‘Long previous with the Wind’ Returns to HBO Max with Disclaimer, Panel Discussion

“Long previous with the Wind” is gone no extra … HBO Max is restoring the film to its library after a 2-week hiatus, but this time the streaming platform’s adding a disclaimer.

The 1939 traditional will return to HBO Max with historical context that involves 2 movies — the fundamental showing TCM host and film scholar Jacqueline Stewart talking about “why this 1939 yarn drama must be considered in its customary compose, contextualized, and discussed.”

Stewart acknowledged within the intro video for the film, “Observing ‘Long previous with the Wind’ will seemingly be unhappy. Even painful. Peaceable, it’s serious that traditional Hollywood motion footage are readily obtainable to us of their customary compose for viewing and discussion. They replicate the social context by which they private been made, and invite viewers to replicate on their very dangle values and beliefs when watching them now.”

The host added, “The film’s remedy of this world by a lens of nostalgia denies the horrors of slavery, besides to its legacies of racial inequality.”

The 2d video is an hour-long panel discussion to discuss about the sophisticated legacy of the film … filmed at the TCM Traditional Movie Festival in April 2019.

As we reported earlier this month … HBO Max before all the pieces pulled the film after “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley wrote an Op-Ed calling for its removal given the film puts slavery in a obvious light. Excellent hours later, HBO Max acknowledged it will bring abet the film but would add historical context and denounce its racist depictions.

“Long previous With the Wind” scored 8 Oscars — alongside side Ultimate Image, Ultimate Director and Ultimate Supporting Actress for Hattie McDaniel, who achieved Scarlett’s rental servant, Mammy.

She was once the Academy’s first Black winner, but that evening at the ceremony she was once compelled to sit down separately from her costars attributable to segregation.