Perhaps Oliver Stones movie "JFK" should come with an advisory like "Gone With The Wind"?
Good point.
“Gone with the Wind” took advantage of people’s prejudices to portray blacks as ridiculous. To try to get people to accept, at least to a certain extent, the justice of the Confederate cause. Similarly, Oliver Stone took advantage of people’s prejudices to get people to form a negative opinion of Clay Shaw. If you can get people to despise Clay Shaw, you are half way to getting him convicted in the eyes of the public.
There is no testimony about Clay Shaw participating in outrageous gay orgies. Just that he was gay. Stone had no more right to portray Clay Shaw in a gay orgy than “Gone with the Wind” had to portray a black woman hysterically declaring that “i don't know nothin bout birthin no babies”. “Gone with the Wind” was the low point of Butterfly McQueen’s career and “JFK” was the low point of Tommy Lee Jones’s career. And there are some things you just can’t make up for.
If you want to make a movie about the JFK assassination? Fine. You want to portray a conspiracy? Fine. You want to portray a CIA conspiracy to assassinate the President? Fine. You want to portray Clay Shaw involved in a CIA conspiracy to assassinate the President? Fine. But leave out the gay orgies.
You could argue you could not make such a movie in 2020. But one would not think one could make such a movie in 1991, but they did. Maybe the Far Left is welling to overlook a lot if it pushes the overall leftist agenda.
Make a movie showing gay orgies to argue for building a wall along the Mexican border? Hollywood would never allow that. Not in 1991, not now. Make a movie showing gay orgies to sell a CIA conspiracy to assassinate a President? Look away, Look away, Look away, Dixieland.
