The latest “Minions” movie reinforces a message for Chinese audiences that viewers in other countries won’t see: Crime doesn’t pay.
, the Dalai Lama and human rights. In recent years, China's film board appears to have expanded its purview to ensure that films deliver the right message, and not one deemed harmful.
One says that Wild Knuckles, an older, mentor-like villain to the young Gru, was later bundled off to prison for 20 years. Before the credits, he simply drives off into a suburban horizon. “I think the ending with positive energy doesn’t have to exist at all,” said one cinema goer, Jenny Jian. “It’s totally unnecessary.”
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