No, it absolutely isn't. Were that true, Warner Brothers would not have gone to the extreme measures they did to completely restore the film.
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It is a critically lauded, widely celebrated movie.
Do you ever have any idea what you're talking about?
I mean, so is Gone with the Wind. You have to admit that attitudes have shifted on the film. (Never seen How the West Was Won m'self.)
OTOH: The February 2020 issue of New York Magazine lists How the West Was Won as among "The Best Movies That Lost Best Picture at the Oscars."
Gone with the Wind is still seen as a classic. But also just to dam long to kick back and enjoy for some escapism so of course nobody watches it anymore.
Warners has wisely added special featurettes in recent years which provide historical context and an argument why movies like Gone With the Wind should be viewed in their original and unaltered form. They've always been good stewards of the films in their archives to ensure history doesn't get swept under the rug.
I still wish Song of the South would get re-released, but Disney has probably burned all the original copies and buried the ashes in a hermetically sealed vault 100 feet under EPCOT Center.
Those content warnings are actually insulting. What they are saying is your to stupid to understand history so we are going to treat you like a child with these warning labels.
There’s a difference between attitudes shifting and what I quoted though.
I’ve no disagreement with the fact that it’s more than a little iffy in some respects, but that’s a mile away from the hyperbole put forth by the OP.
Absolutely not. They're content warnings like any other and they help to contextualize the time in which something was made. It helps to make the material more accessible.
I'd much rather have those than studios taking the Disney approach and forever locking it in a vault and acting ashamed. That is treating the audience like a child.
IIRC, Disney put one or more of those labels on some old cartoons, right?
But yeah, @Jason X-Mas is wrong, those labels are very much a good thing.
I can't remember if Disney did that or not. Warners has certainly done that when they've released collections of WW2-era propaganda cartoons. Those sets also had Leonard Maltin doing introductions with contextualization.
British labels like StudioCanal, Powerhouse/Indicator, and Eureka also starting to add the historical context disclaimer.
Opinion: Sito Jaxa’s apparent fate in (the non-animated) “Lower Decks” wasn’t really built to; it just happens, offscreen, for no particular story reason; her “story arc” for the episode has already finished beforehand, such as it is. I’m certain I remember reading, even before the episode aired, that the plan was to bring her back on DS9, which never happened. I’ve always felt it should have, and was disappointed when (the animated) Lower Decks didn’t bring her back as anything but a flashback.
The context though is obvious. A movie made in the 1930's is going to have some racist and sexist tropes. I mean I don't think it's to hard to figure out with even a basic understanding of that time period and if people are learning about history from context labels instead of books or just about anything else then we are really fucked. I mean I figured this stuff out as a kid in the 1980's without any content warnings. Even kid me knew the Mammy character was racist. That the North fought the South to end slavery.
That is the insulting part. They must think people are to stupid to figure these things out on their own. Yet people have been doing it forever without content warnings. People are smarter than they are giving them credit for or should be, anyways.
We are way off base here.
Star Trek?
Speaking of bases I will say something controversial. The DS9 baseball episode is in the top 10 to 20 episodes of the show. It's to his day a underrated Trek classic.
I did not know StudioCanal was a British label until just now. I've been watching StudioCanal content since 1992.
that's what she said
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