Re: Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem"

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:22:32 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/25/2024 3:46 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/25/2024 1:19 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 23/03/2024 03:47, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 3/22/2024 4:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem".  I watched
the first twenty minutes last night.  The brutality of the Chinese
Cultural Revolution was horrendous.  I will be watching more then
reading the first book in the series that I bought a few months ago.
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821
and
    https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/
>
Lynn

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Ok, the Netflix version of the book is not available in China.  I was
wondering about that.
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https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/22/netflixs-3-body-problem-spawns-anger-in-china-n3785226
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And order of events in the book are different in the Chinese version
and the English version.  That is sad.

>
Are you saying that the book is different
in thr teo languages, as well as the TV shows?

 
Apparently so according to the article.
 
I talked to a 23 year old Chinese person about it over the weekend.  He
has watched the Netflix episodes already and found it good.  He said
that he does not remember the murder of the physics professor by the Red
Guard in the Chinese version of the first book.  He thinks that was
taken out by the Chinese censors.

>
Reportedly this scene is creating a lot of hubbub in China. The
authorities would rather downplay the Cultural Revolution.
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It does not appear in the first episode of the Chinese TV
series.

Some of the reasoning reported in the article from Chinese
commentators was very strange -- as if they had no idea at all of
their own history.

Then again, living in a Commie State, it is quite possible that they
do not.

The idea that Netflix was trying to demean China was especially
hilarious, since it takes no effort at all to demean a Commie country.
The "Communist" in "Communist China" is demeaning, all by itself.

I should note that this is an explicitly right-wing site, and will try
to sign you up if you view the page.

I wonder what sort of ads I'll get now ...
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"