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Ironic, considering the discussion. Paris, Texas the movie wasn't actually set in Paris, Texas. It was set, in part, and filmed in west Texas. Paris, Texas is northeast Texas.
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True but the movie isn't supposed to be set in NE Texas (or Paris, TX). The main character just owns some property there, but he doesn't live there.
Anyway, back to "Song of the South." It's been a long time since I even saw that movie, but you know what really does strike me as odd? Racism, in ALL regions of our country, and really throughout the world, seems like it was accepted so much moreso in the early 20th century than it is now.
There is a tragic denouement to “Song of the South”. Actor James Baskett died in 1949 due to diabetes. And child actor Bobby Driscoll became an alcoholic and was found dead at age 30 in an abandoned building.
Anyway, back to "Song of the South." It's been a long time since I even saw that movie, but you know what really does strike me as odd? Racism, in ALL regions of our country, and really throughout the world, seems like it was accepted so much moreso in the early 20th century than it is now.
Well...yes. Yes it was.
As Dave Chapelle has noted, black people today have the best white people we've ever had.
As Dave Chapelle has noted, black people today have the best white people we've ever had.
LOL I love me some Dave Chapelle!
Interesting side note - I've been through the small Ohio town where he lives many times - Yellow Springs, Ohio (which sounds like pee to me but I digress). It's a cute little place not that far from Dayton. It always surprises me that he lives there but I guess that's fine!
I love books and especially love antique books. I remember seeing "Song of the South" when I was a kid back in the 1960s or maybe the 1970s. I also had a big picture book, probably based on the movie now that I think of it, and my dad used to read the pretty stories to me in different voices - Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, Brer whatever - you get the drift. So I had fond memories of Brer Rabbit and all that.
So I decided to order an Uncle Remus antique book online and read it out loud to my kids. I think it was published in 1915.
OMG.
It was so racist and so horrible that I ended up HIDING it from my kids!
I have a copy of that book too. I found it in an old used furniture shop that was closing down and paid $2 for it, just a couple of years ago.
I also remember Song of the South the movie, vividly, and have tried a number of time to find a copy but apparently it's illegal to own it? And I also had that big picture book of Br'er Rabbit stories someone else mentioned. I was a child in the 1960s can you tell?
I have a copy of that book too. I found it in an old used furniture shop that was closing down and paid $2 for it, just a couple of years ago.
I also remember Song of the South the movie, vividly, and have tried a number of time to find a copy but apparently it's illegal to own it? And I also had that big picture book of Br'er Rabbit stories someone else mentioned. I was a child in the 1960s can you tell?
It's illegal to own almost anything in America beyond drugs and child porn. Disney has refused to produce the film.
I have a copy of that book too. I found it in an old used furniture shop that was closing down and paid $2 for it, just a couple of years ago.
I also remember Song of the South the movie, vividly, and have tried a number of time to find a copy but apparently it's illegal to own it? And I also had that big picture book of Br'er Rabbit stories someone else mentioned. I was a child in the 1960s can you tell?
It is not ILLEGAL. It's just PCed out of existence
Disney would periodically release the 1946 animated/live action movie based on the “Uncle Remus” stories into theaters as late as the 1980s. Around 1990, Disney began treating the movie as a dirty family secret. I only saw it once, and I don’t think it any more offensive than “Gone With the Wind”, which is still broadcast occasionally on Turner Classic Movies (for now).
Bought my father a copy on DVD 6 months ago, so I have seen it recently. It was the 1dt film he ever saw in a theater when he was a kid.
The Brer Rabbit stories themselves really were told by slave mothers to their children, and have distinct African roots back to Ghana. They actually tell stories of how to survive under oppression.
I'd love to see those stories rehabilitated in a different narrative frame, such as a slave mother telling it directly to her child.
Yup. They were based on the Anansi stories. My father has a copy of the Anansi stories, in dialect
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