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No doubt other films which fail to tow the PC line will follow. TCM got the jump on HBO by preceding its last (probably VERY last) presentation of the film with a long PC lecture by a professional race-baiter.
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Maybe this will help you feel better. Not a minority in sight.
And for your library:
Gone With The Wind is a Hollywood movie that glamorizes plantation life under slavery, with dashing gentlemen, elegant ladies, and contented blacks. If it leaves the airwaves it will largely be unmissed. -
wow,Maybe this will help you feel better. Not a minority in sight.
And for your library:
Gone With The Wind is a Hollywood movie that glamorizes plantation life under slavery, with dashing gentlemen, elegant ladies, and contented blacks. If it leaves the airwaves it will largely be unmissed.
triggered by a movie 60+ yrs old,Comment
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By your standard 90% of movies that show black people made before 1960 would be banned, including probably 75% of movies showing black people on TCM. Before that time black characters were almost invariably portrayed as in "GWTW" to at least some degree Check out both incarnations of "Imitation of Life" in which the black female character is involved in an unequal (exploitative) partnership with a white woman, especially the first one. It wasn't just black people either, latinos, and to a lesser extent, Asians were almost invariably portrayed in submissive rolls. So instead of using this stuff as teachable moments (which TCM does regularly) we pretend it wasn't there.Maybe this will help you feel better. Not a minority in sight.
And for your library:
Gone With The Wind is a Hollywood movie that glamorizes plantation life under slavery, with dashing gentlemen, elegant ladies, and contented blacks. If it leaves the airwaves it will largely be unmissed.
So what's next on the list..."Cabin in the Sky," "The Little Colonel," "The Jazz Singer," "The Horse Soldiers?" They are all "guilty" in one politically correct way or another. How about "Sgt. Rutledge" because Woody Strode got second billing even though his character was the heroic black guy??? While we're at it maybe we should force the return of all of those Oscars "GWTW" won and melt them down.Last edited by Art; 06-10-2020, 07:03.Comment
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That would be a lot of teachable moments on these old films, for the reasons you describe. Hollywood certainly has it's own issues, and not just because of the Harvey Weinsteins. GWTW is probably an obvious target because of the subject matter, but yes the old movies have lots of black butlers in them. CH, as far as I can tell, doesn't see the value in teachable moments. So for him I guess it's Birth of a Nation and video clips from the dead ball era.Last edited by togor; 06-10-2020, 07:15.Comment
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It does. Katherine Hepburn was an interesting character in those old films, because she pushed the envelope a bit (she preferred women in her bed). Strangely the 50's were sort of the golden age of the Obedient Wife on screen. I remember reading something, a theory that a deficit of men in the 20-40 age group (prime marrying years) as a result of WW2 and to a lesser extent Korea shifted the power dynamic between the sexes. Interesting theory, impossible to prove.Comment
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Oh Ashley!"The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. UllmanComment
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All except the one won by the BLACK woman, who beat out 4 whites (inc. ravishing Olivia DeHaviland!) for Best Supporting Actress.
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Somebody must care, or it wouldn't be shown usually about twice a yr on TCM, & every time it's shown on any network, royalties have to be paid for the privilege.Comment
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Maybe in Hollyweird they will bring out the movies "they" disagree with, put them in a pile and cremate them...hmmm sounds like something another National Socialist Party did some time ago. The parallels of the party now and then is fearful isn't it?
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clintonhater: +1 on your postComment
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Gone With the Wind was my Mothers favorite movie.
Many years ago we watched it at a family gathering at Moms house. The last scene showed the tombstone of Gerald O'Harra .
We all chuckled when my somewhat new Latina bride said ..." Geraldo Harra .... he was Spanish ?"Comment
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