BREAKING NEWS – Portland, Oregon – The NW Film Center canceled an Aug. 6 outdoor screening of the 1990 movie “Kindergarten Cop,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, after it was excoriated on Twitter for glorifying the traumatization of children by police and compared to “Birth of a Nation” and “Gone with the Wind.”
The film had been planned to serve as the kick-off event for a “Cinema Unbound” summer drive-in movie series at Zidell Yards, according to Willamette Week.
The movie stars Schwarzenegger as a detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to root out a drug dealer whose child may be one of the students in the class. It was filmed in Astoria, Ore., and turns 30 in December of this year.
Other films that were given the boot were “The Sound of Music” because it didn’t have any people of color in it, “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” because there were no same sex couples, and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” because the NW Film Center felt that because the car in the musical could float as well as fly, it offended black people because it was way too “pimped out”.