We are smack dab in the middle of a redo of Mao's Cultural Revolution or one of Stalin's denunciation events. We now know where these people take their cues from. I cannot believe such a thing is now happening here in America.
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Gone With The Wind
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We are smack dab in the middle of a redo of Mao's Cultural Revolution or one of Stalin's denunciation events. We now know where these people take their cues from. I cannot believe such a thing is now happening here in America.
Oh, give it a rest. Unlike China and Mao's cultural revolution, the government is not behind the pulling of Gone with the Wind from HBO. Gone with the Wind can be purchased just about anywhere movies are sold.
The problem is that those of us who hold to Christian values and morality are playing "nice"
As I recall, it is a pretty movie, filmed in soft pastels with good music, lavished with fine costumes and attractive sets and good actors and actresses and bustling with lots and lots of extras.
If AT&T still owns HBO, they made another bad businsess decision.
If AT&T still owns HBO, they made another bad businsess decision.
So now I even have to explain your own posts to you?
" I wonder how much longer I can withstand this place..."
Im not the one who basically threatened to leave because of how others post.
Sai
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Not sure what GTTW means
Sai
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What does Seattle anarchy have to do with GWTW?
It has to do with the snowflake mentality of the bottom feeders in America’s society in 2020. Why not give the Mexicans back California if BLM is to be taken as a legit cause? Why stop with GWTW?
Well if this ain’t some pot meet kettle garbage right here.
Okay, it's not the government but it is basically the same. The pulling down of statues, the cancelling of TV shows, etc is Marxist ideology at it's core. A nation's past must be destroyed so it can be rebuilt anew. Do you deny that is not happening? Some even want the Washington and Jefferson memorials to be torn down.
Katarina Von Bora
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Who cares what HBOMAX does? The movie is available on Amazon Prime, DVD's, and other formats. Amazon is still the 'almighty' king of Capitalism.
I love this movie. It is a historical movie of the times. Scarlett O'Hara had nothing on Hattie McDaniel.
A completely moral person trying to pass morality down to ungrateful brats.
I don't care what HBOMAX does. Not sure where you got the impression that I did care. I do wonder why they felt the need to announce it. If they felt like not showing the movie for a while - just don't show it.
I have my own person copy of the film - the 50th anniversary that came with some odds and ends. A beau back in my college days worked part-time demolishing old buildings. He found, once, a booklet made and passed out to initial audiences in December of 1939. He's been long gone, but I treasure that keepsake.
I used to LOVE it. Today, I can appreciate it.
This clip you showed of Hattie McDaniel. - playing Mammy - the big, fat, very dark woman who half raised the children and bossed white folks around. A round face and a non-threat to the white woman of the house. What a stereotypical view of black female slaves of the day. That stereotype was founded by Harriet Beecher Stowe who created that character in her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. [Along with other negative stereotypes she created for black people]
Yes, Hattie McDaniel played it well. So well that she played that stereotype in dozens of films. Black people of the day didn't care for it that she was type cast like that. She had to defend herself a lot by saying things like the pay was better that BEING a maid.
And when the film came out, Hattie - of course along with the other black actors - were not allowed to attend the film premiere in Georgia.
And Hattie, receiving an Academy Award for her performance, had to sit away from the "white folk" at the ceremony.
It's a classic film - but is not without issues.
I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies!
agree, movie is a chick flick, probably because it centers around a woman and her loves. It sure isn't a war movie, slavery is just a backdrop. Liberals are probably upset because a lot of the house slaves stuck around after the EP. Those people have been crying about this film for years:
Orpheum theater won’t show ‘Gone With the Wind,’ calling film ‘insensitive’
banned in Memphis! Remember that fictitious TV series "Roots"? None of that ever happened in reality but that series drove home the message they SJW wanted. Whites are bad slave owners and blacks are poor victims. But in GWTW, the blacks are pretty content, how dare they be?
agree, movie is a chick flick, probably because it centers around a woman and her loves. It sure isn't a war movie, slavery is just a backdrop. Liberals are probably upset because a lot of the house slaves stuck around after the EP. Those people have been crying about this film for years:
Orpheum theater won’t show ‘Gone With the Wind,’ calling film ‘insensitive’
banned in Memphis! Remember that fictitious TV series "Roots"? None of that ever happened in reality but that series drove home the message they SJW wanted. Whites are bad slave owners and blacks are poor victims. But in GWTW, the blacks are pretty content, how dare they be?
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell from 1984....or Rage Against the Machine, depending on one's preferences.
Apples and oranges. One was the face of a communist regime that allowed no liberties for it's people, the other is an attack on the face of liberty in order to turn the nation into a place where no dissent is allowed. One must subscribe to the new orthodoxy, thus individual liberty is taken away. Why do you defend Godless communism?
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You said pulling down of statues was "Marxist ideology at its core." I show you photos of Marxist statues being pulled down and you respond by asking me why I defend Godless communism. You're a real piece of work.
This place is becoming intolerable.
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Sigh, I have been around this board for a long time. It has its ebb and flows. It isnt "becoming" anything it hasnt always been.