But it was aired for how many years?I think we knew at the time that it was shit.the most racist and sexist show that I've watched is Have you been servedJust reading the thread about Gone With the Wind and its fair to say that librul Hollywood has a pretty shabby record over the years.
My afternoon movie yesterday was The Alamo which I have seen many times before.
Wayne intended the film to be a celebration of courage and glorifying a fight for freedom but there are parts of the film that gloss over the history and make very uncomfortable viewing.
Jim Bowie grants freedom to his slave, s their doom is approaching. The old guy decides that because he is free he will stick by Bowie and fight those baddie Mexicans to death.
Now that might have been the actuality but it was shown without any context. Maintaining slavery was one of the issues that the texans were fighting for. There was no slavery in Mexico at that time and the old guy, Jethro, could have just walked out the gates to a better life at any time.
The film shows an untrue idealistic version of the realities and paints a deceptive version of slavery.
The narrative is - Texas =good, Mexico = bad. And that probably exists to today. Texas was good for some but not for everyone. Santanna was a nasty twat but Texas was Mexican land.
Freedom for Texas meant a future as a dirty slave state and that was not a cause that should be glorified, it certainly should not be covered up with a deceptive act of kindness.
I can still watch the film and enjoy the spectacle but the talky bits between the action leaves me cold. I suspect that it isnt the worst offender if we were making a list.