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Post by darkpast on Jan 28, 2021 3:31:31 GMT
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jan 28, 2021 3:36:37 GMT
I don't see the big deal, the black stereotypes in Dumbo are so archaic and outdated, kids today probably wouldn't even understand who so they're supposed to be stereotyping. Hell I didn't even "get" the stereotypes when I watched it as a kid.
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Post by moviemouth on Jan 28, 2021 3:50:16 GMT
I don't see the big deal, the black stereotypes in Dumbo are so archaic and outdated, kids today probably wouldn't even understand who so they're supposed to be stereotyping. Hell I didn't even "get" the stereotypes when I watched it as a kid.You watch them as movies, not reality.
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Post by Vits on Jan 28, 2021 10:52:47 GMT
I think it would be productive for parents to watch these movies with their kids and explain how/why they're racist. If parents think they're too young to understand, then they should be more active in choosing what their kids watch. In fact, why would someone under 7 have their own profile in the first place? The parents should be the ones putting the movie on.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jan 28, 2021 17:31:36 GMT
Eh, they're not attempting to scrub them from wide availability like they justifiably did with Song of the South, so I don't really care.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 28, 2021 17:37:15 GMT
Somebody who had a 35mm copy of Song of the South gave it to some digital archivists and they did a cleanup of it. So it is preserved.
In the 1980s Song of the South was shown in theaters again. I don't remember Mr. T complaining.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jan 28, 2021 17:59:50 GMT
Someone care to explain to me where the racism is in The Jungle Book?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 28, 2021 18:24:54 GMT
Someone care to explain to me where the racism is in The Jungle Book? Bagheera is wearing blackface.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jan 28, 2021 18:29:49 GMT
Someone care to explain to me where the racism is in The Jungle Book? Not really what you asked for, but Louie Armstrong was originally supposed to play King Louie, but then the producers realized the idea of a lazy ape being voice by a black man wouldn't go over too well.
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Post by Vits on Jan 28, 2021 18:40:25 GMT
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jan 28, 2021 19:10:57 GMT
I think it would be productive for parents to watch these movies with their kids and explain how/why they're racist. If parents think they're too young to understand, then they should be more active in choosing what their kids watch. In fact, why would someone under 7 have their own profile in the first place? The parents should be the ones putting the movie on. But the parents might be stupid, and then they might be wrong in thinking that the films are racist though. It might be counter productive, don't ya think? Just sayin'. Then they will teach the kids to look for racism in everything, i dunno might be bad.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jan 28, 2021 19:27:10 GMT
People really just have no idea that Louis Prima was white and Italian and that the character was obviously modeled on him. By the way, this is one of the stupidest, most pandering articles I've ever read. It's stuff like this that lead directly to someone like Trump getting elected.
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Post by Vits on Jan 28, 2021 19:35:46 GMT
But the parents might be stupid, and then they might be wrong in thinking that the films are racist though. They're not. We know they're not.
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Post by judgejosephdredd on Jan 28, 2021 19:37:47 GMT
I don't see the big deal, the black stereotypes in Dumbo are so archaic and outdated, kids today probably wouldn't even understand who so they're supposed to be stereotyping. Hell I didn't even "get" the stereotypes when I watched it as a kid. Same. I didn't even notice till I learned later on in life, but as a kid I didn't care nor think anything of it.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Jan 28, 2021 20:19:49 GMT
Somebody who had a 35mm copy of Song of the South gave it to some digital archivists and they did a cleanup of it. So it is preserved. In the 1980s Song of the South was shown in theaters again. I don't remember Mr. T complaining. I remember that re-release of Song Of The South very well, I was about 12 at the time. Me and a friend went to go see it, but we were actually more interested in sneaking in another theater to see the re-release of the R-rated Slap Shot. We tried a few times to sneak in but we couldn't. I think we were being watched closely the whole time by the ushers. Ah, childhood memories!
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 28, 2021 23:08:10 GMT
I remember the re-release of Song of the South as well. We had the soundtrack too, might still be at my parents house. It was on vinyl.
Glad I have most of these films on bluray (outside of SOTS). My kids watched Dumbo awhile back and just remarked about how short it was. They didn't even notice or draw a correlation between the crows and black people.
These films literally built Disney, but whatever.
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Post by TutuAnimationPrincess on Jan 28, 2021 23:38:31 GMT
This is pointless and obviously just posturing because most kids are still gonna see these films regardless.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jan 29, 2021 7:51:25 GMT
Aspects of those movies mentioned are certainly dated and you wouldn't get away with some of those depictions nowadays, but I find this pretty petty to be honest.
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