{"id":121642,"date":"2020-12-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/monster_hunter_movies_chinese_premiere_reportedly_cancelled_due_to_racist_joke"},"modified":"2020-12-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T09:00:00","slug":"monster-hunter-movies-chinese-premiere-reportedly-cancelled-due-to-racist-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/05\/monster-hunter-movies-chinese-premiere-reportedly-cancelled-due-to-racist-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Hunter Movie&#8217;s Chinese Premiere Reportedly Cancelled Due To Racist Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce89e60dc190d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce89e60dc190d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Monster Hunter Movie\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce89e60dc190d\/monster-hunter-movie.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ce89e60dc190d\/monster-hunter-movie.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Monster Hunter Movie\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Paul W. S. Anderson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/phew_the_latest_monster_hunter_movie_trailer_has_massively_restored_our_hopes\"><strong>Monster Hunter<\/strong> movie<\/a> has caused controversy in one of its key markets due to the presence of a racist joke.<\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8217;s Chinese premiere has reportedly been cancelled due to a scene in which one of the characters recites the rhyme &#8220;Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees &#8211; look at these&#8221; \u2013 a rhyme which is understandably considered offensive by many in Asia.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: All showtimes of Monster Hunter are being cancelled in China. Theaters exhibitors got notification in midnight without clearly reason, but industry believe it&#8217;s because a racist joke about Chinese after audience reflected on social media.<\/span>\u2014 Gavin (@gavinfeng97) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gavinfeng97\/status\/1334917863572971523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great writing in the Monster Hunter movie&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jTRnKOClCi\">pic.twitter.com\/jTRnKOClCi<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/1334794969727569924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The film launched in China on December 3rd, and will be edited to remove the offending dialogue so it can return to general release. However, the uproar has negatively impacted the movie&#8217;s standing in the country, which is arguably its biggest market.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the fallout that <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/monster_hunter_world\">Monster Hunter: World<\/a><\/strong> has gotten over 1,000 negative reviews on Steam, and Capcom has issued a statement making it clear that while it is aware of the controversy, it is not involved in the production of the film.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Capcom has issued a statement on social media due to the backlash, stating that it is aware of the situation and the controversy. That it is not the producer on the MH movie and that it will report the situation to the relevant film companies to investigate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KxMWP6H69I\">pic.twitter.com\/KxMWP6H69I<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZhugeEX\/status\/1335000823261241349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It begs the question \u2013 how did this line get into the script in the first place, and how did it make it into the final movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul W. S. Anderson&#8217;s Monster Hunter movie has caused controversy in one of its key markets due to the presence of a racist joke. The movie&#8217;s Chinese premiere has reportedly been cancelled due to a scene in which one of the characters recites the rhyme &#8220;Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees &#8211; look at these&#8221; \u2013 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}