What should be done about Gone With the Wind?

[Chestaan]

If we were to put a propaganda warning on every film that warranted one then half the movies released would be affected. Let people think for themselves.

[Imperium of Dragonia]

Oh boy, yet another bout of "this work was made in this time period, therefore it should be changed/banned" childish rhetoric.
Nothing should be changed. To change it would imply that the film should never have been made in it's original form in the first place, which raises additional problems, like "where does it stop?"

[Bear Stearns]

Eventually Captain Underpants will be seen as some alt right dogwhistle.

[Imperium of Dragonia]

Eventually Captain Underpants will be seen as some alt right dogwhistle.

Somewhere, there's a Buzzfeed article that says just that.

[Auze]

Eventually Captain Underpants will be seen as some alt right dogwhistle.

Somewhere, there's a Buzzfeed article that says just that.

Ah, Buzzfeed.
A site that has and will use the term "Manspreading" unironically.
Anyway, I've never seen gone with the wind, what parts of it were supporting the "lost cause"?

[Kowani]

Somewhere, there's a Buzzfeed article that says just that.

Ah, Buzzfeed.
A site that has and will use the term "Manspreading" unironically.
Anyway, I've never seen gone with the wind, what parts of it were supporting the "lost cause"?

The whole thing?

[The Snow-Covered Mountains]

We need to talk honestly about how it glosses over the terrible aspects of the South during the Civil War period. I've seen the movie before, and a lot of it rubbed me the wrong way. I actually break with a lot of my fellow moderate conservatives here. Now, should it be banned? No. But that's not the same as saying we shouldn't re-evaluate it.

[Grand Britannia]

People really need to stop wanting something revised or banned because they don't like what it says.

[Ethel mermania]

Recast it with Halle Berry in the lead.

[The Two Jerseys]

Recast it with Halle Berry in the lead.

Do the Boondocks version:

The dashing Rhett Butler is about to meet the Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara:

"Boy, am I tired from beating slaves, where's the lemonade?"

[BeatsMe]

USA should stop talking about RACE all the time.
You are daily talking about slavery more than 150 years after it had ended. I guess about half of USA population are more or less descendants of people who wasn't in USA at the time of slavery (latter imigrants).
Slavery is not political correctness, it is CNN propaganda daily brainwashing.

Gone with the wind is not a movie about slavery. It is about war, about love, it is even about money. It is not about slavery. The slavery is not discussed there in any meaningful way.
You are perceiving it about race only because your daily news outlets are brainwashing you that everything has to be connected with race (and race is about slavery).
For comparison, 150 years ago the serfdom was still in existence in such European countries as AustroHungary, Turkey and Russia (ok it ended about the same time. And before Napoleonic wars serfdom was widespread on the continent. A whatever you taunt about the race, serfdom in general is about the same conditions as the slavery. You don't see it repeated every day in media.

[Herador]

You are daily talking about slavery more than 150 years after it had ended.

And yet Ruby Bridges is only 65.

[Auristania]

If we were to put a propaganda warning on every film that warranted one then half the movies released would be affected. Let people think for themselves.

Gone with the Wind: pro Slavery propaganda
Ivan the Terrible: pro Stalinism propaganda
Casablanca: anti Nazi propaganda
Willy Wonka: anti Health and Safety propaganda
Harry Potter: anti Health and Safety propaganda

[Twelve Monkeys]

Recast it with Halle Berry in the lead.

Co-starring Al Pacino.

"Frankly Scarface, I don't give a damn."

[San Lumen]

Nothing. Why can't we just enjoy it for what it is instead of tying to erase everything someone finds offensive? It was a different time when that film was made.

[Internationalist Bastard]

Sometimes propaganda produces good art and we need to accept that

[Chernoslavia]

but should perhaps be reevaluated for some of its more controversial elements.

Absolutely not.

[Cameroi]

we don't need to beat our heads against history. what we do need is to understand how its mistakes actually happened and how to avoid repeating them.
people who claim this is the reason to study history,
unfortunately, are the first to do everything they can to prevent it from actually serving this potentially useful purpose.

as for the title itself, i've watched, on mom's old black and white tv, on the late late late show in the mccarthy era mid fifties, and i have to say "meh".
better movies? there have been thousands of them.

i'll give you two examples: disney's late 40s early 50s fantasia, and more recently, furtopia/zootopia.
unless pointless tragidy is your thing and that's your measure of greateness, then i guess "easy rider"

if you want fun, how about alice's restaurant?

but i mean, i'm sorry, but gone with the wind just isn't really all that high of a bar.

maybe that's just me, but i'd rather be entertained by seeing people figure out how to solve things, instead of gratuitous emotional conflict.
that's why i prefer to read fiction ABOUT science. the REAL science fiction that for profet holyrood, can never seem to figure out, nor even try.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Nothing. Why can't we just enjoy it for what it is instead of tying to erase everything someone finds offensive? It was a different time when that film was made.

Wow, we agree on something? It's nearly 4 AM, I'm putting this one down to lack of sleep.

[San Lumen]

Nothing. Why can't we just enjoy it for what it is instead of tying to erase everything someone finds offensive? It was a different time when that film was made.

Wow, we agree on something? It's nearly 4 AM, I'm putting this one down to lack of sleep.

common ground can always be found

[Pacomia]

Nothing. It’s classic media, and it should say stay unchanged. Hell, even if nobody had seen nor heard of it, it should stay unchanged. We shouldn’t edit pre-existing things just because someone complained.

[San Lumen]

Nothing. It’s classic media, and it should say stay unchanged. Hell, even if nobody had seen nor heard of it, it should stay unchanged. We shouldn’t edit pre-existing things just because someone complained.

I agree completely

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Recast it with Halle Berry in the lead.

Co-starring Al Pacino.

"Frankly Scarface, I don't give a damn."

With a strong Cuban accent.

[The Holy Therns]

Sometimes an old film's just an old film. And that's fine.

[Ethel mermania]

Sometimes an old film's just an old film. And that's fine.

Manos: hands of fate.