'Winnie the Pooh' film pulled from Hong Kong cinemas

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u/StraightOven4697 Mar 22 '23 •

Can't tell if Xi doesn't like the comparison or if he is genuinely trying to save his people from wasting their lives on this absolute piece of dog shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23 edited Apr 21 '23

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u/iamjackslackofmemes Mar 22 '23

No way they'll let Superman or Batman hit public domain. Whoever owns that IP will fight it like Disney does with Mickey Mouse. There's just too much money there.

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u/codydodd Mar 22 '23

Sigh. Society sucks.

Inventors say copy-cats infringe on their incentive to innovate. So IP laws are built to protect inventors.

Massive corporation, generations after the death of the original author, don't want competition on this IP, so they bribe IP laws to be less about inventors and more about corporations.

What inventor says, "hmm, I will stop inventing because while IP gives me and my family generations of protection, it won't protect a corporation a century from now so I think I'm gonna stop innovating."

We've laid bare that IP stopped being about protecting authors. The real reason is just corporatism.

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u/tholovar Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 23 '23

It also sucks as Corporations buy IP just to sit on it and do absolutely nothing with that IP. Disney & Marvel are prominent masters of this. They buy interesting IP that they have done nothing with for decades.

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u/AnthillOmbudsman Mar 22 '23

The original intent was supposed to be to allow an author to pass their work down to their children so that they have financial security during their lives, then after that time it would be put in the public domain as a historical work for enjoyment of everyone.

Of course the big companies managed to use their representation in Congress to bastardize the law into something completely different than was intended.

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u/codydodd Mar 22 '23

IIRC the original intent was the author themselves only, not even children were originally included. Children were added later. Then corporations got to inherit that right. Then they made it longer and longer. It's been a long, slow, creeping corporatism.

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u/FaceDeer Mar 22 '23

The original duration of copyright was a flat 14 years, with a single additional 14 year extension if the copyright holder applied for it. So 28 years in total.

It turns out that after 28 years the vast, vast majority of copyrighted works have already earned essentially all of the money that they will ever earn. Most of them go out of print forever before that point. It's only a rare few works that end up becoming "classics" and spawning "franchises" that last beyond that point. We're sacrificing the utility of the vast bulk of what should be in the public domain for the sake of making those occasional lucky hits into cash cows.

There's a great paper by Rufus Pollock, Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term, wherein he uses rigorous economic analysis to calculate that the optimal duration of copyright for generating the maximum value for society is 15 years with a 99% confidence interval extending up to 38 years. So remarkably the original law hit the right duration almost exactly through sheer happenstance.

In an earlier paper he also determined that the optimal duration of copyright actually decreases as it becomes easier to distribute work, perhaps somewhat counterintuitively.

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u/codydodd Mar 22 '23

What a fantastic and informative post, saving, thank you.

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u/FaceDeer Mar 22 '23

No problem. Those references are getting a bit old at this point, so if anyone's seen more recent work in this field I'd love to hear about it. I'd add the new references to my own saved version of this stuff. :)

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u/Fuzzyphilosopher Mar 23 '23

Tip of the hat to you from me as well. Whenever people say reddit is...crap I always think of posts like yours. There's some really good shit here. I'd offer you a jug of honey if I had one. But oh bother! I seem to be out! Do you perchance happen to have a few balloons i could borrow?

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u/ReshenKusaga Mar 23 '23

The earlier conclusion does kind of make logical sense. If you’re able to distribute easier you’ll also reach your maximal audience faster. The question then becomes, is the easier reach expanding markets faster than the audience can consume your content.

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u/WiredEarp Mar 22 '23

You are conflating patents and copyright, two completely different things.

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u/codydodd Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23

Aren't both forms of IP?

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u/WiredEarp Mar 23 '23

If only there was a way you could look this stuff up.

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u/codydodd Mar 23 '23

Both are forms of IP with similar original intentions. Im not sure their differences change my original message. There is also trademarks. Their rules are slightly different but all three are victims of creeping corporatism

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u/FrankyCentaur Mar 22 '23

I feel like the only progressive person on Reddit that thinks IPs should be eternal unless sold off by their creators/future owners, and shouldn’t just be free to the public. Let creators own their damn things.

