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Gone with the Wind Cancelled

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  • #122
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 903 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fukTk8gJ3M

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDkwGQFLcjE

    This series of videos is from a year ago, so removed from the proximate causes for the movie's removal from HBO Max. It's an interesting watch, and does show why leaving racist ahistorical depicitions can be dangerous and damaging today.


  • #123
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Unlikely. They put a commentary on the DVDs of the old tom and jerry show where there was some dubious material included. Speedy Gonzalez was ok, but the way his fellow mexican mice were portrayed was completely wrong. As a kid I wondered why they always looked like they were drunk and half asleep.
    My favourite scene in all of Tom and Jerry is the one where Tom gets drunk and throws a jug of water over the black woman lying in bed, she then chases him and jumps down the stairs after him.


  • #124
    vetinari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭vetinari


    Snickers Man wrote: »
    But it's an irritant. And if somebody is granted an op-ed in a leading US newspaper to virtue signal then he must expect a reaction. And if the issue is so insignificant, why is it worthy of such an announcement in one of the US's "newspapers of record" in the first place.?

    Are you a member of HBO Max, a US based streaming service.
    If you are, was that the only way you had to watch Gone with the Wind.
    If it was, were you planning to watch it anytime in the next year.

    If any of those are not true, then how is it an irritant to you??
    Why the insatiable appetite to find something to be outraged about?


  • #125
    SNNUS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭SNNUS


    Woke W*nkers!


  • #126
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Tork wrote: »
    Banning the likes of Gone With The Wind is the thin end of the wedge. It's a different version of the information silos many people are now immersed in. By only watching Fox Newd or reading the Daily Mail or people they agree with on Twitter, they fail to see the big picture. It's reducing the world to facile soundbites.

    Who has banned Gone with the Wind?


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  • #127
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Thank **** it was boring and way too long.


  • #128
    vetinari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭vetinari


    That was the other thing I was wondering.
    I looked up the movie length, it's nearly 4 hours!
    Who has time to watch a 4 hour movies from the 1940's these days??


  • #129
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Snowflakes on Fox News are already getting #BoycottHBO rolling this morning because gone with the wind was taken down for the next couple days.


  • #130
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,995 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    vetinari wrote: »
    That was the other thing I was wondering.
    I looked up the movie length, it's nearly 4 hours!
    Who has time to watch a 4 hour movies from the 1940's these days??
    Don't people regularly binge watch much more than 4 hours of shows like Tiger King, Stranger Things etc nowadays?


  • #131
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Conall Cernach wrote: »
    Don't people regularly binge watch much more than 4 hours of shows like Tiger King, Stranger Things etc nowadays?

    That’s different


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  • #132
    Burty330
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭Burty330


    Overheal wrote: »
    Snowflakes on Fox News are already getting #BoycottHBO rolling this morning because gone with the wind was taken down for the next couple days.

    Snowflake was a term coined for people who are overtly PC and easily offended.


  • #133
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    tobefrank321 wrote: »
    Basil Fawlty and the Germans. That's another one. Too much stereotyping.

    Gone.

    https://twitter.com/guardianculture/status/1271158902868983808


    Why are these companies taking these actions? In this case it's BBC owned, so that explains this example, but what of the rest? It's as if the world is under mass hypnosis right now. Radical leftists should be ignored, at best, not yielded to or appeased for heaven sake. They aren't even genuine, much less correct. Daft morons pearl clutching about old TV show and film dialogue, which oftentimes was parodying and lampooning (years ago) the very people they pretend to be offended by (today) but I guess that goes over their empty bloody heads.


  • #134
    SNNUS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭SNNUS


    The crazy left are a bigger plague than COVID.


  • #135
    FarmerBrowne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭FarmerBrowne


    Gavin and Stacey is removed now as well from the BBC because of the Chinese Alan character, the world is gone absolutely mad. Speaking of the fawlty towers episode above about the war I assume they will also be removing the episode where Sybil racially abused O'Reilly because he is Irish? No? I thought not and guess what they shouldn't, it was a humorous scene.


