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In reply to the discussion: "Gone With the Wind" pulled from HBO Max library for now [View all]Chemisse
(30,813 posts)67. It gives a glimpse into a piece of history - with all its terrible warts.
I enjoyed the movie when I was a girl. And it gave me a frame of reference for that time period in the South, for slavery and deep-seated racism. It shows us what it was like, at least from the view of white plantation owners in the South during the Civil War.
Why would we want to hide that away? We should be illuminated by it. It should provoke thought.
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Well, i don't hear anyone advocating having the government destroy all copies of GWTW.
thucythucy
Jun 2020
#10
So I take it you are in favor of keeping Confederate statues in the public square?
killaphill
Jun 2020
#35
+1. There are hundreds of films, perhaps thousands, that could arguably be pulled ...
Auggie
Jun 2020
#36
Agree. Hattie McDaniel won the first Oscar for an African American in this film. n/t
Calista241
Jun 2020
#68
A review by Cass Sunstein in The Atlantic from 2015 gives a somewhat different point of view.
honest.abe
Jun 2020
#20
May be for the best. Mitchell certainly did his part in perpetuating the 'noble lost cause' myth.
PatrickforO
Jun 2020
#22
Did you notice my note the says HBO will eventually return it to the lineup .....
groundloop
Jun 2020
#48
That and "Birth of a Nation" need to be relegated to the dust bins of film history
BumRushDaShow
Jun 2020
#43
And the Taliban and ISIS destroyed forever their own historical wonders.
LiberalLovinLug
Jun 2020
#62