‘Minions: The Origin of Gru’ released this month Chinesethen some viewers began to comment on the country’s social networks. sudden end different from the international version of the movie.
In the fifth installment of the ‘Gru: my favorite villain’ film series, released a few weeks after the rest of the world, as it is known in Spain, one of the characters has a different ending He highlighted that compared to its worldwide distribution, some Internet users on the Weibo social network are equivalent to Twitter being blocked in the Asian country.
Set in 1970s San Francisco, the animated film tells the story of a young Gru who goes from a coward to a criminal, assisted by a character who lives an alternate ending in the version released on the Asian giant. While the rest of the world can see how the main character’s mentor is named Willy Kobra, who escaped from police by pretending to be dead, arrested in China for this and was imprisoned for 20 years. The change is explained by a series. still images added to the credit sequence at the end of the projection.
In addition, Chinese distributors say that despite the main character Gru being a villain by profession, “finally became one of the good guysdevoted himself to taking care of his family”, according to a message at the end of the movie.
Changing movies is relatively common in China, where the authorities or sometimes the platforms and distributors themselves tend to do so. censor nudity, sensitive political content or sexual scenes. It is unclear whether the ending of the Minions movie was changed due to censorship demand or if the producers saw it as a more acceptable outcome for the Chinese market.
David Fincher’s 1999 classic “Fight Club” received similar treatment when Chinese video platform Tencent Video uploaded a version in January when police stopped the hero’s plan to end modern civilization.