I don't think anybody will be surprised, with the film references I make, if I said that I own it. Bootleggers are good for this sort of thing.
Does it portray blacks in a negative way? Yes.
Is it so bad that it should be shut away for good? No. But then again, I don't think any movie should be banned.
Look, Gone With the Wind is not banned. It has the same Stereotypes that it seems that the people actually believed. It has this romantic view of Slavery, as if the White people did a good thing by bringing the Africans out of the Jungle, giving them a place to stay, giving them food and clothes. And the Africans are, well, happy to be slaves. This is why it's so "racist".
While it disturbs me that Slave Owners and people in general might actually think this way, the movie is a harmless fantasy. It's not going to change what people believe about slavery. Gone with the Wind didn't. The brutally racist Birth of a Nation didn't.
Well, that one can be argued. The KKK did rise again after it's release. But these were people who were already racists. It's horrendously racist, but also an important film to society, which is why it isn't banned. It revolutionized filmmaking. Most people who watch the movie andenjoy it for that reason. People who watch it in this day and age don't become racist or believe it's philosophies (we just go "Wow. Great fucking cinematography!")
Walt Disney sympathized with the Germans. He was in fact a racist and a bigot. Sometimes, you have to seperate the man from the artist. Because, yes, he did give so much to the film industry.
