Disney Plus Warns Users Older Movies Have ‘Outdated Cultural Depictions’

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The newly launched Disney Plus has no shortage of content, ranging from original animated classics to live-action remakes and “Star Wars” offshoot “The Mandalorian.” With that deep library, Disney is offering a warning that some of the streaming platform’s older content has “outdated cultural depictions.”

Films like “Dumbo,” “The Aristocats,” “Lady and the Tramp” and “Jungle Book,” some of which were made nearly 80 years ago, offer a disclaimer saying,” “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.” Since its initial release in 1941, “Dumbo” has been criticized for including a version of vocal blackface, while “The Aristocats” and “Peter Pan” have been the subject of scrutiny for racist depictions of characters.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-plus-warns-users-older-182801075.html
 
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Let's see if a simple warning pleases certain people.

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Tim said:
countdown on the move to Tortuga...3....2....1.....
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Clicked thread.. read the fist post... immediately looked at what forum this was under..

Reccon I'll keep mine to myself for now.

@charliesgrave Thanks for posting that link, haven't seen Song Of The South since I was a kid. Watching it again now.
 
"Outdated cultural depictions"

These movies wouldn't get made today. Many others I can think of. Could you imagine anyone pulling off Coming to Amercia (with Soul Gel!)?

We could probably list a few hundred, at least.

I've heard they're planning a remake of Gone With The Wind. I can't even begin to imagine what PC will do to that.
 
Tim said:
It would be a different story if they were re-writing/editing the movies to leave those scenes out, or not broadcasting them entirely.
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Look at some of the recent live action disney remakes of films like The Lion King. The amount of pc changes will make your head spin.
 
Diablos said:
So we can stream song of the south?
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It never even crossed my mind that they might host it for streaming.
But since other people asked, i consulted google and found a number of articles making it quite clear that they were going to keep it suppressed. I think I have a .avi of it somewhere around here on a dvd-r...

random said:
"Outdated cultural depictions"

These movies wouldn't get made today. Many others I can think of. Could you imagine anyone pulling off Coming to Amercia (with Soul Gel!)?

We could probably list a few hundred, at least.

I've heard they're planning a remake of Gone With The Wind. I can't even begin to imagine what PC will do to that.
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Listen here, you diseased rhinoceros pizzle. I'll have you know that the mythical hair product made famous by Coming to America is called "SOUL GLO" (just let your SOOOUUUULLL GLOOOOOOWWW)
 
random said:
"Outdated cultural depictions"

These movies wouldn't get made today. Many others I can think of. Could you imagine anyone pulling off Coming to Amercia (with Soul Gel!)?

We could probably list a few hundred, at least.

I've heard they're planning a remake of Gone With The Wind. I can't even begin to imagine what PC will do to that.
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Word is Eddie Murphy is currently working on the sequel...
 
a - SOUL GLOW
b - they are working on a follow up now
 
Tim said:
Honestly I don't have an issue with this.

It would be a different story if they were re-writing/editing the movies to leave those scenes out, or not broadcasting them entirely.
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Didn’t they go back and change stuff though? I heard someone say they changed the Siamese cats in Aristocats, to make them not have squinty eyes and buck teeth
 
Those movies made me who I am today.
 
Button Pusher said:
The newly launched Disney Plus has no shortage of content, ranging from original animated classics to live-action remakes and “Star Wars” offshoot “The Mandalorian.” With that deep library, Disney is offering a warning that some of the streaming platform’s older content has “outdated cultural depictions.”

