读书笔记D37：HBO为何下架了《乱世佳人》？

1. 下架用的表达是pull和removed from its catalogue;

2. 下架原因是《乱世佳人》这部经典电影被诟病有美化内战时期的南方和粉饰种族歧视之嫌 romanticizes the Civil War-era South while glossing over its racial sins；

对战前南方的粉饰太平，对蓄奴制的骇人惨状视而不见 rose-tinted depiction of the antebellum South and its blindness to the horrors of slavery；

3. 下架的直接导火索是：警察暴力执法和乔治•弗洛伊德之死引发的抗议事件持续发酵，在美国引起了一场关于种族问题的全民大讨论。protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd continued to pull the United States into a wide-ranging conversation about race；

以及《为奴十二年》的编剧约翰•里德利，在《洛杉矶时报》上撰写了一篇评论文章，呼吁删除该影片以免被一些人恶意误读

John Ridley, the screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times calling for its removal. ；

4. 这部影片获得过最佳电影奖best picture和最佳女配角奖 best supporting actress, 获奖者Hattie McDaniel哈蒂•梅丹尼尔，在片中饰演费雯丽的奶妈，是第一位获得奥斯卡奖的非洲裔美国人。