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| I think that it is important to look at this film through the time period it was made. During the Great Depression, the film industry thrived because people wanted to escape their financial worries by watching movies. This film depicts a well of Southern woman living in a big home and slaves working for her. Not that people during the depression wished they had slaves, but they probably wished that they were that affluent. **This film made viewers think of the “good old days” in the romanticized South.** | I think that it is important to look at this film through the time period it was made. During the Great Depression, the film industry thrived because people wanted to escape their financial worries by watching movies. This film depicts a well of Southern woman living in a big home and slaves working for her. Not that people during the depression wished they had slaves, but they probably wished that they were that affluent. **This film made viewers think of the “good old days” in the romanticized South.** | ||
| - | In many ways, Gone With The Wind is a primary source of its time. In other ways, it’s a little ahead of its time. Usually in films from this era, even when the protagonist is female, it is always the man, who is charming, comes in and saves the girl. The film turns this on its head, and has the man, though still charming, not save the girl, and leaves him as an antagonist. In fact, the film has most if its male figures either weak, stupid, or just plain mean. --- // | + | In many ways, Gone With The Wind is a primary source of its time. In other ways, it’s a little ahead of its time. **Usually in films from this era, even when the protagonist is female, it is always the man, who is charming, comes in and saves the girl. The film turns this on its head, and has the man, though still charming, not save the girl, and leaves him as an antagonist. In fact, the film has most if its male figures either weak, stupid, or just plain mean.** --- // |
| Though Gone with the Wind was made 75 years after the Civil War ended, the film was still very much a product of its time in regards to Southerners perception seceding from the union. **Since the film’s release in 1939, an additional 75 years has passed and the older it gets, the more racist and sexist it might appear to younger generations.** **Of course at the time (1939) organizations like the Klu Klux Klan were not only prevalent, but socially accepted in many regions. This film predates the Civil Rights Movement and a number of feminist movements** that clearly don’t apply within the context of this film, seen throughout as gender roles, a degree of spousal abuse, young women wedding much older men, the liberal use of the word “negro”, | Though Gone with the Wind was made 75 years after the Civil War ended, the film was still very much a product of its time in regards to Southerners perception seceding from the union. **Since the film’s release in 1939, an additional 75 years has passed and the older it gets, the more racist and sexist it might appear to younger generations.** **Of course at the time (1939) organizations like the Klu Klux Klan were not only prevalent, but socially accepted in many regions. This film predates the Civil Rights Movement and a number of feminist movements** that clearly don’t apply within the context of this film, seen throughout as gender roles, a degree of spousal abuse, young women wedding much older men, the liberal use of the word “negro”, | ||
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