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Gong Li’s breasts may have injured a child in China – his mother is not yet sure.
Written By: Due-East on January 29, 2007
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| Zhang Yimou’s use of rich colors and gorgeous scenery (remember Hero from 2002?) in his movies has earned him a lot of fame, and he’s probably China’s most famous director (overseas, anyway). You could call him China’s King of Color. But his newest movie, Curse of the Golden Flower, is starting to make him look more like the King of Cleavage in China than anything else, and some people are pretty ticked about it. I haven’t seen the movie myself, but apparently there are quite a few chest-butts on display. If you’re American, you may think it’s not a big deal, but keep in mind that China is still in a lot of ways a very conservative nation, although that awesome set of values is being completely ruined by westernization. So, unlike Americans, the Chinese as a whole don’t want their five-year-old kids being exposed to 94.2% of Gong Li’s boobs. People are pretty upset. For example, Chinese moviegoer Ding Yunxia took her five-year-old son to the movie and had to cover his eyes with her own hands, saying: |
“I told him to do so with his own hands but he wouldn’t. I’m not sure how much of those shiny white breasts rubbed off his eyes.”
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| What the heck did she mean by the whole “rubbed off his eyes” thing? Were they watching it in 3D Touch-O-Vision?! Should I start wearing armor to the movies? A jock strap, perhaps? I shudder to think of all the movies I’ve seen with knives and other sharp implements in them! I could’ve lost an eye, or something worse…I’ll have to write a strongly-worded letter to the MPAA and make sure they include “Possible bodily harm to viewers” to the list of things that they look for when they rate movies. |
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| It wouldn’t be a big deal if China had a rating system for their films like so many other countries do. But they don’t, so people don’t necessarily know what to expect when things are released. And the fact that there were posters put up around primary schools urging young people to go see the movie to support China’s domestic movie industry kind of made it worse. Oops. I can only imagine the spike in demand for optometrists that’s about to hit China… |
