Goodbye Little Britain

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Baloo said:
Ben Kingsley is a quarter Indian and his real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji. He changed his name because he felt his real name would hold him back in his career.
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I was more getting at the fact of his racism not the actor but the real person and his statue will be underthreat.
 
cluffy said:
Good luck getting a young child to sit through gone with the wind! ;)
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Well things like that are more of a case about them being on with children around! Also a different age rating would likely affect when it could (or maybe just would) be shown on a tv channel.
 
PJH said:
Well things like that are more of a case about them being on with children around! Also a different age rating would likely affect when it could (or maybe just would) be shown on a tv channel.
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Tbh it’s also got a rape scene and a child death so maybe don’t take the kids!
 
gluepot said:
Just out of interest can you recommend a film which depicts slavery in an acceptable way? I'm not a film buff but would take your recommendations into account when next selecting a film to watch..
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Well the obvious answers are Roots (a series), Django, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blackkkclansman, Mississippi Burning.

The first two are to do directly with slavery the following 3 with the racism that lingered
Harry Angstrom said:
I agree but that doesnt mean a slave should not be portrayed as happy in a film or work of fiction/art if they were.
Should Downton Abbey be allowed to broadcast as it is just as ludicrous?
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Clara wasn't happy because she was a slave. She just preferred having food to eat rather than having nothing.
If she was happy while a slave it was incidental to her being indentured, and in comparison to what came later.
 
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Meanwhile in the North the free white lived in disease ridden, rat infested, over populated tenements for the privilege of working 16 hours a day for barely enough money to buy your daily bread. Nothing brought them back to work the next day better than a hungry stomach.

Yes, slavery was atrocious but so was the social slavery of their white companions.

Statues of Jesus will be next, he never spoke out about the horrors of slaves and their masters.
 
CatRyan said:
Well the obvious answers are Roots (a series), Django, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blackkkclansman, Mississippi Burning.
The first two are to do directly with slavery the following 3 with the racism that lingered
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Thanks, I watched Roots when it first came out and remember it was powerful, but I've forgotten the content. I must try and watch again.
Seen To Kill a Mocking Bird, not the other 3 so will look for them.
 
Joseph Goebbels and Uncle Joe Stalin would be proud of the re-writing of entertainment. Of course I condemn racism and slavery, but people should be educated. If the purge continues we will lose a lot of Spike's work and Peter Sellers. When will the book burning start? Tin hat on.
 
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Where does the line between satire and offence begin and end?

I always thought the little Britain scratch about the Asian kid and the WI woman said more about ignorance and racism of the middle class woman than promoting racism or have I misread this all this time.
 
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