Via Drudge: The Orpheum Theatre Group decided not to include the 1939 movie about a plantation in the Civil War-era South in its 2018 Summer Movie Series after feedback from patrons following the last screening Aug. 11.
“As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves’, the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population,” the theater’s operators said in a statement.
Memphis’ population is about 64 percent African-American.
“As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves’, the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population,” the theater’s operators said in a statement.
Memphis’ population is about 64 percent African-American.
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6 comments:
Not so much on the enlightened, but then they did list that last.
Aren't the slaves the smartest people in the movie?
GFR, people. Even the Germans -- those PC'd pussies -- love "Gegangen Mit Dem Wind."
I guess Blazing Saddles is out of the question.
Statues, movies and Dolly Parton.
Could they wish the past away?
When you kick a statue, anything is possible, I suppose.
Is art always the first to go?
Trump is right. It's sad.
I think Hitler banned GWTW. So did the Japanese. The subttext of the book and the movie is that being conquered by Yankees is not the worst fate in the world..,,,, After WWII MacArthur pardoned the Emperor and only brought to trial a handful of war criminals. He didn't punish any of the Filipinos who had collaborated with the Japanese. He was roundly criticized by the press and the New Deal liberals for his leniency in these matters, but the record shows that the Japanese and Filipinos held him in high esteem. His occupation of Japan went rather more smoothly than our later occupation of Iraq....,,,I think the liberals would prefer a version of GWTW where Rhett gets hanged and Scarlet marries the chief field hand and everyone subsequently lives in peace and harmony. Maybe in a few more years they can make such a movie.
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