{"id":1433170,"date":"2022-04-12T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433170"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:02:53","slug":"marvel-star-simu-liu-leads-harsh-criticism-of-disneys-moon-knight-over-ethan-hawkes-mandarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marvel-star-simu-liu-leads-harsh-criticism-of-disneys-moon-knight-over-ethan-hawkes-mandarin\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Star Simu Liu Leads Harsh Criticism of Disney&#039;s &#039;Moon Knight&#039; over Ethan Hawke&#039;s Mandarin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarvel-star-simu-liu-leads-harsh-criticism-of-disneys-moon-knight-over-ethan-hawkes-mandarin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433170&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/simu-liu-kims-convenience-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The latest Marvel vehicle <em>Moon Knight<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 now steaming on Disney+ \u2014 got hit with an avalanche of negative reviews, including from one of the studio\u2019s very own stars in response to the Mandarin spoken by Ethan Hawke\u2019s character in a recent episode.<\/p>\n<p>This past week,\u00a0<em>Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u00a0<\/em>star Simu Liu took to Twitter to publicly criticize the show for apparently using broken Mandarin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAlright, Arthur Harrow needs to fire his Mandarin teacher,\u201d Liu said in reference to Hawke\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alright Arthur Harrow needs to fire his Mandarin teacher<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simu Liu (\u5218\u601d\u6155) (@SimuLiu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimuLiu\/status\/1512819557920092164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Liu\u2019s followers immediately jumped into the fray, arguing that the Mandarin came off as if the writers copy\/pasted the dialogue from Google Translate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YES. EXACTLY. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarvelStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarvelStudios<\/a> what happened here? \ud83d\ude2d What is this??  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yb9IwBSshJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Yb9IwBSshJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zhen Wei (@so_zhenwei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/so_zhenwei\/status\/1512837163687112709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps it was done on purpose. People who are in cults do little to no questioning of what they do or believe.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Ramos (@RexFut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RexFut\/status\/1512890606854586368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">haha this made me actually laugh out loud<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wendy Lee Szany (@WendyLeeSzany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendyLeeSzany\/status\/1513038521296056323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But what does he say back to her?? \u00af_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 james hong (@jhong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jhong\/status\/1513714286001942529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was really really bad. They need a dialect coach. Try Aaron Bluestein. I hear he&#8217;s very good one will know someone who is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Jon (@MJon30) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJon30\/status\/1513619027008000000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am insulted,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iLg09yPS3Ao\">said YouTuber<\/a> Disney Wayne. \u201cI tried to listen very carefully to the words, and it basically is there, I figured it out. However, the way it was translated shows that there was not enough care in how it was translated, because it was like a direct Google translation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The YouTuber added that it showed the \u201clittle effort\u201d that the writers and makers had put forth for those few words in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy language, but the fact that the words and the script are just so inaccurate is insulting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Disney flubbing a few brief lines of Mandarin comes as the studio has been bending over backward to get business from Communist China, from <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494\/\">its censoring<\/a> black actors out of movie posters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/03\/05\/84-percent-americans-oppose-disney-filming-mulan-in-region-with-uyghur-concentration-camps\/\">its collaboration<\/a> with local officials engaged in an active genocide against the Uyghur Muslim minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Marvel vehicle Moon Knight\u00a0\u2014 now steaming on Disney+ \u2014 got hit with an avalanche of negative reviews, including from one of the studio\u2019s very own stars in response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}