Posted on 08/28/2017 2:13:53 PM PDT by ColdOne
I guess the protesters have not noticed that in the movie, as in real life, the South lost the war, slaves were freed and the plantation economy was destroyed...and Atlanta was still burned. I wonder how many of them have ever seen the movie, let alone read the novel?
The president of the Orpheum Theatre is a coward.
Nope but neither do mobs.
This normally would be sarcastic, but don’t be surprised when “they” start calling for the graves to be dug up to move soldiers (i.e., generals) such as Robert E. Lee. Can’t have those people buried next to “right-thinking” people. Not really a huge leap from the brouhaha about the statues.
The race of professional victims of Memphis are already calling for the removal of the graves of General Forrest and his wife.
1958, when it played in our local movie theater.
Song of the South has been unavailable in the US for at least 15 years even from Canada where it exists but not allowed by U.S. customs, a clear case of national unconstitutional censorship; I tried several times...
Finally brought a copy back with me after a trip to Canada.
Used to know a source of a Freeper who used to give away free copies.
I guess I better get my copy of Blazing Saddles, while I can.
Seems like you can find it here pretty easily online:
Can't do that now.
I always found the film an oddity of sort. A lot of historical revisionism in the story, so it soundly deserves CRITICISM. That is what normal free nations do. They don’t ban films.
And Mammy got an Oscar from a bunch of people who descended from people who once owned slaves.
That’d be about when I saw it, gotta think.
I saw SotS in the theaters in the 1980s.
There was a Japanese laserdisc release (NTSC) and an Hong Kong laserdisc release (NTSC) and an Irish VHS release (PAL). Not sure what else.
I rented the Hong Kong disc from a store in the 1990s.
>>Then comes The Godfather. After all, a few Italians back in the day thought it unfairly portrayed them,
It was a consortium of publicists working on behalf of mobsters. Like CAIR for the Italian mafia.
racism? Have you seen the SEXISM in that movie? The male privilege?
But the opinions of people born after the end of segregation count for more than those of people who had experienced prejudice and discrimination first-hand.
The next target will be John Wayne.
Frankly, my dear, ...
Then comes The Godfather. After all, a few Italians back in the day thought it unfairly portrayed them, so it would not surprise me to see the same sort of controversy nowadays.
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