China cuts 'offensive' bald pirate scenes

Censors have cut scenes of Chow Yun-Fat as a bald, scarred pirate in the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, saying they insult China’s people, according to the Chinese state news agency today.

China cuts 'offensive' bald pirate scenes

Censors have cut scenes of Chow Yun-Fat as a bald, scarred pirate in the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, saying they insult China’s people, according to the Chinese state news agency today.

Xinhua said Chow’s time on the screen in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End had “been slashed in half by censors in China for vilifying and defacing the Chinese” .

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