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Old favorites, outdated attitudes: Can entertainment expire? (old movies "problematic" for today)
AP News ^ | 12/28/2018

Posted on 12/28/2018 7:54:50 PM PST by Drew68

Edited on 12/29/2018 12:16:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Drew68

“DEMOCRATS ARE LIKE ZOMBIES”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PInhXkfvs


101 posted on 12/29/2018 6:31:03 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: central_va
If you hated your former master and his family so much then why would so many freedmen take the last name of their former owner?

Plantation owners were outnumbered by their slaves, sometimes by ratios of hundreds to one. It made sense to treat slaves fairly so as to minimize resentment which could flare into rebellion. I think most slave owners made an effort to create good feeling among their slaves.

102 posted on 12/29/2018 6:47:10 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Drew68
So while these same Hollywood clymers and the rest of the history purgers, including herself, Molly Ringwald, are wringing their hands because a high school senior is interested in a high school sophomore in Sixteen Candles, as if no senior has ever liked a sophomore before or since, they continue to find ways to honor and excuse away an actual pedophile who at the age of 43 drugged a 13 year-old girl and raped her in multiple ways. Of course, the pedophile in question is Roman Polanski, the 2003 Oscar winner for Best Director along with a host of European awards since then.

But at least it's only the awards voters who are fine with Polanski since that 2003 Oscar and not the actors themselves except for Eva Green, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslett, John C. Reilly, Ewan McGregor, Timothy Hutton, Pierce Brosnan, Christoph Waltz, Ben Kingsley, Jim Belusi, and Helena Bonham Carter who have all made movies with Polanski during that time.

103 posted on 12/29/2018 7:18:17 AM PST by Dahoser
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To: PapaBear3625
I think most slave owners made an effort to create good feeling among their slaves.

Slavery was an abomination but the stereotype of Southern slave owner as a brutish, masochistic, cruel monster who crippled and blinded slaves for punishment is largely a Hollywood creation, based mostly on Alex Haley's Roots, a book that we now know is fiction.

The reality is a lot more complicated. Slaves were expensive. They needed to be healthy. They were fed, clothed, housed, and given health care. They were given time off to rest and recuperate. To celebrate holidays. While cruel slavemasters certainly existed, cruelty and fear often did not produce the quality of labor that rest, health, and contentment did. Many plantation owners understood this.

104 posted on 12/29/2018 7:44:02 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Sirius Lee
I wonder if TCM can obtain and air a copy of "Song of the South"?

Never. Disney will never release a full version of SotS for American home viewing.

It has been, however, released in full in other countries. In Japan, it is now public domain.

105 posted on 12/29/2018 7:45:55 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

It would be stupid to abuse various slaves.

Why do people think this, when neither do owners treat their animals that way? How many farmers beat their milk cows and pigs? Back then, more of the animals also actually worked, not just produce, and how good would they have been treated poorly?

It’s the same point. One can’t make money with abuse. Not real abuse, anyway.


106 posted on 12/29/2018 7:54:14 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Sirius Lee

My husband and I bought that movie several years ago.

It’s out there.


107 posted on 12/29/2018 11:49:19 AM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: wardaddy

Been a long time since I heard the phrase white man’s burden. Might be some truth to that old notion.


108 posted on 12/29/2018 3:20:57 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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