'Jungle Book' and 'Dumbo' are some of the movies that come with new cultural warnings in the U.K.'s Sky Cinema
, the Comcast-backed pay-TV broadcaster in the U.K., has added “outdated attitudes” disclaimers to a batch of films, including the original animated “Jungle Book,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “The Last Samurai.”, “This film has outdated attitudes, language and cultural depictions which may cause offence today.” The same warning has been applied to Jon Favreau’s 2016 re-imagining of the classic movie.
A check of nascent streamer Disney Plus, whose content is also available on Sky under the companies’ output deal, shows that that service already makes clear that films such as the original “Jungle Book” “contains outdated cultural depictions.
Other films include the original animated film “Aladdin;” 1939’s controversial classic “Gone With the Wind;” Peter O’Toole’s “Lawrence of Arabia;” Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder;” “The Jazz Singer” from 1927; Shirley Temple-starring “The Littlest Rebel;” Disney’s “The Lone Ranger” and 1980’s “Flash Gordon.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., HBO Max yanked 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” amid concerns around its own racial depictions. Executive Sandra Dewey toldJacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago cinema professor and host of Turner Classic Movies’ “Silent Sunday Nights,” recently revealed in a CNN op-ed that, when the film returns to HBO Max, she will provide an introduction “placing the film in its multiple historical contexts.
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