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Gone With the Wind Has Returned to HBO Max With Prologue About How Film 'Denies the Horrors of Slavery'
TV Line ^ | June 24, 2020 | Matt Webb Mitovich

Posted on 06/24/2020 2:59:55 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode
Gone With the Wind Has Returned to HBO Max With Prologue About How Film 'Denies the Horrors of Slavery'

I wonder if they are going to say anything about the horrors of Chicago?

Horror is bad, isn't it?

21 posted on 06/24/2020 3:20:16 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: proud American in Canada
Think I’ll cancel my donations.

Not my school or my business but I gave my last dollar some years ago, and for less reason than you have been confronted with.

I will no longer donate to the school or any other cause that threatens my nation or my own way of life.

EFF them to pieces is how I now see it.

22 posted on 06/24/2020 3:20:25 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: EdnaMode
'Denies the Horrors of Slavery'

They have not seen the film I have watched over and over through the years.   I saw proud Black actors depicting the coping mechanisms and exigencies of surviving in an untenable situation.   Hattie McDaniel deserved that Oscar for showing all of us the martialed grace required to live a life in servatitude.   And then on top of that, to be so humble about receiving the recognition.

23 posted on 06/24/2020 3:21:13 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Eleutheria5

+1.


24 posted on 06/24/2020 3:22:10 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: EdnaMode

GOTW isn’t about slavery. It doesn’t really deny the horrors of slavery so much as it simply ignores them.


25 posted on 06/24/2020 3:24:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: dp0622
You can’t fast-forward through it either. so the best thing to do is put it on silent and watch 4 minutes of Ted danson in blackface on your computer until it ends

Making you watch it, eh?


26 posted on 06/24/2020 3:24:54 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: EdnaMode

There were many people in slavery, who lived a life similar to that which Hattie McDaniel portrayed. Andrew Jackson worked beside them in the field anytime he was home. Once he left a slave woman in charge of all his financial affairs and managing the Hermitage while he was gone… For six years. I have no doubt violent sociopaths advised their slaves beyond belief. But I think the majority were nowhere close to that.

No need for a warning before the movie. A movie portraying slavery is not considered authentic unless it consists of nonstop beatings.


27 posted on 06/24/2020 3:26:04 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Lol

He had some minor permanent eye damage due to that scene

Who could have seen that coming?


28 posted on 06/24/2020 3:27:08 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We no that makes sw know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: EdnaMode

shouldnt they do a segment before each weinstein movie?


29 posted on 06/24/2020 3:30:13 PM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: EdnaMode

Fast Forward....


30 posted on 06/24/2020 3:30:32 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: EdnaMode

Please advise me when a disclaimer is put on “Mandingo”, which is more racist than GWTW ever thought about being.

James Mason on asked why he did that film said when one has ex-wives and alimony payments take the the job.


31 posted on 06/24/2020 3:33:51 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: All

In my youth I wanted to BE Rhett Butler, and to be with Scarlett.

In my old age, I have come to realize that the only people in the movie that I would now chose to have as friends are Mammy, Pork, Uncle Peter and Big Sam.


32 posted on 06/24/2020 3:34:18 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: jmcenanly

Just buy your own copy, I did years ago.


33 posted on 06/24/2020 3:34:53 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: EdnaMode

She was added to TCM so she could go on and on about Blackface


34 posted on 06/24/2020 3:35:42 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Glad2bnuts

Rhett said Mammy’s respect was something he coveted. Melanie never talked down to her. Big Sam was the man Scarlett trusted. GWTW is not the movie they’re attempting to make it.


35 posted on 06/24/2020 3:37:59 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: dp0622
He had some minor permanent eye damage due to that scene

Looking at those things I would have said "You aren't getting those near my eyes. Come up with something better.

Who could have seen that coming?

:)

36 posted on 06/24/2020 3:38:48 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: EdnaMode

Because all works of art, present, past and future, should revolve around the “horrors of slavery.”


37 posted on 06/24/2020 3:39:30 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: DiogenesLamp

I forgot the name of that actor but he was never really all there. I would never have done that.


38 posted on 06/24/2020 3:41:16 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tihe Republic is at stake. We no that makes sw know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: DesertRhino
No need for a warning before the movie. A movie portraying slavery is not considered authentic unless it consists of nonstop beatings.

You put your finger on something I have been thinking for awhile. I think the beatings have been deliberately exaggerated for emotional effect, but were likely quite rare.

This is what political activists do. George Floyd was *MURDERED*! Michael Brown was "Hands up, Don't shoot!"

And so forth. They don't tell the truth because they are deliberately trying to get people worked up, and the truth wouldn't do that.

They sensationalize everything because they are trying to strike nerves.

39 posted on 06/24/2020 3:44:29 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: shadeaud

Olivia De Havilland
July 1, 1916 (age 103 years), Tokyo, Japan


40 posted on 06/24/2020 3:44:34 PM PDT by Scram1
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