{"id":60107,"date":"2023-11-26T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/25\/tiger-stripes-malaysias-censors-have-removed-the-essence-of-my-film-says-director"},"modified":"2023-11-26T02:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:00:55","slug":"tiger-stripes-malaysias-censors-have-removed-the-essence-of-my-film-says-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60107","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Stripes: Malaysia\u2019s censors have \u2018removed the essence\u2019 of my film, says director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Nell Eu\u2019s drama is up for an Oscar but conservatism means viewers in her own country will see a version she disowns<\/p>\n<p>It should be a moment of celebration for Malaysian cinema. Amanda Nell Eu\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/may\/17\/tiger-stripes-review-coming-of-age-body-horror-releases-the-monster-inside\" title=\"\">Tiger Stripes<\/a><\/em> became the country\u2019s first film to win the prize for best feature at Cannes\u2019 critics week this year, was selected as the country\u2019s official entry to the next Academy Awards and praised by ministers.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you\u2019re in Malaysia, you won\u2019t be able to watch the real version.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/25\/tiger-stripes-malaysias-censors-have-removed-the-essence-of-my-film-says-director\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Nell Eu\u2019s drama is up for an Oscar but conservatism means viewers in her own country will see a version she disownsIt should be a moment of celebration for Malaysian cinema. Amanda Nell Eu\u2019s Tiger Stripes became the country\u2019s first film to win t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"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":[41,71,69,70,281,42,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-film","category-malaysia","category-women","category-world-news","category-young-people"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60107","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60107\/revisions\/60119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}