Unrelated, but lots of love and good thoughts to @Xanderpuss and any other Houstonians out there.

Trump really does seem set on acting like he’s some extra-shitty 18th century French monarch. Man, I hope his personal Bastille Day comes soon.

I recall reading somewhere that the percentage of transgender people in the military versus transgender people in general is higher than with any other demographic in the country. It appears that they want to serve in the military because they feel it’s the only way they can be appreciated. Apparently the Trump…

The attack on transgendered people in the military is completely overshadowing Ben Carson’s attacks on the LGBT community via HUD.

The mere fact that some (not all) of Scarlett’s emancipated slaves stay with her didn’t bother me in and of itself; there are times in life when you just have to stick with the asshole you know. But when one of the former slaves says that house slaves like himself would never be able to figure out how to care for and…

Yeah things change, by the 1970's those types of films were obviously deemed unacceptable and for good reason, something like GWTW lasted as long as it did because it was a massive popular film, but even it’s starting to get a backlash since it’s such as a “civil war Southern film”.

Didn’t he basically rape her towards the end?

But the movie doesn’t even try to pretend that the slaveowners are in the wrong.

Song of the South isn’t shown anymore for a reason.

The computer turned upside down. Simple mistake.

Not even including the distracting-to-concerning racial and societal implications of the movie, I never liked Gone With The Wind. Three hours to get to “Tomorrow is Another Day!”? That’s it? No thank you.

The problem is that the people staying for the panel would likely be the people who already understand Gone with the Wind’s shortcomings. While I agree with your point that movies aren’t monuments, I think they’re frequently more powerful than monuments in shaping the way people think about an issue. I think we need…

Agree with the panel idea, but I don’t know that a summer entertainment movie series would be the place for that (maybe it would). I do disagree about movies not being monuments - though they are not produced and erected by governments in the same way that statues are, and as such they don’t carry the same imprimatur…

I agree. I don’t think Gone With the Wind should be banished forever into obscurity, but I think we need to be more aware of how the popularity of that movie helped shape generations of people’s vision of what the Old South was like and why that’s dangerous.

Good, Gone With the Wind is an overlong piece of revisionist garbage. I cheered when Atlanta burned and hated everyone. There is one good shot (the overhead of all the wounded) and the rest of it is completely worthless. I’m glad Hattie McDaniel won even with the shit role she was given but I credit her and not…

The last time I saw it, I was almost literally nauseated by the sight of the children being used to stand on the bell to announce the barbecue. It was so “innocuous”, but it was so disgusting, and I can’t really articulate why. I knew I wouldn’t ever see it again.

I can’t watch Gone with the Wind anymore, although I loved it for years. It’s not because of the lost cause myth or the racism, though I wish I could claim such lofty reasons. It’s just that one time when I watched Rhett’s drunk scene where he threatens Scarlett and it hit too close to home. Haven’t watched it since.

This seems like a good idea. I’ve always been a little skeeved out by how beloved this Confederate apologia has been in film culture (especially just considering that as a movie it’s kind of a bloated, dull melodrama).

I always thought it was a shitty movie that also attempted to glorify treason and slavery. Pure garbage.