Posted on 03/09/2021 4:15:18 PM PST by Rummyfan
About 15 years ago, my younger brother, George, looked over my DVD collection of classic movies, including Gone with the Wind, The Searchers, and Animal House, and said, “You know, pretty soon you won’t need any of these. You’ll be able to download every one of them off the internet.” George was proved right technologically, but what he couldn’t predict was that cancel culture would target those films. No one could in 2006. Now I, like many other naïve movie lovers, regret having discarded my hard copies of the titles and am racing to replace them before they get erased.
I recalled that moment last Thursday when watching the premiere of Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) ill-advised March series Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview Mirror featuring Gone with the Wind (1939), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and Rope (1948). With the series, TCM hopes to continue its only raison d’être — presenting screen masterworks — yet protect itself from modern woke vampires bloated with fresh blood — Dr. Seuss’s and Mr. Potato Head’s. Other classics to be deconstructed for anti-wokeness include Woman of the Year (1942), Gunga Din (1939), and The Searchers (1956). TCM declares its intent in a ghastly website statement:
Many of the beloved classics that we enjoy on TCM have stood the test of time in several ways, nevertheless when viewed by contemporary standards, certain aspects of these films can be troubling and problematic. This month, we are looking at a collection of such movies and we’ll explore their history, consider their cultural context and discuss how these movies can be reframed so that future generations will keep their legacy alive.
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My wife and I, my daughter, her husband and the three grandchildren (the younger one spent most of the time reading a book - she reads at least 2-3 a week), watched ‘Blazing Saddles’. My wife, who lived in Germany, translated Mel Brooks “German” words and I translated the Yiddish words for them.
Everyone was howling. We almost fell off the couch.
Mel Brooks screwed the Left before they could get him (a WW2 combat veteran). We saw “The Producers” a couple weeks ago, and “Young Frankenstein” before that.
These three films may be the ones, besides “Animal House”, that bring down the Cultural Revolution Leftists in Hollywood, Wokeville, and in the newspapers.
Saul Alinsky told his Marxist followers to “ridicule” liberals and anti-communists. Mel Brooks told them to go to hell while we laugh at them on their way out the door.
We need to keep showing these movies and fight back any attempt to censor, delete or modify them, and destroy their “phony bolognie jobs”.
When viewed by "standards" established five minutes ago by a minority of hate-filled "activists," and which will cast aside and replaced with still more-absurd "standards" in another five minutes...
Regards,
I wonder if they consider the work of art “Piss Christ” to be problematic.
“Queen of Outer Space” is probably on the chopping block, too. And I don’t have a copy.
Ben Mankiewicz helped start The Young Turks.
I watched Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” on TCM (1950). Dean Stockwell plays a young Irish boy in 1988 British ruled India. Long story short, in some parts in the movie he has makeup on to darken his face to look Indian.
The hostess had to make an issue out of that.
So, you are bald, too?
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