The Chinese platform Tencent Video broadcasts a version of the movie ‘Fight Club’ with an altered ending, users of the Weibo social network, similar to Twitter, commented in the last few hours.
The version available on Tencent Video lasts 127 minutes, twelve minutes less than the original work, directed by David Fincher and released in 1997. In the original version, the character played by Edward Norton mata the su pseudo ego, product of his imagination and embodied by Brad Pitt.
Immediately afterwards, Edward Norton is seen watching the explosion of numerous buildings, part of his plan against modern society. In the Tencent Video edition, the explosions are not seen, which are replaced by a poster that explains: “The police discovered the whole plan and arrested the criminals, thus preventing the explosion of the bombs.. Later, Tyler was sent to a psychiatric facility for psychological treatment.”
Film alteration is relatively common in China, where the authorities or sometimes the platforms and distributors themselves tend to censor nudes, political content considered sensitive or sexual scenes.
However, removing a scene and proposing an alternate ending is a step further: “Are we facing a new type of censorship?”commented a netizen.
In response, some users of the Zhihu network, a popular Chinese Internet portal, sarcastically proposed alternative endings to movies like ‘The Godfather’: “Michael confessed to the police all the crimes of his family and denounced other mafia families.”
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