[Martin Tell]

Hmmm.

"The Birth of a Nation", probably the most non-PC movie of all time is not on the list."

Also I'd nominate Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge", "The Outlaw Josey Wales" and the entire "Dirty Harry" series.

Come to think of it, "Death Wish" should be there as well.

For "Song of the South" fans, you might try eBay. The versions there may be PAL, so be sure your VCR will play those. I have a PAL version I got in the UK several years ago.

I recently heard that Disney will soon re-release SOS on DVD. They will probably insist on having Whoppi Goldberg do an extensive intro that you can't skip.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I nominate Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter.

[theFIRMbss]

>Hmmm *

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* "Coal Black is one of the clearest explorations and illustrations of this break with the Disney tradition. Rather than ignore the dominance of Disney's feature production it is a very deft, energetic and controversial parody of Snow White that illustrates the brevity, visual rhythm and rapid-fire pacing of the studio's best work (15). Nevertheless, it is probably more accurately viewed as a riff on rather than a parody of Disney's film. Unlike much of the Disney studio's work, Coal Black is a raunchy, contemporary, extreme and shockingly racist film (the racism of many Disney films is often less up-front and more cloying). It updates the Disney story to a contemporary war-time setting in which Queenie calls in Murder Inc. “to black out So White”, and to stop her from stealing the zoot-suited Prince Chawmin'. This is a cartoon widely regarded as a masterpiece in absentia, a seldom seen product of the sexual mores and ethnic stereotyping of its time. Nevertheless, many writers understandably go out of their way to both underline the ideological problems of the film – especially for contemporary audiences – and its extraordinary energy and vibrant style as a truly animated cartoon. As Terry Lindvall and Ben Fraser suggest:

Coal Black's brazenness earned the film much of its notoriety, but even as shocking as it is for its racial content, the aesthetic and musical brilliance, the unabashed raunchiness, and the pure cartooniness salvage it as a masterpiece for most audiences, even some black audiences."

[mjolnir]

At the time it was made, "Birth of a Nation" was totally PC-- arch-leftist-in-chief Woodrow Wilson was a huge fan, for example. Like Leni Riefenstahl's masterful propaganda, it did what all PC art does--- flattered the prejudices of its audience.

To contrast, Red Dawn on the other hand presents even the Cuban commander and the traitors as fully dimensional human beings.

Doesn't Eastwood claim these days that "Heartbreak Ridge" was just a satire? He seems to be running away from the great movies he made that made him.

[spinestein]

[I recently heard that Disney will soon re-release SOS on DVD. They will probably insist on having Whoppi Goldberg do an extensive intro that you can't skip.]



Better than what they did to "Fantasia" on DVD. One of the scenes contains numerous female centaurs bathing in a pond. They are all drawn with different coat and hair colors and one of the centaurs has a zebra coat, but only in the original version. In the DVD version they did and extreme digital zoom-in on her face so you can't see her coat. Pathetic.