quote:It's been a long time, but the movie is about Remus and a little boy, and he tells him the stories about "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby" and things like that. Have you heard those stories? They were around before the movie I think.
Yup. Was raised on them - the book in the school library was in the original dialect (I went to elementary school in the early 1960s).
The thing that makes it too embarrassing for Disney to rerelease it (the last time was in the 1980s) is the live-action sequences. They paint a very idyllic picture of plantation life - where the reality is that a few lived off the hard labor of the many. Before and after slavery ended.
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it's not that surprising - it's about a piece of United States culture and history. I think you'll find that other countries have similar issues -- Australia and media portrayals of the aborigines comes to mind as one possible example.
We can view controversial pieces about Australia with interest but without much passion. It's not surprising they can do the same with us.
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Maybe I'll have to buy a bootleg copy. Unfortunately, I don't particularly want to buy something I haven't seen and seems like it might be questionable.
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check it out with ebay. I think Kwea's right about it being released outside of the U.S. The bad news is that most videos would be in PAL format - so you'll need an adapter or pay to have it transferred.
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Beauty and the Beast and Mulan are the best... I like Hercules because they used the word Schmeel and that word makes me giggle
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quote:Annie said: I entirely agree. I was offended at the liberties they took with Hunchback of Notre Dame. I mean... they didn't even still to the main premise of the story. How can they keep the same title when all they've done is used the names of the characters and discarded all the content?
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Eh, didn't they just slap on that title as an after-thought? I don't think it was supposed to have anything to do with Asimov. I hear it ain't a bad flick.
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IIRC, the mother in Song of the South was upset with Uncle Remus because she (wrongly) regarded his stories as "upsetting" to her child. But then again, I haven't seen the movie since 1984 or so, so I might be remembering it wrong.
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