I think Spielberg and all of us might be surprised if we knew just how much of our cultural lexicon has been rewritten over the years.
There is a large portion of children’s literature that has been changed multiple times over the decades due to the extreme and blatant and replete racism - including Dr Doolittle, Peter Pan, and Mary Poppins to name only a few.
This isn’t censorship though so we need to mark the difference between capitalism and censorship. You can still go read the original versions of these. No one is deleting them. They just aren’t publishing them.
The same has not happened to film yet, as much, probably due to technology. But it might as these IPs age. But again will that be censorship or capitalism?
There is a large portion of children’s literature that has been changed multiple times over the decades due to the extreme and blatant and replete racism - including Dr Doolittle, Peter Pan, and Mary Poppins to name only a few.
This isn’t censorship though so we need to mark the difference between capitalism and censorship. You can still go read the original versions of these. No one is deleting them. They just aren’t publishing them.
The same has not happened to film yet, as much, probably due to technology. But it might as these IPs age. But again will that be censorship or capitalism?