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 focus the true meaning of her last line...
On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:36 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 7:20:20 PM UTC-7, PGage wrote: >> >> 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 documentary about the film and put >> that up separately later. >> >> 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 put out a censored version of GWTW, and I >> do not approve of all of the (mostly self) censorship we are seeing now. >> OTOH, I reserve the right to approve of pulling some things that may just >> be too much. >> >> I will post a related example in its own thread. >> >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:29 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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 you a little credit you're going down the right path.". >>> >>> I have mentioned before in this forum about how for a person who doesn't >>> like movies, I love TCM on several levels. I wonder if WarnerMedia doesn't >>> appreciate what a gem it has in that channel and its followers. >>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/2b2d1da8-8743-41c2-ade6-9e9411856103o%40googlegroups.com >>> . >>> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/36bb5258-1b79-4182-80ce-399f3a277b5bo%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/36bb5258-1b79-4182-80ce-399f3a277b5bo%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLQ%3DnFUPFRQFJQrZHYfckmaP1gJomPuj72OXNF60Ugq7w%40mail.gmail.com.
