HBO Max Removes Civil War Epic ‘Gone With the Wind’
'Gone With the Wind,' the multiple Academy Award-winning Civil War epic considered a classic of American cinema, has been pulled from HBO Max as media companies reappraise content in light of nationwide anti-racism protests.
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This was the first movie a black woman won an Oscar for, but it's also racist itself. Is this a fair approach, or should Warner have applied labels similar to the ones they added to cartoons?Gone With the Wind, the Civil War epic considered a classic of American cinema, has been pulled from HBO Max.
The move comes as media companies reappraise content in light of nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism after the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by Minnesota police. Earlier on Tuesday, Paramount Network cancelled the long-running police reality show Cops.
Released in 1939, Gone With the Wind told the story of southern aristocrats Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler and starred Vivienne Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel and Olivia de Havilland. The film, based on the 1936 best-selling book by Margaret Mitchell, takes place in the American South, on a plantation outside Atlanta in the aftermath of the Civil War. Directed by Victor Fleming it would win eight Oscars at the 12th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for McDaniel.
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