^ That’s a shot from Gone With the Wind. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s not an ode to the Confederacy and the “brave men” who died committing treason.
I watched Gone with the Wind for the first time (all four excruciating hours) because a friend from boarding school is vehemently against the news of the Orpheum Theater’s decision to stop playing the film.
A Memphis theater’s decision to cancel its traditional screenings of “Gone With the Wind” has angered fans of the classic movie.
The Civil War drama, starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, had been shown at the Orpheum Theatre for more than three decades as part of its classics series.
According to The New York Times, it was last shown on Aug. 11, the same night white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Va., carrying tiki torches and chanting anti-Semitic and Nazi slogans.
It’s her favorite film (I assume, since one of her daughters is named after the main character) and she made a very impassioned argument over the course of a couple of days explaining why Gone With the Wind deserves to retain its position on a pedestal in the history of film. I’m going to provide that argument in full and respond to all of her points, which I couldn’t do on her page because I was so upset after watching the film, I couldn’t believe people I know were fighting so hard to justify their love for this particular piece of art. If you’ve never seen Gone with the Wind, it starts with the credits and right off the back, please note that these are slaves:
Not servants. The revisionist history comes at you fast. After the credits, we have the set-up for the movie.
This movie is a love letter to the Confederacy set against an overly long and somewhat awkwardly told love story and spectacular costume & set design. It’s also a stunning piece of film-making (the first two-thirds anyway) and a genuine work of art. So where do we draw the line between preserving art and promoting shameful histories?
just moving along like everyone else 