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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
And therein lies the reality. As I understand it now, the film makers were not pressured by the Chinese to change it, they were simply speculating how much extra money they could make if they could sell it in China.
They felt that the potential income from China was worth the rewrite.
It was all about them speculating on the potential profit - even though it destroys the integrity of the story and believability of the movie.
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Perhaps they would have been better off making chinese the aggressors, and made an additional ending scene for release in China...
Where the last of the American guerillas are rounded up, admit that they were selfish to have opposed the Chinese improvement of American society, apologize for the damage they caused, and accept re-education, and end with a military parade and some good martial music.
Both audiences would have been very happy.
(I have not seen the remake. Yet.)
Uncle Ted