https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/04/24/oh-brother-warner-bros-to-mark-its-100th-anniversary-by-wokeifying-its-old-classics-n1690014
Oh Brother: Warner Bros. to Mark Its 100th
Anniversary by Wokeifying Its Old Classics
PJ Media, by Robert Spencer
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 4/25/2023 10:22:42 AM
The famed Hollywood studio Warner Bros. is celebrating its hundredth anniversary this year, and it certainly has a rich history to showcase. The studio could have coasted through its anniversary year by rolling out some of its classic films, which range from the very beginnings of cinema to today, to new audiences. But some daring young innovative thinker at Warner Bros. decided to do something at once more audacious, more risky, and much more certain to produce ghastly results: Warner is going to mark its hundredth birthday with “a short film series that reimagines the Studio’s iconic films through a diverse and inclusive lens.” Hey, it could be worse.
It could be worse. Warner Bros. produced Casablanca, but it isn’t on the remake list, so we will at least for now be spared the prospect of Rick, who was played by Humphrey Bogart in the original, leaving in the end with Ingrid Bergman’s husband, instead of nobly exhorting her to leave with him herself