{"id":41447,"date":"2022-02-07T16:51:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/07\/original-fight-club-ending-restored-in-china-after-backlash"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:51:21","slug":"original-fight-club-ending-restored-in-china-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41447","title":{"rendered":"Original Fight Club ending restored in China after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dystopian\u2019 reversal of 1999 cult film\u2019s ending showed police winning out<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese streaming platform Tencent Video has restored the original ending to the film Fight Club after it amended the Chinese edition to tell viewers police had \u201crapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals\u201d, prompting a widespread backlash.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale reversal of the anti-capitalist, anarchist denouement to the 1999 hit film, which stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2022\/jan\/25\/fight-club-gets-a-new-ending-in-china-and-the-authorities-win\">made international headlines<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/07\/original-fight-club-ending-restored-in-china-after-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Dystopian\u2019 reversal of 1999 cult film\u2019s ending showed police winning outThe Chinese streaming platform Tencent Video has restored the original ending to the film Fight Club after it amended the Chinese edition to tell viewers police had \u201crapidly figur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,69,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-film","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41448,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41447\/revisions\/41448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}