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Philippines Allows Barbie Movie In Theaters With Blurred Child-Like Map
After asking its Hollywood producer to blur a map showing China's "nine-dash line" claim over the South China Sea, the Philippines allows Barbie movie to be shown in theaters. Greta Gerwig will direct the dream comedy about the famous doll, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
James K.Jul 13, 20233481 Shares158236 Views
After asking its Hollywood producer to blur a map showing China's "nine-dash line" claim over the South China Sea, the Philippines allows Barbie movieto be shown in theaters. Greta Gerwig will direct the dream comedy about the famous doll, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It will open in the Southeast Asian country on July 19.
The government's Movie and Television Review and Classification Board said the film could be shown after looking at it twice and talking to people who work in foreign affairs and in the law.
Philippines Allows Barbie Movie But Blur Child-Like Map
Philippines allows Barbie film with blurred South China Sea map
Philippine censors said Wednesday that they have given the "Barbie" movie permission to be shown in theaters after asking its Hollywood producer to blur lines on a brightly colored world map drawing that supposedly shows China's claims to the disputed South China Sea. Greta Gerwig will direct the dream comedy about the famous doll, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. It will open in the Southeast Asian country on July 19.
The government's Movie and Television Review and Classification Board said the film could be shown after looking at it twice and talking to people who work in foreign affairs and in the law.
Beijing's claim to almost all of the South China Sea is based on the nine-dash line, which is a U-shaped line that covers almost all of the resource-rich seas. In 2016, an international court said that the nine-dash line had no legal basis.
Vietnam has banned the Barbie movie, and it and other coastal states, like the Philippines, which brought the court case, and Malaysia, all claim a part of the sea. It said that it was sure that the cartoon was about Barbie's "make-believe journey of Barbie from Barbie Land to the 'real world'", which was an "integral part of the story".
The board also said that some of the dashed lines on the map were made in a "childish" way and were in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. But it was pointed out that only eight of those lines were around the area called "Asia."
In a separate letter to Philippine senator Francis Tolentino, who had said the movie "violated the rights of Filipino fishermen," the censors said they had asked Warner Bros to "blur" the lines on the map that were causing trouble. In a letter given to the press, it also said that the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia are not shown on the map.
Warner Bros. studio defended the scene last week, saying that the map was just a "childish" drawing with no meaning. In the South China Sea, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brunei all have their own rights.
The Barbie movie, which tells the story of the famous Mattel doll, is one of the most-anticipated movies of the summer. (And Ken.) The movie has already gotten a lot of attention on social media, especially because it comes out on the same day as Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling play Barbie and Ken, who go out into the real world.
On July 3, Vietnam said it was going to ban the movie because of how it seemed to show the "nine-dash line." This started a political debate. There has been a lot of fighting over territory in the strategically important South China Sea, but China still claims the area, even though a court in The Hague ruled in 2016 in favor of the Philippines and against China's control over the sea.
Vietnam and the Philippines are two of the countries around the South China Sea that disagree with China's claim to the area. Taiwan, Brunei, and Malaysia are also in this group. The Barbie movie will come out in theaters in the U.S. on July 21, and in the Philippines on July 19.
Conclusion
The Philippines asked that a map in the new Barbie movie be changed, but it will still let the movie be shown. Vietnam stopped the show because it was said to show the nine-dash line on a map. The line is important because China uses it to defend its claims in the South China Sea, which are not recognized by the rest of the world. But censors in the Philippines said they thought the map was just "cartoony."
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