Chapter 486: The Unavoidable Point
China's film censorship screens nothing more than those kinds of objects: sexuality, violence, morality, and politics.
Let's look at love and violence first. It is self-evident that this monistic system has never acknowledged that adults can enjoy sex and violence as entertainment.
There is no place for the legal consumption of sex content in China, and there is no reason why movies should be an exception.
Unlike the Western countries, where religion and state are separated, our party advocates a puritanical morality, which is nominally the same as that of the Catholic Church, and unlike the Western countries, where religion and state are separated, its puritanical morality has been implemented in all aspects of social life by administrative means, and it is almost impossible to get rid of its control over our social life and even our spiritual life. As for politics...... This is self-explanatory.
And in our great country, it is impossible to get rid of the restrictions on moral and political content of censorship by asserting the right to freedom of expression in films, as some Western countries do. This, too, is self-explanatory.
In other words, film censorship will exist in China for a long time, and on this basis, superimposed a classification system, Qiao Feng does not see any substantive significance.
Of course, we can still analyze this possibility, and we can think about what the film market in China's mainland will be like if there is a classification system.
In the mainland in the past few decades, even if there is a grading system, there is no need to think about the dimension of "political themes" at all, so this grading system with Chinese characteristics deals with the two directions of emotion and violence at most.
Although there is no evidence, it is bold to assert that the scale of pornography and violence that can be seen in current films in China (occasional dew spots, a little gore) is basically the maximum scale that the system can allow.
But this does not mean that Chinese films can deal with sex and violence in a fair and bright way from now on, reaching the scale of some Western drama films, or Hong Kong SAN-level films in the 90s, which is a dream.
Needless to say, under the monistic Puritan morality, affection and violence were never recognized as legitimate consumer needs. Therefore, it is basically an unattainable dream to hope that the introduction of the so-called classification system can expand the expression space of film creation.
Cinema is a very important ideology.
In China, basically everything that involves ideology will not be legalized, the most obvious is that there is no film law, no press law, and no Internet law.
Thinking about another time and space, when Google was driven out of China in the 21st century, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs only said that China manages the Internet in accordance with the law, but it has never been said which one it is.
Why?
Because of a law, even if you have 10,000 articles, there are places that you can't cover, and there will always be new events that hit the flaws of this law, which is why the laws of various countries have to be constantly revised. Even if the U.S. Constitution hasn't changed a word for more than 200 years, isn't there still so many amendments?
So in other words, having a law means you're going to have a loophole to exploit, but not having a law means you don't have a loophole to exploit, because an executive order can close the loophole and kick you back half of your body.
When it comes to ideology, the official will never let you have a loophole to exploit, so what kind of classification the movie is engaged in, and the delusional scissors will not be implemented in China.
Some people say that the "film classification system" is always helplessly associated with "se", and they think it is very unfair, because for a mature film classification system, se-love content is only one of the factors that affect the film rating, and content such as blood, violence, foul language, horror and other content will also affect the rating of the film.
Then he began to talk about how good the rating system in the United States is, and then took the Toy Story 3, Owl Kingdom: The Legend of the Guardians, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Resident Evil 4: God of War Reborn, Lust, Ring and other genre films that have been released in China.
Because these five kinds of films just represent the five classifications of the United States, the last Resident Evil 4: God of War Rebirth, the color and ring are r-rated and NC-17, saying that such films can be released in China, which means that the "film classification system" in the domestic film market is not a flood of beasts.
Films of all levels have been introduced and released on a large scale in China, and they have all achieved relatively good box office results, which shows that domestic audiences have a corresponding market consumption space for films of all levels, and they can rationally choose suitable film products for consumption.
In Qiao Feng's view, such a statement is a complete change of concept, because the release of such a film in China means that it is not the original film before.
Especially the last color. Warn.
Such a film is released in China, and all the explicit clips are deleted before it is released, and even if such a film is taken to the United States or Hong Kong after deletion, it is already a film that can be watched by the whole people, so this is not representative.
As far as the difficulty of film classification is concerned, political factors aside, blood, violence, foul language, and horror are not problems at all, and my country has always been not too strict about what violence and foul language are, just like Cheng Long and Zhou Xingchi's films can be released in the mainland, but they are not suitable for children in Hong Kong.
Therefore, it is completely inappropriate to use the American set to apply domestic films, the cultural background and political form are not the same, how can it be classified like the United States.
It was released in the United States with an R rating, and after it was cut in China, how can it be said that it is R rating, and teenagers should be restricted from watching it.
To put it mildly, all levels of films in the United States can be released in China and achieve good box office results, not because domestic audiences have a corresponding market consumption space for films of all levels, nor because they can rationally choose suitable film products for consumption, but because the government has specially cut all grades of films into films that can meet the requirements for release in China.
This is the meaning and necessity of censorship.
Say that without the classification system, there will be no segmented market, without a segmented market, there will be no virtuous circle of business pattern, and without a virtuous business pattern, there will be no real prosperity of Chinese films in commerce and art.
It's all.
It's all to say that the market is segmented, that there is a corresponding market consumption space, and that the audience can rationally choose the film products that suit them for consumption.
Because the person or this kind of person who said this deliberately avoided one thing that the country and ordinary people agreed on, that is, love, avoiding this matter, saying anything is in vain.