Which film do you consider to be a masterpiece?

@senghenydd The epic about slaveowners as heroes 🙄

@bijouxbroussard I just liked the film with great actors and the photography and elaborate sets it didn't enter my head about the Slavery the last thing I will do is cause problems about Slavery it's an old film dated around the edges it starred the best actors of the time sorry if my selection offends anyone it wasn't supposed to.

@senghenydd Hattie McDaniel won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, for her performance, but had to wait in the kitchen because the auditorium was segregated. None of the black cast members were allowed to attend the premiere of the movie because the Atlanta theater where it was held was also segregated.

@bijouxbroussard As I said it was awards all round sorry to hear that about the segregation that's terrible I know it went on in America what a shame thank you for letting me know never happened in the United Kingdom glad it didn't Wales has a good track record never had anything to do with the Slave Trade Liverpool and Bristol did, a statue have been pulled down in Bristol of a Slave Trader Edward Coulson.

@senghenydd That was a great movie...😍

@Vivaci 🙄

@bijouxbroussard I've loved Vivian's character in that movie more than anything, Bijou. Don't get me wrong....but she's inspired me to be a strong woman more times than I would like to acknowledge.

@Vivaci When she slapped Prissy she lost me.

@bijouxbroussard I think it was very natural for her character to be that brat initially and behave so spoiled in the beginning...and later on it shows us how life makes a woman out of her ....when she survives the worst hardships ever.

@bijouxbroussard How where they portrayed as heroes? I don't really get that part. And isn't the slap just an acknowledgment of the unequal mindset? Cause I don't really see a glorification of the slavery aspect.

@Vivaci I also read the book. There was a scene where the Ku Klux Klan is portrayed as heroes who save Scarlet from an ex-slave, lynching him. The NAACP persuaded the film producers to omit it, fearing mob violence and lynchings would result.

@Kwek00 It’s one of those things you either get or you don’t. It’s like Disney’s Song of the South, people want to be able to just enjoy it without remembering the circumstances around it.

@bijouxbroussard Yeah, I've heard that too, Bijou. I'm glad that bit was censored or else the movie wouldn't acquire the fame n recognition it received eventually.

@bijouxbroussard Aren't part of the circumstances just imbedded in both movies?
Except for the last part of song of the south (the cartoons added) the movie itself isn't soft on slavery.

@Kwek00 Sure it is. You’re still supposed to like and respect these people, moreover, you’re supposed to relate to them. You’re not expected to relate to the slaves on any level, except as support for the main characters.

@bijouxbroussard Well... the entire goal of both movies is not a history lesson. One portrays a romance between a stuck up stupid woman that makes a lot of bad descisions and even gets people killed, with an overly manly almost heroic romantic that chases his own wants but at some point allows himself to fall in love. And the other depicts a children story of a couple of kids that grow up in the south and loose themselves in a fantasy world that is created by the slave that is friendly to them and tells them stories.

Both are romantic stories, and both are drenched in this romantic southern simplistic world where everything is good and fine because no one cares about the slaves which are seen as property. For the author of "Gone with the Wind"... that's incredibly clear. It's romanticism, it's not meant to be real and thus it downplays the stains in favor of a cleaned up fantasy version. It's only dangerous when people start seeing it as a history lesson, if you are aware what it is, then you can still enjoy the narrative without the greater scheme. If slavery however would have been romanticised instead of being put on the background... I think that would be more problematic for the movie. Just like your example of the KKK, you can have the characters in the book look up to the KKK because they were from the south and had that mindset, that doesn't mean that the director can't portray the cruelty of it all... But he decided to cut it out completely.

@Kwek00 Like I said, you either get it, or you don’t. 🤷🏽‍♀️

@bijouxbroussard okay 🤷‍♂️