Here's the news.
Via The Da Vinci Code
China bans Da Vinci Code after all
Even though the movie has been playing in China for three weeks already, making over 13 million dollars so far, the Chinese government has decided to ban The Da Vinci Code after all. "The government wants to show respect to [the Catholics'] will and doesn't want to cause trouble because of one movie. The Chinese government has always been very cautious on ethnic and religious issues," was the official word. Sony is naturally dissapointed, but happy that the movie did a substantial amount of business before it was pulled.
4 comments:
Belarus pulled it from theatres after 3 days. I believe Egypt also pulled it because the Muslims there said they didn't like the way it portrayed Jesus.
Wow it's really great to hear about that.
I dun think banning will do any good. Even our PM mentioned that we need to accept everything with an open-mind. So there is no point of banning it. Even if they banned it, pirated VCD will be brought in and in which will bring more bad news, piracy case :P
Yeah, of course banning will do no good. I hope our PM really knows what he's talking about.
So it's ok to ban The Prince of Egypt and The Passion of Christ, where the two talked about the history of Christianity and God's love; but The Da Vinci Code which has caused lots of controversy and dissatisfaction in Christians, is allowed to be shown? Is this what you call 'open-minded'?
This doesn't make any sense to me.
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