Stone causes controversy by telling Beijing international film festival audience that Chinese directors fail to make movies approximately Mao Zedong's damaging legacy
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• China may relax foreign film quotaHollywood's habit of allowing Chinese censors to reduce offending material from blockbuster movies has led to accusations of artistic surrender from some critics. But at least one US film-maker has clearly not been reading the script: Oliver Stone has told an audience in Beijing that the world's most populous nation desperately needs to confront its past on the big screen if its burgeoning film industry is to be taken seriously.
Speaking at the Beijing international film festival, Stone caused enormous embarrassment for organisers when he began to discuss the failure of local directors to confront the damaging legacy of the country's revered founder Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution a half century ago. The outspoken film-maker was appearing on a panel that was supposed to be discussing co-production between China and Hollywood.
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Source: theguardian.com