Gone with The Wind Reflection

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Gone with the Wind was the most interesting historical romance drama film I have seen to this day. This movie was created way back in 1938, and still is an extremely well-known famous movie. When the producer David O. Selznick released the movie a year later in 1939 the movie went wild. The entire movie was produced around the Civil War, starring Scarlett O’Hara as the main actor.

O’Hara was known as a “southern belle”. Throughout the movie the main actor on goes through ample conflicts with Rhett Butler and Ashley Wilkes regarding issues with love affairs. The purpose of these women's love affairs is to represent what is ongoing in the lives of women during this time period throughout the war. The film director, Victor Flemming, wanted to truly grasp David O. Selznick's idea of romance and war during this time period. This movie was centered around one of the hugest wars to ever occur in America, the Civil War.

This war went on for nearly four years, from 1861 to 1865. The war started on April 12th and finished on April 9th. I find it very ironic how the war almost ended on the same day it started in the same month four years later. This war was so impactful for the United States of America because it was fought between the North and South. The South wanted their independence, while the North wanted to be reunified as a whole with the South. This war lasted so long because of how intense it grew. After the first year, the war began to viciously accelerate. Each side was not only attacked by man to man, but started attacking each other socially, politically, economically, resources, and territory.

Throughout the film, there were ample scenes where the director used the women's love affairs to tie to the war. I found it interesting during the movie how slavery was shown often and very naturally. I would have thought there would have been a bit more scenes against slavery just because of how wrong slavery is. I also understand how these parts were necessary to completely represent what occurred during this time period and during the war. As a result of so much slavery being tossed around throughout the film, this has led to the movie being taken down from multiple media platforms. However, I wondered if it was really necessary to take it down.

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The actors in the movie were all presented as rich white women as well, this could have also been a negative side of the film. Since the film revolved around these women's love life and their husbands going off to war, this was one of the most impactful concepts I focused on. During the film often the slaves were really put to work. I liked how if you viewed the movie correctly you are able to realize the hardships of these slaves as well. The film had a hint of slavery as another low-key concept. The slaves were forced to undress and tuck these women to sleep as their job. The slaves also were forced to collect all belongings of their masters if there was to be a fire. This allowed me to see how rough it was for these African Americans and opened another perspective.