'Gone with the wind' canceled (Brown, Schumer, insurance, cost)
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I read 'Gone With the Wind' when I was a kid, mainly because I was just a bookworm & read everything from cereal boxes to whatever was my 'obsession' of the moment.
Also saw the movie however felt it was more for those with an antebellum South fetish.
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It's insensitive to play "Gone with the Wind" with Harvey ashore in Texas.
I sure hope they don't replace it with "The Perfect Storm" (with Harvey ashore). Using the word "perfect" connotes "approval" and thus sounds like a judgmental statement and possibly implies an Act of G-D and thus pushes religion and condemnation on children that may not have the wherewithal to avoid exposure to such narrow indoctrination.
I have got to see that movie. Why have I not heard of it before?
What? What? It may be because the movie came out in 1939, same year as The Wizard of Oz. Pre WWII, and then everything changed. It is an early color film also. I know some younger people who won't watch anything is black and white. It is a shame.
Gone with the Wind is essentially about women's "empowerment" so the libs should love it? Right?
Yes that's next on the list. Any kind of entertainment with any historical accuracy is off limits. Gone With the Wind was written only decades after the war and has a lot of factual things in it as far as how the South before the war, the war itself and slavery. Margaret Mitchel wrote the book from stories told to her from people or their direct descendants that were alive during that period as a background.
At the premier, there were still a few civil war veterans alive who attended the grand opening of the movie. How stupid that we as a nation have become so politically correct that history can't no longer be shown because some snowflakes might be offended by the truth.
What? What? It may be because the movie came out in 1939, same year as The Wizard of Oz. Pre WWII, and then everything changed. It is an early color film also. I know some younger people who won't watch anything is black and white. It is a shame.
Gone with the Wind is essentially about women's "empowerment" so the libs should love it? Right?
I am 52 years old, and it was not GWTW that I have yet to see. -_-
Yes that's next on the list. Any kind of entertainment with any historical accuracy is off limits. Gone With the Wind was written only decades after the war and has a lot of factual things in it as far as how the South before the war, the war itself and slavery. Margaret Mitchel wrote the book from stories told to her from people or their direct descendants that were alive during that period as a background.
At the premier, there were still a few civil war veterans alive who attended the grand opening of the movie. How stupid that we as a nation have become so politically correct that history can't no longer be shown because some snowflakes might be offended by the truth.
In the first place, it was not the truth. It is fiction based on information passed down by Confederate sympathizers.
Just because the Orpheum Theater decided they didn't want to show a racist movie that slyly supports the KKK, does not mean that it is not available for viewing.
In fact, if you have Amazon prime you can watch it for free.
Gone with the Wind was not about women's empowerment.
Throughout the story, women were at the mercy of men and their foolish decisions and actions.
Women did what they could to carve out a place for themselves, keep body and soul together such as they could.
But there was mighty little empowerment unless you count Scarlett running the lumber mill that her husband owned.
GWTW was an ode to the antebellum south, where women's empowerment was hardly a feature.
Scarlet O'Hara's quote, as she grabs the dirt of Tara:
Quote:
As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!
She uses whatever means she can to become rich again. Including running a business, and being ruthless. Yes, she was a weasel in many ways, but a strong one. She never gives up.
Maybe growing up in NY and being surrounded by cityiots and traveling throughout the northeast, there's no such thing unless they were around my age when Kennedy was president...
I do know the liberals in NY sure do love welfare programs as a replacement for careers, higher taxes for those who want to work, absolutely hate anyone who is "overtly" religious (lest we offend atheists or other religions rather than say oh I'm sorry Happy Haunikka or Merry Christmas like decent human beings...) and if you own a firearm... Oh boy. You are public enemy number one. You don't need one.
When you say "NY" are you referring to the city or the state? There is actually a lot of difference both politically and socially between NYC and upstate NY. Lot of people up here hate the Safe Act, for example. Abd we're not happy about Thruuway tolls possibly going up to help pay for the "new" Tappan Zee Bridge, a bridge most upstaters will never even use.
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