The poster that represents Hong Kong shows the black orb hovering over Victoria Harbour.
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The trailer and 12 posters for Denis Villenueve’s sci-fi alien flick “Arrival” were released on August 16, but aliens and enormous spacecraft aren’t the only weird arrivals in the promo material. But some Hong Kong people don’t buy the answer: “Can we have a better answer instead of blaming a vendor?”
“Remove that fucking ugly Shanghai metal fishball dildo tower from our attractive Hong Kong!”
“Hong Kongers are now feeling insulted and offended”, said another.
An “improper” poster to the Amy Adams-starring sci-fi Arrival has caused controversy in Hong Kong, sparking a new wave of anti-Chinese sentiment, according to Variety.
The poster was soon deleted, and this morning (Aug. 19) the film company ran an apology on Facebook and Twitter, saying the mistake was created by a third-party vendor.
“We are disappointed to have not caught the error”, it added.
The posters appear to have awkwardly photoshopped Shanghai’s Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower among our city’s skyscrapers.
Not everyone was pleased, though, with the fact Hong Kong’s skyline had now been replaced with Shanghai’s. “So HK’s the “WRONG” part here?”
Meanwhile, some people have made fun of the commenters, accusing them of overreacting, or having “glass hearts” – a Chinese phrase referring to fragile egos.
Hong Kong was a British colony since the first Opium War which ended in 1842.
Hong Kong was returned to China by former colonial ruler Britain in 1997 under the agreement that its freedoms would be guaranteed for 50 years.
As a result, Hong Kong has its own legal system, and enjoys rights including freedom of assembly and free speech, which are restricted in mainland China. Localists emphasise Hong Kong’s separate identity and oppose the “mainlandisation” of the city.
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A fledgling independence movement is calling for a break from the mainland after mass pro-democracy rallies in 2014 calling for fully free leadership elections ended without concessions from Beijing.
