Haven’t you heard? It’s racist/sexist/xenophobic/homophobic/Yankeephobic/polarizing/culturally appropriating with bad Southern accents, etc etc etc.
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Reminds me a bit of Disney’s “Song of the South”.
Not that we would see that movie on a list of all time greats, but your post reminds me, that Disney has locked up that movie and has never released it on home video in the US, nor shown it on the Disney Channel, or allowed it to be shown in theaters in decades.
And it’s all due to political correctness. Uncle Remus and the plantation workers were too stereotypical; they were not portrayed as angry resentful workers. The movie is set in the Reconstruction era, after slavery.
This makes me think, as we talk of greatest movies of all time, how many old movies have not been seen by today’s younger people, because they just aren’t available on home video, not on TV, not on the internet anywhere?? Which means also, that younger people have no basis for comparison, if they have never seen or even heard of, some great old movies which aren’t up to today’s PC standards.
I used to enjoy the old Charlie Chan movies, but those movies are almost never on TV anymore. Same story, they aren’t meeting today’s politically correct standards and thus are banned by today’s censors.
That really gets me, because there is so much explicit sex and nudity and other material such as pushing homosexuality, which shock some of us, and that’s ok for today’s Hollywood. But old movies and TV shows which are deemed not PC are simply banned by today’s programmers.
But the Chicks are Hot!
Is that Wrong?