[Pahuanui]

It was true in 1939, when Gone With the Wind looked back on the antebellum South as an unrivalled period of grace and beauty never to be seen again.

I'm glad it's never been seen again; what utter saccharine tripe.

[Grand Old Partisan]

You're right. The business about GWTW is on page 6 of the book.

[wardaddy]

I dunno about that. Rhett's handling of that brat Scarlett is not without some redemption...lol

"I'm just not going to think about it right now...tommorrow is another day".....man even today's Belles down here have some level of that passive-aggressiveness in them...trust me. Old habits die hard.

[Ohioan]

You state about "Gone With The Wind:"

I'm glad it's never been seen again; what utter saccharine tripe.

Did you even see the movie? Saccharine! It is full of scenes capturing the horror of the War, followed by the horror of reconstruction in a ruined South. What are you talking about? Is it hatred--yours--for the cultivated, refined South that was smashed in the war--the South of Jefferson, Madison, the Lees, and their deep southern counterparts--that you are venting?

On the other hand, "Gone With The Wind" was one of Hollywood's last balanced efforts, in which a fair vision of the old South was presented. What followed World War II, was a vicious assault on Southern culture. If this new movie really does present a fair view, it will have been very long over-due.

The use of the movies against the South, and to promote antagonism between the races and sections, over the past half-century, has been so vicious, that I used it as the major example in the essay, just posted, on The Persuasive Use Of Images. Perhaps your attitude was forged by those hateful images, referred to. Perhaps not. But there is nothing "saccharine" about "Gone With The Wind."

William Flax

[Austin Willard Wright]

Actually, Gone With the Wind is an anti-Confederacy movie in many ways. It portrays the Old South (represented by Ashley Wilkes) as a hollow delusion. The gun running/pro-market Rheut Butler, an acerbic critic of the status quo, is depicted in more favorable terms.