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Then you might as well scrap all Charlie Chan movies, Metropolis (the screenwriter was an avid fascist) etc etc. And, of course, all Tom and Jerry cartoons because they could inspire violence among toddlers.
GWTW is an important movie, and no one, *no one*, will be inspired to shoot black people by watching this film.
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It's odd. The old psychoanalysts used to connect the following:
Chivalry
Cruelty
Sado-Masochism
Mother-fixated complexes
SOME forms of homosexuality (Don't accuse me of gay-bashing please, they said 'SOME'!!!)
Self-destructiveness
Purple (!!!)
Spoiledness
Over-aestheticism
'Earth' obsession, especially 'red' earth symbolism (Kali,)
Fascism
Heirarchy love
Suicide
Goddess worship (in men)
Aristocracy
Social Darwinism
Now, what's interesting is how many of those things the 'Old South' are associated with. (In that list of 16, about ten of them apply to Scarlett ... 'scarlet' ... purple; geddit? and 'her obsession with 'the land' Tara) ...
It was written by a woman of a certain era and psyche, and it reflects her as well as the period it's set in. I recall Bob Bly referred to the South as a land of 'mother-bound cavaliers'. and I know there was one Confed general (Pickett) who always reeked of strong perfume and they all loved their cavalier hats etc.. Old Jung said, 'chivalry is often a cover-up and compensation for unconscious cruelty'. The gentleman treated his PEERS with honour, not always other social classes.
We all love the imagery of the Old South from Twain etc., but the Union had a better grasp of society and a more wholesome psyche, for all their brashness.
So, it's like so many movies and books ... a product of the psyche that made it. Should that be whitewashed? It's a war that's long over.
The real problem is those steel things with the tubes that shoot little bits of encased lead that you can buy everywhere ...
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I don't read anything in this article about banning or prohibiting or otherwise trying to make GWTW go away. I think the main points come at the beginning and the end of the article.
"If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?
"....That studio sent “Gone with the Wind’’ back into theaters for its 75th anniversary in partnership with its sister company Turner Classic Movies in 2014, but I have a feeling the movie’s days as a cash cow are numbered. It’s showing on July 4 at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the museum’s salute to the 100th anniversary of Technicolor — and maybe that’s where this much-loved but undeniably racist artifact really belongs."
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Birth of a Nation" still the biggest hit of all time, when the box-office figures are adjusted for inflation?
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I guess I felt similarly to Mel Gibson's "The Passion," come to think of it. The anti-Semitism you get out of it . . .
I think what's great about GWTW is the way it recreates the attitudes and passions of the characters its about. That doesn't require me to espouse those attitudes myself. You have to have a certain basic intelligence level not to find this concept the least bit confusing. One can understand the anti-war theme of "All Quiet on the Western Front" even though it happens to be about German soldiers, right?
Of course, realistically, there are many Americans who lack such basic sophistication. Take the poor, retarded-looking legal-gun-owning Dylann Roof, for instance, waving his Confederate flag while wearing a Gold's Gym wifebeater top. Never mind the irony of his apparent ignorance of the fact that he supports a business founded by a noted Jewish weightlifter. It's the way that in his limited Fox News-informed mindset that a symbol of ANY KIND serves (to him) as a justification for any act.
I was watching Fox News a little the other day, and the angle they were trying to play then, logic be damned, was that "today they're coming for our Confederate flags, tomorrow it'll be that OTHER red, white and blue symbol." Far more important than the symbol itself, IMHO, or any real/perceived "danger" to it, is an honest, well-informed discussion and understanding of what these symbols represent nowadays, and to whom. If the symbol itself is the extent of such discussion, we've got a much deeper problem, obviously.
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