Warner Bros studio has said a map of the South China Sea in its upcoming Barbie movie is a “child-like” drawing with no intended significance, days after Vietnam said it would ban the film over the image.
inside the walls of her pink dream world. “Weird Barbie” played by Kate McKinnon, encourages her to go on a journey of self-discovery and provides her with a map to “the Real World”, one made by a fellow doll.was originally slated to open in Vietnam on July 21, the same date as in the United States, according to state-runVietnamese authorities objected to a scene showing a map that includes the so-called nine-dash line, the newspaper said.
over vast areas of the South China Sea, including swaths of what Vietnam considers its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions.to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line,” the newspaper reported, citing Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films.
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