I did not see the movie, but I heard that in the Demi Moore version of Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne runs away with Dimmsdale.
Also, a remake of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has Jim crossing the river into freedom.
This was the job of Winston Smith in “1984”, to go back into the archives and re-write them to match the current needs and beliefs of INGSOC. In Fahrenheit 451, books (and anything in print) were illegal, the TV and radio statements of the government could never be refuted using references, only memory.
And due to copyright issues, Free Republic can no longer archive the original versions of news stories (but individuals can archive them as long as they don’t put the article online).
I’m in a dark mood, I hope I am not seeing where this is all going.
This nonsense is why we’ll never see “Song of the South” freed from Disney’s vaults. Or, worse yet, they’ll go back and “remaster” it. It was locked up before I got a chance to see it.
In order to reclaim bits of my childhood I couldn’t quite remember, I purchased all the Astro Boy manga released and translated by Dark Horse. At the front of each volume is a well-written and respectful disclaimer regarding themes that may be offensive to some for racial reasons, but everything was kept intact. I couldn’t have been more grateful. It gave the series a historical depth and insight that would have been missing if the themes had been sanitized. And there were even a few anti- white and/ or American, which wouldn’t have been out of place just after WWII.
Just think of all the wartime cartoons you don’t see anymore...but I suppose that’s better than having them mangled by the PC Police.