Federalist: HBO Max pulled “Gone with the Wind,” the 1939 film that’s been called “the biggest blockbuster in American history,” from its library of streaming films. It quickly shot to the top of the list of best-selling movies and TV shows on Amazon.
Other editions of the film also made the top-ten list on Amazon Wednesday, ranking #8 and #9. It’s also at the top of the “Romance” category on Amazon. The movie won 10 Academy Awards, one of which was earned by Hattie McDaniel, making her the first African-American to be nominated for and win an Oscar. more
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Don’t Cancel ‘Gone With The Wind’s’ Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for her role in the Civil War classic, becoming the first black actor to ever win an Oscar.
Tell me these people aren’t Nazis.
Gone With The Wind – condemned by HBO. What assholes. It was not overly racist anyway. The last half of it was like a TV soap opera: marriage, relationships, difficulties with the opposite sex, ROMANCE, DRAMA.
Critics point to Butterfly McQueen when she said: “I don’t know nuthin’ about birthin’ no babies” as racist. I thought the line was funny as hell. A white girl could have said it and it still would be funny.
Also HBO chose to publicly make a big deal of canceling it “because racism” on (or near) Hattie McDaniel’s birthday. Her birthday is June 10.
The law of unintended consequences or simply how dumb can we be? 🤔
So it’s time to read the book. Just like countless other revisionist rapes. Maybe these folks just can’t read. Grab some tar but stay out of the patch known as leftism.
Now Amazon will quit selling it and MGM will pull it from circulation. Let the black market begin.
I saw it once, and it was worth seeing once. There was nothing about it to draw me into seeing it again — it was just a soap opera. But I might have to buy it just to help piss them off.
Mental note –
Lock ‘Blazing Saddles’ DVD in the gun safe when I get home.
Frankly, HBO, I don’t give a damn.
The last cruise I went on it was playing on the ships jumbotron.
We left out of Norfolk Va..
NORFOLK!
Good laughs.
I always liked the character of “Mammie” and agreed with her comments about “I don’t hold with white trash (Emma Slatterly) and I don’t hold with black trash!
Just checked at Amazon, all copies “currently unavailable”.
Oh, except for the 70th Anniversary Edition in BluRay for $334.
KING DONG was a big movie that same year. Will it be pul…
Wait what?
Oh… A porn movie?
OK. KING KONG was in 1933.
Will it be pulled out of circulation too?
I always thought that both Gone With The Wind and Citizen Kane were the 2 most overrated movies ever. I can’t stand either one of them.
Blue Toof
JUNE 11, 2020 AT 2:10 PM
“…. KING KONG was in 1933.
Will it be pulled out of circulation too?”
…depends on whether it makes people more sympathetic towards “Michelle” Obama after “she” is “drafted” at the convention or not, if someone photoshops Hillary as Fay Wray and Trump as the hunter, it might…
My great aunt taught Hattie McDaniel at East high school in Denver back in the day….My Sister named her latest black lab Hattie, in honor of Hattie McDaniel….Will she have to put Hattie down now?….
I haven’t seen the entire movie but I do remember the black nanny treating scarlet as if she was her own daughter. I thought that was sweet seeing the time the movie was set in. The movie bored me because I’m not into soap opera type movies, but I find the fact that they would stuff it, even temporarily, ridiculous.
willysgoatgruff- Ha. I went to West Middle school in Denver area. I had no idea there was an East high school. lol.
Jeffrey R Paulus:I hear you.
@Jeffrey R Paulus – after years of it sitting in my collection and hearing what a masterpiece it is/was, I watched Citizen Kane (beginning of the year or so) and just didn’t get the hype. Found it drawn out and boring to be honest.
I was never a fan of the movie, but the book is outstanding– one I’ve read again and again. Having said that, I’m going to purchase a copy of the movie, just because SCREW THEM.
“I always thought that both Gone With The Wind and Citizen Kane were the 2 most overrated movies ever. I can’t stand either one of them.”
I’ve never even seen Citizen Kane. Never appealed to me.
I actually read Gone With The Wind in middle school. And saw the movie. Never actually felt the need to revisit either again.
But I will say this. While the movie is visually stunning and probably deserves the acclaims it got and still gets, the book was so much more. There are so many things that happened in the book that never even get alluded to in the movie. And some of those things completely change the perception of what the story is about. I’m not even sure a mini-series could tell the entire story. There’s just so much there.
MJA….South, North, East and West high schools in Denver proper. When I was little it was the only way I knew where I was, if I couldn’t see the mountains, was thinking where these high schools were compared to where I was. Had to look up West middle school. It’s in Greenwood village…..You grew up with some of that fancy privilege in that neighborhood….lol….
willysgoatgruff- I lived right outside of Lowry AFB. I didn’t feel very fancy. LOL.
Just went to look it up. She gone. 1994.
MJA….I’m guessing that your probably 20 years younger then me and your correct, Lowry AFB and western Aurora weren’t very fancy unless you went further west to sections of Park Hill….I bet they scraped off your West middle school and there now resides some 400K townhomes….The old Lowry AFB is plenty trendy now….
@Outdoorjohn,
Remember when Gene Wilder grabbed Cleavon Little from behind the rock to show him to the KKK? Laugh my butt off each time I hear him say, “Hey! Where da white women at?” One of the most hilarious movies ever!
@ CCNV I was just thinking about that movie when I read the headline.
I have a DVD copy of Blazing Saddles.
Wait until the university students discover that movie.
…for all you that are “meh” on Gone With The Wind, I offer a much BETTER (And SHORTER!) version of it, served up by Carol Burnette and Co…(at 2:15)
https://youtu.be/-8wVvGQ0P4Y
…they’ll probably come for THIS one NEXT, so watch it before it’s made an unshow…
What will these loons ban next? Song of the South??? Oh, wait!!!
@willysgoatgruff – how old are you? I’m a great aunt and my great nieces and nephews are in their teens. My great aunt was alive until 1972. But your great aunt taught Hattie McDaniel?
And I can tell everyone that as a 7th generation native Atlantan, not only have I read Gone With the Wind three or four times, I’ve watched the movie over 30 times, most of those in the theater.
So sue me.
jclady…..I’m 63….my great aunt died in 1984? I think and she was 93….I think the numbers work and that’s the family lore….My Grandpa was born in 1900 and Aunt Margie was older….That’s all I got….I do know that she went into teaching right out of Oberlin College in Ohio, so she would have been teaching by 1912 or so…She might have been a lesbian too ….anything else?…
Dear God and MJA
“I lived right outside of Lowry AFB.”
What years and. . . very important
How old are you again?
Do you bowl?
Do you cook?
What about bank shots?
Friday & Saturday Night Ranger?
Girls just want to have fun?
@ A Pool Place….your an asshole…
jclady… I was wrong….after talking to my sister it wasn’t my great aunt that taught Hattie McDaniel but it was my great aunt’s father (my great Grandpa) who was a teacher at East High school and later a Principal there too….I never knew him….apologies, Willy