Posted on 09/05/2020 11:33:29 AM PDT by DFG
Two ways to say the same thing.
It’s a very good movie, you’ll enjoy it. Scarlett, the ultimate narcissist versus Rhett, her smart, handsome, seemingly narcissist-proof victim (not quite). Oh yeah, and something about the Civil War and Atlanta burning and stuff.
Just stuck GWTW in my Netflix queue. Will be awhile. There are 17 movies in front of it.
“...a black screenwriter suggested its portrayal of the Civil War South doesn’t sufficiently capture slavery’s horrors.”
Does he/she know it’s fiction, not a documentary?
Not a very bright racist.
It’s sort of a soap opera sprawled across the civil war and reconstruction. Clark Gable felt it was a chick flick and didn’t take it all that seriously. Leigh won the oscar and Gable didn’t. Hattie McDaniel won as the first black to ever win an oscar (supporting actress). It’s a landmark film many consider the peak moment of golden age Hollywood. The color cinematography is gorgeous for the period it was made. While box office records have long been eclipsed it might still hold the record for most paid tickets to see it in a theatre since it was rereleased many times after its initial run. Overall it is very well done.
So much unbelievable snowflake garbage.
Most complaints about any movies and shows and books are non-sequiturs.
Such as, GWTW is not ABOUT slavery! Why the hell would there be anything in it showing the “horrors” of slavery?
BTW I’m shocked no one ever brings up a highly upsetting quote by Ashley in the Reconstruction era, at the mill.
He objects to using convicts for the mill, and says “I will not use the forced labor of others!” To which Scarlett replies “You weren’t so concerned about us using slaves.”
Ashley: “That was different. We didn’t treat them that way.”
But of course, these flunkies probably have never actually watched it, much less read the book. BTW the book has a segment where Yankee women upset a slave who drives a carriage with them in it. He cried to his mistress that they insulted him and laughed at his features and ignored him at the same time, like he was an animal.
Remember how the Left cried “Foul” when the PMRC suggested putting warning labels on records back in the 80s?
And Olivia de Havilland just died.......she was Melanie(I think.)
It is a great movie.
But it’s not quite the way people often portray it.
Scarlett is a rascal, but she is not simply to be dismissed as some evil...wench. She is tough and smart and inconquerable.
And honestly, while she chases rainbows over her teenage crush, even she probably knows mid-movie she doesn’t really love him.
The bottom line is, this is a love story....but not about men and women.
There is one true love for Scarlett, and that is her passion for her home. It drives everything she does, ultimately.
Haven’t seen the film, but on the basis of a recent review of the book by blogger Danusha Goska, I read all 1036 pages of it and consider it a contender for The Great American Novel. Thanks for the recommendation, Prof.Goska. (She’s worth a read on her own merit, by the way.)
The injustices of Reconstruction are no longer taught in American history, but they explain much of the latent, patronizing racism in the Democrat Party.
I recall a literature professor when I was in college calling it the greatest soap opera ever.
We’ve learned liberals are so thin skinned that they cannot tolerate even an old movie.
Congratulations, America, you raised a bunch of crybabies.
Who raised them?
Basically, Dr. Spock and the “Greatest Generation”. It all went downhill from there.
All that the idiot Dr. Spock did was give permission to lazy people not to discipline their children. They didn’t want to and weren’t in the first place.
That screaming brat in the toy section of Wal-Mart who threw himself to the ground and being ignored by his biological parent is now on our streets throwing the same temper tantrum. The cure is still a good spanking.
This Oscar award-winning epic picture, an American classic, is now a problem to some obscure black writer 80 years later?
Clear evidence that the film is not the problem but the triggered black writer instead.
Get a life.
More real history in GWTW than you’ll find in most Ivy League Universities.
Lots of folks don't know that Georgia chain gangs were a liberal reform.
Which, of course, brings to mind the communist propaganda of "I Am a Fugitive From A Georgia Chain Gang" (book and movie (omitting Georgia from the title).
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