If not for anything but how absurdly swamped the market is going to become with more absolute trash and how much less new content will be made over time with studios pushing out their own tired Star Wars/Super Hero/Lord of the Rings bullshit comics, movies, shows etc to the public.

So at the very least IPs are a fantastic way of giving breathing room to everything else. I shudder at the idea of tons of new Lord of the Rings movies coming out after that IP is public, even though all you ever needed was those 3 movies but get ready for 100 more.

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u/AdequatelyMadLad Mar 22 '23

The counterpoint is just how much classic literature is already in the public domain and we aren't really swamped with low effort bullshit. Sherlock Holmes for example is a very popular character, and in the public domain.

Yet in the last 20 years we got 2 very different TV shows, a movie series with two installments and another movie series in which he is a side character. And all of these have been at the very least decent. If a company owned the Sherlock Holmes IP, we would have gotten only one of these, and it would probably have been way worse, since creators are not encouraged to take creative risks with expensive IPs.

I suspect that as more popular characters and stories become public domain, we will get a few of these "but what if they were EVIL" types of schlock for the novelty factor, and then everything will calm down eventually.

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u/TeriusRose Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

At least with Superman, we’ve already had “but what if Superman was evil!” stories for around 60 years. Surely various people can’t keep hammering away at that concept right?

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u/verrius Mar 22 '23

Sherlock Holmes needs a giant asterisk, because up until this year in the US, you had the Doyle estate constantly suing anyone who didn't throw them some cash to not sue. On the other hand, Robin Hood is and has been in the public domain for essentially the entirety of the history of film and television, and there is a ton of low effort bullshit with him, on top of a couple of classics.

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u/Fuzzyphilosopher Mar 23 '23

Robin Hood is and has been in the public domain for essentially the entirety of the history of film and television, and there is a ton of low effort bullshit with him, on top of a couple of classics.

So what's the problem? Just don't watch or read the crap. It's not like it's hard to find out about it before you plop down some money. Although I am the type who finds really really crap movies fun to watch and drink and groan to with friends. So your mileage may differ.

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u/verrius Mar 23 '23

It actually is kind of hard to tell what's bad and what's good. When it was new, I think the consensus was that Prince of Thieves was somewhere between good to great, being nominated for a bunch of acting awards, and that Men In Tights was one of Mel Brooks' worst efforts; I think the current consensus has flipped on those. Meanwhile the Russell Crowe film is ok, the John McTiernan/Uma Thurman film is also mostly ok but completely forgotten, and the Taron Edgerton one is awful. So if someone tries to sell you a movie called "Robin Hood", you have to do a ton of work to even figure out which film are you potentially looking at. And that's limiting to the last ~30 years, and just to film. I wish there was at least some sort of trademark protection on some of them so that potential consumers could easily differentiate them.

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u/m4nu Mar 23 '23

So what? You don't have to watch any of it and some of it might be good.

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u/ManualPathosChecks Mar 23 '23

these "but what if they were EVIL" types of schlock for the novelty factor

Schlock Holmes.

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u/Quirderph Mar 23 '23

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most frequently adapted characters ever, it’s just that those adaptations are spread out over the course of the 146 years which has passed since his creation.

The thing is about Public Domain characters, you don’t have to watch every piece of media they’re in. You can just seek out lthe good ones.”

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u/codydodd Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

True but in the crap you get some gems. Sherlock Homes being in the open commons has produced a lot of crap, but also a few wins.

Edit: and flip side, there is no guaranteeing some corporation who inherits an author's IP will treat it respectfully.

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u/SomePoliticalViolins Mar 22 '23

That shovelware you’re worried about already exists. It’s called fan fiction. Copyright doesn’t stop it, just makes it unprofitable.

Corporations don’t wait for public domain, they buy the rights and then abuse the shit out of them. This will only make lower budget or amateur projects possible, and the occasional gem like Sherlock Holmes/Alice in Wonderland that gets approved at the big budget levels.

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u/mem269 Mar 22 '23

We're getting all the things you mentioned, just without the diversity where a few could actually be good. They are currently making Lord of the Rings movies.

