Vietnam bans new Tom Holland film over South China Sea map

Why are these media companies repeatedly pandering to this Chinese lie? Have they been bought and paid for?

@englisc aspyrgend

Either that or they see China as a market big enough to appease the CCP for a quick buck. Either way, it's only about profits.

LOL, Vietnam thinks media corporates are going to protect a market of 100 million over one of 1.4 billion? Dream on...

Englisc,

It's Hollywood, so probably more Ignorance than anything else...

With a Very big market in China, its not surprise the loss of Vietnam as a market is small loss to the big film companies.

@englisc aspyrgend

This happens in Japanese films too.

In Japanese film adaptation of Kubo Ibuki, the original opponent of the manga PLA Navy carrier battle group was replaced with a CBG of an unknown country, with PLAN actually helping JMSDF out to defeat this unknown, unnamed enemy in the final scene.

If I were the filmmaker, I'd do it the other way and piss off China. Vietnam has been cordial with the US. China hasn't. Hollywood needs to grow a pair.

This is but one example of why we should ignore the moral lectures of the entertainment industry.

Or they could just include a regular, plain map without the nine-dash line (and one that shows Taiwan as its own country).

Why would you even use that map unless it's for stealth pandering. Sad and gross.

Mark Walhberg? Didn't this guy actually blind a Vietnamese man once? In an unprovoked attack or something?

@speed "If I were the filmmaker, I'd do it the other way and piss off China"

Some people are already doing that ( piss off china, I mean). They are calling china "West Taiwan". lol!

In Japanese film adaptation of Kubo Ibuki, the original opponent of the manga PLA Navy carrier battle group was replaced with a CBG of an unknown country,

Yes, but the reason was to avoid a foreign diplomacy bungle, rather than to pander to the Chinese market. Same as the remake of Red Dawn hastily changing the invaders from Chinese to the improbable North Koreans.

In both cases, China threatened economic retaliation if the movies were released with China as the bad guy.

Last time I watch a Mark Walhberg or Tom Holland movie, if I can remember or if I even realize they are in it.

Is anyone making a list of these producers, directors, actors that bend over backwards to pander to the Chinese government? I guess most people in the US (still the biggest paying audience?) don't understand what's going.

Just don't show that part of the map if you don't want to piss off anyone.

China is a bigger market than Vietnam, makes sense financially.

China seems to have a dispute with many countries over territory…

Yeah, more countries should boycott these lies, too! I hope the movie tanks!

The funny thing is everybody's map calls it the China sea anyway !

If you can't defend what is yours then it becomes someone else's !

Bit late now isn't it ?

@Wesley

Is that true? I thought he was a nice dude. No more films of him, infact i haven't watched Hollywood film since 20 years ago.

European and Asian films are so deep and feel good.

lol

Good on Vietnam. Tell Chinawood to get lost.

@BackpackingNepal, yup, he was reported to have been involved in other race-related hate crimes too.

Here's an excerpt I found online:

In June 1986, Wahlberg and three friends chased after three black children while yelling "Kill the n--ger, kill the n--ger" and throwing rocks at them.[15] The next day, Wahlberg and the others followed a group of mostly black fourth graders (including one of the victims from the previous day) taking a field trip on a beach, yelled racial epithets, threw rocks at them, and "summoned other white males who joined" in the harassment.[15][16] In August 1986, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for violating the civil rights of his victims, and the case was settled the next month.[17][18][19]

*Another racially-charged incident occurred in April 1988. Wahlberg assaulted a middle-aged Vietnamese-American man on the street, calling him a "Vietnam f sht" and knocking him unconscious with a large wooden stick. Later the same day, Wahlberg attacked Johnny Trinh, another Vietnamese-American, punching him in the eye. When Wahlberg was arrested and returned to the scene of the first assault, he told police officers: "I'll tell you now that's the mother-er whose head I split open."[20] Later, Wahlberg would explain that he was on PCP at the time.[21] Investigators also noted that Wahlberg "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'".[22][23] Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty to felony assault, and was sentenced to two years in jail, but served only forty-five days of his sentence. *

Wahlberg is a waste of oxygen, proven to be a violent racist and a failed singer and actor. Hoang Sa Truong Sa is clearly Vietnamese territory - NOT Chinese.

These dropkicks Wahlberg and this Tom Holland nobody are complying with China's illegal territory claims purely for money. Sickening.

European and Asian films are so deep and feel good.

Well stated. Hollywood has not made anything good in 2 or 3 decades. All they do are endless remakes and copies of foreign movies, all made for low IQ viewers. Japanese, Korean, European and other countries films are far superior.

I even like the games and honestly banning the Uncharted movie is probably just doing a public service.

Seriously though, Hollywood is going to go where the money is like they always have, so it is not particularly a big surprise. I doubt this would get them to change their mind.

It proves that Hollywood is addicted to Chinese money!