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| Modern Atlanta, airport, 2014 |
Recently we’ve been hearing more scuttlebutt of sales
of classic movies from the past that show African-Americans in a bad light in
today’s cultural standards, despite historical relevance.
The most notorious of these is “Gone with the Wind”
(old legacy review by me), directed by Victor Flemming and George Cukor, Selznick
International and MGM, which I saw twice as a child (the first time on a long
Sunday afternoon at the Arlington theater around 1954), based on Margaret
Mitchell’s one novel (1936). My parents had
the Motion Picture Edition of the book with heavy technicolor illustrations.
Jennifer Schuessler had described the controversy for
the New York Times in June 2020, here.
A few of the most controversial scenes from the book
were changed in the movie.
It’s a story of resilience, of a girl who seems
spoiled, loses it and gets is back, and loses it (love) again.
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