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Blu Christmas Holiday Movie Asplosion 2022! ⛄ Chapter 42: Holiday Inn 🦌 Ugh. I want to like this movie more. It in theory *should* be higher on the list. But the fact is, no matter how good, entertaining, classic, etc the rest of the film is, it will be forever and always marred by racism. I don't care that it was literally 80 years ago, and that "minstrel" shows and blackface were still common, and supposedly accepted then. It was racism then, it's racism now. While I appreciate them doing at least the bare minimum by including a note about it at this start of the film (I added a shot of it), and and extra feature discussing it featuring mostly POC, it nevertheless is uncomfortable, unentertaining, and again, racist. I still fast forward through it every time. Okay, that aside, this is another that just came out on 4K this year, and the picture does look good, and, if not for the aforementioned problem, the movie would be a top notch classic. Also worth noting, White Christmas was written for this movie. 🌲 ❄️ 🎄 🎅 #HolidayInn #1942 #IrvingBerlinsHolidayInn #IrvingBerlin #BingCrosby #FredAstaire #MarjorieReynolds #VirginiaDale #LouiseBeavers #WalterAbel #WhiteChristmas #ForeverMarredByRacism #BluChristmasHolidayMovieAsplosion2022 #iLoveMovies #christmasmovies #holidaymovies #xmas #christmasspecials #holidayfilms #holidays #movies #christmas #iLoveChristmas #blurays #bluray #4K #MovieNerd #abluchristmas #christmasfilms #christmasmoviemarathon . https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm3BTZ6uIYJjtGD3hOp7QPsvp3WNLi13NCGrV80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mrstevers]

A favorite ornament - made by the cast of Holiday Inn on Broadway - it’s filled with shreds of music from the rehearsals... #ornamentaday2018 #ornamentaday #holidayinn #irvingberlinsholidayinn #holidayinnonbroadway #ornament https://www.instagram.com/p/BrtTlS0ATji/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=395slz8qe55m

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I will continue to point out every year that this film's overall quality and place as a classic is tarnished by the inexcusable inclusion of that blackface number (that I just fast forward through). It may be a "product of its time" or whatever, but racism is racism, and 1942 was as racist a time as many. ❄️ 🎄I'll Have a Blu Christmas Holiday Movie 'Asplosion 2021!🎄 💿 Chapter 54: Holiday Inn 🎞️ That said, it is otherwise of course a very charming classic, and introduced the song White Christmas to the world (and Bing Crosby singing White Christmas went on to become the highest selling single of all time, so, that's something). Also, Bing's voice, Fred's dancing...just a lot of *swoon* (though I do get irritated with Fred Astaire being a jerk in the movie sometimes). ⛄ • • • • • #HolidayInn #1942 #IrvingBerlinsHolidayInn #IrvingBerlin #BingCrosby (#thatVoiceTho) #FredAstaire (#ThatDancingTho) #MarjorieReynolds #VirginiaDale #WhiteChristmas #BlackfaceIsNeverOK #RacismRuinsThingsAgain #illHaveABluChristmasHolidayMovieAsplosion2021 #iLoveMovies #christmasmovies #holidaymovies #xmas #christmasspecials #holidayfilms #holidays #movies #christmas #iLoveChristmas #blurays #bluray #MovieNerd #abluchristmas #christmasfilms #christmasmoviemarathon (at Jersey City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/mattyhorror/p/CXZ5MJTtGfR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[To be fair, I'd already entered the final stretch of true classics (and classics to me) with those last few animated ones, though this next one is a bit rough for the reason I go over each year...] 🎄Holiday Movie Asplosion 2020!🎄 ❄️Chapter 44: Holiday Inn❄️ ☃️ [Holiday Inn would be further up the list and a more highly bonafide holiday classic, were it not for the that godawful, unnecessary, and completely deplorable blackface number. It stops things short and sucks the joy out of it all every time (& I continue to fast-forward past it, every time). If it weren't for that moment of detestable racism, this would be a fairly glorious experience. Crosby's singing & Astaire's dancing though, magnificent.] 🎅 • • • • • • #HolidayMovieAsplosion2020 #iLoveMovies #christmasmovies #holidaymovies #xmas #christmasspecials #holidayfilms #holidays #movies #christmas #blurays (& some #4Ks ) #bluray #abluchristmas #christmasfilms #christmasmoviemarathon #HolidayInn (#irvingberlinsholidayinn ) #irvingberlin #bingcrosby #fredastaire #marjoriereynolds #virginiadale #walterabel #whitechristmassong #whitechristmas #happyholidaysong #happyholiday (aka #happyholidays) #1942 (at Jersey City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIrwu-zjZQj/?igshid=15uel6lps3j74

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[Continuing with the classics, this next from Irving Berlin certainly counts as one, though, it must always be mentioned, there is a problematic scene in this movie that's so egregiously uncomfortable it is likely worse than the problematic elements of all the previous films combined. I am of course referring the intensely uncomfortable, completely unnecessary, & irrefutably racist blackface number, which throws an undeniable tarnish on an otherwise very charming film. I never pretend it didn't happen or wasn't wretched, but I do always fast forward through it, because it's sickening.] • Holiday Movie Asplosion 2019! Chapter 42: Holiday Inn • • • • • #HolidayMovieAsplosion2019 #iLoveMovies #christmasmovies #christmasspecials #holidays #movies #christmas #holidayfilms #christmasfilms #abluchristmas #bluray #blurays #holidayinn (#holidayinnmovie )#irvingberlinsholidayinn #irvingberlin #bingcrosby #fredastaire #marjoriereynolds #virginiadale #classic #1942 (at The Matt Cave) https://www.instagram.com/p/B50zHL5pFsq/?igshid=15xw0k5cofotw

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Mixing it up & taking a break from the Christmas Carol block, but still firmly in the classics. (Though as usual, I'm fast-forwarding the repugnant & wholly unnecessary blackface scene...why must casual racism ruin everything?) • Holiday Movie Spectaculár! [Volume III - I'll Have a Blu Christmas] Chapters 43: Holiday Inn • • • • • #HolidayMovieSpectaculár #iLoveMovies #christmasmovies #christmasspecials #holidays #movies #blurays #bluray #bluchristmas #classics #christmas #classicfilm #holidayinn #holidayinnmovie #irvingberlinsholidayinn #irvingberlin #bingcrosby #fredastaire #marjoriereynolds #1942 (at The Matt Cave) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsJ47RThAg6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14rylc2i5vbaf