Mathy - Song of the South

Leah · 03-29-2007, 11:53 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

Weren't we just discussing this?

Mathsorcerer · 03-29-2007, 12:27 PM

Indeed we were. Disney has long hoped people would forget about this movie as they have tried so desperately hard to do, but it's still there.

I've seen the movie, and I can clearly state that it isn't racist at all. There is a huge difference between being "racist" and "historically accurate"--Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a classic and whether you agree or disagree with its content is irrelevant.

They still won't release it yet; it will be another couple of years.

Sam · 03-29-2007, 06:29 PM

If they're smart they won't release it. The PC army will massacre them.

Ikin · 03-29-2007, 08:50 PM

PC,shmC!

The_Heroic_Loser · 03-29-2007, 09:51 PM

It's a Disney movie, so how racist could it possibly be?

Mathsorcerer · 03-29-2007, 09:53 PM

Sometimes, racism is in the eye of the beholder.

Sam · 03-30-2007, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Heroic_Loser

It's a Disney movie, so how racist could it possibly be?

Well, THL, it's a "Disney" movie made in the '40s.

Likewise with 1915's "Birth of a Nation", which would be right up there with "Citizen Kane" if it wasn't pure KKK propaganda. Back then, racism was much more blatant.

hyzmarca · 03-30-2007, 08:14 AM

Song of the South isn't racist, not by a long shot. The sterotypes that it contains could be described as positive sterotypes and its animated sequences are renditions of African American folktales.
Unfortunately, there is some ambiguity that one might see as painting slavery in a positive light. It is a very positive and happy piece. It paints a picture of happy plantation workers but doesn't say if they are sharecroppers or slaves.

Birth of a Nation is, on the other hand, hateful and venomous. It portrays a world in which all black men are evil villains who want to rape white women and are enabled to do so by Northern carpetbaggers.
The two aren't roughly comparable.

Song of the South is better compared to Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarves and Tin Pan Ally Cats, two of the Warner Brothers Censored 11. Both offer positive portrayals of Jazz culture but use the now outdated "blackie" animation style which some people consider to be racist.