Posted on 06/09/2020 8:46:54 PM PDT by Stravinsky
Gone With the Wind, the Civil War epic considered a classic of American cinema, has been pulled from HBO Max.
The move comes as media companies reappraise content in light of nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism after the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by Minnesota police. Earlier on Tuesday, Paramount Network cancelled the long-running police reality show Cops.
Long considered controversial for its depiction of Black people and its rose tinted view of slavery, Gone With the Wind faced renewed scrutiny after an op-ed by 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley published in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. In the op-ed, Ridley called on HBO Max to "consider removing" Gone With the Wind from its platform as the film had its "own unique problem." "It doesn’t just “fall short” with regard to representation. It is a film that glorifies the antebellum south. It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color," Ridley wrote.
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What about Song of the South? Why didn’t Disney do a 5oth Anniversary Edition of that one?
Best picture winner, most popular American film ever made, and the first black performer to win an Oscar (Hattie McDaniel). All erased by the left.
All this over a CRIMINAL who never did anything of note in his life. Why not pick someone worthy of such idiotic adulation?
Coming soon—”smart” TVs that require that you kneel before watching each new program....
Down the memory hole......
Never thought I would live 1984.
And there are people say that protests will never bring about change.
They are fools.
Hope everone saw it, five years from now you will be arrested for having a copy the way things are going.
With every regime change in the USSR, they would recall and rewrite the school history books. The joke was that the title of the history books should be “History: Our Changing Past”.
GWTW saw the first Oscar nomination and win EVER for ANY Black actor.
That would not happen again for 41 years!
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
I’m seriously thinking about starting a Blu-Ray collection and buying the classics before they get censored or removed.
Is the silent movie BIRTH OF A NATION still available? Just asking for a friend. Honest!
They probably still have all of the smut available, though.
Do it privately and with cash.
In 5 years they’ll be doing no knock raids for these videos if there’s a record of your purchase.
Not kidding.
The erasure of American history (even historical fiction) continues at breakneck pace
Gone with the PC
You mean Woodrow Wilson's favorite movie?
I’ve already built enough of a movie, TV, and music library to last me the rest of my life. The entertainment industries can go pound sand. The only thing they’ll understand is loss of revenue, but too many conservatives seem hell-bent on looking at their own situation and not the overall picture. Just look at the NFL. Most conservatives eventually returned, particularly last season.
***before they get censored or removed.***
Censorship of movies shown on TV began in late 1968 “to remove violence.” Movies from the 1940s-to now were hacked to pieces lest someone might be offended.
BUT, movies for the screen got a different treatment. With the Hays Code dead in 1968, they reshot scenes adding more blood, guts and sex on the big screen. When shown on commercial TV, they were hacked to pieces. sometimes the butchery was actually funny if you had seen the original production.
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