Disney Defends '78 Seconds' of 'Mulan' Footage Filmed in China - TheWrap
Cooperation with Chinese officials accused of human rights violations was required, film production head Sean Bailey tells Parliament
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Disney defends shooting Mulan in regions where Uyghur Muslim internment camps are located: "It was only 78 secs of the final cut"
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What does proximity matter? Being further away in China would be better somehow? Were they utilizing Uyghur labor?
Seems like filming in China at all should be the problem?
Seems like filming in China at all should be the problem?
To be fair, filming a movie in a region where innocent people are imprisoned, enslaved, brainwashed, tortured, and killed is fine if the amount of footage you use doesn't exceed 5 minutes. Disney is in the clear!
But honestly a UK parliment member calling out a corporation, i hope he is equally upset with his own country. I don't see anyone else besides the United States sanctioning The CCP over the uighurs
What are you, some sort of bleeding heart humanitarian? Everyone knows it's 5 minutes, not 10.
Wouldn't this argument make it... worse? You shot footage in an area, and presumably directly supported a region that is operating concentration camps for barely more than a minute of a film. At that point, why bother shooting the footage at all - why bother keeping it in the final cut?
I really think it's time to boycott Disney or do something similar like how business's in Apartheid South Africa faced boycotts. That is the only way to hold them accountable. Sadly I think they might be too big and there's also the lack of awareness about this issue which make me worry about how successful it would be.
Shades of Brock Turner's Dad (just 20 minutes of action).
The time length isn't the point, you dumb fucks.
The time length isn't the point, you dumb fucks.
Its unbelievable that this even needs to be stated. Embarrassing. Can you imagine if this was happening in Poland in the 1940s? "Oh we were only in Auschwitz for a minute, we didn't really have time to see the much. Too busy with our movie you know".
Corporate America's silence and complicity with the CCP's crimes is especially glaring this year.
They've been tripping all over each other to signpost their support for other causes, but won't touch this with a ten foot pole. Can't imagine why... /s
They've been tripping all over each other to signpost their support for other causes, but won't touch this with a ten foot pole. Can't imagine why... /s
The only justification for a minute of the footage there is to say "This is bad and shouldn't be happening."
Now I haven't watched the new Mulan but I can safely guess they didn't do that.
Now I haven't watched the new Mulan but I can safely guess they didn't do that.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
What an embarrassing response. I'm sure the hollow apology will come shortly after too.
I work in tv and film. This is such an awful response.
1. They definitely shot more than 78 seconds.
2. You still have to scout, obtain film permits from govt, hire a crew, figure out hotel situation etc etc.
I work in locations and its definitely a process to get something up and running.
1. They definitely shot more than 78 seconds.
2. You still have to scout, obtain film permits from govt, hire a crew, figure out hotel situation etc etc.
I work in locations and its definitely a process to get something up and running.
The precise problem is thanking the provincial government that maintains the prisons in the film credits.
Let's not pretend for a second that the US response has anything to do with human rights violations. The US is enthusiastically in favor of human rights violations as long as the perpetrators kiss America's ass.