The Chinese Communist party's practice is to try and destroy history and truth, the 46-year-old director says from his home in the region. It's ridiculous that I can still live in Hong Kong without being in jail. In a society where someone can be jailed for wearing a seditious T-shirt, his surprise is understandable. Chow is best known for co-directing the 2015 dystopian anthology film Ten Years, which imagined a future Hong Kong under the increasing influence of the CCP.
They had made a bounty with horror films, something co-founder/ owner Carl Laemmle had to be convinced would even work, but those, too, would be put on hiatus when their new management rolled in. The horror movies became revolutionary, unafraid to be dark, clever and scary, but an industry-wide call for censorship was about to trim their claws and fangs.
"No, it's that the original version featured a gay couple getting married. But in the film's Chinese release, someone digitally altered it - quite possibly using AI - and replaced one of the men with a woman, Bloomberg reports, and the homophobic and censorious implications are irking audiences across the globe. "What's happening outside the film is even more terrifying than what's shown in it," wrote a user on the Chinese social network Weibo, as spotted by The Guardian."
The scene shows the marriage of two men, played by Charlie Lees and MJ Dorning. Yet in the Chinese version, the face of one of the grooms had been swapped with that of a woman. Cinema goers who saw Together - which stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie - in mainland China at a screening on 12 September noticed the edit, and word of the change began to spread on social media.
The critically acclaimed film Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, was released in selected cinemas in China on 12 September. It follows the journey of a young couple who move to the countryside and encounter mysterious and grotesque changes to their bodies. In one scene, which features a wedding between two men, one of the men's faces was altered to look like a woman's.
A Chinese version of Dave Franco's new horror film Together has been digitally altered character so that a gay couple appear to be heterosexual, according to reports. Artificial intelligence appears to have been used in the Chinese release of the Australian movieto change the gender identity of the character, leaving no LGBTQ+ representation in the story. In the original film, audiences see a newlywed couple played by Charlie Lees and MJ Dorning.
The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin decided to pause the screening of Derek Jarman's film, The Angelic Conversation, to clarify the guidelines for showing PG-rated content in public.