  • #136
    mick087
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭mick087


    Fawlty towers dont mention the war removed from UKTV

    Should we here in Ireland complain about the Builders episode?


  • #137
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    I'm happy to see so many people on boards who are aware of the cancer that is "wokeness". I honestly though this thread would be full of these morons.

    Well done.


  • #138
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    mick087 wrote: »
    Fawlty towers dont mention the war removed from UKTV

    Should we here in Ireland complain about the Builders episode?

    I know that's tongue in cheek...

    But if you can't laugh at yourself... It's hilarious. If we start banning everything somebody somewhere finds offensive we'll end up with nothing. Banning comedy is absolutely mental.


  • #139
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Fawlty Towers VHS/DVD are now only purchasable via a bloke called Alan, via the dark web, and if you have the access passphrase.
    If you have one under your TV, and it's on display: cover right now with a suitable cloth, and say x3 HailMary's as penance.


  • #140
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Most of things are really old now.

    Will Mrs Browne's Movie never be shown again?

    O'Carroll impersonating a Chinese man was a bit much (and not funny).


  • #141
    Silentcorner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    I'm happy to see so many people on boards who are aware of the cancer that is "wokeness". I honestly though this thread would be full of these morons.

    Well done.

    The "woke" are despised, they just don't know it....yet.


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  • #142
    FarmerBrowne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭FarmerBrowne


    Fr Ted calling the Chinese a great bunch of lads is now probably going to be consigned to the scrapheap also on the head of these idiots.


  • #143
    mick087
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭mick087


    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    I know that's tongue in cheek...

    But if you can't laugh at yourself... It's hilarious. If we start banning everything somebody somewhere finds offensive we'll end up with nothing. Banning comedy is absolutely mental.


    Myself i liked Fawlty towers and the builders to me is hilarious.
    Everyone in that show was a total plonker it made fun of everyone.


  • #144
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,341 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    Most of things are really old now.

    Will Mrs Browne's Movie never be shown again?

    we can only hope


  • #145
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,885 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    FarmerBrowne wrote: »
    Fr Ted calling the Chinese a great bunch of lads is now probably going to be consigned to the scrapheap also on the head of these idiots.

    In a way I hope these morons try and get it banned, might wake some people up, grand when you're banning a 40 year old show like Fawlty Towers or Paw Patrol the boot, yes that's a thing. But try taking an institution like Fr. Ted off the airwaves and there will be a huge backlash. Even Graham Linehan himself who was on the other side of the fence for so long with his "wokeness" has realised what''s going on.


  • #146
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,180 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    I was only saying this a few days ago -

    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    It’s of it’s time, what’s to forgive anyone for?

    Good movie in any case but I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it.

    Gone With The Wind on the other hand, that’s an actual classic that has withstood the test of time


    Still available on Sky Cinema at least... for now! :pac:


  • #147
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    I love a woman with spirit, Mrs. Fawlty

    I do, I do, I do, I do

    O'Reilly was a great character.

    The episode with the Major talking about the West Indies cricket team.... heads will explode


  • #148
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Burty330 wrote: »
    Snowflake was a term coined for people who are overtly PC and easily offended.

    Then it fits neatly


  • #149
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    Linda Warm Ramp wrote: »
    Fawlty Towers VHS/DVD are now only purchasable via a bloke called Alan, via the dark web, and if you have the access passphrase.
    If you have one under your TV, and it's on display: cover right now with a suitable cloth, and say x3 HailMary's as penance.
    Bad news, it seems Alan is actually an Antifa agent who likes entrapping and beating pensioners in his spare time


  • #150
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,007 ✭✭✭Feisar


    We are going to end up like the film Equilibrium, any thought outside of the status quo is wrong.

    First they came for the socialists...



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  • #151
    mick087
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭mick087


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    I love a woman with spirit, Mrs. Fawlty

    I do, I do, I do, I do

    O'Reilly was a great character.

    The episode with the Major talking about the West Indies cricket team.... heads will explode


    The Major was brilliant :pac:


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