 13 minutes from ‘Men in Black 3′ to remove Chinese villains http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/05/china-censors-erase-13-minutes-from-men-in-black-3-to-remove-chinese-villains/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/05/china-censors-erase-13-minutes-from-men-in-black-3-to-remove-chinese-villains/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 10:17:10 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=37011 China’s film censors have erased 13 minutes of footage from the new Men in Black film to remove the appearance of Chinese villains. Beijing’s censors have removed a scene showing an alien disguised as a Chinese restaurant worker, along with the appearance of a Chinese cashier girl who uses her long alien tongue to attack Will [...]

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]]> China’s film censors have erased 13 minutes of footage from the new Men in Black film to remove the appearance of Chinese villains. Beijing’s censors have removed a scene showing an alien disguised as a Chinese restaurant worker, along with the appearance of a Chinese cashier girl who uses her long alien tongue to attack Will Smith’s character, Agent J. The final cut taken from the film involved Smith erasing the memories of a group of Chinese onlookers. One of the country’s newspapers speculated that the last scene had been removed as a statement on “internet censorship to maintain social stability”.

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