Posted on 06/15/2020 8:49:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Gone With The Wind is to be restored to the HBO Max streaming platform after it was abruptly pulled from the service last week after coming under criticism for romanticizing slavery, amid a nationwide re-evaluation of cultural values.
But when the film finally returns, it will be accompanied by an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, who will explain the “historical context” of the 1939 Civil War epic.
The film starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, is based on a novel written in 1936 by Margaret Mitchell.
It tells the story of a turbulent romance during the Civil War and Reconstruction period. Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in the film, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. …
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Wonder if said scholar drinks Starbucks:
Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/slave-labor-found-at-second-starbucks-certified-brazilian-coffee-farm/
Then there’s Apple....
Will it be translated in to ebonics, bro?
Oh great, more to fast-forward through.
Thank goodness for fast forward!
Is there a prologue to Gladiator?
What about before the documentaries about the Weather Underground that put a positive spin on their terrorist activities?
What is the historical context? Whitey Bad?
I have never met such a pile of fragile people in my life. In the past, if you didn’t like something, you didn’t watch it unless your spouse or kids wanted to. Now it either must be removed from anyone viewing or corrupted somehow. You would think with all the available channels, someone would have learned to use the remote.
Fast forward and/or Mute.
HBO Max can shove their Virtue Signaling bullshiite straight up their Obama.
Streaming sites can lock “skip/ffwd” on ads, they can block to your remote on political messages if they want.
They control the horizontal. They control the vertical.
Yes we need our minds to be “prepared” for numerous examples if racism we are about to be exposed to if we watch this movie. Orwell and Huxley nailed it but good.
Will they have people providing context for all the other movies in the last 20 years that show blacks in a bad light? Especially the all black cast movies?
n** this! n** that!
Volume on mute until movie starts - just a cheap commercial pandering to certain woke political interests
I am glad I have the movie on Blu-ray, and I am glad I do not subscribe to HBO MAX.
Honestly I am getting tired of being lectured at when I just enjoy something beautiful.
I had the LOTR soundtrack on the other day in the store, a customer and I were talking about the music and someone butted in to give their opinion about how the movie did not show the repression of the workers or some such rot.
We just stared and then she (the customer) asked him if he was joking. Nope, perfectly serious.
I told him to either shut up or get out. Dang, he used to be a nice, normal kid before they sent him off to U of M.
To remind us what useless pieces of excrement we are?
It’s sad that you have to explain the historical context, but the public education system has done nothing to explain the realities of history.
Of course neither has Hollywood, hence the recent spate of historical dramas showing blacks holding positions of power and influence in eras where that just didn’t happen.
“Wild Wild West” featuring Will Smith as a Secret Service agent in the 1870s is one example (btw, I like Will Smith’s movies, for the most part). The idea of a black Secret Service agent in that era is not only preposterous, but the reality is he likely would have been killed had he tried to perform his duty (particularly in the “wild wild west”).
I don’t understand the reasoning behind rewriting history in this way.
Who wants to be lectured by some black leftist before watching a movie?
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a DAMN!.....................
HBO will probably disable the fast forward function.
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