Sony stands up to Chinese Communists on Statue of Liberty

By Post Editorial Board

May 3, 2022 | 5:21pm



With great power comes great responsibility — a motto taken to heart by Sony recently, when it defied the demands of the Chinese Communist Party to delete the Statue of Liberty from “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ahead of its release.

Apparently, China’s censors asked the Japanese entertainment giant if it could cut Lady Liberty from the film’s ending, but was rebuffed given the prominence the statue plays in the film’s climax, in which the three spidermen swing around one of the world’s most identifiable markers of freedom whilst battling supervillians.

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The Japanese and the Chinese have no lost love. Glad to hear it.

I say we should now start actively removing prc landmarks from films if they want to be shown here. Or in Japan.

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The Japanese and the Chinese have no lost love. Glad to hear it.

Truth.
My Dad was stationed in Japan during the 50s and he said the worst insults were to call someone Chinese or Korean.

Had a good friend that was Chinese and he hated Vietnamese with a passion.

Honestly, someone should do a chart.

About time a large int'l business stood up to the CCP.

Consider the Sony data hack several years ago by North Korea, which was likely due in no large part thanks to China, I'm surprised Sony Pictures still wants to do business there.

Almost sounds like it would have fucked up their big ending climax scene and cost them some money.

Probably figured fuck the ccp, the rest of the world would make it up.

Hopefully the ccp are beginning to step on the wrong toes and will get some push back.

Fuck those bat flu, economy killing shits.

The Chicom bastards responded by banning the release of the movie in China

Someday these assholes will be overthrown

Sony is a multinational corporation. Sony Pictures Entertainment is part of the Sony Corporation of America, so I don't think Sony Japan had any input in the response to China. If they did, it might have been the same response but I doubt it got to that level.

So the Chinese want a superhero battle with multiple spider men to take place in empty air? What is Spidey supposed to swing from or around?

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I just want to point out the goddamn Chicoms are why we are stuck with all of this stupid superhero movie dreck these days in the first place. Apparently the superhero cartoon violence and the generally safe storylines are what are easiest to get played on movie screens in notoriously censor-happy China.

Anyone in China that wants to see the movie already has an illegal copy of it.