No matter how much research is undertaken, errors will always crop up, regardless. ( The movie Titanic featured her sister ship the Olympic. Big oops! ) You have to consider INTENT. Did the originating country purposefully show disrespect? How crucial were the errors in compromising the integrity of the film? SBS acknowledged their oversight, apologized and the Chinese need to move on. I would have thought the very presence of Zombies would have been the initial clue it was not going to be a serious treatise on the royals to be featured. Can the film be reworked to remove the offensive parts and aired? Censorship is a slippery slope and letting China dictate what Koreans watch, well, no good will come of it.
A similar tale took place s few years ago when actor Ben Affleck made the movie Argo, about Americans being held hostage in their embassy in Tehran. Long story short they were rescued by a film crew. So far so good. The issue that ticked off Canada, England and even Iran, was that he portrayed the rescuers as CIA operatives, rather than the true heroes, the Canadian Ambassador and embassy staff! You will agree that, that goes far beyond artistic licence. Complaints were raised and duly noted. I bring this up to show while there was discontent, the movie was not banned, and the public had the choice to view it or not. And happily the Canadians were inspired to make their own version, resulting in even more actors being employed. And a more accurate perspective being offered for the public to consider. Art is not history and people could find so many more important issues to gripe about!
Ben Affleck’s Argo was akin to fiction, when he made the heroes who rescued American hostages in Tehran the CIA operatives, rather than the actual Canadian Embassy diplomats and staff. He managed to tick off Britain, Iran and of course Canada in the process. There were no cries to have the film removed from screens everywhere. People stayed away in droves, thereby lessening box office results. That’s how you deal with this type of issue- hit them in the pocketbook. There’s no need to curtail other’s viewing of the film, flaws and all.
This reminds me of the movie Titanic. If everything were actually historically correct, it would have been a different movie. Purists, such as myself, just bit our tongues and reminded ourselves we weren’t watching a documentary!
SBS acknowledged their oversight, apologized and the Chinese need to move on. I would have thought the very presence of Zombies would have been the initial clue it was not going to be a serious treatise on the royals to be featured. Can the film be reworked to remove the offensive parts and aired?
Censorship is a slippery slope and letting China dictate what Koreans watch, well, no good will come of it.
Complaints were raised and duly noted. I bring this up to show while there was discontent, the movie was not banned, and the public had the choice to view it or not. And happily the Canadians were inspired to make their own version, resulting in even more actors being employed. And a more accurate perspective being offered for the public to consider.
Art is not history and people could find so many more important issues to gripe about!
This was based on a comic essay?