Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLess than two weeks after launch, HBO Max has removed Gone With the Wind from its streaming offering.
It’s a significant move given the film’s popularity and status as the highest-grossing movie of all time when box office numbers are adjusted for inflation.On Monday, Academy Award winning writer-director John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) called for the film’s removal from HBO Max, saying “It doesn’t just ‘fall short’ with regard to representation.
It is a film that glorifies the antebellum south. It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color.” Indeed, the 1939 film is not aging well in an era of protests and.
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