This could change the profit calculus for a whole lot of movies, making studios avoid the US military in many cases. If they can't release the movie in China, they'll just CG the military equipment. Then the studios won't have a reason to interfere with writers and directors who are putting in something vaguely negative about the US/US military.
I remember reading about China sactioning companies that employ various rogue Trump admin officials, causing tons of them to hurt financially (the whole point is to grift after leaving your gov't position!!), which did more to punish the Trump sphere than anything the fucking Democrat losers are doing.
The censorship from the DoD goes way way farther when they can simply pull movie funding. They have to send the scripts directly to the military for literal approval, and it's all out in the open.
Sure if you sit around making blockbusters that own the fuck out of the US for a decade, you should watch out, but the CIA isn't going to drag James Cameron to a blacksite and tell him to take out the scene where the dad in the zombie apocalypse movie says to avoid the US military, or to make a soldier not swear in front of children or something.
Wow that actually rocks, thank you China.
This could change the profit calculus for a whole lot of movies, making studios avoid the US military in many cases. If they can't release the movie in China, they'll just CG the military equipment. Then the studios won't have a reason to interfere with writers and directors who are putting in something vaguely negative about the US/US military.
I remember reading about China sactioning companies that employ various rogue Trump admin officials, causing tons of them to hurt financially (the whole point is to grift after leaving your gov't position!!), which did more to punish the Trump sphere than anything the fucking Democrat losers are doing.
Sounds naive to think the fucking army/CIA/etc won't censor/shadow ban you anyways.
The censorship from the DoD goes way way farther when they can simply pull movie funding. They have to send the scripts directly to the military for literal approval, and it's all out in the open.
Sure if you sit around making blockbusters that own the fuck out of the US for a decade, you should watch out, but the CIA isn't going to drag James Cameron to a blacksite and tell him to take out the scene where the dad in the zombie apocalypse movie says to avoid the US military, or to make a soldier not swear in front of children or something.