Deconstructing The Film 'Gone With The Wind'

There are many characteristics that contribute to the Classic Hollywood film score. Gone With The Wind serves as a paradigm, which means a distinct pattern of model of the classic Hollywood film score because it possess the qualities and characteristics of the film score throughout the story. First being that most often they employ well-known melodies such as “Dixie” and them famous “Tara” theme which is one of the most distinctive themes in the story. Also, another characteristic is that the film

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Mitchell portrays Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler as symbols of greed and superiority, while she depicts Melanie and Ashley Wilkes symbols of generosity and humility. Mitchell shows this from the very beginning of the novel, when we first hear of Rhett Butler at the Wilkes’ barbeque. He is described as a “black sheep” and he is greatly looked down upon from the moment

In King Vidor’s film Northwest Passage, based on the novel by Kenneth Roberts, the Native Americans are portrayed as the villains, attacking the White settlers in an animalistic manner. This film's depiction of American Indians has been seen as racist over the years. It was even deemed racist by Hollywood’s standards at the time it was made. Throughout the film they are shown as bloodthirsty savages. There is one shocking scene where one of the white soldiers is found eating native remains. This movie was made during a time when the practice of red face (using non-native actors and painting them up to resemble actual natives) was at its peak. There is one particular scene showing a drunk Indian, in which you

In 1926, “The General” is a comic, where Buster Keaton plays the protagonist and Johnny Gray plays as a soldier for the Confederacy. American films of the Civil War usually makes the Confederacy the hero due to them losing the war and fighting for slavery. The film, Gone With the Wind sets the perfect image for the Lost Cause by the slaves wandering during a beautiful sunset. This represents how a slave rather be a non-wage laborer than to be free. Also it sets the Reconstruction period as a barbaric period rather than trying to put the United States back together. American films were no longer featuring the Ku Klux Klan group due to the Birth of a Nation. American films even started showing pro-abolitionist, pro-Emancipation, and pro-Union films. The film,

Free will is the power to make your own choices without being influenced by others or by people’s ideas, however as members of a community we have a responsibility to each other. We have the responsibility to make people feel welcome and to treat them with respect. Even when someone is broken, they can be fixed and it is our duty as members of the community to help those in need and not to turn the blind eye and forget about it. That is not what Jesus taught, and believe it or not, Jesus is everywhere we turn. We therefore have to understand the difference from right and wrong and should also be able to evaluate and modify our behaviour and actions accordingly.

Movies can be dark. They can be devastating. They can be tragically sad, painfully colorful. Bright, burning, scarring. Yet, despite all that a movie can illustrate, movies made for the masses have boundaries on tragedy. They cannot show child rape; they cannot show a girl’s limbs being hacked off by a young boy. These images, while understood as descriptive writing in books, mark the edge of what viewers can subject themselves to in film. Film images can be ingrained in minds forever, while our imagination of similar scenes often remains a hazy, shifting, jumble of movements and face. As director of Beasts of No Nation, Cary Joji Fukunaga chose to make changes to the book through the inclusion of small additional scenes before the war, the added character of a big brother, and an additional final scene, to illustrate a version of Agu unseen in the book and in turn make the story more palatable to the average moviegoer. These changes, while they do not alter the general plot, give the story a more appealing trajectory.

Firstly, historical context plays an indispensable role in building Scarlett’s character. It’s obvious that she doesn’t become that character on purpose, she is affected by circumstance to be a feminist character. This historical context turns Scarlett into a woman who is merciless when needs and altruistic when really wants. The novel happens when the Civil War South breaks out. That is one of the most resented, abhorred and cursed war throughout history. At the age of 17, she has to suffer with the tragedy that her first husband is death in a war. Atlanta region, where she is still living, has been surrounded by Yankee soldiers. This is the first time that Scarlett has worked in a war hospital and witnessed all sufferings, lost and even the death, it’s really terrible. Be anxious for family, she decides to return Tara. Scarlett is courageous, she overcomes all difficulties during the way coming home regardless of the danger from war and

Scarlett O’Hara is not an amiable person. In fact, she is written to be disagreeable, and remains that way to the end of Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind. An altogether unpleasant character, Scarlett can be described as headstrong, spoiled, immature, and selfish. By the book’s conclusion, she does not undergo any character development that increases her congeniality; however, she does brave a myriad of harsh trials that shape her into a more dynamic and perceptive woman. The agonizing hardships she endures transform her from a juvenile Southern belle to a cunning and self-sufficient breadwinner.

Scarlett was written and published in 1991 by Alexandra Ripley. She was a writer and lived in Richmond, Virginia (Mitchell). Her intent was to have a sequel to the classic novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Mitchell’s two sons and husband came to her and asked if she would write the novel. The targeted audience was readers who had once fallen in love with Gone With the Wind and wanted the story to continue. The book was published by Warner Books. The author is familiar with the topic as she should be, since she was writing a sequel to a novel written by someone else, even though critics say that she does not follow the writing style of Margaret Mitchell (Who). Ripley wrote how she thought the sequel should be written, and was successful.

The general setting in this story is around the 1940s, or early 1950s, in Georgia (14). The story consist of traveling as well. The story does not give any specific timeline of the year, but it can be interpreted as the 1940s because of various little hints. One hint I found was the word ‘nickelodeon’ (29). I have only heard that word used back in the old days. Another clue that gave away the time period was when the grandmother mention the book Gone with the Wind (24). Gone with the Wind was published in 1936 (407), but this story was written in 1953 (418). Since there were not any mentions about war going on, we can assume this story took place after it, being in the 1940s, or early 1950s.

The exposition of a work of literature included the following three things: setting, time and characters. The setting for Gone With the Wind took place in a town called Tara in Georgia. The time of the story was during the Civil War. Tara is the home of the O’Haras. The main characters were the O’Hara’s. These are the three things that an exposition piece includes. The main character of the story is Scarlet O’Hara. She is very full of pride and gets around a lot. As the book begins she finds out the news that one of her beaus, Ashley Wilkes, is going to get married to his cousin Melanie. Melanie is the opposite of who Scarlet was. She was nice, considerate, always thinking of others before herself. Throughout the novel, a love triangle goes on with Scarlet, Ashley, and Rhett, a man that really fancies Ms. O’Hara. This love triangle creates Scarlet with a big conflict. The only reason she married her first husband was to make Ashley jealous. This however did not work for her. She still finds herself madly in love with Mr. Wilkes, as she thinks. At the barbeque Rhett Butler shows up in the novel after Scarlet had just finished fighting with Ashley. He makes it very obvious that he wants to see more of her but Ms. O’Hara is not close to being interested.

Greenburg spends much time discussing the background of the film, and why everything is depicted the way it is shown. He also spends time discussing what things remind him of from other films. Such as when talking about how it does not seem futuristic, but from another dimension. Almost representing a feel as how The Wizard of Oz is a different world. The technology was not advanced, but not completely foreign. Just different in a way he could not place. He continues to uses much evidence from other horror films to prove his points about his beliefs. He discusses how the scene with Jonas the cat and Brett, remind him of the camera effects in Psycho where to doors are getting closer. I believe he is looking for things he has already witnessed

I watched this mini documentary about a Vice news reporter named Tania Rashid travels to a city in Bangladesh named Sylhet. She met with two perpetrators of gang rape that wished to cover their faces during the documentary and confessed to raping multiple women. Tania also met with one of the victims and heard her story. She later met with local policemen to find out what is driving these men to rape and abuse women.

In Gone With the Wind it is tied to the history of the Civil War. So you can think of the book is divided into four main, honking sections: Pre-War, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction.