In the unauthorised version shown on Tencent Video, Durden is still shot and killed, but the final scene of the buildings exploding is replaced with a black screen and words that say the police discovered the plan, stopped it, and sent the Narrator to an asylum.
What the hell for? If you want to censor the ending of a film after allowing people to watch the whole thing … why not just censor the whole thing and not allow it anywhere. The fact that everyone watched it will now make everyone who saw it want to see the actual ending.
It’s like giving things to a teenager and then telling them they can’t have the last minute, the last inch, the last piece or the last word … you know full well they will do whatever it takes to get that last piece just to spite you.
It’s actually really effective. People are going to hear about a movie and if they feel like they already saw the movie, that’s the end of it. If it’s banned completely, they might get a bootleg DVD and watch the entire uncensored movie.
Kinda like how TikTokers think they’re well informed, and don’t bother seeking out information elsewhere. But try finding anything out about what’s happening in Hong Kong, the Uighurs, or Tianamen Square on TikTok. It’s just not there yet people using that platform never consider what information they aren’t seeing as long as there’s enough there to make it feel like it’s not missing anything.
China is actually really good at censorship. When people see 95% of things they generally won’t put effort into finding the other 5%.
Had that been considered necessary, it would have been done.