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* The Civil War was portrayed as The War of Northern Aggression. This helps the audience see the evils done by the Union Army, while the South plays the role of victim. | * The Civil War was portrayed as The War of Northern Aggression. This helps the audience see the evils done by the Union Army, while the South plays the role of victim. | ||
* Rhett is the consummate distinguished Southern gentleman without a bad bone in his body. He was pragmatic and diplomatic in is speeches towards the North. Rhett was so moralistic and level- headed that any cause or ideology could be justified and defended by such an upstanding character. -Jason Ward | * Rhett is the consummate distinguished Southern gentleman without a bad bone in his body. He was pragmatic and diplomatic in is speeches towards the North. Rhett was so moralistic and level- headed that any cause or ideology could be justified and defended by such an upstanding character. -Jason Ward | ||
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| + | Adjusted for inflation, this film would out-gross Titanic by a long shot. This film has had an impact, subtle or not, on every film made about the South since its release. While the South is heavily romanticized, we (the public with a Northern slant) still look down on it as we do with every other culture we romanticize. In his landmark book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that by romanticizing "Oriental" (Middle Eastern and Asian) culture, Western nations justified their imperial and colonial initiatives. Gone With the Wind may appear to be a pro-Southern film, but it is actually a manifestation that very justification. Outside of the former Confederacy (I'm leaving my arguments about Virginia as still being part of the South at the door), audiences viewed and continue to view this film with a Northern influence. The perpetuation of this romantic stereotype serves to justify the North's "conquering" of the South. - Sarah Richardson | ||
== 5 Other movies/questions of style/framing/storyline == | == 5 Other movies/questions of style/framing/storyline == | ||