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u/mrstubali Mar 22 '23

IPs don't really acknowledge the content itself or how it works. It's mostly wishful thinking on who will spend money on something. Inevitably terrible iterations of a creative work will come forward, they will be made very cynically and be lacking pretty much on purpose. As long as the original content is reserved, then people can explore the material. Michael Moorcock is a pretty good example of a creator that didn't really chase the folks that ended up being influenced by his work, whether that's the Witcher, or Warhammer stuff, and Dungeons and Dragons. Michael understood that sitting on his own success isn't practical. IP inevitably creates a system, albeit-well intended, but does end up claiming and choosing favorites. With mismanagement, bad calculations, and bad supervision, IP becomes quite malicious and even worse it incentivizes the "officialness" of a product, and it will return to relying on whatever crunches the most money in the context of a smaller group or a larger group / fanbase or whatever is providing the capital for this machine.

Bottom line is: if people end up demanding or liking something, something bad will happen to it. Ignore the parts that aren't useful and apply what's useful.

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u/SgathTriallair Mar 22 '23

The problem is that society and culture work through recombination. We take existing ideas and riff off them. Eternal copyright destroys this system by walling off content. It destroys creativity because EVERY artist takes from those around them, it's the only way to have any ideas. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

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u/InitiativeShot20 Mar 23 '23

I could see copyright protection for the original author's lifetime, especially if they tend to take forever to release their work (ahem George RR Martin). It gives the original maker the freedom to expand and profit from their IP without worrying about somebody else making money from the adaptation of their work.

But eternal copyrights seems to be really restrictive. We wouldn't have a vast majority of movies if eternal IP protections exist. Who would you even ask for a copyright licensing for Beuwolf for example?

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u/tholovar Mar 22 '23

Are you an "American" progressive? ie not really progressive at all?

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u/TheRationalTurk Mar 23 '23

There were more copy cats last night Alfred

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u/MeteorPhoenix Mar 22 '23

See, were in a lucky position in time in that Congress can't do anything anymore, so there's this golden window where the corporate interests might not be able to defeat Congress' utter inability to do it's job.

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u/SycoJack Mar 22 '23

If only that were true. Congress just got done taking a massive shit all over employee rights in the name of corporate profits.

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u/wolff000 Mar 22 '23

Original Mickey hits public domain next year. Nothing Disney can do about it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/globaltoynews.com/2023/01/11/the-mickey-mouse-copyright-runs-out-in-2024-what-that-means-for-all-of-us/amp/

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u/iamjackslackofmemes Mar 23 '23

I'm super ignorant then. I thought that Disney has fought and won every time this had come up throughout the decades with no real end in sight. Thanks for the link.

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u/WhoCanTell Mar 23 '23

Every time in the past, they've lobbied congress to extend copyright protections way past any semblance of its original intent. Time will tell if they get an 11th hour reprieve this time, and congress kicks the can down the road another decade or two because Disney filled enough congressional campaign coffers.

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u/InitiativeShot20 Mar 23 '23

At last! I can finally make money off the Rule 34 work I did on Mickey!

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse loses copyright pretty soon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23 edited Apr 21 '23

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u/RoadkillVenison Mar 22 '23

Probably. A quick google search shows that Superman is 2033, and Batman is 2034.

Even though the original creators have been dead and buried for almost 30 years already.

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u/kellison07 Mar 22 '23

Well we will find out about mickey before batman but there are rumblings it could in fact enter the public domain when the time comes. Definitely curious to see how it plays out. If winnie can lose it so can mickey, imho.

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u/breakitbilly Mar 22 '23

Disney stopped caring about winnie because he stopped making Yuan for them. Winnie also makes way less money globally and is simply less valuable as a property. Winnie also isnt their own creation but rather based on a childrens book.

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u/kellison07 Mar 23 '23

Maybe. But it would still be in Disney best interest to fight for it. The protection is statutory so if they let one slip (winnie) it will be that much harder to make an exception for the other (mickey mouse). Congress probably doesn’t care about mickey any more than winnie. They will likely want to know why should Mickey get special treatment and the answer (Winnie doesn’t make as much “Yuan”) may not be that compelling.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

Its gonna be hard to do anything with it for a long time theyll have 1938 superman and 1939 batman and theyll not be able to retread any of the stuff the characters have done past those years or else the company could raise a pretty decent lawsuit case. Batman snd superman have done so much from 1940 to 2023 and its all material you could get sued for if you use even inadvertently theyd likely have a case i think.

