Turner Classic Movies Starts “Reframed Classics” to Look at “Problematic” Classic Movies

[Michie]

In other words, take a look under the hood and tell you where they are bad and how you are bad for liking them.


If you thought cancel culture might be waning, you are incorrect. Seems like the left just has to keep after anything and everything that was good in our country in the past. Take classic movies for example…

According to NBC Connecticut:

“Loving classic films can be a fraught pastime. Just consider the cultural firestorm over “Gone With the Wind” this past summer. No one knows this better than the film lovers at Turner Classic Movies who daily are confronted with the complicated reality that many of old Hollywood’s most celebrated films are also often a kitchen sink of stereotypes. This summer, amid the Black Lives Matter protests, the channel’s programmers and hosts decided to do something about it.

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Turner Classic Movies Starts 'Reframed Classics' to Look at 'Problematic' Classic Movies

 

[timothyu]

Even the past must become one sided. So much for warts and all. Pure evil. God gives choice. The Adversary's minions, man, does not.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

We’re just trying to model ways of having longer and deeper conversations and not just cutting it off to ‘I love this movie. I hate this movie.’ There’s so much space in between.”

The goal of “Reframed Classics” is to help give audiences the tools to discuss films from a different era and not just dismiss or cancel them. And Stewart, for her part, doesn’t believe that you can simply remove problematic films from the culture.

“I think there’s something to be learned from any work of art,” Stewart said. “They’re all historical artifacts that tell us a lot about the industry in which they were made, the cultures that they were speaking to.”


Bravo! I am all for it.