New Barbie Movie offends...Vietnam, and Ted Cruz

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The movie is coming out soon.

https://youtu.be/pBk4NYhWNMM

But it has already offended because...of a map on the wall in one scene.
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Ted Cruz has spoken out over the controversy that led Vietnam to ban the upcoming Barbie movie. It is said the film features a map showing the nine-dash line that Beijing uses to represent its territorial claim over much of the South China Sea.

On Monday, Vi Kiến Thành, the head of Vietnam's Cinema Department, said the movie would not be released in his country because of what he termed "the illegal image of the 'cow's tongue line' in the film." This is Vietnamese slang for China's nine-dash line.

The ban is just the latest chapter in Hollywood's complicated relationship with China. It has seen major studios accused of ignoring human rights' concerns to gain access to the lucrative Chinese movie market.

On Twitter, Senator Cruz gave his opinion on the row. He quote-tweeted Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning American Foreign Policy Council thinktank, who shared a Reuters article on the controversy, commenting: "Warner Bros. Pictures bends the knee to the genocidal CCP [Chinese Communist Party] regime to make a buck."
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Actually for once I kinda agree with Cruz even though a map on the wall may seem like a petty thing. Hollywood does kowtow to China.

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And here I thought that...she lived in a Barbie world...free of geopolitics!


https://youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A

. . . and now, the Philippines . . .

"If the invalidated 9-dash line was indeed depicted in the movie Barbie, then it is incumbent upon the MTRCB (Movie and Television Review and Classification Board) to ban the same as it denigrates Philippine sovereignty,” Senator Francis Tolentino said on Tuesday.

In 2016, an international arbitral tribunal in The Hague upheld the Philippines' sovereign rights and jurisdiction in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the resource-rich waters and said Beijing's "nine-dash line" claim had no legal basis. China, however, refuses to recognize the ruling.

The senator said editing out the contested part could be a "middle ground" for the MTRCB and the film producers.

For Senator Risa Hontiveros, Philippine cinemas should -- "at the minimum" -- include an explicit disclaimer that the nine-dash line is "a figment of China's imagination."

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If its just a map on the wall of an office over some character's shoulder, why cant they just put one of those pixelized blur blobs over it (dont know what its called)? Like when you see a vid taken on a public street and the faces of the private citizens are blocked out to hide their identities...or you see a naked person on TV and their offending body parts are blurred out.

Who knows ...maybe the map figures prominently in some dialogue scene.

But yeah...Malaysia may follow suit because the map would step on their territorial toes too. And the Sultan of Brunei may also ban the movie too.

Poor Barbie.

Brunei practices Sharia law, so it probably would have been banned there anyway.

True. They would be "offended" for reasons you would expect. Women with uncovered faces, and like that. Not for an unexpected reason...like a map on the wall.

I remember the letters to the editor part of Discover magazine I was reading filled with folks offended by a map printed in an article the previous month that showed Kashmir as totally part of Pakistan (or totally part of India- I forget which) rather than as split between the two countries by the ceasefire line through it. The editor apologized for their 'overworked art director' who didnt mean to take sides between the two countries.

So a map can be just as obscene as bare skin!

Being a map geek I once noticed that a map of East Asia on a general's wall in an episode of the TV show MASH was an anachronism. The show is set in the early Fifties Korean War, but the guy's map did not show French Indochina, and instead showed the post colonial nations of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, that replaced French Indochina when the French were booted out of Indochina in 1954 (after the Korean War). Not offended of course. Just an amusing gotcha.

wasnt there a nazi named Klaus Barbi

Mmmm , Barbi Twins , UK prince (the oldest , Andy ?) had the hots for them

They should come out with a "Klaus Barbie Doll" for folks who are into S+M, and like their hotties blonde, blue eyed, and done up in Nazi swag!


https://youtu.be/9OIQg_hk3F4

But then even AYE would be offended.

Looks like maps arent the only issue.

A certain American Evangelists is...putting a curse on the new Barbie movie...because it has ....GASP!...transexuals in it!


https://youtu.be/OuZ33UlQocU

So many folks offended...for so many different reasons!

They must be doing SOMETHING right in this movie!

They say Hitler was into some really kinky stuff.

I bet a lot of people in Hollywood are into weird stuff.....Ted Danson likes to visit such places i hear

Kelsey Grammer (cross dressing ?)

Dont know anything about that.

Though I did hear something about Richard Gere, and a hamster...

If the Bible or Quran says not to do something, it makes me want to do it more.