Showrunner David Benioff says the show's brutal Cultural Revolution scenes were not intended to be a critique of cancel culture but notes that some parallels are "hard to ignore."
The scene was also buried halfway through the Chinese version of the novel but was brought to the beginning of the book for the English version — with the author’s blessing.
From the article. So I guess it was less prominent in the original chinese version? But you are right being a book adaption the story has been out for years and quite prominently at that.
Then again we don’t really know what “draws fire in china” actually means, if it’s just some random online posters, then you can make any claim and likely find a comment supporting it. Really doesn’t mean much.
On a side note I think there was a Chinese TV adaption already. Has anyone seen that one and how they handled it?
Before reading the article I actually didn’t think about that scene, but thought they’d be annoyed that nationalities of the characters were changed.
I felt like the Tencent version had to show the scene to establish motive, but glossed over the surface of the deeper meaning.
Having only read the English language books, I don’t know if the Tencent version was closer to the Chinese language book. Overall, I enjoyed this version of the show. I’m on the fence about seeing the Netflix version.
From the article. So I guess it was less prominent in the original chinese version? But you are right being a book adaption the story has been out for years and quite prominently at that.
Then again we don’t really know what “draws fire in china” actually means, if it’s just some random online posters, then you can make any claim and likely find a comment supporting it. Really doesn’t mean much.
On a side note I think there was a Chinese TV adaption already. Has anyone seen that one and how they handled it?
Before reading the article I actually didn’t think about that scene, but thought they’d be annoyed that nationalities of the characters were changed.
I felt like the Tencent version had to show the scene to establish motive, but glossed over the surface of the deeper meaning.
Having only read the English language books, I don’t know if the Tencent version was closer to the Chinese language book. Overall, I enjoyed this version of the show. I’m on the fence about seeing the Netflix version.