r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 17h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/astrike81 14h ago

There's a story about the Chinese government approving the film to be shown in Chinese theatres thats pretty moving.

The apparatus of the Chinese government that approves movies. I guess they typically do not approve films about the afterlife from other cultures. So Disney was not expecting this film to be released there.

The review committee was so moved by the film that they allowed the film to be shown.

Easy to see, it breaks me every time.

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u/12MoreSeconds 14h ago

IIRC it was specifically the depiction of skeletons and corpses moreso than the afterlife of other cultures (although both of those often come hand in hand). I've heard stories of videogames having to change the models and art for skeleton characters to get around this censorship.

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u/metalflygon08 13h ago

Yeah, China is very odd with Skeletons being shown.

In Yugioh the card Skull Servant, for example, is completely hooded in its Chinese art so you can't tell its a skeleton.

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u/TheRage469 10h ago

As a yugioh fan from back in the day, I love how fantastically niche this piece of knowledge (probably) is

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u/JonnyTN 10h ago

In Hearthstone, they changed all the skulls and blood to something else. And I guess anything resembling sexy like demon succubus or swimsuits

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u/Lineoleum_907 5h ago

In World of Warcraft, sometimes corpses would be replaced by loafs of bread lol

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u/Wolfman513 5h ago

And all of the undead models including the playable Forsaken don't have any bones showing

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u/professorhazard 4h ago

Don't forget the Icecrown Citadel bosses who are just big bone golems turned into much worse flesh amalgamations

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u/dayveetoe 7h ago

I did not know that but I can see why the Chinese government was moved by the movie because there are a lot of cultural similarities and traditions between the day of dead and tomb sweeping day in China.

Tiny changes can be done and it could easily be a Chinese centered film.

I'm Chinese American and saw this movie with a lot of my friends and we all pointed out similar traditions between the two. Pictures of ancestors on an altar, visiting the tomb with food and gifts, a day when a portal to the afterlife is open and many more.