An Anniversary Showing of Gone With The Wind Can Be Seen Tonight
Gone with the Wind is one of my all time favorite movies and is a part of my video library, as from time to time I need a Gone with the Wind moment.
Written during the grimmest years of the Great Depression, the novel offered a historical message of hope during an economic cataclysm nearly as crushing to the larger nation as Sherman’s march through Georgia had been to the Confederacy. In Scarlett’s fierce determination to overcome hardship — “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!” — and Rhett’s sarcastic laughter even amid the most disastrous war in American history, Gone With the Wind gave hope to an America badly in need of hope.
Though set in the Old South, Mitchell’s story really represents the spirit of the New South, the can-do attitude espoused by Atlanta newspaper editor Henry Grady who, in the postbellum era, urged Southerners to reject nostalgic helplessness and embrace the challenges of industrial capitalism. The New South mentality and its consequences have their critics. The rush-hour traffic jams of my native Atlanta are a scourge that Georgians now curse as thoroughly as their ancestors cursed Sherman’s Yankee invaders. Yet forward-looking confidence continues to triumph over the alternative as surely as Rhett’s boldness trumped the honor-obsessed doubts of the rival he called “the wooden-headed Mr. Wilkes.”
Seventy years after his first appearance onscreen, gone with the wind cast, Rhett still charms millions, despite the damage done to his reputation by decades of political correctness. And as he tells Scarlett ohara during their scandalous first dance, “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
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