Song of The South Poll

[sublimesting]

On the subject of the Brer gang, has anyone purchased the DVD of the Adventures of Brer Rabbit and gang? I don't know the exact title, but we carry it at the Walmart I work at. It's on the 5 dollar DVD rack. I noticed it a couple weeks ago, but I don't have that much interest in buying it. The characters look totally different...apparently these cartoons must have been made within the past few years. It has Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear and Brer Fox, and I don't know who else. But since they look nothing like the classic Disney characters that we're all familiar with, I have no plans of purchasing it.

Check out ioffer.com People have various Disney incarnations of SotS for sale on there. I got a DVD from a Japanese version (it's Enlish and region 1)

 

[KingStefan]

Wait, are you saying that this movie would be just too much for children to bare given how much serious stuff is going on in the world? Does a movie really have to help social affairs? Does everything released now have to be so sanitized that no one could possibly be offended? That's how we shelter our children and never teach them and how history repeats itself. It's not like SotS is saying slavery is good.
I'm pretyy certain those characters are paid employees of the plantation. The way I understood it it was after the Civil War, so they aren't even slaves and the word slave is never brought up. And to be honest there were many many many white Americans just as bad off all the way until WW2. look at the shanty-town that surrounded Sacramento until WW2 and the great depression...most people in America at that ime were very very poor and got by as best they could, so it's not like ex-slaves could be living the good life had they only not grown up as slaves. My point is that children watching this aren't going to think SotS os glorifying slavery or anything like that. And can't an ex-slave or even a slave actually be happy once in awhile. Sometmies we have to make our own happiness and I think that is the message SotS tries to get across.

Au contraire. The ex-slaves are depicted as being sooooooooooo happy to have the opportunity to continue to work on the plantation because the master is so generous to let them stay, even though slavery had been abolished. A bit revisionist. I think in general they led miserable lives. I think that falls short of "glorifying" slavery, but it is certainly softening the situation from what it really was. People are afraid that kids will get the impression that that is the way it really was.

A small thing, I admit. But the only valid objection I've heard.

I still think the merits of the film outweigh this and other objections though.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Release it...I saw it a few weeks ago and it's become one of my favorite Disney movies.

"We can only remember and honor our past so that we may change our world,and our future"

-A quote from my AP American History teacher that sums this topic up.