Arrow keys, space, tap! (Spoiler alert for the plot of GWTW) ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ Hi everyone! Here, I talk about the second most racist movie to change film history, after Birth of a Nation (1915). Gone with the Wind (1939) is incredible...y racist. It's also got great characters, pretty dresses, and amazing actors. ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ If I made a mistake, I would like to know so that I can apologize, learn from it and rectify it. ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ I wouldn't encourage people under thirteen to watch it, since there is some fake-looking blood (okay ngl it kind of made me laugh), the horrors of war, and you need to be able to think critically about this film to watch it. ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ I'd be happy to talk about the finer points of racism in this movie with specific examples, as well as talk about how Selznick (the producer) toned down the racism in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. It's worth noting that she did not live through the Civil War, so GWTW is a piece of Old South propoganda, but that Mitchell did not know that the South lost the Civil War until she turned ten. ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ QOTD: Would you watch this movie? ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ If you've seen GWTW, what did you think of it? (It is too long, I would agree) Comment below!
