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'Gone with the Wind' removed from streaming services because it's racist

posted 4 years ago by kukuxu (5409)
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The highest boxoffice movie from all time*, Gone with the Wind, has been removed from streaming service.

The company that owns the streaming rights, HBO Max, has decided that the movie is racist and shouldn't be distributed.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-max-removes-gone-wind-1297806

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*Yeap, 'Gone with the Wind' is the highest boxoffice ever. I'm talking about boxoffice adjusted by inflation. The 2nd highest one would be Star Wars (1977), then The Sound of Music (1665), then ET (1982) and then Titanic (1997).

To compare, when we adjust by inflation, Gone with the Wind made 2x the box office of Avengers Endgame and 3x the box office of Avengers Infinity War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_the_United_States_and_Canada#Adjusted_for_ticket-price_inflation

[–] AndyKing1967 (34062) 4 years ago

It's still available in the UK and Ireland as I type this on Sky Cinema.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

It's only racist for the Americans.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34062) 4 years ago

I'm ashamed to say that I've not seen it, so just downloaded it (that's how I know it's available).

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

For now...

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

If other countries also say it's racist they are just pandering to America.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

What happens in US happens in Europe and Australia 5-10 years later.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34062) 4 years ago

I've got plenty of time to see it then, lol.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

😂👍

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20486) 4 years ago

Not this American.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12366) 4 years ago

It's okay, I never liked that film anyway.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

First they came for those movies and books I didn't like, and I did not speak out—
Because those were not the movies and books I liked.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12366) 4 years ago

Well, good news, they're putting it back on.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34062) 4 years ago

I saw what you did there.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

I couldn’t help it 🤷‍♂️

I actually think knee-jerk censorship like this is bs and erasing history quite a dangerous thing to do, but that’s not as fun to say.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34062) 4 years ago

History is written by the victors.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20486) 4 years ago

Indeed it is

[–] TalkinPikchorBox (2250) 4 years ago

Lol good one.

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

They going to release it later “with more context” whatever that means. The film is already like 10 hours long, now they want to tack on a context lecture.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

I think it's quite obvious. They probably will add some unskippable woke anti-racist lecture that explains why whites are the evil race, and why blacks are the race to be worshiped (and subsidized) to pay for our racial sins. If you wanna watch the movie in the future, you should accept being re-educated.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (20486) 4 years ago

Own it on DVD and you don’t have to worry about streaming.

[–] TalkinPikchorBox (2250) 4 years ago

Same

[–] 102000 (6134) 4 years ago

So do I but it's just damn scary. I hate censorship in any form and this is probably just the beginning - it reminds me of the book burnings in Germany during the 1930's.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

You don't need to go back to 30s Germany. A decade ago, blacks started to burn South African University libraries because books were written by whites and that was oppressive.

https://africasacountry.com/2016/09/the-turn-to-burning-in-south-africa/

[–] ColumboKate (5314) 4 years ago

Little Britain has been removed from Netflix and britbox too.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 4 years ago

Comedy was removed from Britain about ten years ago.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

When John Cleese has to go into exile, you know something is going wrong in UK, very wrong...

[–] BillHicksFan (10131) 4 years ago

I think Political Correctness is the ultimate prejudice. Having one elitist telling the entire world what a group of MILLIONS what they can or cannot handle.

I hate censorship of any kind, but why not ban the movies of the last 40 years for being bad?

This is nothing but a business move. They don't believe in anything except money. This is a way for companies to pay their workers slave wages, to capitalize on the trendy justice whoriors without doing anything.

Does anyone think Amazon is a "liberal" company (or even care about black people) just because they tweet or twat something that sounds trendy? A company ran by a trillionaire who pays $0 in federal tax. Less than those "unskilled" McDonalds workers whose work brings in billions. If only the world had so many "unskilled" laborers....

Don't fall for identity politics. If you hear it, run away. They know the government can't legislate kindness and understanding, and its a diversion from the economics, and the system itself. Don't let them divide us from a strong fist into tiny little fingers while they ran to the bank. This only causes resentment between groups (another problem, we need to be individuals), and it works every fucking time.

And I don't even like "Gone With the Wind", but that's not the point. Remember, even if you agree with their move, one day it might be YOU and what YOU like that's censored.

[–] TandyMan (10393) 4 years ago

Seems like a FU to Trump to me. He said he loves that movie. Thought I doubt he's ever sat through it.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

That could be the reason. After all, that's what happened with the hidrochloroxine...

[–] 102000 (6134) 4 years ago

Blazing Saddles is really in trouble.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Nah, parody usually gets a pass. It's an entirely different thing to laugh at racist attitudes than to be asked to sympathize with them. For all the casual N words, Blazing Saddles was actually one of the most progressive films of its era, so I think it's safe.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72081) 4 years ago

That would be a shame!
I suppose All In The Family is on the short list too despite being a brilliantly scathing comedy about a lifelong bigot who always ends up the fool

[–] 102000 (6134) 4 years ago

I was also thinking about Gene Wilder in Silver Streak when he pretends to be black. I would hope all of these are safe, but right now I wouldn't make bets on anything.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72081) 4 years ago

It's a very odd state of affairs

Thrillers and horror films can continue to contain endless scenes of torture, rape and murder but well written parody and comedy is in danger because someone's feelings might be hurt..?

We SHOULD laugh at the human condition and our stupid tribalism and shallow bigotry...we should ALL have a good laugh, humor brings us together

[–] Furienna (3322) 4 years ago

Indeed, it is true that Meathead was a lifelong bigot and a fool. ;)

Really, Archie is truly the more sympathetic character to me. It is not even close, even though I know that the viewers were supposed to think the other way around (at least at first).
Yeah, it is true that Archie might have had his flaws. But he was often prepared to listen to the other side and learn something new. The same thing can't be said about the smug and hypocritical Meathead, who left his wife and his young son for another woman to boot.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (72081) 4 years ago

I hear your points, particularly about Meathead being an insufferable preachy jerk

[–] Furienna (3322) 4 years ago

Yes, but in the end, it seems like writers changed the dynamic a bit, so it was more fair.
So it was no longer the annoying "Archie is never right and Michael is never wrong", but it was more like "they are both allowed to be right or wrong".