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Do we need a revival of a movie that glorifies slavery, forced prison labor, and the KKK?
Seriously. Will it be a double feature with “Birth of a Nation”?
exactly. I had a friend in college back in the 90’s who thought she was scarlett reborn so I watched the movie and I could see that it was well done but it’s 2019. Eff that trick and her whole storyline.
Was this Blake Lively?
Doesn’t seem like many theatre artists are also racists, but i’ve seen so much weird stuff lately.
I was hoping for a thread on the AJ Finn/Dan Mallory story in the New Yorker?
Has anyone read it? It’s BATSHIT
YES and it was wild!!
Read it too… it’s crazy!
YES YES YES. Holy heck.
Thanks to all of you for the suggestion, that article is BONKERS. I’m also now feeling validated that I thought the book was dumb when I read it. Like, very suspenseful but so many plot holes and inconsistency. I knew from reading it that the author had no knowledge of psychology but thought he did, so it’s AMAZING to me that he actually lied about a PhD in psych, with research in Munchausen’s no less. It’s all too good.
OMG!!! this was an amazing read.
I was actually friends with a woman who sounds very very much like this guy
GWTW is my all time favorite movie ( yes, I know, don’t judge me ). That movie should NOT be remade, no no no, oh honey no….bless their hearts, they have to cancel the revival of that movie.
It’s not being remade, just rescreened.
They’re just re-releasing the original, which I couldn’t sit through. The portrayals of the Black characters. No.
Oh ok, I fell in love with the book, then the movie, then as I grew older, the reality behind it hit me hard. That movie does not need a revival or a remake.
@Scarlett – me too. I read that thing in high school four or five times, watched the movie as many and…. yikes.
Now, a remake from Mammy’s perspective, written and created by African American women? I’d watch that.
NO. Just no. I loved that book and the movie as a kid (and to be honest, I still do), but they taught me inaccurate and/or downright false history and terrible, racist stereotypes that took years to unlearn – I literally had to go to grad school for a history degree to unlearn some of it. GWTW is a very well-made and well-acted film, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a literal whitewashing of American history and the Civil War that perpetuates hateful, harmful myths and stereotypes about Black people.
It totally is. Then again, the movie itself is a romanticized version of the book which in itself was a romanticized version of real events. I don’t think Margaret Mitchell was a historian, so her view of events is questionable to begin with.
I’d much rather the film be presented in a more academic context, or like TCM did with cartoons, with this excellent foreword by Whoopi Goldberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oEOdIBOpU
My recollection is that Margaret Mitchell was a reporter in Atlanta, who for some reason or other wrote this book. I meant to visit her house (it’s an historical site) when I lived there, but never did. And no, I did not like the book or the movie, and I am confounded whenever I hear women say they just loved Scarlett. She was an awful person.
And as a side note, they still, still! throw GWTW-themed fundraisers for worthy causes and such in Georgia. Totally tone deaf.
I could never get Butler’s, “This is one night you’re not turning me out,” out of my head growing up. I know it’s a classic. I loved the show in my younger years probably as much as I hated it. In my defense, I believe I loved it for the right reasons and hated it for the right reasons. I’m so sick of remakes. If you’re itching for antebellum, fine, make a movie. Don’t be lazy about it.
I wish they wouldn’t. I’ve watched it so many times growing up, never realizing how dangerous and damaging it is…
GWTW is not the only problematic “beloved” movie. Audrey Hepburn is one of my favorite actresses and people. When Breakfast at Tiffany’s came out in 1961 I rushed to see it. I was 16. I was appalled at the portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi. Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to rig Mickey Rooney up in yellowface, buck teeth and oversized glasses to play a caricature of a Japanese man? Much as I love Audrey, I’ve never been able to rewatch that movie.
So, I am white and it seems to me that white people got together and decided to go all out this black history month? While I was not at this meeting it is becoming glaringly apparent one took place.
You’re paying attention because that meeting must have been wild for all the ridiculousness occurring. We’re only five days in. What’s next?
Well, JLo of all people is apparently going to do a Motown tribute at the Grammys…yeah.
Welp. Now THAT’s going to go down like a fart in a spacesuit.
