Besides being a supremely elegant filmmaker and one of the eternal Movie Godz in the sky, John Ford was brusque and cantankerous, a fucktard, a snarly prick, an alcoholic ass, flinty and cruel and a genuine shit. Occasionally.
On the other hand James Stewart, one of the greatest all-time actors and a phenomenally gifted raconteur, was apparently a bit of a racist. From a strict wokester perspective.
How else to describe one who uses the term “Uncle Remus” as an adjective (as recounted in the below excerpt from Directed by John Ford) and, worse, uses the term “negro” twice in the same clip. This was in ’69 or ’70, remember, at which point the culture had abandoned that term and moved on to “black.”
Certain films have been cancelled for disturbing racist attitudes (Gone With The Wind, Song of the South, The Birth of a Nation) — why not posthumously cancel certain actors whose past sentiments don’t jibe with present-day standards?
We need to create a Hollywood panel of fair-minded Stalinist judges who can review how out-of-line certain actors were when they said this or that back in the ’60s or ’50s or whenever, and if they fail the woke test, their careers and achievements can be erased on the Academy website and at the Academy Museum.