I have expanded the article since, yesterday, a trusted correspondent advised me of the "controversial nature" of the topic. I therefore try with greater earnest to pre-empt some of the worst mudslinging that might come my way. Fear it I do not, but one tries to avoid misunderstandings.
Second, your own blog interests me. What are the bad things that started in the state of Texas? And what are the good? For intrigue brings enquiry, and enquiry brings understanding, but only when it's answered.
I hope you gain something from GWTW; and if not, that you at least enjoy the show. LARGE bag of popcorn.
The score is by the "John Williams" or "Hans Zimmer" of his age - Max Steiner, and is pretty impressive, even if you close your eyes the entire time. Scarlett O'Hara is a women who is brought up by her mother to believe that Southern grace and elegance will secure a safe passage through life. She rues ever having listened to her mother, because the war brings such change, that she needs constantly to adapt.
The film attracts criticism for its light treatment of slavery. The film is set in times of slavery but is not about slavery. It is about a woman, and from a feminist viewpoint, it serves their cause handsomely, and, in doing, must leave other matters by the wayside, otherwise it gets too complicated. It is about a woman's struggle to assert herself in an increasingly man's world. She was many men's wife. And she kept none of these men, and never got the one she yearned for. But she never ceased to be her own woman. She makes many errors, but learns quickly from them. And she has drive and energy that few others have. She's a bitch, and I love her.
Her constant maxim of "Tomorrow is another day" can be viewed as prevarication; or as resignation to the fact that, no matter how well she adapts today, things will change the next day, and she will then, needs must, adapt once again.
My parents would not let me see Gone with the Wind in the 1950’s. I always wondered why. Now I have to see it.
Hi Mary Ann
Just back at you for two things:
I have expanded the article since, yesterday, a trusted correspondent advised me of the "controversial nature" of the topic. I therefore try with greater earnest to pre-empt some of the worst mudslinging that might come my way. Fear it I do not, but one tries to avoid misunderstandings.
Second, your own blog interests me. What are the bad things that started in the state of Texas? And what are the good? For intrigue brings enquiry, and enquiry brings understanding, but only when it's answered.
I hope you gain something from GWTW; and if not, that you at least enjoy the show. LARGE bag of popcorn.
The score is by the "John Williams" or "Hans Zimmer" of his age - Max Steiner, and is pretty impressive, even if you close your eyes the entire time. Scarlett O'Hara is a women who is brought up by her mother to believe that Southern grace and elegance will secure a safe passage through life. She rues ever having listened to her mother, because the war brings such change, that she needs constantly to adapt.
The film attracts criticism for its light treatment of slavery. The film is set in times of slavery but is not about slavery. It is about a woman, and from a feminist viewpoint, it serves their cause handsomely, and, in doing, must leave other matters by the wayside, otherwise it gets too complicated. It is about a woman's struggle to assert herself in an increasingly man's world. She was many men's wife. And she kept none of these men, and never got the one she yearned for. But she never ceased to be her own woman. She makes many errors, but learns quickly from them. And she has drive and energy that few others have. She's a bitch, and I love her.
Her constant maxim of "Tomorrow is another day" can be viewed as prevarication; or as resignation to the fact that, no matter how well she adapts today, things will change the next day, and she will then, needs must, adapt once again.