He went with the wind' and controversy: what he needs to know

"He went with the wind' and controversy: what he needs to know

HBO Max has temporarily released the film from its streaming service after filmmaker John Ridley called the "stereotypical painful of people of color".

When HBO Max launches last month, one of the streaming service's outlets is the classic Hollywood brand-branded channel, which includes "Citizen Kane", "Swant" in the rain, "Casablanca" and "Gone with the Wind", Adaptation of the 1939 Oscar from Margaret Mitchell's novel, and, according to the American Film Institute , the sixth largest in the United States

But on Monday, amid intense reflection on the depiction of races and police in popular culture after protests about the brutality of filmmaker John Ridley wrote an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times begged HBO Max to remove "Gone with The Wind" from the streaming library. "This is a film that glorifies the South," writes Ridley, who won an Oscar for the stage of "12 Years a Slave." "This is a film that, when it doesn't ignore the horrors of slavery, stops only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color."

On Tuesday night, the service temporarily extracted the film from the catalog, citing the need for a "description and sniper" "description" of the cinematic representation of race relations - perhaps something similar to the "outdated cultural representations" Disclaimer offered in some titles on Disney Plus.

In fact, "Gone with the Wind" is no stranger to controversy. Here's a brief explanation.
I've never seen a movie. What's the story?

Like Mitchell's best-selling novel, "Gone with the Wind" is located on a Georgian plantation during and after the Civil War. The protagonist is Scarlett O'Hara (Viven Leigh), a stubborn daughter of a plantation owner, and the main focus of the narrative is romantic exploitation. But a leisurely 221-minute run time of the film was devoted to the fight to keep the plantation afloat, and in Scarlett's relationship with the slave family, including Prissy (Butterfly McQueen), Pig (Oscar Polk) and MAMMY (Hattie McDaniel, who won an Oscar for his appearance - the first African-American was so respected).

What is a Critique object?

As Ridley points out, the main point of contention is to romanticize the film from the south, and it emerges from the horrors of slavery. The film presents a pre-Civil War era in the region as a utopia of quiet living, and northern forces as interlopers, trying to disrupt the lifestyle. The waiter's character is written and interpreted as meek and content, more dedicated to his white teachers than the struggle of his fellow slaves (and not interested in leaving the plantation after the war). And, like D.W. Griffith's terrible success"The Birth of a Nation," the film released the slave freed from the era of reconstruction as a dangerous and politically naive moral.
How was it accepted when it was released?

Most critics joined the chorus of accolades, and the film audience went to the cinema. It remains the best-selling film of all time, when it adjusts to ticket price inflation. The Academy is also impressed, giving her 10 Oscars, including the best images, Best Actress, Best Director (Victor Fleming) and, of course, the McDaniel statue.

In addition, according to LEFF, demonstrations and protests were held in theaters in several major markets, including Washington, D.C., Chicago and Brooklyn. To some extent, protests never cease; Despite the film's canonization as an American classic, Malcolm X's featured voice for Spike Lee to Ridley has spoken for decades on the subject of disturbance, characterization and images. And with this last lapel, it becomes clear that concerns about the film's representation and context will not disappear in the short term.