By Bassam Tarazi | Image property of Warner Bros Pictures.
The Departed
How do you say “Departed” in Chinese?
Oh those fickle Chinese! Due to the fact that the movie, The Departed has a line of dialogue suggesting that the Chinese were in the market to buy advanced military computer hardware, 1/6th of the world’s population won’t see this movie in theaters. Clearly the Chinese don’t mess around.
The Departed Embargo
According to one source, "The regulators just cannot understand why the movie wanted to involve China. They can talk about Iran or Iraq or whatever, but there's no reason to get China in."
Since the U.S. distributors didn’t change that line of dialogue to, I don’t know…perhaps, ”The Taiwanese want some of this here military hardware”, the movie won’t see the big screen but it is already available on the streets of China on DVD. Hey! How’d they get it before us? Aye, there’s the rub.
Add to Heffee!
