This created lots of media attention and I think this might be worth mentioning, article itself is not that good.

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    3 years ago

    To be fair there’s a difference when the adaptation is not true to the original and the same product being modified to adapt to a narrative.

    As a good example A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone is an adaptation of Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa; they are totally different films that deal with totally different topics from totally different points of view, yet both are good. There are things that could have been improved in Fincher’s adaptation but I think at the same time it achieves a lot of other things.

    What there’s truly of hypocrite here is that the media is making China look like the devil in red, whereas in reality the amount of countries that modify, censor or ban films or other types of media is pretty common.

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        3 years ago

        If they would have added a scene with real actors instead of a black screen and text they would have totally improved the film.

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          No matter how much it could hypothetically be fleshed out, that ending is basically the equivalent of a poorly written “fix it” fan fic made by someone who gets upset when the government isn’t the hero.