78 seconds of knowing proximity to concentration camps is still too many.
The more we see of this and the more Im convinced Disney is the Galactic Empire.
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Better go find the Death Star before they get any funny ideas.
Wake me up at your own risk.
They're the Empire but desperately trying to pass themselves as the Rebels, which in a way just makes it worse.
Edited by AmazingSpiderHam on Oct 11th 2020 at 6:38:40 AM
I like that they say "78 seconds" to make it seem less than it is. That's 1 minute and 18 seconds. That's still quite a bit.
Also did this detention center still get compensation? If so, there's no excuse good enough to justify using it.
With all the memes about women choosing a bear over a man, Hollywood might wanna get on an 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' adaptation
In the name of being honest
Basically every supply chain in the region involves forced labourers drawn from the camp system. So it's near-certainty that the goods and services they used in the production involved forced labour in some capacity, especially if it's sourced through local government officials.
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I feel like it's a Morton's fork. If 78 seconds is a lot, you have to have known where you were shooting for THAT long. It's still weeks of principal photography, shooting, etc. If 78 seconds is *JUST* 78 seconds, couldn't you have filmed... ANYWHERE else?
Neither arguments makes them look good.
Especially since it was a scene they later felt safe mostly cutting out anyway.
Edit: Looking back, I realize that we don't know exactly how long if anything was cut out, but I feel relatively safe assuming they didn't take all those expenses just for 78 seconds of footage.
Edited by AmazingSpiderHam on Oct 11th 2020 at 9:07:04 AM
Oh, bother.
Disney just needs to shut the fuck up already with the excuses. At this point it's really the best thing they can do, since time travel is not a thing.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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Has anything about this movie made Disney look good in any way? Yeah, shutting up is their best move, since their defenses just make them look worse or just keeps the really unflattering talks going.
Wake me up at your own risk.
Team Rocket Boss.
Can you imagine being a laborer in one of those camps and then hearing fighting? Suddenly you feel hope and that things will get better, but then no, it's just a film crew and you are being left to your fate.
It's a fucked up situation.
I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.
In the name of being honest
They don't literally work right there at the camps, they get contracted out to factories and other places that need cheap labour after they "graduate" from re-education. And the camp system itself is being dismantled in favour of more permanent prison complexes, but that's a discussion for OTC.
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Team Rocket Boss.
Okay.
I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.
There was that PR stunt of being Truer to the Text and getting an all-Asian cast as well as not being a shot-per-shot copy of the animated film.
But I find it disappointing that the filming crew was the opposite of the cast, particularly the screenwriters and director. My mother is no filmmaker nor Chinese historian expert but she can make a long list of what Mulan should do to be more authentic on improv.
This is why I always am skeptical of big companies talk up PR about being woke, but not actually be it in practice.
Team Rocket Boss.
Then you have morons claiming being woke is bad for business when being bullshit about it was.
Face me now, Bitch!
Trying to save face after the movie flopped, it sounds like.
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One person I spoke with online said the even thought the filming location was mostly New Zealand, the actual setting in-universe was described in the Title In as "Northwest China".
If true, then it means that the film is still meant be set in Xinjiang/Qinghai despite being mostly filmed elsewhere.
Setting the film in historical past doesn't relate it to current atrocities happening in the same geographical location. Filming in there, for any amount of final footage, does.
In the name of being honest
It totally does if your movie portrays the foreigners living there as evil barbarian invaders while their modern-day descendants are being thrown into re-education because the state thinks their culture makes them prone to separatism and terrorism.
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It's an 'Indians and Cowboys' situation.
Okay, that's fair.
This is going to be so much fun.
I just... I can't... Is there a scene in animated Mulan that involves a facepalm or something similar? Did Ancestor Takei did one? Coz I need a screencap of it.
They should just shut up and lay low, because nothing they say will ever make this justifiable.
It's been 3000 years…