Song of the South - Tell Disney!

[StormShadow]

Tell Disney you want it to be released! Don't you think if they got millions of e-mails wanting the movie, it would be irresistable to the higher ups????

They can always smooth over the front for their PR worry! They can do a special on the progress of racial views in Hollywood! Let's use the film to celebrate progress in the human race!

Go to this link, and tell them to release it!!


http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/mo...he_South_-_VHS

[AnonyMOUSE]

SotS is definitely a great movie-- I own it, and I cannot see anything objectionable in today's society.

[cirquelover]

I have told them every year for the last six years and friends have to. The one time I recieved a response, Disney said they have no intention of rereleasing it

[Alex S.]

This isn't meant as a "use the search engine" post. But I just want to point out a very interesting (in my opinion) discussion we had on this topic a while ago.

http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/show...ght=Song+South

[merlinjones]

Isn't Sydney Poitier retiring from the Disney Board of Directors soon? Perhaps then Song of the South will find its way to video domestically. He has reportedly been against it.

The movie is worth far too much in pure profit for the studio to continue to ignore. It's fiscally irresponsible to the stockholders at this point.

[Disneyphile]

Originally posted by merlinjones
The movie is worth far too much in pure profit for the studio to continue to ignore. It's fiscally irresponsible to the stockholders at this point.

And think of the sequels they can make!

Stuff like:

"Song of the South - Christmas in the Briar Patch"

and

"Song of the South 2 - Tar Baby's Sticky Adventure"

[AnonyMOUSE]

Or a TV show!

Educational---Episode #63: "Br'er Rabbit's Adventures in Space---With Hilarious Results!"

Emotional----Episode #72: "Death in the Briar Patch-----With Hilarious Results!"

TV Special----"Johnny Runs Away but Uncle Remus Finds Him and Teaches Him How Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Bear Learn the True Meaning of Christmas, Winter, Thanksgiving, April Fools Day, New Years Eve, Easter, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and St. Patricks Day---------With Hilarious Results!"

[justagrrl]

I was able to download a copy of not to good quality off of Kazaa. My kids wanted to know the story line behind Splash Mountain and I could only remember bits and pieces of it. It was better then nothing. Now I'm thinking there might be a "Little Golden Book" story of it perhaps?

[hobo_n]

I think that movie is bad.

[Morrigoon]

For what reasons, hobo? A lot of us have never seen it and would like to know more about why people find it so objectionable.

[mzloolue]

I, for one, would really like to see the movie. I saw it when I was a kid, so I don't know how I would feel about it now. However, I always loved the stories about Brer Rabbit and company. If the movie is truly objectionable, it would be nice if it could be reworked or remade in a way which would tell the stories to another generation of children. I have visited the historic Laura Plantation, near New Orleans, which is the place where Joel Chandler Harris heard the stories and wrote them down. Laura was a creole plantation, which means that everyone there, slaves included spoke French. Harris claimed that the dialect that he recorded was accurate. The stories originated in Senegal, which was the homeland of the slaves at Laura. So it seems that maybe Uncle Remus should have a French or Creole accent. There is also a Native American story which is very similar to the story of the Tar Baby. It is a shame that these stories have been so tainted because they are in essence folk tales and children love the stories(minus the overtones)

[Disneyphile]

I'm sure if you look around enough, you can find it on DVD somehow, with nice menu extras like the original radio trailers and such.

Not that I'm admitting to it actually existing in that format or anything, but you may just want to keep an eye out for it.

[AnonyMOUSE]

SotS is available in Japan on LaserDisc, then imported to England for trasfer onto video cassette, then imported to the US into several pawn shops, and most Civil War stores.

[Niwel]

The animated segements of "Song of the South" what Splash Mountain is based on can be found on some of the Disney Sing-A-Long Song videos.

[mzloolue]

What is a Civil War Store?

[Ghoulish Delight]

I recently got to see the movie. I was baffled as to why it causes such controversy.

Yes, there is some blatant stereotyping and, and glossing over of history and animosity. But so what? It's a movie. People often point to the tar-baby scene as blatantly racist. Perhaps, but is it any more so than the song "What Makes a Red Man Red" from Peter Pan?

If studios refused to release every movie that contained unfair stereotyping, we'd never see any movies made before 1950 again! And in Song of the South, the absolute worst thing you can say about it is that it glossed over some of the hatred and bigotry of the time. Big deal, that's why it's a movie, not reality. If a persecuted Hunchback can sing and dance, a black man can enjoy caring for the grandchild of a white woman that treats him well. It's not a documentary.

[wood_is_mine]

I know someone who had a copy from overseas or something like that. I really want to see it, because my great-geat-uncle wrote the music to Zipadeedoodah (see Siggy!)

[mousketeer]

Plus, banning Song of the South restricts future generations from seeing the brilliant acting of Hattie McDaniel and Charles Brackett, who won a special Oscar for his performance. Unfortunately, Song of the South faces the same problems as the Charlie Chan series of films from the 1930's and 40's. Leonard Maltin wrote a great article about stereotypical films, and why they should not be abandoned. Please find the time to read it.

"Is our over-sensitivity erasing the past? ", by Leonard Maltin
http://www.leonardmaltin.com/03-08-08/home.htm

[AnonyMOUSE]

Originally posted by mzloolue
What is a Civil War Store?

Stores carrying different Civil War-themed memoribilia, like Gone With the Wind, novels, and, Song of the South memorabilia (I discovered, after many years of searching web sites, stores around the country, etc., a store that sells Song of the South on video, along with original cells--dating back to the 1950's).