Posted on 07/10/2023 10:27:10 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Just a day after Ridley’s op-ed ran, HBO temporarily pulled the film from streaming. There’s a deeper conversation to be had about how “Gone With the Wind“‘s racist depictions and white-supremacy-indulgent view of our nation’s past should be addressed today, which University of Chicago professor and Turner Classic Movies co-host Jacqueline Stewart goes into here.
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Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her portayal as being the thorn, towards Vivien Leigh, as Scarlet O'Hara.
People explaining art to other people.
The opposite of what art is supposed to be.
BTW, never liked the film.
Hattie McDaniel is credited with saying: “Why would I object to playing a maid for $700/week, when I would make only
$7/week actually BEING one?
Haha - recently heard Judge Jeanine say that was her favorite movie
It’s not my favorite either.
It was racist that they had a British actress playing a U.S. citizen.
I haven’t seen it since the 90s, but I remember the Confederacy losing.
Not my favorite but I enjoy watching movies that couldn’t be made today.
The democrats in hollywood refused to let Hattie McDaniel sit with the other actors at the Oscar ceremony. The democrats have erased many minorities presented on products and sports teams. They are going after Hattie by banning Gone With the Wind.
My favorites are Falling Down and Grand Torino
Frankly my dear cnn, I don’t give a damn.
Same here. It's a chick flick at best, and more likely a soap opera.
Granted, there's an overarching theme of "what was, is no more"; but "what was" needed to have begun its own swan song long before others had to dance it for them.
And, like it's often said on FR, "we shoulda picked our own."
My favorite, if anyone should care, is Doctor Zhivago. Its scenes and dialogues speak to every situation we're encountering these days.
A movie short of a dot moving across a screen could be deemed, “problematic” if someone were looking hard enough.
It’s a good movie, for its time. It does hold up. It is also, in its period-pastel production (color was new!) actually realistic. This it gets from the novel, which is better.
Its based on real events and real conditions, largely from the POV of an eccentric character, but so it is. The “racism” in it is an accusation that comes from that point of view. Scarlett sees what she deigns to see, it’s her story after all. The slaves are as she sees them. It seems that it is unacceptable to see things from other than the slaves POV.
There might be a movie, or novel, from the slaves POV and that might be interesting on its own, but the affairs and emotional angst of Scarlett would not exist in that version.
A black dot in a screen of white would be obvious.
A white dot on a screen of black??
“Here is the white invader - killing every black person they come across...” Maybe?
“Gone with the wind” was my grandma’s favorite. Well, that and “Three Came Home”, Claudette Colbert.
That came, as she often said, from pre and post war, before and after the Japanese invasion. Everything burned, and everything was lost, and the survivors had to rebuild. “Three Came Home” is even more obvious. Its a story of survival, and she WAS Claudette Colbert.
Excellent comment. Very much agree with you on this.
Me too. For example:
Blazing Saddles
Airplane
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Naked Gun
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