The Chinese market is experiencing its biggest box office slump in more than a decade, but Beijing's film regulators are making very clear that have other priorities.
has earned more than $400 million locally, was apparently too off-color for the censors. The coming-of-age comedy about a young man with a terminal disease desperate to lose his virginity before he dies, already attracted attention in June when the government ordered a change in its Chinese title from. Regulators apparently felt that the Chinese word for "great" , which is often used in weighty propagandistic political contexts, was inappropriate for parody in a ribald sex comedy.
China's censors never publicly acknowledge nor reveal the rationale behind their decisions. Instead, their determinations are communicated privately to local studios, which, constrained from revealing the truth of their plight to the public, deploy such phrases — "technical issues," "production problems" or "market reasons" — as euphemisms.
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