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 While this movie did not get many things right. It did get many themes right. Such as the Southern pride thinking that they could win the war with the idea that they were gentlemen that knew how to fight and fact that the north had the advantage of ships, ammunition, guns, and other such necessities of war. It also got the timeline right of the south winning the war in the beginning then the north starting to win. Next it got the destruction of Atlanta right with how the north went on a path of destruction and burning on the road to Atlanta. It also got the roles of the women in the movie right with how they had to help during the war by becoming nurses then after the war they had to pick up the work on the farm.-Ryan K
+This movie gets many general topics/concepts right. One being that women who were left at home during the war had to step up and work hard to stay afloat. This is shown when Scarlett goes back home to the destroyed Tara and does whatever she had to keep the plantation running. Another concept this film gets right is that Sherman burned and destroyed everything in his path. It also got right that during this time period girls were primarily valued only for their beauty and marriage prospects. -Maddy Woodard
+I think that the only thing that this movie gets in terms of being historically accurate is how the South behaves during the Civil War in a general sense. -Kazu Ferris
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 Gone with the Wind while got many themes right did not get the specifics right and skipped over the racial issues of the time. Such as how the slaves were portrayed to be happy to be working for Scarlett. Just like in the patriot even after they were freed after the war they just continued to work there as if they were part of the family. And the Ashley saying that they didn't treat the slaves badly just reminded me of the patriot again. The only instance that mistreatment of slaves was brought up was when Scarlett's father said you are being to hard on the slaves like she was their parent or teacher scolding their child. Overall this movie did not touch the issue of slavery in the slightest bit which should of been the biggest issue in this movie.-Ryan King
+Gone with the Wind did not portray the horror of slavery and instead tried to spin it to look much less awful than it really was in reality. It romanticized it. -Kazu Ferris
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 This film was created during the height of Jim Crow laws and the black actors were not allowed to attend the premiere. Needless to say, it’s not shocking, but still upsetting, with how the glaring issue of race is portrayed. This film does provide insight into what Hollywood and the general American audience thought of the Civil War. It was highly romanticized in its depictions of the enslaved people. They wanted to believe slavery “wasn’t that bad” but didn’t shy away from the violence and horror of the Civil War on Southerners. - Allie
+The way in which Gone With the Wind portrays the events it does tells us a lot about the people who created it, and the atmosphere surrounding the Civil War era in the film industry of the time. When the movie was released, the Civil War had ended less than a century ago — many of its veterans were still alive. Despite some changes from the source material, such as skirting any specific mention of the Ku Klux Klan, the movie largely ignores the concepts of slavery and racism in favor of a vaguely defined Lost Cause that would not offend any with immediate connections to the conflict. - Claire
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 Gone with the Wind is one of the highest-grossing films of all time and this is significant due to the fact that it romanticizes the Antebellum South and largely ignores the horrors of slavery. It even goes as far as to depict slavery as a being something good and beneficial, with slaves content and happy with their lot in life and lacking any desire to change it. The film is definitely a product of its time but it has also influenced how many generations viewed slavery and the Civil War in general. It perpetuates the narrative of the South as a victim, framing the Confederacy's efforts in the war as being a defense of their way of life (slavery) being threatened. It also further goes on to depict the aftermath of the war in the South and the devastation southerners faced, all while completely ignoring the very real suffering slaves faced and the impact of slavery as an institution in the South. Given the films enduring legacy, it's all too likely that not many of the people who watched or will watch this film will go out of their way to research what this period in time was actually like which leads to further complications and distortions in our understanding of the past. -Vumiliya V.
+Gone With the Wind is the quintessential piece of media often thought of in popular culture when the romanticized concept of the antebellum and Civil-War era South comes up. I have personally seen several parties and balls on social media over the years themed after the movie, often thought of by attendees as a love story whose historical roots are an afterthought irrelevant to the fantasy of being Scarlett O’Hara. Of course, with this comes the criticism that only privilege can allow these often white women to play pretend in a sandbox that includes the horrors of slavery and the Civil War. The aspects of its setting that Gone With the Wind chooses to focus on, and the aspects that it chooses to minimize, heavily impact society’s impression of that period. - Claire