{"id":47733,"date":"2022-08-22T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/22\/chinese-censors-alter-ending-of-minions-the-rise-of-gru-film"},"modified":"2022-08-22T22:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:34:29","slug":"chinese-censors-alter-ending-of-minions-the-rise-of-gru-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47733","title":{"rendered":"Chinese censors alter ending of Minions: The Rise of Gru film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers mock addendum explaining Gru\u2019s family values and arrest of thief Wild Knuckles<\/p>\n<p>Censors in China have changed the ending of the animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru for its domestic release, according to viewers in the country, in yet another example of China altering a popular Hollywood film.<\/p>\n<p>According to posts and screenshots of the film, shared on Weibo, a platform similar to Twitter, there is an addendum by censors showing that Wild Knuckles, a main character in the heist film, was caught by police and served 20 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/22\/chinese-censors-alter-ending-of-minions-the-rise-of-gru-film\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers mock addendum explaining Gru\u2019s family values and arrest of thief Wild KnucklesCensors in China have changed the ending of the animated film Minions: The Rise of Gru for its domestic release, according to viewers in the country, in yet another e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[385,41,458,50,71,69,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation-in-film","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","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\/47733","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47733\/revisions\/47747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}