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Gone With The Wind temporarily removed from streaming platform

10.06.2020 - 12:23

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Gone With The Wind has been temporarily removed from a streaming platform following criticism of its “racist depictions”. The 1939 epic, set in the south of the US during the American Civil War, will return to HBO Max with a discussion about its historical context and criticism of its “racial prejudices”.

The film told the love story of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivienne Leigh), the daughter of a plantation owner, and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).

HBO Max told film site Variety: “Gone With The Wind is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an