In what world does the Barbie movie have a plot that requires a map showing territorial waters of the South China Sea? Even if she was traveling the world this specific part of a map seems like it’s zero value added.
zero value for you. lots of $value for someone trying to sell a movie in China. it also works here, look at us pushing the bait to the top of the active feed and help let everyone know, that there’s a new Barbie movie. oh and it’s making hUgE waves globally, look they banned it. it’s troll marketing and the guardian is just feeding people ads.
It’s pandering to the larger market.
I haven’t seen this movie, but in both Uncharted and Abominable it is a normal map but with imaginary dashes in the South China Sea. They know Americans won’t care.
In Uncharted it is during one of those airplane scenes like they have in Indiana Jones.
Yeah. That’s my biggest question, too. I don’t care about Vietnam banning a movie, but I wonder how and why the South China Sea figures into things. Is the map only onscreen for a second or two, or are we talking about a significant plot point?
Also, how did they feel about the travel poster that said “Surf Vietnam” in Back to the Future II? Five minutes ago, I would have thought that was an asinine question, but now I seriously wonder.
Gotta appeal to China somehow to enter their market to get all that money.
“We do not grant licence for the American movie Barbie to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,”
I think the article is saying that the movie is actually displaying China’s unilaterally claimed line and Vietnam is banning it for doing so. i.e. against China’s wishes right?
edit: Oh, I misred cyborganism’s comment. I thought he was saying Vietnam was trying to enter China’s market.
The comment was saying that the movie included the nine dash line to allow it access to the Chinese market. Had they not included it, they might have had their film banned in China.
Edit: swipe keyboard mistake
What about this reads as against China’s wishes? They love having their territorial claims recognized.
I wasn’t able to find a screenshot of the movie, but the bbc article has a map that does a better job at showing what is displayed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66083761
Oh bugger.
Girl power.
But also power to the genocidal authoritarian state of China.
We have gay characters! We are good people and very progressive.
