Review of Gone with the Wind (1939) by Art S — 22 Oct 2011
I don't have much respect for this movie, and I say this as someone who grew up and still resides in Clayton County, GA, where the novel/movie was supposed to have taken place, and where there are Tara- and GoTW-related items and tourist traps all over the place.
On a technical level, the movie is PURTY and GRAND. As far as acting and direction goes, the material and the time it was made, it demands hokey melodrama, and that's delivered that in spades. However, as far as its morality goes, this movie is completely bereft due to its Confederate apologia and historical revisionism.
I guess I'm being "too black" by saying I don't have patience for movies that romanticize the Antebellum and post-Civil War South, and anyone who knows anything about what black people went through after the Civil War already knows why, so I don't have to explain myself.
This movie did a disservice to Southern USA history and to Americans in general by telling (and convincing) scores of people that Confederates and their cause were worth pitying. No, they weren't.
Trust me.
This review of Gone with the Wind (1939) was written by Art S on 22 Oct 2011.
Gone with the Wind has generally received very positive reviews.
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