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The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation

Thank you, Hollywood!

The Patrick Coffin Show | Interviews with influencers | Commentary about culture | Tools for transformation

Patrick Coffin

Catholicanswers, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Culture, Society & Culture, Commentary, Americanculture, Catholic, Conservative, Podcast, Christian

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What would we do with Hollywood telling us what is right and wrong, good art and bad?

Our betters at Variety magazine have helpfully provided a list of 10 movies that MUST HAVE WARNING LABELS!

Because you and I are five years old, we need the guidance and wisdom of celebrity reporters, like Tim Gray of Variety. Without that, the terrorists have won. Or something.

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0:00.0

I'm just so grateful to Hollywood for telling me what my values are and what right is from wrong.

0:10.4

I'm stunned that variety, the trade paper along with the Hollywood reporter,

0:15.1

thanks to a writer named Tim Gray, has instructed me and you on what films

0:21.2

need asterisks, what films need

0:24.8

need warning labels about the bad bad content contained therein and I don't know what I would do

0:30.3

without this moral note there are ten movies you need to know about because they have some

0:35.4

bad things about them and bad things are bad and good things are good. But these films are bad.

0:41.7

And this title is 10 problematic films that could use warning labels.

0:47.9

So Mr. Gray rightly points out Gone With the Wind which slavery, even though actress Hattie McDaniel won the

0:55.1

Oscar, the highest accolade for movie performers for that 1939 role as the housemaid

1:02.2

who doesn't know nothing about birth and babies, but who saves the day.

1:07.0

That doesn't matter because slavery is not condemned in the movie.

1:11.2

Also birth of the Nation contains bad things.

1:14.0

Song of the South, which you can't even rent.

1:18.0

If you could rent that.

1:20.0

Breakfast at Tiffany's, with Mickey Rooney's turn as a kind of stereotype Japanese or something. Landlord. Very, very bad.

1:30.0

People should not be exposed to these things because these things are bad and movies affect people more on that later

1:36.3

What didn't make the list was roots by Alex Haley. Hmm, that showed slavery

1:42.4

The N-word featured throughout.

1:46.0

Maybe it's because Alex Haley plagiarized most of it

1:49.1

from Harold Courtlanders book The African.

1:51.4

But that doesn't matter.

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