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During quarantine, I kicked off my sheltering in place by watching the critically acclaimed Netflix original docuseries Tiger King. I finished the series in three days. Now where in the World will I find a cast of characters to quench my thirst for the same level of white ratcheted ignorance that Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin brought to the screen? I found them in the pages of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind. Before the murders of Ahmed Aubery and George Floyd, before the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, and before the controversy about whether HBO should air a …
We now know how Gone with the Wind will return to HBO Max.
As Max as their witness, they'll never go streaming again!
Yesterday, HBO Max removed the 1939 epic Gone with the Wind from its library. The film, while a cinematic classic, also features incredibly racist depictions of black characters while romanticizing the Confederacy. As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to make strides, confederate monuments are coming down around the country, and Gone with the Wind is a confederate monument of sorts. So what do we do with a piece of cinema that's important to cinematic history but features objectionable content? HBO Max's solution is to re-add the film with more context so that it's clear that …
HBO Max has removed the Oscar-winning epic Gone With the Wind from its library, but the streaming service says the film will eventually return unaltered but with context added to address its outdated and racially insensitive elements.