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Song of the South: Uncle Remus
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This is the utopian world in which "Song of the South" is set. As Uncle Remus says in the preamble to one of his stories, "when everything was mighty satisfactual." Defenders of the film can rightly say that it doesn’t set out to portray blacks badly. The black characters are stereotypical, but not in a mean-spirited way. Uncle Remus in particular is shown as a universally loved, sagacious elder statesman.
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Set in the era just after the Civil War, Song of the South opens on seven-year-old Johnny as he travels with his parents by horse-drawn coach to spend the summer on his grandmother’s Georgia plantation. His parents—Sally and John Sr.—wax nostalgic about their own childhoods in this backwater. They recall with gushing fondness the old black man named Uncle Remus who told them stories about mythical characters named Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear.
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Song of the South is a classic Disney animated feature that retells the "Uncle Remus" stories, which were created by a nineteenth century newspaper columnist, based on African-American storytellers he'd known. They are thought to be folkloric descendants of stories that were brought over by African slaves.
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It’s true that Song of the South perpetuates stereotypes. Though James Baskett is delightful as Uncle Remus, the character lives to please the white people to whom he owes his livelihood. Aunt Tempy, as portrayed by Hattie McDaniel, is a twin sister of Scarlet O’Hara’s Mammy.
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“Song of the South” was re-shown in theaters in 1956, 1972, 1980 and 1986. Both animated and live-action, it tells the story of a young white boy, Johnny, who goes to live on his grandparents’ Georgia plantation when his parents split up. Johnny is charmed by Uncle Remus — a popular black servant — and his fables of Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear and Brer Fox, which are actual black folk tales.
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Based on the classic Uncle Remus tales, the animated sequences of "Song of the South" are considered by experts to be some of the greatest animation every created. In them, Brer Rabbit, the "most outdoin'est, bodacious critter in the whole world," out-smarts the crafty Brer Fox and the lumbering Brer Bear. And as Uncle Remus said, that's "mighty satisfaction."
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