Rumors "Dune" Chinese poster deleted black people, the West this face was beaten ah
It is not the first time that China has been smeared and rumored by foreign media, but such a lame lie that the brain runs away from home is really outrageous.
In the past week, foreign media such as the Daily Mail and The Times have been scrambling to hype the same fake news, citing the Us NGO "China Africa Project" (China Africa Project), claiming that "the Chinese version of the Hollywood movie "Dune" poster replaced black actors with Chinese actors", and the backhand gave China a "racial discrimination" hat.
But this out-of-context lie is untenable at all, and even many foreign netizens can easily find that these reports are confusing different versions of propaganda posters after a very simple investigation, and they do not mention that the film is also used in the united States when it is promoted in the same two versions of posters.
What is even more shameful is that after being rebuffed by many foreign netizens, although the original link of the Daily Mail was invalid, the relevant content was still hung on its social media account, and it did not seem to intend to clarify or apologize on the matter.
The Daily Mail declared that "black British actress removed from the Poster of The Dune Chinese Edition"
Since its premiere on the 22nd, the Hollywood science fiction blockbuster "Dune" has topped the weekend box office in North American theaters, winning $41 million (about 261 million yuan) at the box office, and more than $232 million (about 1.481 billion yuan) worldwide, and the film's box office in Chinese mainland on the 30th also exceeded 200 million yuan.
This far exceeded expectations, so that the producer Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have the confidence, local time on the 26th announced that it will produce a sequel.
On the same day, the British "Daily Mail" quoted the "Central African Project" as saying that when "Dune" was released in Chinese mainland, the promotional poster used deleted the portrait of Sharon Duncan-Brewster, a black British actress, and replaced it with Taiwanese actor Zhang Zhen.
As soon as the voice turned, the report said that letting black actresses "disappear" from the poster may be a special adjustment made by Hollywood to "please" the Chinese market, incidentally repeating the old story, saying that "the Chinese poster of "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens in 2015 narrowed the image of black actor John Boyega", as evidence to imply that there is "racial discrimination" and "discrimination against black actors" in China, and a wave of rhythm is flying.
The Daily Mail also wrote in the report that they had contacted Warner Bros. and the Chinese company responsible for the distribution of the film on the matter, but did not write any responses from both sides in the article.
This report immediately attracted a lot of attention and was reprinted and quoted by many foreign media, even the British mainstream media "The Times".
A Muslim rights group called the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) even issued a "statement" asking Warner to explain "why black actors were removed from the Chinese version of the poster."
But whether it is "Star Wars Episode VII" 6 years ago or "Dune" today, the so-called "Chinese special version of the poster deletes the image of black actors" is all absurd rumors, and these Western media and institutions use this to attack China, which is a complete anti-China hype.
A brief check on the Internet shows that Dune used multiple versions of the poster when promoting the Chinese market, and the poster that the Daily Mail used to condemn China is two of them, but the different propaganda emphases will have different roles.
More importantly, whether intentionally or unintentionally, including the "Central African Project" that first concocted this rumor and the Following Western media, they all silently mentioned that the film also used these two posters when it was promoted in the United States.
Above is the US version of the poster / below is the Chinese mainland version of the poster
The facts are already very clear, there is no such thing as "Chinese racial discrimination erases black actors", these Western institutions and media are so unscrupulous to slander China, and they do everything they can to throw dirty water on China, so that many foreign netizens can't look at it and post the results of their own verification.
"You could easily verify this for yourself."
"No, I'm sorry, this is Ms. Brewster's poster in China, I just took this picture from a ticketing platform"
"On the contrary, in China, more of a poster with black actors is used, and in the United States, the opposite is true." Why are Americans so afraid to show off black actresses? Is this racism, or does the American market dislike black people? ”
The Daily Mail's rhythmic tweet has completely "flipped over", and most of the comments in the popular comments are netizens asking why they can publish fake news so grandly, "Why are you always lying?" ”
Some netizens scolded: "Daily Mail, what X do you put here?" Have you ever been to a cinema in China? As a big media outlet, just publish fake news? By spreading hatred and provoking racial conflict? It's disgusting! ”
Another's response lit up: "This is their trick, putting what they have done on others, genocide, aggression, economic manipulation and so on." ”
The Asian American information website NextShark also clarified the matter in a report, and specifically mentioned that this rumor was first released by the "Central African Project" on the 24th.
The claim that "the Chinese version of Dune", the poster of "Dune" removes black actors, is wrong
Russian media RT also further pointed out in the clarification report that this rumor-mongering NGO organization is an "American-based" organization, and the founder and editor-in-chief Eric Orland is said to have worked as a reporter for CNN, the Associated Press, the BBC and other foreign media, and is also a Chinese foreign policy expert. The article mentioned that the "Central Africa Project" has been sponsored by the Ford Foundation in the United States in recent years, and this Ford Foundation is inextricably linked to the CIA.
The official website and official push of the "China-Africa Project" are full of a large amount of anti-China content, and the articles published are invariably committed to provoking Sino-African relations, reversing black and white on the political, economic, military, diplomatic and other fields of contacts between the two sides, and just looking at the title can feel the obvious malice: "What should the United States do to compete with China more effectively in Africa", "China's distant-water fishing fleet is consuming Ghana's remaining fish resources", "Race and Guangzhou Crisis"...
Coincidentally, it was also rumored that "the Chinese poster of "Star Wars Episode VII" reduced the image of black actors".
But in fact, like Dune, this is just a different version of the poster.
But despite a lot of "pickpocketing" and skepticism, the Daily Mail and the China-Africa Project began to pretend to be deaf and dumb, both of which quietly deleted the rumor-mongering reports without any clarification or apology.
What is even more shameless is that although the link to the original report of the Daily Mail can no longer be opened, it retains the tweet content posted on social media and continues to mislead the majority of netizens.
In a message denouncing the Daily Mail's continued retention of rumor-mongering tweets, someone replied, "Do they really care about [race]?" No, the poster is just an excuse..."
As for what the excuse is, there is no need to say more.
Source: Observer Network