While HBO Max pulled Gone With the Wind –temporarily — from its streaming offering on Tuesday, Amazon has reaped the rewards of the controversy that ensued.
The 1939 classic shot to the top of Amazon’s movies and TV bestseller list overnight and on Wednesday occupied the number 1 slot, the number 8 slot and the number 9 slot. It did so in different iterations: DVD, Blu-ray and the 70th Anniversary Edition.
With the exception of what seem to be single copies being offered — and immediately snapped up — on the site, Victor Fleming’s Civil War-era film has sold out in every format. One Blu-ray copy was being offered for $334.01.
A message has been sent, I believe.
It’s almost as though everyone gives a damn….
/applause
I ordered my copy as soon as I heard about HBO’s action. My way of sticking two fingers up. I do give a damn.
Chortle indeed; Streisand effect
To repeat yesterday
– Free download: Gone with the Wind
– Please seed to ratio >1 to say thanks
It’s now no.1 and no.2, those DVD presses must be rolling on overtime. It’s all digital now and costs next to nothing to produce back catalogue stuff very profitably.
Our Amazon depot is the biggest building for miles, just a vast easily defendable box. Just as well their vans are unmarked but pity the poor driver who is known by a BLMite to work for Amazon.
But the Nazi guards in their watch towers have both searchlights AND machine guns, right?
Just to share a resource I regularly use…. Anytime you’re wondering if a particular film might be accessible in various ways or through various online sources, just use this link and type in the query-name of your own desires:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/gone-with-the-wind
– MJM
The censorship is getting worse. Apparently UKTV has pulled the Fawlty Towers episode ‘The Germans’ on the grounds that one of the characters, The Major, describes the West Indian cricket team as ‘niggers’. Has everyone lost their collective common sense? The Major was being mocked by the scriptwriters for his racism and were not approving of it. The Major was quite obviously being laughed at rather than laughed with. I hope this ill judged and appeasement laden move results in the same outcome as with Gone With the Wind. As regards that ban of that film by HBO it has robbed any audience of seeing the work of the very first African American to win an Oscar, something I believe is a self defeating move.
“The Major was being mocked by the scriptwriters for his racism and were not approving of it. The Major was quite obviously being laughed at rather than laughed with.”
Such subtleties are beyond these race relations hustlers. They are either too stupid to understand that or are being deliberately obtuse.
A mixture of both, one relying on the other. As it is, I already have the boxed set of Fawlty Towers.
With regard to racist items being removed and poetic justice being served, a few years ago my local garden centre was selling toy golliwogs, the same as we had as kids in the 1940s, a woman who saw them told her friend and even though this prodnose had not seen them herself she complained to the local newspaper. When I read this I was so incensed that I went to the garden centre to buy one but couldn’t see them anywhere on display, my heart sank but in a forlorn hope I asked a member of staff if they had been withdrawn from sale, she said “No, they have sold out” I went back a few days later and bought a couple and a not long afterwards they were once again sold out. Very heartwarming, gives a bit of confidence in the stubborness of a lot of us old coffin dodgers.
I already have the torrent set of Fawlty Towers 😛
Was the same with Alf Garnet, Till Death Do Us Part, some lefties never understood that the writers intended to mock his bigotry (and patriotism btw).
Being in what we now call the metropolitan bubble the writers did not understand that they parodied Alfs bigotry so well that actual bigots cheered him on.
They were encouraging what they intended to disparage.
I heard that reason long ago, but it has always looked like hypocrisy to me. If you create something you find is doing the very opposite of your intent why persist series after series? Maybe the fame and the income was always the main motivation.
The same was true of “Love Thy Neighbour”, the butt of all the humour was the white guy whose plans never, ever, did anything but amuse the Black Couple next door. Look past the “It be rayciiis” and far from promoting “racist behaviour” it was actively taking the p!$$ out of it. Like “Four Lions” did to Muslim Terrorists. That is how the civilised British deal with these things, by mercilessly mocking it until their heads explode.
When one of our delightful political loons made the statement that “Mein Kampf” by one A Hitler should be banned and all copies burned, I went on to Amazon to buy a copy (because I am your master, not your servant you whiny little shit) and got almost the last copy in stock; it had started selling like hotcakes.
I believe Mein Kampf is still banned in Germany which is counter-productive since, apart from spouting nonsense, it is badly written and banal. The only reasons it’s sales formed the basis of Hitlers personal wealth was that it was sort of compulsory to possess it to show your support of the regime. Hitlers Life Matters (not).
Just watching the prequel to Antifa taking Seattle East Precinct: Assault On Precinct 13, the 1976 John Carpenter not the rubbish 2005 remake. marvellous stuff.
Farenheit 451.
Written before e-books, video, home movies, but the idea was there.
The only way to preserve culture is for each person to keep a little bit of it, maybe secreted away.
Great book.