You know you're watching an old movie or show when....

[Svengoolie 3]

... every other white family has a happy to serve black maid.  Or somebo'dee roun' da kakorner.

That's a major reason I won't watch GONE WITH THE WIND.
There are lotsa other reasons, but that's big on my list.

I'm not a fan of that movie.  But I say unto thee: bullsh!t.  
I love Mammy, and Prissy, and Big Sam.  I wish they were part of my family.  It's a fantasy concept.  I imagine enslaved people might not care to serve.  I wouldn't.  The movie is definitely racist.  I'm white and I never cared much for that movie or the book which I actually read.  All 1000+ pages.  Scarlett had a child with each of her three husbands in the book.  Total romantic hogwash.  

You were right, GWTW was fantasy. I've said the same thing.

I'm a big fan of Bill Maher, and glad his shows starts up again tonight but i disagree with him at times. He criticized modern movies for all being to much fantasy, superheros and space people. (I am so sick of superhero movies I agreed that there are too many superhero movies by an order of magnitude.)

But he cited movies like the godfather and GWTW as examples of more realistic movies from the past. Uh, sorry, bill, gotta say what you said,  bullsh-t.

Were the happy, contended slaves and friendly, genial massa's of Tara any less of a fantasy than beautiful blue alien catpeople and superpowered mutants with lasers shooting out of their eyes? No, GWTW was as much a fantasy as any superhero or scifi movie ever made. The same holds for the soft spoken, sophisticated mafiosi  in the godfather.

As a side note, Hattie O'Hare, who played mammy in GWTW was not allowed to be buried in a hollywood cemetery with white actors as segregation at the time extended to death and beyond.

(BTW, you actually managed to read GWTW? Ok, I'm impressed. I'd rather read "Battlefield earth" than read that. Did you know there was a satire of GWTW written by a black woman called "The wind done gone",  that was a more realistic look at GWTW from a slave's POV? There was a legal battle over it, if you read GWTW you might be interested.)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone

[ER]

Good topic, and I think you guys did well here. 

[Allhallowsday]

I read GWTW in high school; students had to choose a book about the Civil War (Social Studies class) from a list provided by the teacher.  He was impressed with my choice, but only I expect because of sheer page count. 

I do not go to movies much, I prefer old movies.  Hence, I don't want to look at another superhero movie either. 

GODFATHER thugs are NOT soft spoken or sophisticates.  Don't agree.  That movie works for me. 

[Pacman000]

It's in black-and-white.

There's a credit for color cinematography.

Sleazy jaz score.

CinemaScope gets it's own card in the opening credits.

No closing credits, or they're only a cast list.

[Chainsawmidget]

Indians are bad guys. 

Somebody "has to get to a phone!" in a town or city and still can't find one. 

People that get shot just hold their chests and fall down. 

Vampires actually follow all the rules of being a vampire without every being immune to one of the weaknesses and then telling somebody that "they watch too many movies."