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u/SingleBullfro Mar 22 '23

awesome international city. It's an outpost for China's primitive government and policies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '23

They will lobby the law, and extend their ownership for another 100 years, while they make money off public domain. WIN WIN!

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u/SnakeBiter409 Mar 22 '23

METH BATMAN

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u/thisisanawesomename Mar 22 '23

Was it at least fun-bad like Snakes on a plane?

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u/moeburn Mar 22 '23

What's more interesting is that this all happened because Winnie the Pooh entered public domain

ohhhhh I was wondering, ty. I saw this Winnie the Pooh horror movie show up on a torrent site and I was like "wtf how can they get away with this?"

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u/Zerttretttttt Mar 22 '23

Does that mean marvel can add Batman’s and superman to their films?

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u/csiposfosas Mar 22 '23

From what I’ve read they are planning to do a sequel of this garbage. Also that the producer is “eyeing” Bambi and Peter Pan aswell for horror remakes.

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u/QWERTY10099KR Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

It looks more like piglett on steroids. Theres a difference. Ive seen tv shows on I player of casts wearing pig masks doing bank jobs!.

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u/redrum-237 Mar 23 '23

Felt like a ripoff of Friday the 13th with the musical style from a different horror movie (I think the Shining, maybe?)

Sounds good to me lol

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u/tyedrain Mar 23 '23

I read his next movie is going to be Peter pan with a fat drug addict Tinkerbell.

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u/Ambitiouslass Mar 22 '23

It's an outpost for China's primitive government and policies.

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u/MacDerfus Mar 23 '23

Hes public domain?

Cocaine bear missed such a huge opportunity

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u/TokenFemaleLadyWoman Mar 22 '23

Third option: PR-team trying to drum up publicity for a steaming turd. I highly doubt anyone in the People's Republic gives two shits. The Chinese censors are not stupid, or at least not that stupid.

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u/NaCly_Asian Mar 22 '23

From what I remember, the joke has been around on Chinese internet for a long time. It wasn't until a picture of him and obama walking was parodied with pooh and whatever the sad donkey name is. Then, the comment sections got really racist. and every time the winnie the pooh comparison came up, it devolved to racism. since social media companies can be held legally responsible for not moderating their users' content, it's a blanket ban now.

as for the film, if it was a mainland thing, they only approve a certain number of foreign films, so they can be more picky on it. not sure why hong kong is doing it. could be the new chief executive kissing Beijing's ass?

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u/CrabbyBlueberry Mar 22 '23

The parody was Xi => Pooh and Obama => Tigger. Shinzo Abe of Japan was Eeyore.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

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u/sixpackshaker Mar 22 '23

I saw a meme where Piglet was Putin.

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u/lin-ze-xu Mar 23 '23

They got recast after the 20th Congress in October:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgBAweQWAAEnac0?format=jpg&name=900x900

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u/Bent_Brewer Mar 23 '23

It is not only that China's censors will not tolerate ridicule of the
country's leader, they do not want this beloved children's character
becoming a kind of online euphemism for the Communist Party's general
secretary.

Streisand Effect has entered the chat.

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u/Which_Seaworthiness Mar 22 '23

Sad donkey is Eeyore.

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u/Card_Zero Mar 22 '23

What do you mean exactly

Why do most of your comments lack a first letter, especially all the ones that start with "ell" or "ooks like"?

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u/Jyust Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

Found another one a few threads down on worldnews

https://www.reddit.com/user/LegitimateButton2391/

And another one https://www.reddit.com/user/houtysao/

I wonder how many humans are left in worldnews comments. This is just the most pathetically coded and clearly broken one.

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u/bijobini Mar 23 '23

That's crazy, at least these ones are incompetent

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u/Card_Zero Mar 23 '23

I think they're attempting to be witty, which is alarming. Several of these comments follow the basic register and format of something which might look like a wisecrack to humans. They're inanely echoing what's already been said, but in a jocular way. Once in a while this gets upvotes.

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u/bijobini Mar 23 '23

Yeah, looking at the 2nd one you linked, I recognize some of those comments from earlier today. Hopefully reddit does something about it

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u/Card_Zero Mar 23 '23

I found another 18, and reported them. (The form only accepts 10 accounts at the time, so I put the rest in a comment.) I think I could probably find more. Yes, I've been gulled by them too - I remember smirking slightly at this one.

