Gone With the Hobo-Murdering Wind

[tongodeon]

Recently matrushkaka and I watched "Gone With The Wind". I have no idea how I missed it the first time, and the Wikipedia plot synopsis gives it pretty short shrift, but about two-thirds of the way through the movie Scarlett's husband Frank Kennedy, her longtime crush Ashley Wilkes, and a gang of their buddies totally murder an encampment of hobos.Here's what

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[ikkyu2]

When I was a kid I used to love watching a John Wayne western with my dad. I was particularly fond of "J.D. Cahill, US Marshal."

I rewatched some of these movies as an adult recently and was sort of aghast to discover what everyone else already knew: Marion Morrison's characters were bigoted, genocidal, chauvinistic, antisocial, violent thugs. I feel sort of weird that I missed it the first time around.

[enleve]

I don't recall any hobo-murdering scenes in Mary Poppins, but there are some things that may be creepy if you think about them. I am reminded of this blog post about how Mary Poppins is a horror film.

[tongodeon]

[anonymous]

In the movie Stargate, Kurt Russell gets a chance to shoot the Über Bad Guy but backs down after some of the latter's underlings voluntarily shield their Pharaoh (yes, the scoundrel is a pharaoh with a space ship). Russell's character does, however, later BLOW UP THE ENTIRE SPACE SHIP AND EVERYBODY IN IT without any hesitation.

Shrek and the live balloon animals

[anonymous]

"are there any other heartwarming movie classics from my childhood which feature forgotten atrocities?"

Don't know about your childhood, but in the first Shrek movie, when Shrek and Fiona first get together, they celebrate their love by gruesomely torturing a couple of innocent small animals.