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Racist, Sexist … Classic? How Hollywood Is Dealing With Its Problematic Content
The Hollywood Rporter ^
| March 4, 2021
| Rebecca Keegan
Posted on 03/06/2021 3:52:15 AM PST by C19fan
As streamers build out their lucrative libraries, they are experimenting with label warnings, context panels and even purges: "These are valuable properties that you cannot just disregard. You want to keep them, but you have to make sure they don't damage the brand."
Every month, Disney convenes an eclectic group of advisers via videoconference to tell the media conglomerate what it and the many entertainment companies it has acquired over its nearly 100-year history have gotten wrong. It's a long list. Song of the South. Jar Jar Binks. That episode of The Muppet Show where Johnny Cash sings a duet with Miss Piggy in front of a Confederate flag.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
TOPICS: History; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: disney; hollywood; jarjarbinks; johnnycash; songofthesouth; woke
I am old enough to remember when AL Gore's wife was mocked by the previous generation of these people for wanting to put warning labels on music and video games.
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posted on
03/06/2021 3:52:15 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/06/2021 4:08:51 AM PST
by
Trumpet 1
(US Constitution is my guide.)
To: C19fan
I’ve been collecting 1920s silents and want to add a few more so if they are ultimately banned, I have mine.
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posted on
03/06/2021 4:10:43 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: OttawaFreeper
Do you have “Birth of a Nation”? The best silent picture of all time.
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posted on
03/06/2021 4:31:47 AM PST
by
Russ
(I )
To: C19fan
Hollywood doesn't have problematic content. But someone sure has a problem with Audrey Hepburn.
This is just the latest joke in a long line of jokes about what is acceptable. The grand poobahs of propriety are upset about stereotypes they don't like, but perfectly fine with teenagers offing themselves on Netflix.
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posted on
03/06/2021 4:33:38 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden. )
To: C19fan
You know it is getting bad when the snowflakes are finding racist undertones in Cat in the Hat. These folks need to find something to do with their lives.
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posted on
03/06/2021 4:47:15 AM PST
by
chuckee
To: Russ
I am about ready to order that one. I have the 1925 Gloria Swanson “Stage Struck” that has early Technicolor footage at the beginning and end and also has things the PC people would find objectionable.
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posted on
03/06/2021 5:05:27 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: Dahoser
But someone sure has a problem with Audrey Hepburn. Huh?
What do you mean? Not enough of her movies?
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posted on
03/06/2021 9:24:13 AM PST
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: chuckee
These folks need to find something to do with their lives. Put them out in "Fly-over Country" with a hoe and an axe and tell they they will have to grow their own food and build their own shelter, rather than laze around in the lap of luxury provided to them by someone else.
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posted on
03/06/2021 9:27:48 AM PST
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: BwanaNdege
Look at the movies on the list...Breakfast at Tiffany’s...My Fair Lady.
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posted on
03/06/2021 9:36:38 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden. )
To: C19fan
How Hollywood Is Dealing With Its Problematic Content
Makes movies with no two people of the same race everyone has some sort of handicap screen play by Utopia Hopia.
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posted on
03/06/2021 9:49:13 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: Dahoser
Ah, understood! Audrey was a Lady, and we can’t have that now, can we.
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posted on
03/06/2021 1:41:00 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
03/08/2021 3:35:17 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: C19fan
...and its a problem because..?
reality is a serious problem for these clowns
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posted on
03/08/2021 3:44:17 AM PST
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
To: C19fan
EVERY movie should carrying a warning that says, “THIS MOVIE MIGHT OFFEND SOMEONE - SOMEWHERE - SOMETIME....”
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posted on
03/08/2021 7:48:15 AM PST
by
GOPJ
("Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud" - CACAGNY)
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