I hope Reddit bans by IP and IP ranges, otherwise they'll just make more.

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u/bijobini Mar 23 '23

18! Dang, good job!

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u/Typical-Annual-3555 Mar 23 '23

Dog shit or not, I’d go to great lengths to theoretically piss off Xi. I’ve almost certainly seen worse movies than this.

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u/meeco4_0 Mar 23 '23

You misspelled "competition"

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u/StraightOven4697 Mar 23 '23

Ba dum tssss

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u/dogsent Mar 22 '23

Fair, but this film is suddenly a cult classic. Cosplay masks are already available. https://cosiconcos.com/products/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-mask-latex-cosplay-winnie-face-mask-halloween-scary-horror-masks-helmet

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u/Stepjam Mar 22 '23

For the record, the masks existed before the movie. That goes to show how low budget and lazy it was. They bought an existing mask instead of making their own.

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u/dogsent Mar 22 '23

Wow! I wasn't aware of Immortal Masks.

https://immortalmasks.com/shop/friendo-silicone-mask

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u/StraightOven4697 Mar 22 '23

Jesus. They're going to encourage this idiot to make a sequel.

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u/Maximum_Future_5241 Mar 22 '23

Probably the former. Also, since I believe movie Pooh Bear is a serial killer, he probably sees the connection with his genocide. In his defense, it does look shitty. Against his defense, free speech should be universal.

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u/critically_damped Mar 23 '23

Sadly, this is one of those times where it is NOT appropriate to hand out the benefit of the doubt.

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u/Gawdsed Mar 22 '23

we all know the truth, nobody asked Xi before putting in a stunt double in the film.

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u/Infinaris Mar 22 '23

Did Xinnie the Pooh claim copyright infringement?

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u/sc00p401 Mar 22 '23

"Oh bother.." - Chairman Xi

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u/fpomo Mar 22 '23

China has ruined what was an awesome international city. It's an outpost for China's primitive government and policies.

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u/flokolollopotun Mar 22 '23

They are losing business as well and it's also being used to trade with Russia any kind of electronics including sanctioned parts

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u/SRM_Thornfoot Mar 22 '23

If China had done good by Hong Kong, Taiwan would be theirs by now.

As it is, through Hong Kong China showed Taiwan how it would go, so now Taiwan is ready to fight to their last man to stay free of China.

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u/FrankyCentaur Mar 22 '23

Bruh the people of Taiwan wouldn’t be okay with China trying to gobble them up regardless, and the people of Hong Kong didn’t open their arms to the CCP. They were against it until the authoritarian boot came down.

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u/kawag Mar 22 '23

Yes, I think that’s the point they are making - that the CCP, by insisting on dominating Hong Kong, crushing its freedoms and eradicating its distinct culture against the will of its people, has sent a signal that no part of the PRC is allowed any degree of autonomy. The CCP wants to homogenise everything.

It didn’t have to be like that. For a long time, Hong Kong operated as an autonomous region within the PRC. The CCP could have kept that model and expanded it in such a way that Taiwan might have considered joining. Now there’s no chance of that happening.

States in the US have a high degree of autonomy, as do member states in the EU. Again - Hong Kong used to have a high degree of autonomy despite being part of the autocratic PRC.

That said, I don’t think the CCP could have accepted that. They were doomed to make this mistake because they view autonomous regions as a historical embarrassment which must be corrected as a matter of nationalistic pride.

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u/matlynar Mar 23 '23

States in the US have a high degree of autonomy, as do member states in the EU

Doesn't Puerto Rico get kind of a bad deal though?

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u/Scary_Princess Mar 23 '23

Puerto Rico isn’t a state. It’s a territory that was never provided the economic advantages of statehood in the continental United States. Unlike Hawaii (HDI .940) it did not have a strong central government prior to its inclusion in the US and never had the geographic advantages and military usefulness of the Hawaiian islands. Had Puerto Rico been left alone it’s very likely that corruption, political instability and economic challenges would have been worse.

Using the Human Development Index we see that Puerto Rico measures .845 below the lowest of the states Mississippi (.866) and well below the highest ranked state Massachusetts (.949). To compare that the country with the highest overall HDI is (.962) and the US average is .921. Let’s compare Puerto Rico with similar island nations nearby. The Bahamas has the highest HDI of the Caribbean island nations (excluding Cuba) its HDI is .812. The Caribbean island nation with the lowest HDI is .714 (excluding Haiti).

