What country banned time travel in movies?
Monday, February 5, 2024
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| China banned time travel in TV and movies. | Most people have genres of film or TV that they dislike, and for the Chinese government, that genre is time travel. Back in March 2011, the country's State Administration for Radio, Film & Television issued guidelines restricting the production and dissemination of TV shows and movies featuring time travel, saying that these tales "lack positive thoughts and meaning." Ignoring the fact that some of the very best time-traveling TV shows (Doctor Who) and films (Back to the Future) seem to be bursting with meaning, the administration further explained that these programs "casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism, and reincarnation."
At the time, this reaction appeared to stem from popular Chinese shows that tended to traipse back into the ancient past, something one film critic told The Hollywood Reporter was akin to "superstition" to Chinese censors. These stories, as seen in the then-popular Chinese shows Myth and Palace, contain protagonists who go back in time and discover some form of happiness — a happiness that, by extending the metaphor, couldn't be found in modern-day Communist China. In other words, it may have been the social critique embedded within the time-travel tales that China was objecting to. The ban is still in place, and applies to both traditional television and film — but not online streaming, where several popular series featuring time travel have flourished.
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| The longest of China's ancient dynasties was the __ dynasty from 1046 to 256 BCE. |  |
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 | Numbers Don't Lie |
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 | | Lifetime box-office gross for the 1985 film "Back to the Future" | | $211,850,472 |
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| | | Number of time zones in China, despite it being larger than the contiguous U.S. | | 1 |
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| | Estimated age (in years) of the oldest known calendar, discovered in Scotland in 2004 | | 10,000 |
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| | | Year China began constructing the Golden Shield Project to censor internet content | | 1998 |
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 | Even the present is technically the past. |
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| When it comes to definitions of past, present, and future, the truth is relative. In fact, according to scientists, we all live every moment of our lives technically in the past. This reality lag arises from the time it takes our senses to process information, which comes out to around 80 milliseconds. That means that everything you perceive as "now" is already a fraction of a second in the past. This biological delay can cause some perceptual snafus. The brain's primary mission, of course, is to make sense of the world around us, and one way it does this is by trying to sync information, even as stimuli arrive in the brain at different times — auditory processing happens faster than visual processing, for one thing. For example: When someone claps their hands 30 meters (about 98.5 feet) away, sight syncs with sound. But once they get even a little farther away, the difference between the two inputs is greater than 80 milliseconds, and the brain presents the information as out of sync. Audiences also experience this phenomenon when audio and visual cues in a broadcast are mismatched by more than 80 milliseconds. | | |
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