Post by moonlight91 on Mar 3, 2017 5:33:17 GMT
I have watched Gone With The Wind since I was nine where when I tell people its my favorite movie, they are shocked as though I am not suppose to like it or something. I remember one time being 12 reading the book where the Principal at my school saw me reading it and just couldn't imagine it until I told her my admiration for Scarlett.
I don't see this movie as racist, yes it is setting in the Old South; yet this movie can be told in any setting as it is the story of how to survive when one is on the losing side. Scarlet is probably one of the most complex characters where calling her a manipulative bitch is a shallow interpretation. Mammy is a great character, I love how the film expanded her character from the book (in which she took Archie and Will's roles in the second half) and we got some wonderful moments of her being the logic in the film. The only character I never could stand was Prissy, I want to throw a book at her if it got her to stop screeching.
I don't see this movie as racist, yes it is setting in the Old South; yet this movie can be told in any setting as it is the story of how to survive when one is on the losing side. Scarlet is probably one of the most complex characters where calling her a manipulative bitch is a shallow interpretation. Mammy is a great character, I love how the film expanded her character from the book (in which she took Archie and Will's roles in the second half) and we got some wonderful moments of her being the logic in the film. The only character I never could stand was Prissy, I want to throw a book at her if it got her to stop screeching.
