Gone With the Wind

http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/gone-with-the-wind-should-go-the-way-of-the-confederate-flag/    -Article used    

Gone with the wind a film that progressed in many ways at its time and is still very memorable to most film watchers. Out of the many reasons that Gone with the wind is memorable one significant inclusion of gone with the wind is using black actors and actresses whom eventually wins an Oscar 

( Hattie Mcdaniel). Before movies such as Gone with the Wind  approximately 500 "race" movies or "race" films were produced for an all-black audience with all black cast between 1915-1950, but including blacks in serious films with white both audience are able to watch and inactively enjoy the film. Gone with the wind. We see a similarity between gone with the wind and a current film who also won an Oscar "12 Years a Slave". 

A closer caparison to the themes and plots of these two films is spoken about in an article by NYpost. Both films contained slaves and blacks as workers under whites, which pin point the times of racism and the use of the "N" word. In Gone with the wind and according to the article there is no direct reference in the film to the Ku Klux Klan, but it’s still pretty clear that the unseen “political meeting’’ that Rhett and Ashley attend after the attack on Scarlet involves the activities of vigilantes in white sheets. It is also known that Gone with the wind beat The Wizard of Oz for Best Pictures. 

Although the majority of the article spoke about Gone with the wind celebrating t the confederate flag and racism, when I watch the movie that thought did not come to my mind. I saw a masterpiece being presented in front of me and even though as an African woman I do not support the act of blacks as slaves or servant, I have come to an understanding that those times happened and should be behind us, so focusing on another aspect of the film "Gone with the Wind " was my concentration. I saw that Scarlett throughout the movie matured and found herself carelessly taking care of others but herself. She eventually represented a strong woman who in our present day society is very much appreciated. But back then Scarlett was looked as by her society negatively in some sense.  She did what she could to survive, although marrying men who she did not love was a bit off, meanwhile it was a technique of hers to get what she wanted and at the end she prevailed without hurting her friend Mellie. It is Ironic that her name was Scarlett and she went around as a woman wearing a Scarlett letter as other woman husbands clang to her for her beauty. 

Overall the movie was so interesting that the fact of it being over three hours long was not so bad.  

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