FILE - In this Dec. 19, 1939 file photo, a crowd gathers outside the Astor Theater on Broadway during the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in New York. HBO Max has temporarily removed “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long criticized for romanticizing slavery and the Civil War-era South.
Protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have forced entertainment companies to grapple with the appropriateness of both current and past productions. On Tuesday, the Paramount Network “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible,” said an HBO Max spokesman in a statement.
“Gone With the Wind” has long been denounced for featuring slave characters who remain loyal to their former owners after the abolition of slavery. It remains the highest-grossing film of all time when adjusted for inflation. It won eight Academy Awards including best picture and best supporting actress for Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to be nominated or win an Oscar.
Are they morons or pretend to be morons? So it turns out that films about Abraham Lincoln are also racist? This film described the US Civil War!!!
Disgraceful. Thank God I have my own copy.
Should we burn the book too?
So stupid; time for all of you to grow the hell up
What the hello is going on in this world. Can I suggest you reverse your decision!!!!! Idiots
What a disgrace !!!
The greatest generation’s escape movie! My mother sai how fun it was to watch this story about nicely dressed, rich people who had no idea that their privileged lives were about to blow up. Her generation did not yet realize their not so privileged lives were about to blow up too
Ohh no all the white conservatives with posters of trump and shotguns in their pick up tracks who love rambo and rocky movies will be extremely upset for not watching this movie.... Its ok you can continue watching the hundreds of American war movies that only kill foreigners..
Drama queens!
Stupid!
yurikageyama It’s almost as if the left wants to sabotage their own cause and distract everyone from real injustices. What an absolutely moronic game
If only there were movies, monuments, and history lessons somehow to teach and remember those things, you wouldn’t have to add the historical context to everything.....
Next they will consider 12 years a slave, Django, Glory, The Help, Amistad, Roots, the 10 Commandments, Lincoln, Driving Miss Daisy, Beloved, Harriet, Gettysburg. Just to name a few. If Gone With The Wind is gone, these should go as well. Oprah would be pissed. hbomax FoxNews
Gone With the Wind? You have to be kidding me. One of my favorite movies of all time. I think people are smart enough to figure this out without HBOs help. Where does this all stop?
There's another company that will never see another dollar from me.
Stupid
I guess tv should ban Roots, Dukes of Hazzard and rename all the southern states
Ridiculous. Be careful where this can go.
So phoney.
We don’t watch hbo
Stupidity plain and simple
Frankly, I don’t give a damn. It’s a movie from 1939.
Temporary. lol. Right.
I’ll give a dollar to anyone under 70 who can tell me the difference between “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca”
Racist HBO THAT WAS THE FIRST BLACK OSCAR WINNER!!!
What’s next burning books?
Removing a movie in which Hattie McDaniel, the first African American woman to win an Oscar just seems wrong. Of course slavery should never be romanticized, but we should embrace the distances we have traveled in the reality of 1939, to today.
I have never seen gone with the wind
Just cancelled HBO Max. HBOMax
Wait until Halloween 🎃
Great movie .cut all HBO
So, the movie in which the first African American woman won an Academy Award for Best Actress is being pulled. A fictional movie, based on a novel written by a woman, about the Civil War that’s told from the Southern side. 👍🏽👍🏽 For our American educational system!
It's to late for that. Pluse it's doesn't romanticize the war. It's a love story that happen during the war.
Probably a good way to deal with such situations. After all, the movie dealt with a time and place and situation, and was not an endorsement of racism.
I've been asking tcm BenMank77 to stop airing blackface movies for years now with no response or action.. TCMPR TCM_Party
Very important to consume objectionable material with children & teach them what they are experiencing is WRONG & better yet, WHY it is wrong. Removing 'Gone with the Wind' is a mistake. Who's? Shakespeare? The Bible? Ray Bradbury? Are we going to have Firemen that burn books?
The 'historical context' needed for books and films will soon eclipse in volume the works themselves. Trust the audience.
People in 2020:
Wouldn't want those southern democrats to be seen as un-woke now.
Does hbomax realize they're helping erase the performance of Hattie McDaniel, the first black actress to ever win an Academy Award, by doing this?
Tomorrow bomb pyramids. These are no wonders, you know.
They created a fake news cycle about them banning then reallowing a beloved movie on their platform. Nothing actually changed but everyone is talking about HBO max. That's marketing.
Stupid measure.
Everything that the left touches it destroys.
Whats next? Lawrence of arabia, Zulu? Maybe don't show on TV but can't add historical context every movie plus who screens the historical context?
OK. This is weird now...
We can't decide for ourselves what to watch, read, think, believe. We need someone else to do that for us. Thank you so much. communists
what a load of horseshit
hbomax Does it really need historical context? Have we really failed in our education system that people don't already have that knowledge or the ability to reason or understand context? I will be honest I have never made it through to the end of it. It didn't hold my interest.
It is now the number one seller on Amazon.
Fuck sake
Frankly My dear I’m worried about Samuel Clemens
why that's why HBO is so fukking broken, they are lost, we do not like BLM but we prefer WLM
It's a fictional movie. It's called acting. It's what actors do.
Glad to see it is temporary -- we shouldn't erase these historical items or bury them, but rather provide a context in which to view them. Just like how we shouldn't *literally* put Confederate war leaders on *literal* pedestals.
My friend and I just cancelled our subscriptions. Were we right in doing this? My friend just asked me.
You can’t erase history but obviously stupidity in large groups is dangerous
Good lord!!! It's a fucking MOVIE!!!!!! LEAVE THE CLASSIC ALONE STOP TELLING US WHAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO WATCH!!!!
Too bad, what a great movie to bore you till you fall asleep.
It's swapping it for Disney's Song of the South.
HBO just ended racism.
Gone with the Times
Removing Gone with the wind? Now I know our country has gone crazy.
Ah, now it's temporary. Just admit it was a poor, knee-jerk reaction.
Democrats are the enemy of the people
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