To best of my knowledge, "Dukes of Hazzard" never promoted racism. But "Gone with the Wind" is somehow actually respected.
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@EricKleefeld I haven't seen it in ages but my sense is that "Gone With the Wing" is deliberately ambiguous & can be seen as critique1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet Though the movie was less awful than the (best-selling) book, which praised the Ku Klux Klan for protecting white women's honor.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet Movie's intro text: "There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South…"2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@EricKleefeld Sure, there's lots of awful things in movie but also a sense of planters as romantic fools & parasites.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet Story would've worked if it had been a brutal Thackerayan parody — problem is, Margaret Mitchell really meant way too much of it.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@EricKleefeld Scarlett is an ambiguous character. Many love her as "strong woman" etc. but she can also be seen as spoiled rotten.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@EricKleefeld As you say, viewers bring own values into movie. Burning of Atlanta cheered me up!
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