Stolen scene. Via Ministry of Tofu.
China has come under scrutiny for allegedly stealing U.S. secrets to help develop its J-20 stealth fighter. Beijing is notorious for copying U.S. and other foreign military hardware, often badly. Now it appears China’s government-run Central Television News has ripped off American cinema in order to spruce up its reporting on a Chinese air force training exercise, according to Ministry of Tofu. “In the newscast, the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun.”
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I wonder how long it will be before we see grainy photos of the ‘Iron Man’ suit flying over Chengdu.
Oh, come on. It’s not a true ripoff without the Kenny Loggins soundtrack.
I would give my left butt cheek to hear “Highway to the Danger Zone” translated to Mandarin. That would be all kinds of amazing.
the purpose is fooling her own people.
Stay tuned: we’ll soon get the new footage of the J-20 blowing up the White House, the Death Star, the skyscraper from Die Hard, and a Klingon battle cruiser.
If China ever went to war with the USA I wonder if they will be able to place an advance order for similar clips? This will be about the only way a Chinese pilot will have any hope of shooting down a US or Australian plane.
Yeah, it’s hilarious! And I am sure what happened in Korea 1954, which the American got their ass kick by the Chinese was just another stolen clip from one of your Hollywood flicks, right?