Personal
Rating Scale: I would give this movie a 7 star out of 10. It is a great
American movie but is rather boring at times.
Gone
with the wind, directed by Victor Fleming, is a movie about the civil war in the
point of view of the South. The best guess for the movie’s genre is a classic,
drama, and romantic. This movie makes the North, or the Yankees, look like the
“bad “guys. It shows how tough it was to live in the South at the time of the
Civil War largely because it was where most of the fighting was. This movie had
good characters, exciting rising action and climax, and was an extravagant
movie that showed the Civil War in the eyes of the South.
As
seen in Gone with the Wind, the protagonist Scarlett deals with many hardships.
She struggles with hunger and swears she will never be hungry again. “As God is
my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to
live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor
any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness,
I'll never be hungry again” (Spark notes Editors). This quote by Scarlett
reveals that she is lacking hunger during the Civil War. Other main characters
include Ashley, who Scarlett loves at first, and Rhett Butler who she loves at
the end.
The
rising action in the first part of the movie is Scarlett having to confront the
fact that the man she loves, Ashley, is married to someone else. Not only that,
but the Civil War was starting. The climax being Scarlett returning to Tara
finding her mother dead and her planation looted. The falling action is
Scarlett swearing she will never go hungry again.
In
part two, Scarlett begins to rebuild Tara and had a troublesome relationship
with Rhett Butler. The climax in part two is Scarlett finally realizing she
loves Rhett Butler and she rushes home to tell him. A famous quote by Rhett
Butler: “My dear, I
don’t give a damn” (Spark notes Editors).He says this after Scarlett tells him
of her love but Rhett is so sick of how she treats that he doesn’t care. The
movie ends and Scarlett starts to think of ways to get him back.
This movie definitely showed how difficult it was for the
South during the Civil War. Once the South got past their negligence and
ignorance about slavery and came back to the Union, America grew stronger. Gone
with the Wind is a great mark of American History.
Special thanks to:
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Gone with the Wind.”
SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2003. Web. 22 Mar. 2012.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/quotes
