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The Warlords |
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Censoring |
HKCinemagic : You’re not in favor of self-censorship but if problems arise to release the film in the mainland, are you willing to cut anything? |
Peter Chan : We have to. There is nothing you can do. Right now we are not close to censorship yet [ED.: the interview was made before the film got the green light for a mainland release], but I personally believe that censorship has flexibility in China. They look at how things end up or what is the objective. It is actually less black and white here than HK. In HK, they look at it by the book. Ok, this much blood and that much blood is unacceptable.
Here they look at the context and judge by the context which sometimes can be subjectively interpreted. In my experience, in China I was always surprised when things get through censorship.
Sometimes you get away with things because they look at the whole context. I’ve just lock picture a couple of days ago. I showed it to people from China Film and they all seemed to think that it’s not the kind of violence that can be banned. I have never shot a pool of guts because I want to shoot a pool of guts. It’s not like I just want to show the violence because it’s great to see blood. That’s the point. |
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HKCinemagic : It’s safer also because the film is set in the Qing dynasty period and is not contemporary. |
Peter Chan : Yes, of course, it’s one dynasty that everybody could trash. Different dynasties have different symbolism, or relationship to the present government, so you dare not talk about them. But the Qing, it’s okay because it’s like nobody likes the Qing Dynasty. I mean that dynasty was obviously very corrupted. |
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HKCinemagic : So you can blame anything on them. |
Peter Chan : Shouldn’t be a problem. (Laugh). |
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