Stalinism in Canada

Cutting Donald Trump out of holiday film “Home Alone 2,” presumably to avoid causing trauma by even having to see him. (“Stalinism” is per the link.)

Did they cut Reagan out of his old movies? Or just stop playing those movies forever? I’ve seen a lot of old movies, now that I think of it, but only one I can recall featuring Reagan.

That one I’d understand the networks not playing in any recent cultural moment. It was “Santa Fe Trail,” in which Reagan plays George Armstrong Custer — still treated as a good guy by Hollywood — against Errol Flynn’s J.E.B. Stuart, who is also treated as a good guy. Somehow the dispute over John Brown’s raid is treated as fittingly symbolized by the two officer’s competition for the hand of a lovely young Kit Carson Holliday (played by Olivia de Havilland). John Brown is even kind of the bad guy, as his anti-slavery campaign is depicted as behind the violence in Kansas the officers are sent to stop. The whole plot is at this point going to be radically offensive to many viewers, and nearly all will be bothered by at least some aspects of it.

In the current case, all that is at stake is the guy offering directions to the lobby.

5 comments:

Texan99 said...

Here's hoping people stay away from the polls in droves for fear of being triggered by seeing "Trump" on the ballot.

Assistant Village Idiot said...

So which group of people are "phobic" about something?

Christopher B said...

While I haven't seen independent confirmation, the CBC says the film was edited this way in 2014. According to imdb, about 20 minutes of scenes not integral to the plot have to be cut in order for the movie to show in a standard two hour TV slot (its run time is two hours) so their explanation seems reasonable.

Grim said...

It scene with Trump is like seven seconds long, though. Somebody put a lot of work into trimming those seven seconds.

E Hines said...

It scene with Trump is like seven seconds long, though.

But, but--2 hours and 7 seconds is not 2 hours. Besides, make-work is how a socialist government keeps people employed.

Eric Hines