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The movie ... never refers to blacks on the plantation as slaves. It makes clear they work for the family, living down dirt roads in wood shacks while the white characters stay in a mansion. ...it's not clear that the movie is intentionally racist, but it inappropriately projects Remus as a happy, laughing storyteller even though he's a plantation worker.
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I will never understand why it's inappropriate for even an oppressed field hand to be portrayed as happy. Need everything make a political statement? Even today ... if an oppressed character were portrayed as miserable solely to make a statement about their oppression, I would consider
that retarded stereotyping.
Why is
Gone With the Wind not subjected to the same claptrap as
Song of the South? Some of those slaves in GWTW were portrayed as kinda happy, regardless.
In any event, I'm not sure I'd buy SOTS if it were released on DVD. I already own a bootleg VHS ... and, well, it's not that great a film.
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Aren't acronyms fun?)