Posted on 02/22/2020 12:23:28 AM PST by david1292
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang said Friday on CNN that President Donald Trump mentioning the movie “Gone With the Wind” at his rally was a “racist dog whistle.”
Chang said, “It’s kind of unfortunate, I think, that we have a president whose entire presidency is founded on xenophobia and of course his comments are not surprising coming from someone who likes to dehumanize people of other cultures and people of color. So none of that’s surprising.”
He continued, “Well, that whole thing, “Gone with the Wind” and “Sunset Boulevard,” that all smacks of a dog whistle hearkening back to an earlier era of Hollywood greatness. Look, we can love “Gone with the Wind,” and also acknowledge it’s the romantic view of the old South, which many people find problematic. That is another racist dog whistle as well.”
He added, “I think it’s real laziness on his part. He is just someone who is very lazy. I think to say that. You know, a lot of people say this, there are no movies being made in the present today that are as good as the classics that were made 50 or 60 years ago. And it’s totally fine that Trump is, you know, out of touch with popular culture. You know, he has or should have better things to do like running the country, but he really should think twice about speaking about things of which he is so woefully ignorant.”
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My mother’s favorite movie was Gone With the Wind. What do they think about my mother?
The only ones who hear dog whistles are dogs and democrats.
OMFG, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sick and tired of the frakin’ racism, racist, etc. rhetoric.
What was so bad about “40 acres and a mule”?
Yo Chang, do you mean like when he said he thought Parasite, the Asian film was the best foreign movie?
Except for the outcome I like GWTW too
Especially when
Scarlett gets ravished
When Rhett tells her to drop dead
Perfection
Worst scene beside anyhwere Sherman has a cameo
Bonnie gets her neck broke
I guess the American Film Institute must also be racist for listing GWTW as number 4 on its list of the 100 best movies.
Some people will say anything just to get attention.
No, it’s an idiot whistle. It makes idiots react.
Didn’t GWTW produce the first black Academy Award winner, Hattie McDaniel?
in terms of cinema, and the year it was made, GWTW is truly a stunning achievement. There were like only 5 color cameras in existence at the time, and Selznick had all of em. Some of the scenes are just so beautifully shot...the color amazing. These insufferable bast$%^$ just hate this countries history...they know that every great achievement that put this country so far ahead of every other in the world in such a short period of time, was done when white males were running and inventing everything....just the way it was...deal with it.
I think I’ll watch a Charlie Chan movie later.
Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.
Only in LA can you be a racist film critic and know absolutely nothing about film.
Rarely has Hollywood produced anything I’m interested in seeing for the past 30 years or so. I guess that makes one racist...
Book burning is around the corner.
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