Films like “Dumbo,” “The Aristocats,” “Lady and the Tramp” and “Jungle Book,” some of which were made nearly 80 years ago, offer a disclaimer saying,” “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.” Since its initial release in 1941, “Dumbo” has been criticized for including a version of vocal blackface, while “The Aristocats” and “Peter Pan” have been the subject of scrutiny for racist depictions of characters.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/disney-plus-warns-users-older-182801075.html
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I have some VERY VERY serious issues with Disney, not the least of which is the wink wink nudge nudge collusion at its upper levels of mgmt with some of the most horrid perverted sexual monsters and child molesters.
This is what happens, though when the morality meter in a society or an individual malfunctions. Best illustration of it comes in an old allegory by John Bunyan.... no... not "Pilgrim's Progress." The title is "Holy War" and depicts the seige, conquest and liberation of the city called "Mansoul" (allegory was somewhat hamfisted, I agree). In one of the scenes of the city under conquest, Lord Conscience is stricken blind and goes mad. He would completely ignore genuine threats which would completely destroy the city, blissfully looking at them and either laughing or serenely passing on. However, he would rage and scream outrageous warnings over nonsensical and imaginary nothings, so that his ability to do his assigned duty was completely compromised.

So it is when a society loses its moorings, and will nod at murder by the state dept or by lab coated technicians, or laugh at the concerns of good people as antiquated drivel, or embrace theft and destruction as "social justice." The whole moral calculus gets thrown off, and doesn't function at all, so we become fixated on putting warning levels on Dumbo the elephant.

What, you were expecting something different?
 
charliesgrave said:
I saw this as a kid one time and have never been able to see it again. I don't remember being all that wowed by it at the time, but the fact they don't want me to see it made me want to see it again.

https://archive.org/details/SongOfTheSouth_Disney
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Thanks for the link! My father used to read me the Uncle Remus stories in full dialect, good memories. 15 years ago I got a DVD copy that’d play in the US. We had around 16 friends/family/kids over and watched it. Everyone was laughing and enjoyed the movie. Sometime later it walked off and it took me a while to find another copy.
 
Heads will explode when they discover the Disney WWII training films.

I actually prefer this to having them decide that these movies should never be shown.
 
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would make people lose their minds if it was still required reading in school. Pretty sure there's a couple of Disney produced films with the same name or related.
 
Ikarus1 said:
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would make people lose their minds if it was still required reading in school. Pretty sure there's a couple of Disney produced films with the same name or related.
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I was in middle school. It was either that and / or To Kill a Mockingbird. We were going around the room taking turns reading out loud. Naturally I got to be the first one to get a passage with the word N..... (for the clueless "dah-dit, dit-dit, dah-dah-dit, dah-dah-dit, dit, dit-dah-dit") in it. It really left me wondering what to do. Do I read it, do I skip the word, what? I decided to just read it out loud. Back then in that time period, it was common speech.
 
noway2 said:
I was in middle school. It was either that and / or To Kill a Mockingbird. We were going around the room taking turns reading out loud. Naturally I got to be the first one to get a passage with the word N..... (for the clueless "dah-dit, dit-dit, dah-dah-dit, dah-dah-dit, dit, dit-dah-dit") in it. It really left me wondering what to do. Do I read it, do I skip the word, what? I decided to just read it out loud. Back then in that time period, it was common speech.
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Talk to any high schooler of any race nowadays. It’s still common speech since they’ve been calling themselves that in their ‘music’ for 3 decades
 
noway2 said:
I decided to just read it out loud. Back then in that time period, it was common speech.
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I just had this talk with some young black women the other day. They were talking about how some famous white people had gotten in trouble for "the n-word". I asked them what context and specifically referenced that it would be one thing if they were using it as an insult, but totally different if they were... quoting a passage from huck finn.
they were not familiar with huck finn and said they should still not be using the word because of all the history it has.
I told them that the reason he was referred to as N-Jim was specifically because he was a smart and good person who was treated like crap just because he was born with the wrong skin color for the time. To ignore that is to miss an important sub-point of the book and is a bit of an insult to people who suffered slavery and all the people who still lived with the "n-word" afterwards.
We had an "agree to neither agree nor disagree" moment.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
We had an "agree to neither agree nor disagree" moment.
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It’s all about them having a special power that they can deny whites. They apparently don’t realize that doing so is an admission of something less then flattering.
 
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