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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a huge classic movie buff and when I watch I really have to force myself to try to view it as a member of the audience in the time it was made or some of the greatest movies ever made are ruined- Gone With The Wind is a perfect example.

I also think/hope that if some class movies were made today the casting would be different. For example, Ben Kingsley is a fabulous actor, but Ghandi should absolutely have been played by an Indian actor.  Baaically everyone besides Anna May Wong should never have been in the Good Earth etc.

Some classics that I am glad were made and liked, but would never be made today.

The Jazz Singer
The General (one of the best silents ever and based on a true story, but it is uncomfortable that you root for Buster Keaton while he is helping the confederacy)
Snow White 
Stage Coach
Gone With The Wind
The Searchers
Some Like It Hot (one of my favorite movies, but absoulely would never be made today)

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ben Kingsley is Indian British... you should read Arthur and George.  . . people have such little knowledge of how minorities and other cultures actually existed in white spaces before WW2 or assume that they just didnt but colonialism had effects that moved the colonized into the colonizers spaces. There have been Indians living in the UK since the east India co first set up shop, Indian people living in the San Joaquin valley since the railroads were built.. what do you think, that they all disappeared?? Gone with the wind was watched by disgust by most of the Black audience, the NAACP was super ticked off about Mammy. It was racist then and its racist now and everyone who wasn't not racist KNEW that it was racist propaganda, including whites who supported civil rights. [/quote]

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