‘Gone With the Wind’ returns to HBO Max with prologue about racist content
nypost.comgone from HBO Max, having been restored to the streaming service’s library with a new prologue about the film’s problematic themes and depictionof the antebellum South.Jacqueline Stewart, host of TCM’s “Silent Sunday Nights” and a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, leads the 4 ½-minute intro, which starts off with a general cinematic lesson — recounting the eight Academy Awards (including for Best Picture) won in 1939 by the “highly anticipated” adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, as well as its inflation-adjusted standing as the highest-grossing movie of all time.Then, Stewart acknowledges that the film “was not universally praised,” seeing as it “paints the picture of the antebellum.
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