Sarah Sanders is like a broken robot. The only thing that comes out of her mouth is “This has nothing to do with the White House.” Does she think we are all idiots? Of course the “President’s” inauguration, the “President’s” National Security Advisor, the “President’s” personal lawyer/fixer, etc., etc., have everything to do with the “President’s” White House. Of all the clowns in this administration, Huckabee Sanders really pisses me off. She knows what a lazy, ignorant, dangerous, immoral clown Donald Trump is, yet she keeps lying on his behalf. I hope she ends up a pariah when this shitshow is finally over.
They had very few inaugural events, which seemed puzzling at the time. I would suspect Trump’s pocket as the recipient of the missing millions.
Remember this is a guy who had his fake charity issue a check for $13 to get his kid into the Boy Scouts. Not only was it fraudulent use of charity funds – it was the smallest donation needed. Also when Eric was raising money for St. Jude’s with charity golf tournaments, he was telling people that the Trump family was donating the use of the facilities. Once Donald Sr got wind of that, he insisted that the charity pay for use of the facilities.
Donald also overcharged the Republicans and now the government for use of his properties for campaign events and now for Secret Service following him around in places like Mar-a-Lago. Yes, the people who will take a bullet for him have to pay for the golf carts. He charged them for coming along on his private plane also during the campaign.
It would be so unlikely that Trump would let someone else get serious chunks of the unspent inaugural funds.
Given his track record, I’d assume it was some form of money laundering. Wanna bet at least one of the “vendors” is a Russian front?
Yes, there was absolutely money laundering going on. I hope they look into the $26M that was paid for event planning to a company that was created only 6 weeks before the inauguration. The founder of the company was a friend of Melania’s, and an associate editor at Vogue.
They did a rescreening a decade or less ago. Leave it to TCM, guys. Where it belongs.
Exactly. Plus, they usually have someone address the issues or problematic content beforehand, to put people in the right context. Just presenting it like this feels too much like… “hey you guys, remember the time when…”?
Putting Gone With The Wind in theaters again is some next-level, MAGA-inspired, racist crap. Clearly being done on purpose to increase divisions in this country. And like someone said above, to announce this during Black History Month–unforgivable.
Yep…right at the end of Black History Month. Ummmmmm….😒
Yes it’s the 80th anniversary this year. Fine. But the original premiere was in December. No significant milestone ties it to February. I mean…yikes.
The same company also rereleased The Wizard of Oz and it was so popular they added extra screenings. Sad to say I’d rather see the old films than the new ones right now.
Yeah, at a segregated theater in Atlanta. They would have only allowed the African-Americans of the cast on stage (but no dressing rooms or restrooms–that was all Whites Only), but would not have allowed them in the audience to watch the movie or attend any of the festivities afterward. So Selznick didn’t invite the African-American cast.
“Gone with the Wind” grosses me out.
Good on Cardi B’s teacher for telling the detractors to STFU about her. Last time I checked we all had the right to voice our political opinion. Her man picker is off but her brain is not.
We went to one of the free Black Panther screenings that were done for Black History month. During the previews, they showed the commercial for Gone With The Wind. I was gobsmacked. I’m still trying to figure out who the hell thought that was a good idea!
Oh good gad!
Almost on par with an ad I saw years back in the middle of the latest news reports about starvation somewhere in the world: white girl extolling the virtues of her lotion, saying,
“my skin’s underNOURISHED!”. Face palm.
Never seen it; never will.
No come on! I grew up with this mess. The only version of this I ever want to see is Carol Burnett’s
Scarlet O’Hara is an American version of Becky Sharp, an anti-hero, and whenever they get to the part where Sherman’s presence is announced in GWTW I shout “Go get ’em!” As he said, “War is hell”, and he let ’em have it.
I’m kinda torn. I mean on one hand, the timing of the release seems suspect and there’s no denying that the portrayal of black characters were definitely not PC to put it mildly. But to erase the film from memory means you have to erase the wonderful performances of the brilliant Hattie McDaniel who let’s not forget was the first African-American to win the Oscar. Why don’t we concentrate on that part? Do people even know who she is now? Yes, she played a slave but she was a trailblazer and helped open doors for everyone. There’s also the wonderful Butterfly McQueen who also seemed like a pretty cool person.
Exactly!