Ignorance on parade- there is no depiction of slavery in the movie. The film is set during the reconstruction era, after emancipation, after Sherman torched Atlanta, after the civil war, and the black characters are freedmen working by choice for those evil white people, as frequently happened in the South (and North) following the war. Or do you think whites suddenly worked their former plantations all by themselves, so there would not have been black help? Maybe you think all freedman became self employed or moved to the cities? Or maybe you think all whites mistreated their former slaves, and that all former slaves despised their former masters, so it's idealized?Sapper Redux said:It whitewashes slavery badly. That's hardly innocent. The "racial axe to grind" is the one that decided to portray a plantation as a happy place where white kids are served and entertained by the surrounding "help." And this wasn't a film that was accepted until decades later. It was picketed when it was first released in 1946.P.H. Dexippus said:Sapper Redux said:Quote:
4) Over the years, Disney officials themselves have been at odds over a re-release. So there's no consensus that it is "bad."
There's a pretty strong consensus amongst the people whose stories were taken for the book and film and whose experiences that created the stories were whitewashed away in the film.
Boo hoo. It's innocent animated/live-action children's entertainment. I saw it in the theater in 1986 and its music, memorable lines, and a fear of running across pastures has stuck with me ever since. It took folks with a racial axe to grind to dampen that magic when I got older. Give Hattie McDaniel and her Academy Award the credit she deserves and let kids go back to being kids.
It looks like some of yall think Django Unchained was a documentary of the typical interactions of blacks and whites south of the Mason/Dixon Line anytime before 1965. Even though SOTS lacks the gritty nuance, archetype white villain, and the lecture masquerading as dialogue that a modern remake would include, so what? Six year old children don't need that burden.