Current Events > Theater cancels Gone With the Wind screening because it's insensitive

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http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/26/gone-with-the-wind-theater-canceled-screening/

I'm fine with the Confederate statues being moved, but now it's getting a little out of hand. "A tribute to white supremacy?" That's pretty melodramatic.
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Frankly, jborgan, I don't give a damn.

Frankly, Vertania, I don't give a damn.
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Have you seen the movie? It definitely is that.

It's offensively boring.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

Have you seen the movie? It definitely is that.

this. fuck that movie.
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It is like people have never read the second best book in USA and dont know that it is about a slaveowner back at the civil war...
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Ban everything that someone doesn't agree with!

Tom Sawyer should be next.
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Frankly, Yaridovich, I don't give a damn.
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This is ridiculous.
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Wow thanks again SJWs, you are worse than nazis
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It's not nearly as bad as The Birth of a Nation, but I sat through that just fine (as well as a person could through a 3 hour silent movie that is offensively racist).

I just don't agree with censoring art, regardless of how controversial the subject is and the attitudes of the people involved.
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Nepsy posted...

Wow thanks again SJWs, you are worse than nazis

How long until liberals start with book burning? You know it is coming.
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Excuse me while I go watch a bootleg copy of Song of the South.

jborgan posted...

It's not nearly as bad as The Birth of a Nation, but I sat through that just fine (as well as a person could through a 3 hour silent movie that is offensively racist).

I just don't agree with censoring art, regardless of how controversial the subject is and the attitudes of the people involved.

That the one when blacks prevents white people from voting and the KKK saves the day?
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Hopefully this theater loses a lot of business
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Excuse me while I go watch a bootleg copy of Song of the South.

The problem with that movie isn't that it's racist; the problem is that it paints over antebellum America as being rosy and happy for everyone involved.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Excuse me while I go watch a bootleg copy of Song of the South.

The problem with that movie isn't that it's racist; the problem is that it paints over antebellum America as being rosy and happy for everyone involved.

...except cartoon rabbits.

Jesus. People are fucking insane.
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Literally attempting to erase an uncomfortable history.

I'm afraid to ask "what's next" here, because the last time I did that, Salon defended pedophilia.

Museums. The regressive left's next target will be museums.
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The movie is part of "the Lost Cause".
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Gone with the Wind was a major component of my African American Studies class in College lol
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Coffeebeanz posted...

The problem with that movie isn't that it's racist; the problem is that it paints over antebellum America as being rosy and happy for everyone involved.

...have you ever seen the movie?
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Thought that movie was amazing definitely a classic
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Erasing history one step at a time. When is the "Burn all the All In The Family DVDs" ritual happening?
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Remember when it was the right wing trying to ban things because of the glorification of violence and drug culture?

Don't forget, this isn't a left/right issue, it's a authoritarian/freedom one. Do not cut right wing extremism any slack because the left lost its mind.
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jborgan posted...

It's not nearly as bad as The Birth of a Nation, but I sat through that just fine (as well as a person could through a 3 hour silent movie that is offensively racist).

I just don't agree with censoring art, regardless of how controversial the subject is and the attitudes of the people involved.

Or it's because you're white

why exaclty people complain about the black people in the movie being slaves and maids

the movie s plot takes place during the civil war

so doesnt it make sense they were ?
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America is getting dumber as each day passes
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Fair;next

Is long as it's not the government it's just free enterprise at work
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This is why people hate liberals.
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The film is a revisionist take on history and it is monumentally racist. According to Gone With the Wind, slaves were ambitionless and well treated, the North attacked the South without cause, and the glory days of society were brought to an abrupt and callous end due to Northern aggression.

That said, I don't support blocking a screening of the film anymore than I would a public book burning. I've personally seen it twice on the big screen.

In terms of acting, character development, story structure, and cinematography, it is an amazing film. And you don't have to turn off your sensibilities and forget the film's message either. You can be critical of a story's message while still admiring the characters and mechanics of the story. It also functions as a window into some of the mindsets which a number of people in the South actually believed or at least argued to be true.


Just preface the film with a foreword about the insensitive nature of the production. There's no call for this kind of aggressive censorship.

this trend needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets worse

Since when is it okay to censor just because it's offensive?
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What is wrong with liberals? Don't like it, don't go see it.
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Honestly the most offensive thing about the movie is it attempts to make the audience sympathize with a slave owning spoiled brat.
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Frankly, voldothergr8, I don't give a damn.
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Freedom of speech is a choice. You can choose not to speak. This theater could have went on with the show and had the most rollicking klan meeting Memphis has ever seen. They chose instead to listen to the complaints and then not do it. The offense over this is not so much that free speech is violated, but that someone listened to minorities and responded favorably to their concerns.

wah_wah_wah posted...

Freedom of speech is a choice. You can choose not to speak. This theater could have went on with the show and had the most rollicking klan meeting Memphis has ever seen. They chose instead to listen to the complaints and then not do it. The offense over this is not so much that free speech is violated, but that someone listened to minorities and responded favorably to their concerns.

I don't see anything in the story about the KKK. What exactly are you talking about?
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wah_wah_wah posted...

Freedom of speech is a choice. You can choose not to speak. This theater could have went on with the show and had the most rollicking klan meeting Memphis has ever seen. They chose instead to listen to the complaints and then not do it. The offense over this is not so much that free speech is violated, but that someone listened to minorities and responded favorably to their concerns.

mattnd2007 posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

Freedom of speech is a choice. You can choose not to speak. This theater could have went on with the show and had the most rollicking klan meeting Memphis has ever seen. They chose instead to listen to the complaints and then not do it. The offense over this is not so much that free speech is violated, but that someone listened to minorities and responded favorably to their concerns.

I don't see anything in the story about the KKK. What exactly are you talking about?

Because it's not in the story. I'm only assuming what happens after the white supremacist movie is shown.

Gone with the wind is not about white supremacy.

Are you trolling or what?
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No, it is about white supremacy and the lost cause horseshit. That is a theme running throughout the movie, without break.

K
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Movies that are in danger of being "banned" in the future;

1. Revenge of the Nerds (treats an act of rape as consensual sex)

2. Aliens (white Jewish woman in brown face plays an Hispanic character)

3. Weird Science (woman kisses and gropes a boy)

The movie wasn't banned. An individual theater declined to show the movie. You keep reacting hysterically like this and you're going to mess your klan robes. Browns are hard to get out of whites.

Ammonitida posted...

Movies that are in danger of being "banned" in the future;

1. Revenge of the Nerds (treats an act of rape as consensual sex)

Sounds fine to me.
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You literally just called someone a klansman. Think about that for a second. Like wow dude.
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If the robe fits

In 20 years we're not going to be allowed to watch any movie that came out before 2005, and even then half of the new ones will be thrown out for being "problematic"
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