Posted on 08/30/2017 1:51:53 PM PDT by C19fan
Asked how she could debase herself to the level of playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel replied, “I’d rather play the maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.” Now McDaniel’s iconic performance, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only black winner in that category until 1990, stands under threat of being erased from the cultural memory. A Memphis theater that screens Gone with the Wind annually announced that it is withdrawing it from future showings. At this moment that decision may look like a trivial detail from the silly-season panic attached to all art works with historically uncomfortable connotations, but I’ll wager it’s just the beginning of what figures to be a devastating war on this film. I expect Gone with the Wind will disappear from sight within a few years.
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Shouldn’t Boyz in the Hood be banned also?
I cannot believe we are going to ban books and movies in the United States of America - the land of freedom of press.
AA will regret losing their history. No proof of what happened to their ancestors.
STOP THIS LUNACY NOW OR LOOSE YOUR COUNTRY!!!!!!
This is what happens when politics - especially the radical Fabian Socialist Left and their Jacobin Reign of Terror politics - supersedes all aspects of society and drowns out the arts, literature, Christianity, true education, and individual freedom.
The French Revolution revisted.
Malcolm Gladwell had interesting insight into SoS. Bottom line, he thinks that getting rid of it gets rid of a lot of minority culture and ingenuity in the face of bigotry and hardship/
I can’t believe we are trashing Robert E. Lee of all people. My God where does this end?
When the wife and I moved to Atlanta in 1970, GWTW was always playing somewhere. We decided to get see the movie at a drive-in theater. Big mistake. By the time it was dark enough to start the picture show, it was fairly late and the movie is so damned long, we were there until almost dawn.
erase slavery from history, and you’ll have no proof that it ever occurred...
I read the book. I thought it was great and tragic, as good in terms of literature as anything written by Jane Austen-— and I’m a Janeite.
When ALL ‘slavery’ is erased from history, we will ALL be slaves..................
Why, you little Dickens.....................
The story about playing a maid vs. being a maid is well-known, but had nothing to do with playing Mammy.
Hattie McDaniel was not sent by the studio to the premiere in Atlanta because the theater was segregated. Clark Gable was going to boycott the event, but McDaniel pleaded with him to go. She said what mattered most was the success of the picture, and they could continue to fight segregation another day.
This seems more appropriate than ever:
Exactly!
A more relevant Gone with the Wind would focus on all the Confederate soldiers who were increasingly gone with the wind as they saw the war continue with no real sacrifice from most of the Dixie big shots.
“Tara†pictured in GWTW is actually “Woodlawn†in LaGrange, Tennessee roughly 30 miles East of Memphis. The Orpheum is located near Beale Street and is now dangerous because of the feral affirmative action population. They have bars on all the windows on the businesses downtown and most have to buzz you in when you enter. Memphis underreports crime to make the city look safer than it really is. Memphis is now 65% black and the counties East and South are thriving with white flight as the City Council of Memphis rapes the population with their corrupt practices. Even the Mid South Fair that was held in Memphis for almost 100 years had to move South because of the crime.
Yeah, and I bet they’ll stop griping about it, too.
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