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"Oh, Miss Scarlett! I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!"

This racist piece of shit movie should never see the light of day again. Next you are going to be promoting Birth of a Nation

Waaaaahhhhh. There ya go, another book burner. So enlightened.

OR GWTW is an anti-war movie. The three main characters oppose the war. Rhett spells out why the war is stupid and what will happen, Ashley warns them of the horrors of war, and Scarlett thinks the Rebs are idiots for starting the whole thing.

Margaret Mitchell noted the veterans she grew up around talked about the war but never mentioned one thing, they got beat. The war shows how the arrogant aristocrats were laid low as the war destroyed their homes, their lands, visited starvation upon them, and left them too often in rags. A far cry from belles and barbecues. It also shows the strength of a woman in beating the odds.

For 6:03 PM: History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from, and if it offends you, even better, because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase, modify, or destroy.

@6:03 PM, just wait until we get around to canceling you.

KF could announce a showing of Lassie and the haters would come out. Lighten up, 6:03, GWTW portrays a racist period, but the movie itself is not racist. However, if a four-hour movie is not your thing, you might enjoy Christopher Walken’s more recent portrayal of Confederate Col. Angus.

@6:03 PM has been getting his reviews the The View, Jackson, and Sharpton.

Susan Dabney Smede wrote a book shortly after the war called Memorials of a Southern Planter about her family's cotton plantation in Hinds County near Learned. I have no doubt that Margaret Mitchell used Smede's book as the basis for GWTW. I highly recommend it despite her attempt to justify her family's slave ownership as a form of paternal kindness to slaves. There are many descendants of both the Dabney family and their former slaves in the area, and when I was growing up in the area you could still see the vast rows in fields where cotton was grown.

I remember driving all the way up Highway 61 to see this movie in Memphis over 50 years ago. Doesn't it last six hours?

Mint Juleps and Tea Cakes will have to be served, gratis, for today's entertainment seekers to sweat that much time sitting in movie-house recliners.

Oh....and smoke bombs, pew pews and slit tires.

6:18 - The most eloquent post I've read here lately. And so true.

6:37. I think we an all agree that Lassie could be seen as promoting cruelty to animals

@ 6:03 good idea.

Thank you.

Old Yeller needs a mention

It’s a movie about Lincoln’s army burning the south down

And Scarlet O'Hara - an adept whore who knows how to survive.