Gone with the Wind vs Song of the South

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I'm a Canadian and I prefer Song Of The North.

R2 O Canada.........

Song of the South, for sure. I saw it in a theater when I was a kid, twice. It was the first feature film to contain live action and animation. Despite the controversy, it's a good movie. I bought it on DVD in Spain some time ago not realizing that the encoding would not work on my DVD player. Fortunately, zone-free DVD players became inexpensive a few years ago and I watched it during lock down two years ago.

Come on, it's not even close. Gone with the Wind is a classic! Song of the South was derpy when I was a kid and saw it, and I'm sure it's derpy now.

[quote]It was the first feature film to contain live action and animation.

I think there were earlier examples.

I will just say this, there are no slaves depicted in Song of the South, it was set during Reconstruction after the slaves were all free. But, I have never understood why Disney never just "remade" or recut it to remove the live action sequences and replace them with animation. The animated parts aren't the issue. Just make it all about Brier Rabbit and his friends and remove Uncle Remus and the racism accusations are cut by 95%. The direct to video The Adventures of Brer Rabbit from 2006 stays fairly true to the stories and it wasn't attacked for racism. Because the stories themselves are not racist. Joel Chandler Harris was a newspaper man, what he did was to preserve the oral tales being told by African Americans, of his time, for posterity.

[quote]I will just say this, there are no slaves depicted in Song of the South,

Excuse me, our darkies were happy darkies.

Gone with the Wind is an extraordinary film in the way it was produced and directed, it is sweeping in scope. I actually would have given the Oscar in 1939 to The Wizard of Oz though because that was an even more timeless movie.

It's weird like we're supposed to pretend people didn't think Song of the South was "problematic" at the time. They did!

R6 Disney's The Three Caballeros came out before Anchors Aweigh. BTW, it was originally Mickey Mouse who was supposed to dance with Gene Kelly. I think MGM and Disney couldn't make a deal so that's why we got Jerry dancing with Gene Kelly instead.

R10 If it was so problematic, why did James Baskett win an Honorary Oscar? It sounds like the only problematic person here is you for not recognizing the first ever black man winning an Oscar. Walt Disney apparently wanted to submit him in either the lead or supporting actor category (can't remember which one) but Hollywood wasn't ready to award another black person a competitive Oscar, so Walt instead lobbied to get Baskett an Honorary Oscar. For decades, SOTS was the only movie which had two Oscar winning black actors: James Baskett and Hattie McDaniel.

R7 The live-action bits were not racist either. They are only racist to wokes and the PC. Floyd Norman was the first black animator who ever worked at Disney and he is still alive today. He continues to say that SOTS is not a racist movie and should be released publicly. He's fought with Disney execs and leadership for years now to try and get Disney to release the movie in the US but to no avail.

R13 I don't really think they are really racist just that they are where the issues people have come from.

But, people did have issues with the film from the time it came out the NAACP and other civil rights groups complained at the time.

I agree with him and Whoopi Goldberg and others, Song of The South should be restored, released, and given its rightful place as a Disney classic. Also, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah is my favorite Disney song.

Depends on your priorities. 'Song of the South' will take up considerably less of your time.