““The slaves left.” In three words, Sofia Coppola’s new film The Beguiled casually dispenses with one of the great shames of the American republic. Coppola’s film is an elegant Southern Gothic tale of masculine charms and feminine vengeance, completely stripped of its historical and racial context. While not every period genre picture need grapple with the “peculiar institution,” this is a film set during the Civil War, unfolding between Southern women and a Northern soldier, and it goes so far as to cut both black characters from the novel upon which it was based. […]
“I’ve always loved the women in the South, and the South in general; it’s so exotic and different.” Exotic is a word Coppola used again in an interview with Vanity Fair, and it signals her aesthetic interest in the story. The chance to film the remnants of the antebellum South, with its grand houses, stately furnishings, and beautiful dresses must have been an alluring prospect for a director so visually minded and so interested in the lives of the wealthy. But aesthetics are not apolitical, and those grand houses and beautiful dresses didn’t emerge out of a vacuum.”
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“THE SLAVES LEFT”
The slaves left, Sofia??????? The slaves left!!!!
I thought I couldn’t hate this heaux anymore but those three words have really fucking done it.
Erasing black characters for her Aryan fantasy wasn’t bad enough but then this lazy, racist, wouldn’t-be-shit-without-her-last-name hack actually throws “the slaves left” in there to handwave this bullshit away.
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