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2020-02-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
LA Times Film Critic: Trump Saying He Likes ‘Gone with the Wind’ Is a ‘Racist Dog Whistle’
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Posted by Fred 2020-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Has Mister Film Critic actually seen it?
I hae' me doots...
Posted by Lex 2020-02-23 02:15||   2020-02-23 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, since you're the one hearing the claimed dog whistle I'd recommend taking some time to inspect your views on humans based on their skin colors.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-23 05:03||   2020-02-23 05:03|| Front Page Top

#3 
I suppose a remake is in order, more in consonance with today's prevalent standards. This one would be aptly named 'Gone To The Dogs'.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-23 05:32||   2020-02-23 05:32|| Front Page Top

#4 LA Times. A failed POS
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-23 05:54||   2020-02-23 05:54|| Front Page Top

#5 If I had to definitively say which profession had its biggest concentration of useless, snotty and self-important types, without a doubt it would be the professional 'critic'. Not even close.
Posted by Raj 2020-02-23 09:13||   2020-02-23 09:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Next Masterpiece Mystery! A tease:
"Hip remix! It's Gone with the Breeze:
Black cats in frock coats,
Tr-nnies, FOBs,
And some b-tches ax, "Who cut da cheese?"
Posted by Angung Angoger6108 2020-02-23 12:12||   2020-02-23 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 There are some new promising treatments for tinnitus.
Posted by SR-71 2020-02-23 13:26||   2020-02-23 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 What's lazier than a film critic who doesn't know when the film being criticized was made?

Gone With the Wind - 1939 - That's 80 years ago.

It was beforehand an incredibly popular book, authored by Margaret Mitchell. I wouldn't expect a cutting edge film buff educated to the point as deserving the title of critic to know such things.

In fact, it was the first book to out-sell the previous record holder, Ben Hur. Now the Ben Hur we know, 1959, is not the first movie made based upon the Lew Wallace (Union Army General among other things) but we are closer to that 50-60 years thing. So, by all means, let's compare the chariot race from Ben Hur to the chariot race in Star Wars Episode 1.

For some 40 years, Ben Hur was literally the most popular story after the Bible. The only story to top that reign was Gone With the Wind, even before the movie was made. And that held reign some twenty years until the second Ben Hur movie was made, re-igniting interest in that story.

I know he didn't say Space Jam 2, but a lazy choice? Hardly.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-23 16:05||   2020-02-23 16:05|| Front Page Top

#9 There was a second Ben Hur ? Gosh I didn't know that. Thanks, swksvolFF.

[Heads off to the t☼rrents]
Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-23 16:11||   2020-02-23 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 There was a silent movie, one in the 30s I think, then 1959 classic, and one which just came out recently.

*looks it up*

1907, 1925 silent films
1959 classic
2003 animated film? didn't know that
2016 total flop woke&broke
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-23 16:24||   2020-02-23 16:24|| Front Page Top

#11 "Not a re-make of the 1959, but a reinterpretation of the Lew Wallace novel focusing on racial injustice and colonization." or some such crap.

I only heard about it, I didn't see advertisement one or nothing. It must have been so bad, I'm going to want to grab a six pack and watch it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-23 16:27||   2020-02-23 16:27|| Front Page Top

#12 I've seen only the Charlton Heston one, now I'm downloading the 2016 one. Looks okay.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-23 17:39||   2020-02-23 17:39|| Front Page Top

#13 = Ben-Xim, the tranny non-cisgendered anti-normative post-herero pomo-homo-mofo version?
Posted by Lex 2020-02-23 19:34||   2020-02-23 19:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Gone With the Wind was a great film for its time. Critic must think it was about some poor white guy's trailer in a tornado.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-23 23:36||   2020-02-23 23:36|| Front Page Top

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