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To: DoodleDawg

Seriously, you are so ignorant about literature, it’s not worth discussing. Take your cause up with someone else.


516 posted on 04/14/2015 1:27:05 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: miss marmelstein
Seriously, you are so ignorant about literature, it’s not worth discussing. Take your cause up with someone else.

Whatever, girlfriend. But can you truly not see that "Gone With The Wind" was a romanticized portrait of a South that didn't really exist except in Margaret Mitchell's imagination? And that while it may have had some historical accuracy in the broadest sense of the term, in its details it was one-sided and biased towards the Confederate side? Which, given Margaret Mitchell's background, it understandable?

517 posted on 04/14/2015 1:39:48 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To be fair, the film (or at least the depiction) is not without controversy. I went to IMDB.com - which is the authoritative resource for film - and looked up GWTW.

They give it an overall score of 8.9 which is virtually film perfection. Very few films are rated higher. But a caveat offered right up front starts with: “Whether we like the film, or not....”. Further down the line I see: “People don’t watch Gone With The Wind for the history...” before lavishing praise on the acting, sets, etc.

The point is the storyline itself reflects a regional bias and takes liberties with historical facts. It’s perfectly acceptable for fiction, but shouldn’t be taken for gospel.


519 posted on 04/14/2015 1:48:45 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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