Confucius Say: “Navi my students, you can be dismissed”
A few weeks ago, all major cinemas in China received a notice from the government to stop showing Avatar 2D version on the big screen.
The government claims that the Avatar 3D version will still be showing, only the 2D version will be removed, and since that Avatar 3D contributes 90% of the total income, it will have minimal impact towards the audiences.
Although the government won’t admit, but everyone knows that this was an act to protect the upcoming domestic Chinese movie “Confucius”.
This news was widely discussed in popular BBS forums such as Douban (豆瓣: www.douban.com) and Tianya (天涯: www.tianya.cn). Furthermore, many users even initiated the “Anti-Confucius movement” on these forums and got over 10,000 post feedbacks.
No matter how legitimate the reason was to remove Avatar 2D off the big screen, the accumulated anger of Chinese audience is on the verge of burst.
And because of the earlier dismiss of Avatar 2D movie, the audience shifted their anger towards Confucius and only gave an overall rating of 3 out of 10. Way below in domestic movie standard.
In my opinion, I think Confucius is a movie that is worth to watch, since he was a famous man and his thinking influenced the Chinese people for over 2 thousand years. But using such a obvious way to wipe out movie competitor shows no confident and quite below the belt.
This is such a pity.

Confucius Say: “Navi my students, you can be dismissed”
A few weeks ago, all major cinemas in China received a notice from the government to stop showing Avatar 2D version on the big screen. The government claims that the Avatar 3D version will still be showing, only the 2D version will be removed, and since that Avatar 3D contributes 90% of the total income, it will have minimal impact towards the audiences.
Although the government won’t admit it, but everyone knows that this was an act to protect the upcoming domestic Chinese movie “Confucius”.
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