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The killing of George Floyd has taken a form of huge protests in the US. Amid the ongoing tensions, new OTT platform HBO Max has taken down Oscar-winning 1939 film Gone With The Wind from its library.
Gone With The Wind based on the Civil War, won 8 Oscars back in that time including Best Picture. It also created history when Hattie McDaniel became the first Black American to win the Academy Award for her performance in the film. However, in modern times, the film has been criticised heavily for the way it has portrayed black people.
According to foxnews.com, a spokesperson of HBO Max has given an official statement regarding the same. He has been quoted as saying, “‘Gone With the Wind’ is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society. These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible.”
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