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Originally Posted by Lamoreux
I think it's ridiculous because of someone's present day likes and dislikes, or worse yet, someone's PC sense of superior justice (self-important people deciding for everyone else what is and is not offensive) that incredibly talented actors of days-gone-by must have all of their performances either erased or apologized for. I love Mantan Moreland!
And I'm sick of reading apologies on the side of the DVD box every time I want to watch an old Charlie Chan picture. I don't have any guilt about history (white or other) and don't feel any need to rewrite it. For good or ill, it was what it was.
Nobody was ever killed by the sentence, "Is you a zombie?"
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The only apology that should be given with any of these films should be, "These were the social attitudes and feelings of the time. Deal with it.".
I just got finished watching the original Frankenstein (1910). Big waste of time (even though it was only 15 minutes long)!