[Tell It Right]

Agreed. It’s been years since I watched the movie, but that’s how I remember it. Scarlett acted like a wealthy airhead and the black maid acted like she was the only one in the room with common sense. And this was in a movie made in the 1930s.

[Verginius Rufus]

I had a literature professor in college who called it "the greatest soap opera ever."

I read the novel before I saw the movie. The novel does gloss over how bad slavery was for the slaves. I read somewhere that before the movie was released they made changes to make the movie less objectionable from the standpoint of black civil rights activists.

The novel's author was born after the Civil War but grew up hearing the attitudes of white Southerners to the War between the States and to Reconstruction.

[Publius]

Scarlett acted like a wealthy airhead and the black maid acted like she was the only one in the room with common sense.

Mammy was the moral center and conscience of the film.

[Ciaphas Cain]

I hate that movie.

I finally watched it all the way through one night in 2007, it was on Turner Classic Movies.

What I most remember from the experience is that I kept waiting for someone, ANYBODY, to give Scarlett a good hard slap in the face.

I posted about the ordeal on Facebook. To this day, almost twenty years later, friends tease me about my hate of Gone with the Wind (the movie anyway, I haven't read the book).