"Gone With the Wind" is fiction, to be sure, and while both Mitchell and Selznick maintained that the book and movie aimed for historical accuracy, it doesn't purport to be a history of the American South in the mid-19th century.
But, as a phenomenally successful pop culture artifact, the movie has made an incalculable contribution to racism in America.
FOLKS, it's JUST A MOVIE!
To you.
To the PC crowd like this dolt in Sacramento, it is reality right up there on the silver screen....I mean it HAS to be real, 'cause it's in the movie!! Right?
I mean art is life...like, ya know? I mean, like, I can go to WalMart and buy me a life and toss it in the DVD player....it HAS to be real 'cause I saw it an' thought about it....
(sigh)
For me GWTW was a book about a woman named Scarlet O'Hara. Her character is the dominating factor and overshadows the slavery/war issue. If you want to be fascinated by a complex human being, caught up in love, war and survival, such as Scarlet read fiction. If you want the real history of the Civil War, read a history book. If you want to learn about real people in the Civil War read biography.
The critic is evidently disappointed that "Gone With The Wind" was a work of fiction, not a documentary.
I wonder how this guy would view a Busby Berkeley retrospective...
Some years ago the People's Republic of San Francisco sought to ban a number of books from it's libraries, among them "Alice In Wonderland" (it may have been "Mary Poppins"), as it was written from the "White Man's Burden" point of view.
I can see the inmates are still in control of that asylum we call California.
CA....
There are YANKEES in ATLANTA!