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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:28 am    Post subject: Less lust, more caution not hurting Ang Lee thriller at Mala

Thursday October 4, 2007


Less lust, more caution not hurting Ang Lee thriller at Malaysian box-offices

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP): Ang Lee's new erotic spy thriller is doing solid business in Malaysia, its distributor said Thursday, despite criticism by some viewers after 14 minutes of violent and sexual scenes were trimmed to placate government censors.

The Oscar-winning Taiwanese director supervised an edited version of "Lust, Caution'' that was about 11 minutes shorter than the 157-minute version that is showing in the United States, said Anna Ng, Malaysia's general manager for Buena Vista Columbia TriStar.

Malaysia's censorship board cut nearly 3 more minutes and rated the movie "18PL'' _ which bars viewers under 18 _ before its Sept. 27 release, Ng said.

Lee "is aware of the censorship,'' Ng told The Associated Press. "He understands the markets. He respects that different territories have different issues.''

"Lust, Caution'' has grossed about 300,000 ringgit (US$88,000; euro62,000) from 16 Malaysian screens in seven days, which means that more than 30,000 people have watched it, Ng said.

"It's respectable for this genre,'' Ng said. "We're happy with the response.'' Censorship board officials could not immediately be reached.

Lee's previous movie, the gay romance "Brokeback Mountain,'' was not even shown in Malaysia because distributors believed its themes would not clear censors in this Muslim-majority nation.

Malaysian censors have long been strict about taboo themes such as sex and religious or racial issues. But local film makers and audiences have criticized them for disrupting the flow of movies by excessively deleting scenes.

Some Malaysians who watched "Lust, Caution'' expressed frustrations with the cuts.

"Guess none of us will be able to witness everything that's meant to be an integral part of the emotional arc of the characters,'' wrote blogger Edmund Yeo. "I saw many people at local Internet forums asking and praying for an uncensored version of the film for download.''

"Lust, Caution,'' which features Hong Kong star Tony Leung Chiu-wai, recently received the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Filmed partly in Malaysia, it is based on a short story by famed Chinese writer Eileen Chang about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief in the Japanese-backed Chinese government during World War II.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/10/4/apworld/20071004182728&sec=apworld
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