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5. Chow Yun-Fat's Role Had Vital Dialogue Cut In China - Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
Though it's easy to make the argument that the third Pirates of the Caribbean film, At World's End, was aggressively overlong at 167 minutes in length, the edits made to the film for its Chinese release were certainly not in good faith.
The Chinese authorities primarily objected to Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat's performance as Chinese Pirate Lord Sao Feng.
Because they reportedly felt that he gave an inflammmatory and stereotypical portrayal of Chinese people, Chow's role was halved from approximately 20 minutes to just ten.
In the film, the heroes visit Feng in an attempt to help rescue Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' Locker, and given that Feng ends up playing a fairly pivotal role throughout the movie amid his various double dealings, it's unsurprising that cutting his part apparently muddied the plot for Chinese audiences.
At World's End is an overstuffed mess as it is, but haphazardly pulling out threads for the sake of national ego isn't the way to fix things.