cast your eyes on the horrible, mind twisting, offensive, triggering, racist movie made in a different time. you will never be the same.
https://archive.org/details/SongoftheSouth1080pRestoration
because today's world is cleansed of all wrong things in media thanks to the complete success of all social justice warriors, correcting all the worlds problems, based on morals and perspectives of whoever is yelling the loudest at the moment.
enjoy!
I saw you posted this on the general the other day, thanks for the link. My 18 year old son and I watched it last night and to judge for ourselves. I had only seen clips of it here and there. He and I both see how someone can be offended because it could seem they were making light of an oppressive situation. However, I thought it was a lovely story and the character of Uncle Remus was respectful. I later read on trivia that it seems Walt Disney took great pains to make sure the movie wasn't racist, he really wanted to make a movie of the Uncle Remus stories. But they were offended then upon its release as much now it seems. I don't think this movie should be shuttered away because there is value in the character and stories of Uncle Remus.
shareI think the darker (pun-intended) issue is that 'Uncle Remus' was genuinely likable in this movie...and (secretly) Hollywood doesn't want that image (hence their endless 'blackwashing' of pre-existing franchises...solely designed to further division)
shareOh, I don't think so, the actor received an honorary Academy Award for his performance. It's interesting to read of his performance, most of it was his own making up of the character.
The NAACP protested this movie upon its release, it premiered in Atlanta with Jim Crow going on down there and Basket couldn't even attend the premiere. Now it says the NAACP doesn't have a stance on the movie.
I don't think there was intent on making an offensive movie. I think it has suffered from being made during a transitional period. I saw on another post gay people are offended by the movie, Philadelphia.
I'm almost certain 'Song Of The South' was made with the noblest of intentions. I'm not talking about then...I'm talking about now.
That's why I compared it to the recent trend of 'blackwashing' which is quite common in Hollywood (Disney especially)
Ironically, it's the one movie that could be remade today (without any pigmentation-swapping) yet Hollywood won't touch it...why?...because they'd rather guilt trip us with endless 'slavery' features.
Unfortunately this movie was (sadly) lost in time over the years (accompanied first by on-screen whoopi Goldberg disclaimers) then an outright ban.
Like 'Gone With The Wind' before it...woke sensibilities end up actually erasing black accomplishments (just to be stylish)
The same 'alleged' uproar continues with the maid from 'Tom and Jerry'...but imagine the actual uproar if those legs were re-coloured to 'white'? Even worse, imagine if 'Uncle Remus' was whitewashed...I'll wager you'd find an angry minority burning down cities in (mostly-peaceful) protest...no?
Such is the contradictory nature of those who bemoan 20th century attitudes in the 21st century (whilst conveniently turning a permanently blind eye to their own in-actions and failings)
Everyone is being manipulated to have this certain way of thinking that excludes reason and perspective. There's plenty of black people today giving testimony of not ever feeling oppressed in their life and plenty of white people today that are not carrying around this guilt they want to impose on them. They're all being told they must look at things in a different light and see the this oppression going on. It's a manipulation and the people that fall for it are the same kind of people that start questioning their gender, easy prey for the powers that be that want to divide and control us.
Anyway, at some point, and I thought we had been there for the most part before, people will have to move on and put history and perspective back in its rightful place but it takes a logical and reasonable mind to achieve it.
I'm sure (or at very least 'hope') that the majority of black people aren't uber-whining malcontents (who've never been slaves) constantly demanding reparations from those who've never owned them?
However, the mainstream media/Hollywood narrative (literally) dictates otherwise.
And they seem to be shouting the loudest?
Hollywood is leftism run amuck. They were good for a while to bring these things to light and now they've gone off the deep end into marxism. Maybe McCarthy was right, ha!
And no matter how the populace rejects it and how much money they lose, they still proceed, just like Corporate America. I believe they are expecting a bail out from the TPTB in the future. If they don't stay on board with this, they may have some lending problems in the future. I've seen this written out, and it's making sense why they double down.
I'm almost certain 'Song Of The South' was made with the noblest of intentions.
The stories Uncle Remus told were actual African American folklore. If a white man were cast then there would be a true uproar.
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I don't think the origin of the stories was important then (you're right, they would scream today) but a lot of these stories overlapped cultures.
They could have used Aesop's Fables as the stories. I don't think the stories themselves were all that important.
^total agreement^
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i think it is ok also. my sarcasm is for the SJW crap we have to put up with. im just glad this piece of history lives on.
as a little white kid, who was raised non racist by my parents, I've watched this many times, and enjoyed the message, never noticing or caring about the colors of the people in it. some stereotypes were there, yes, but stereo types will ALWAYS exist on planet Earth, because stereotypes exist.
I can relate and also raised my boys color blind as well. But you see, we are being told that color blind is a form of racism, I guess.
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