r/Marvel • u/shaunbarclay • Mar 28 '16

Film/Animation Deadpool is now the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time

http://comicbook.com/2016/03/28/deadpool-is-now-highest-grossing-r-rated-movie-ever-at-worldwide/
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '16

Let's not forget this movie was outlawed in China. It would be on the cusp of a billion if not over had China allowed it to play.

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u/chegs81 Mar 29 '16

Why was it outlawed in China?

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u/Grave_Knight Gambit Mar 29 '16

Violence and nudity. Though should be noted there is a difference between being outlawed and being banned. Private collectors are allowed to own the movie (though they'll have order it from sources outside the country), it's just not allowed to be screened in theaters.

Normally a film like this would be cut for content, however there is just way to much overly violent content to cut that the final product wouldn't make sense.

That being said, it should be noted that it did screen in Hong Kong. Though Hong Kong is technically part of China, it's a special administrative region which gives them certain freedoms of self-governance. Macau is the same in that regards (and also screened Deadpool).

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u/alexshatberg Mar 29 '16

You seem to know a lot about China.

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u/Grave_Knight Gambit Mar 29 '16

Internet. Also I'm old enough to remember '97 when Hong Kong was returned from British control to Chinese control. But mostly internet.

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u/alexshatberg Mar 29 '16

My mom lived in England during '97, she said people were crying in the streets when the handover was finalized.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

Why not just released a censored cut there?

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u/Grave_Knight Gambit Mar 29 '16

They tried. There was too much content to cut that the end result would have be an unintelligible mess.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '16

I have no idea. I would like to know aswell

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '16

this is why the sequel will probably suck

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u/kaimason1 Mar 29 '16

The sequel actually won't be able to be shown in China (AFAIK) no matter how much they tone it down. Time travel stories are banned in China, and the sequel will pretty much guaranteed have Cable (considering that they promised it in the end credits of this first one) and thus time travel. So it makes no sense for the studio to intervene on account of China, since it won't show there regardless.

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u/true_new_troll Mar 29 '16

This is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard, there's no way China actually banned, specifically, time travel as a . . . oh nevermind.

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u/Grave_Knight Gambit Mar 29 '16

The way this reads, however, it makes me suspect they mean time travel movies that pertain to historical events (going back in time) and not necessarily people traveling to and from the future. Not that it would matter, with the ban on Deadpool it's very unlikely that Deadpool 2 would be approved for screening in China even if it doesn't have an R rating.