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posted by martyb on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
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HBO Max Temporarily Removes ‘Gone With the Wind’ From Library

An HBO Max spokesperson says “Gone With the Wind” will eventually return to the platform with a discussion about its historical context and a denouncement of its racist depictions.

On Tuesday, HBO Max removed the 1939 film from its library in the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd.

[...] Upon its release, “Gone With the Wind” broke theater attendance records and was the highest-grossing film of all time to that point. It still holds the record when adjusted for inflation. However, despite being considered one of the greatest films of all time, some film commentators have since criticized its depiction of slavery and Black people.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by slashnot on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:09PM (2 children)

    by slashnot (8607) on Thursday June 11 2020, @09:09PM (#1006596)

    So, I guess showing my kids The Song of the South on Disney+ anytime soon is out of the question? Fortunately, there are some organizations dedicated to preserving history [archive.org] (for now).

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:08PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 13 2020, @08:08PM (#1007531)

    It's rather telling what does and does not receive a scarlet letter for being racist. One of my friends insists that the second Indiana Jones movie is a terrible film due to racism. The only problem is that it's the least racist of the 4 films and ultimately, the cult is portrayed as being abhorrent by local standards, not something that's going on by a bunch of ignorant dark-skinned fellows. As opposed to the other films where they spend a bunch of time beating up on Nazis and Russians where none of them is capable of bucking the trend as opposed to those smart Indians that had to be drugged and had spells cast on them to engage in horrible things.

    If we look hard enough, there's always going to be something problematic in media. Adding context is a great solution, but at the end of the day, nobody would watch films or TV which slavishly avoided every possible stereotype. It would be boring and require an astonishing amount of exposition.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @11:00AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @11:00AM (#1007719)

      Spends all 4 movies stealing ethnic treasures only to put them in American/White museums(except for the grail), usually for some kind of reward or favor. He's literally the white man pilfering other ethnicities historical treasures. If you want to consider one of the most horrible movie series of all time, this is right there behind the prequel trilogy and massacring a bunch of children.

      George Lucas deserves to have all his cinematic awards stripped from him, his Museum named something else, and to be banished from Disney's board as an embarassment to American Society.