HBO Takes Away Movie – level 2

16-06-2020 07:00

HBO Max is taking away the movie “Gone with the Wind” from its library. The movie is a love story that takes place during the Civil War in the USA.

People consider it an American classic; however, the movie is very controversial. Many people do not like it because it shows slavery in America.

HBO Max said that the movie was a product of its time. An HBO spokesperson said that racism in the movie was wrong, and it is wrong today, too. HBO Max plans to put the movie back in its library; however, the network wants to add information about history to it.

The spokesperson said that it was not good to keep the movie in its library and not explain that slavery was bad.

Difficult words: classic (a work of art that many people know, and they consider it important), controversial (when something makes a lot of people angry, because they have different opinions about it), slavery (a long time ago when white people made black people work for them and black people belonged to them; many people do not agree with slavery now), a product of its time (a thing that shows the way that people thought some time ago).

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