Oscar winners Gone With the Wind has expressed concerns

HBO Max has released “Gone with the Wind” from its movie library.
The removal of the film was flooded with protests in the United States when George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed while in police custody.
Removal John Ridley, the Oscar winner for “12 Years a Slave,” wrote in the Los Angeles Times this week asking HBO Max to pull the film out of its rotation.
“It’s a film that glorifies the southern antelope. When it doesn’t ignore the horrors of slavery, it only remains to perpetuate the most painful stereotypes of people of color,” Ridley wrote. “The film had the best talent in Hollywood to work together to sentimentalize a story that had never been worked on at the time.”
Ridley made it clear that he did not want to “take to the streets” with a “Gone with the Wind” “Burbank” vault, but “to have a respectable time.”
“Let me be clear: I don’t believe in censorship,” Ridley wrote. “I would ask, after a respectful amount of time, for the film to re-enter the HBO Max platform along with other films that offer a broader and more comprehensive view of what slavery and Confederacy were all about.”
Ridley added that the film “can be linked to dialogues about narratives and why it is more important to have voices that share stories from different perspectives than to reinforce perspectives that dominate culture.”
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