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Post by cineclassics on Oct 28, 2022 19:23:05 GMT
As others have mentioned, Robert's first intro for TCM was Gone with the Wind. Hard to imagine that would be the first film introduced if TCM was starting out today. But it was a different time back in 1994. The controversy really didn't stick to Gone with the Wind until around 2013, after the release of 12 Years a Slave. I thought it was more along the lines of 2020 after John Ridley called on HBO to remove it from its library. I rarely ever recall Robert Osborne discussing political matters or "reframing" films for a modern audience, as if modern audiences are somehow less capable of understanding antiquated stereotypes than previous generations. |
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Post by yanceycravat on Oct 28, 2022 19:50:36 GMT
The controversy really didn't stick to Gone with the Wind until around 2013, after the release of 12 Years a Slave. I thought it was more along the lines of 2020 after John Ridley called on HBO to remove it from its library. I rarely ever recall Robert Osborne discussing political matters or "reframing" films for a modern audience, as if modern audiences are somehow less capable of understanding antiquated stereotypes than previous generations. I'm in agreement. RO presented the movies. "Re-framing" has become a recent development.
As I offered on the soon to be "old TCM boards", You have a company that has a product which is about 95% out dated by today's "woke" standards. How can you keep selling something that, if made today, most people would find offensive? That's were the whole, where then meets now, nonsense comes in.
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