So using HDI it’s pretty clear to see that Puerto Rico has materially benefited from being a U.S. territory. However, it’s benefit is likely less than had it been a full state. However, like Mississippi Puerto Rico suffers from the fact that it has a high number of non white peoples and is a victim of systemic and overt racism in us policy.

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u/fpomo Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

Unification with China is not popular in Taiwan for extremely good reasons. China's government is only capable being no better than primitive thugs. Brutal violence or the threat of violence is all that they know.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

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u/fpomo Mar 22 '23 edited Mar 22 '23

It was international city. You take the good and the bad but sometimes the good parts can be amazing. You've obviously missed out on the many good bits.

It's a shame the primitive and thuggish Chinese government is turning it into a hellish shithole.

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u/fpomo Mar 22 '23

Conservatives are sick fucks especially in the US.

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u/Kronik95 Mar 22 '23

But their leader is the star of the show!

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u/ninjas_in_my_pants Mar 22 '23

Yeah, it’s a metaphor for him brutally crushing Western powers and building China into the greatest superpower in world history!

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u/play4m32 Mar 23 '23

is this for real? like whats the movie about?

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u/ninjas_in_my_pants Mar 23 '23

It’s an indie slasher film with characters from the book. Haven’t seen it, but I guess the kid grows up and doesn’t visit the woods for a while and when he comes back they’ve all gone psycho.

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u/ifartfreedom Mar 22 '23

Xi is the biggest crybaby ever. How thin skinned do you have to be lol

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u/abigboot Mar 23 '23

Trump and elon musk would like to have a word

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u/DMAN591 Mar 23 '23

How thin skinned do you have to be lol

Yellow skinned, more like.

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u/monkeywithgun Mar 22 '23

The thin skin of autocrats.

This fool completely missed the opportunity to squash this by embracing the comparison. He could have run with, 'well it's quite an honor to be compared to one of the most beloved, honest, faithful, and heartfelt characters in children's literature', but no, stupidity driven by fear of appearing soft won the day and now he hides from a imaginary talking bear for children. Autocrats are worthless cowards and vain fools.

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u/VoopityScoop Mar 22 '23

He could have run with "who the fuck cares about a Facebook meme" and not had any trouble at all

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u/dramatic_tempo Mar 22 '23

Xi's insecurity is both hilarious and pathetic. I see why him and Putin like to scissor each other.

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u/IAlreadyHaveTheKey Mar 23 '23

Can we pull it from our cinemas as well and just pretend it never happened?

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u/AltoidStrong Mar 22 '23

Fascists and dictators are the most delicate of snow flakes.

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u/aturner89 Mar 22 '23

"I'm not Winnie the Pooh!"
That's what Xi said.

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u/Chairman_Mittens Mar 22 '23

I'm actually amazed that it was even allowed to be shown there or advertised in the first place.

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u/radicalelation Mar 23 '23

I'm amazed they got a distribution deal big enough for that. Altitude can get $100k budget indie horrors into Chinese theaters, apparently.

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u/autotldr BOT Mar 22 '23

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)

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u/Marthaver1 Mar 22 '23

Looks creepy

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u/unkelrara Mar 22 '23

Why did they use a pic of xi jinping for this though?

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u/iGoKommando Mar 22 '23

What a fragile little man he is.

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u/METAL4_BREAKFST Mar 22 '23

The "strongmen" always are.

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u/LogicalPsychosis Mar 22 '23

Xi's got small PP energy

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u/me_and_myself_and_i Mar 22 '23

Agreed. I find it hard to fault Xi on this one. Saved his people time and money.

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u/Penguator432 Mar 22 '23

Wait, I missed out on the theatrical release of this? Damn

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u/Cyber_Steve1 Mar 22 '23

I was about to go "oh no why would they remove a childrens cartoon movie from the cinemas?". and then i found out it was the live action horror one. I'd have to back that decision :/

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u/Wwize Mar 22 '23

Xi is such a weak leader that he's scared of a fucking cartoon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

It’s a horror movie actually

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u/FM-101 Mar 22 '23

Isn't this just going to make it worse for him? With this action the entire world can see how fragile and insecure he is, which must be pretty embarrassing.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Mar 22 '23

Are they missing much?

