Posted on 12/15/2013 6:36:59 AM PST by BigReb555
I saw that once on TCM, a couple of years ago. They may show it again at some point.
.As for Melanie, she appeared sappy and sweet, but she even gained Scarlett's love and respect because Melanie was everything Scarlett had been trained for and could not be....and what Scarlett so admired in her mother....ever the lady to the world, kind and gentle, but smart and tough as nails.
I have to give you that point about Melanie, lol. Rhett respected her, as well.
I haven’t read the book in years; you remind me that I need to do so. It’s better than the movie, IMO.
There were indeed people who lived the pampered life portrayed in GWTW.
Was it the norm? Not at all. But there were something around 2,000 families who owned more than 100 slaves each, and something like 5,000 to 10,000 who owned more than 50. (Not sure about this second number.) They totally dominated the economy and politics of the South.
Even though they were such a small percentage of the population, they were the ideal of “the southern way of life,” and thus the goal of just about all white southerners. They, and the less wealthy white southerners, and white northerners, thus all thought of them as the true representatives of “The South.”
This is similar to the way the nobility dominated Europe up through the 19th century, despite being a very small part of the people.
Read GWTW in high school...many moons ago...and have always enjoyed the film. One minor note, there was a secret viewing of GWTW, sort of a trial viewing, at a theatre in Riverside CA. Viewers were told prior to the film starting no one would be seated or allowed to leave after the movie started. Little did the audience know they would be seeing the biggest movie to come out of hollywood in years at this sneak preview in this theatre in this small town 80 miles outside of LA.
The entire sentence wouldn’t fit, but this much of it, at least, makes a good tagline. Thanks.
What an uplifting story, thank you!
Yes it has, although I don’t know if the other screening rooms were added or that the main theater has been chopped up. But it also sounds like it was restored and finally reopened. The last movie I saw there was Seabiscuit in 2003.
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