I posted over in the Tweety thingy that my late mother used to say that Gone With The Wind wasn’t an especially good movie, but it sold well because it was a long movie, which meant teenage movie-goers had more time to make out in the balcony.
I remember getting the big special edition box of VHS tapes when they were released in the 80s. We sat down as a family to watch it. My mom fell asleep. None of us had any interest in putting in the second tape, so we all wandered off and when my mom woke up, we just told her we had watched the whole movie. To this day I’ve not seen it all the way through. On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:20 AM Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:46 AM Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It never ceases to amaze me how American corporations can be both smart >> and stupid at the exact same moment. >> > > These corporate actions always look like "how do we drop this hot potato" > and not "how do we use our power to make the society we want to see." HBO > Max wanted to brag about having the most extensive classic movie catalog > and that brought them to this. And as it's an almost 4 hour movie it's not > like lots of people are going to sit down and watch the whole thing. > > I found these tweets from Karina Longworth > <https://twitter.com/KarinaLongworth> of the You Must Remember This > podcast interesting: > > I know I’m going to get asked, so: I believe Hollywood’s history of racism > should be openly discussed. As I explained in the > @RememberThisPod <https://twitter.com/RememberThisPod> season about Song > of the South, when the industry tries to hide that history by > de-circulating the products, they become fetish objects. > > And obviously, that “history” is not over, it lingers. And the fetishism > already exists: Trump invoked Gone with the Wind when Parasite won best > picture. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFWwqcycsGQN5d5EZTmJBeveYjMugTV4gKxWNOYgS8-Nw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiFWwqcycsGQN5d5EZTmJBeveYjMugTV4gKxWNOYgS8-Nw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DOz8i3JRZKB0b76n2wmyKLbrCZwdtBUopFPAQyt7nHqg%40mail.gmail.com.