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u/alzee76 Mar 22 '23

Just liberty.

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u/TryingToEscapeTarkov Mar 22 '23

So are Americans.

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u/VoopityScoop Mar 22 '23

Yeah, remember when Americans censored Team America World Police, killed and wounded thousands with the military during one protest, and forced Puerto Rico to join the union against their will and then took away all their rights? No?

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u/alzee76 Mar 22 '23

derp derp derp

I don't speak derp.

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u/treadmarks Mar 22 '23

What a fragile regime that it is threatened by Winnie the Pooh.

Communism is the very definition of failure. Tactical assessment: Red Chinese victory impossible.

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u/tenormore Mar 23 '23

Oh Hong Kong, I was confused how it got into Chinese theatres in the first place for a minute

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u/Drekels Mar 23 '23

Why does this article have a photo of Xi Jinping at the top?

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u/LudereHumanum Mar 22 '23

Xi is such a wimp. How petty have you be that your ego is that fragile?

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u/kujasgoldmine Mar 22 '23

Probably doing a favor, as the trailer looked soo bad!

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u/Juliuscesear1990 Mar 23 '23

But have you seen the movie?

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u/StickAFork Mar 22 '23

Reddit needs pooh bear avatars.

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u/MisterChauncyButtons Mar 22 '23

Oh bother.

1

u/NightTrain435 Mar 22 '23

Oh, bother.

1

u/gthchem Mar 22 '23

Is it rated arrrrrr or something?

1

u/Username-forgotten Mar 22 '23

Hey everyone, let's count all the Xinnie the Pooh jokes!

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u/QWERTY10099KR Mar 22 '23

Save the Chinese from this desparity!

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u/supercali45 Mar 23 '23

Xinnie the Pooh doesn't like autobiographies

1

u/ggsmart88 Mar 23 '23

This was inevitable though, right?

1

u/shady8x Mar 23 '23

Oh look, a world leader being a little bitch.

Considering how fucking terrible that movie is, this is probably gonna get it more attention then it ever could have gotten otherwise. And honestly, this is the only way for anyone to ever consider seriously linking any characters in that movie to Xi. So congrats, mission failed successfully.

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u/rho65 Mar 22 '23

great movie tho

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u/Orqee Mar 22 '23

You mean Pooh ?

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u/MaqiZodiac Mar 22 '23

SDE...

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u/tryinghealthrny Mar 22 '23

Pooh looks horrendous here. Looks like he fought 2 fists of fury & lost, by a lot.

1

u/vibroguy Mar 22 '23

Good. It’s fucking terrible.

1

u/Full_Echo_3123 Mar 23 '23

Why would they pull a film that their glorious leader was starring in? SMH..

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u/Long_jawn_silver Mar 23 '23

glad to see john goodman is still getting work

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u/Le_saucisson_masque Mar 23 '23

LOL There is nothing more to say, XI is a joke

1

u/trundyl Mar 23 '23

That bear looks like Ice-T.

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u/cunt_isnt_sexist Mar 23 '23

Repost this article all over reddit, so Tencent has to deal with backlash.

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u/Purple_Haze Mar 23 '23

Looking at the film

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh:_Blood_and_Honey

I suspect the reason it was being shown was to mock Xi.

The only reason anybody here would go to the film is the internet outrage.

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u/TheseLipsSinkShips Mar 23 '23

That doesn’t look very good. Poor Winnie the poo.

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u/HappyInNature Mar 23 '23

Is this the Miel y Sangre movie?

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u/Plus_Helicopter_8632 Mar 23 '23

Big news

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u/Basdad Mar 23 '23

Screw anyone who violates Winnie-the-Pooh.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

CAT III ?

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u/AloofPenny Mar 22 '23

I’m disappointed. Did Ki not like his movie?

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u/420trashcan Mar 22 '23

China is absurdly weak.

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u/Ratstail91 Mar 22 '23

...what

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u/CaptianTumbleweed Mar 22 '23

Hahaha the CPC is so thin skinned

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u/upandtotheleftplease Mar 22 '23

There’s a Pooh ride for kids in LA Chinatown. I hope it stays there forever

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u/vanbikejerk Mar 23 '23

Streisand Effect.

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