It’s Disney’s most infamous movie. But just how bad is ‘Song of the South’?
On the eve of the release of perhaps the most important and political animated feature in Disney’s long history, it seemed like the ideal time to look back at the studio’s most notorious movie. Is it worthy of the years of controversy? Is Disney right to keep it unreleased? Or is the whole thing overblown? JustGranted, nothing in the film comes close to matching the virulent racism of a film like , D.W.
The words “slave” and “slavery” are never uttered, and the specifics of the economic relationship between the blacks and whites are left deliberately vague. By stripping out any concrete details of time and place, Disney essentially turned the plantation system into a ludicrous utopia where blacks and whites live in harmony
’s case in the offensiveness department either. Several of Remus’ stories are about Br’er Rabbit wanting to run away from his problems; the moral, inevitably, is that you can’t avoid trouble and there’s no place like home. These lessons are particularly important to Johnny because he doesn’t like life on the plantation initially and wants to run away to live with his father in Atlanta.
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