The negro maid was heroic. The white heroine is riddled with dark triad traits. Pitty-Pat is immature, but simply a comic foil.
Concerning “black lives matter”:
“Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn.”
That’s what you get when you have a two racist on the board of Netflix.....Barry and Big Mike. I dropped my subscription several years ago, when the queer agenda and race swapping became too much.
The book and the movie are both 1930s attempts to portray the antebellum plantation culture in a somewhat positive light, and more concerned with the multiple romantic connections among the white people.
Its called “History”
Unlike that mess “Lincoln” that came out around 2013.
The only film I’ve ever walked out and walked home.
Netflix doesn’t have Gone with the Wind. So it doesn’t have a description for Gone with the Wind.
I don’t know nothing about birthin no movies.
Reality is Racist.
Never thought I’d agree with Netflix, but it does paint slavery in a positive light. I can appreciate it as a work of cinematic art, but it’s still a racist movie. The book was worse.
The “Burning of Atlanta” scene in GWTW was filmed in 1938 at the Culver City 40 acres backlot. The fire cleared out old sets—including the gates from the 1933 King Kong movie to make room for the Atlanta and Tara sets.
From the 1961 Billy Wilder comedy “One, Two, Three”:
Phyllis MacNamara : “She married a Communist? This is gonna be the biggest thing to hit Atlanta since General Sherman threw that little barbecue!”
This is just one prominent example of what has been going on for years with less prominent movies, TV shows and cartoons. Lots of TV shows have eliminated or edited “offensive” episodes. Some movies have been shelved or stealth edited. The most publicized example is old cartoons like Tom & Jerry, where Mammy Two Shoes has gone through more transitions than Bruce Jenner and Dylan Mulvaney combined. Including being turned white before the producers realized that probably wasn’t too PC and turned her black again.
Exactly why I dumped Netflix two years ago, social engineering and high monthly rates.
How can reality be racist? It is who we are and how we interact and nothing will ever be good enough for those who just wish to cause trouble.
"Pork" had great and quiet dignity, and maybe a little wisdom too.
"Big Sam" had courage, honor and loyalty.
They are pretty much the only ones in the book / movie that I'd want to hang out with. "Dr. Meade" and "Gerald O'Hara" were the only white guys worth a darn. "Prissy" was pretty much the only black person in the story that was portrayed in a negative light, and even she had some sense of loyalty, sticking with Scarlet even after being freed. (although the black guys hanging around with the carpetbaggers were no prize.
And even the great star of the movie, Clark Gable put his part on the line several times to see that the black actors were treated decently in real life by the Selznick Company, and his character Rhett respected the characters in the movie.
Gone With the Wind is VERY FAR from a racist movie. Heck, even a Spike Lee movie often shows more negative images of blacks that Gone With the Wind does.
I’m a 73 year old man. Watched GWTW a few years ago. Wasn’t impressed.
I remember seeing GWTW for the first time in a theater in the ‘60s. It had just been released for either the first or second time since 1939, and I remember the women in the audience gasping when Clark Gable made his first appearance in an opening scene. This was just a couple of years after he died.
The Obamunists still crave a race war.