Censors alter the ending of the recent animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru for its domestic release in China — sending one character to jail and the other back to his family.
abc.net.au/news/china-censors-new-ending-minions-the-rise-of-gru/101360956Censors have altered the ending of the recent animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru for its domestic release in China — sending one character to jail and the other back to his family.Censors tacked on an scene in which a main character was caught by police and jailed for 20 years
The Chinese version of the film runs one minute longer than the international version to bring in the changesThe editing is yet another example of Chinese authorities altering a popular Hollywood film to make it more politically correct. According to posts and screenshots from the movie shared on Weibo, a social media platform similar to Twitter, censors tacked on an addendum in which Wild Knuckles, a main character in the heist film, was caught by police and served 20 years in jail.
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. 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.Numerous online commentators mocked the addendum, saying it resembled a PowerPoint presentation.