Re: huck Finn.
I went to primary school where we did not have a coloured classmate until
grade 3(? Hi Noel). Reading about that relationship was completely new
and foreign to me .Yeah... Isolated white kid.
I guess I'm saying that huck Finn is beneficial in education.
On Fri., Jun. 26,
This is a reasonable and compassionate approach, in the spirit of pulling
episodes of a show that deal with a plane crash in the weeks after a real
incident that killed many.
But there are dangers. When they pull the plane crash episode of CSI:
Whatever, we aren’t really saying there is anything w
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:20 PM PGage wrote:
While I approve of what HBO has done here, there are still legitimate
concerns related to your original objections. I do not approve of going
through every film and television show and removing the now offensive bits.
I would raise holy hell if they p
That was the premise of "The Wind Done Gone", the book from 2001 that
set legal precedent for fair use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:05 AM PGage wrote:
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> Well, there is no way to make a non racist version of GWTW, as you say the
> film and book are
Well, there is no way to make a non racist version of GWTW, as you say the
film and book are nostalgic racist poems. But it would be an interesting
project, maybe an HBO mini-series, to tell Scarlet’s story from the
perspective of her slaves. It would put in more clear and tragic,
heartbreaking foc
I wouldn't want to see a "censored" version of GWTW, either, but I don't
know if it'd be possible to do that. It's not a matter of a particular line
or scene; it's the whole mindset of the picture. You'd have to rethink if
from the ground up and remake the entire picture.
--Dave Sikula
On Thur
Try them with a little Sriracha...
I think I said AMC originally, but I meant TCM, and I think they were
explicit (at least in some discussion ps) that this is what they wanted to
do. I did expect some kind of round table discussion after, but perhaps
what they will do is produce a kind of documen
Moi, June 10th:
> Temporarily, the streamer told Variety, until a discussion about its
> historical context and a denouncement of its biased depictions can be
> offered with it.
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> https://variety.com/2020/film/news/hbo-max-gone-with-the-wind-removed-1234629892/
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> (link)
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>
> The (option
My words are awfully tasty tonight.
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/gone-with-the-wind-returns-to-hbo-max-with-intro-on-racism.html
There's a defensive part of me that wants to say "If you would've just said you
wanted TCM's Jacqueline Stewart to do something with this, I'd have at least
given
First, my apologies that I am so late to reply here. I am struggling
mightily on both the personal and professional levels with things (nothing
severe, but I can’t get my brain to as we used to say about hard drives,
spin down).
In an odd order, my response to PGage’s comments from 5:30 PM CT o
On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 8:10:46 PM UTC-4, Steve Timko wrote:
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> "Birth of a Nation" is such a caricature I don't think it needs any
> explaining or context.
>
> SPOILER ALERT
> The final scene where the father is ready to club his daughter to death
> with a pistol that has no ammunitio
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:59 PM Pete Ahles wrote:
> "Gone With The Wind" has caused more damage than any film in history. It's
> not the idea that's it's said the N-Word or perpetually stereotypes. It
> promoted the "Lost Cause" narrative.-
>
That's a rather tricky claim. In the golden age of H
I don’t think HBO is trying to dictate anything to the future. They are
just ensuring that the resources under their control are used responsibly,
or at least are more likely to be used responsibly.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 7:50 PM Kevin M. wrote:
> Something Conan O’Brian has discussed in multip
"Gone With The Wind" has caused more damage than any film in history. It's
not the idea that's it's said the N-Word or perpetually stereotypes. It
promoted the "Lost Cause" narrative.
Another example would be Oliver Stone's "JFK". It promoted a false
conspiracy theory. People watching it think its
Something Conan O’Brian has discussed in multiple interviews the last
couple of years is the legacy (specifically the lack thereof) of the media
and of people in the media. We are already to the point where the films and
stars of Hollywood’s golden age are being forgotten. Historians and film
buffs
I think pretty much the opposite. BoaN is exemplary filmmaking. I have
watched it many times, including several close critical readings with
master filmmakers, and with experts in Pan African Studies. Yes, the racism
is gross and obvious, but over the last 100+ years many white viewers come
away fr
"Birth of a Nation" is such a caricature I don't think it needs any
explaining or context.
SPOILER ALERT
The final scene where the father is ready to club his daughter to death
with a pistol that has no ammunition rather than let her fall into the
hands of the lecherous black aggressors, and then
So, the subject header here is somewhat misleading. They are not removing
it, they are taking it down until they can replace it with a version that
is not censored or bowdlerized, but includes critical commentary and
historical context. See WaPo piece linked below.
I think this is appropriate and
Moi, this morning (6/10):
>
> Temporarily, the streamer told Variety, until a discussion about its
> historical context and a denouncement of its biased depictions can be
> offered with it.
>
>
> https://variety.com/2020/film/news/hbo-max-gone-with-the-wind-removed-1234629892/
>
> (link)
>
>
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