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As Jackie said, there were a lot of things that the movie did get right, such as one scene where Rhett tells Scarlett that she has to date him because "there is no one else around older than 16 and younger than 60 to show [her] a good time." As we discussed in class, most of the men in the South during the Civil War between those ages were off fighting, and many of them died, posing a problem for the women back at home. ~Katherine Stinson~ | As Jackie said, there were a lot of things that the movie did get right, such as one scene where Rhett tells Scarlett that she has to date him because "there is no one else around older than 16 and younger than 60 to show [her] a good time." As we discussed in class, most of the men in the South during the Civil War between those ages were off fighting, and many of them died, posing a problem for the women back at home. ~Katherine Stinson~ | ||
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| + | The movie does a good job at portraying history to many degrees. Certain scenes really put the viewer into historical perspective, such as the scene that shows the Yankees offering currently freed blacks 40 acres and a mule. The scene in which Ashley explains to Scarlett that using forced prison labor was less ethical than using “darkies” because any forced labor was a moral wrong goes to show that white slave owners who held slaves may have saw themselves as not practicing any form of forced labor. Even Ashley states that there was a major difference between the treatment of chained prisoners and his slaves, as he boasts he treated his slaves much better. James Drury | ||
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One of Rhett Butler's first lines in this film is him explaining how the North was better equipped than the South, a reason why they shouldn't have gone into war in the first place. He states that while the North was armed with factories, superior weapons, and coal mines, all the South had were "slaves, cotton, and arrogance." This is a nice summary of the South's economic dependence on the production of cotton, which is of course directly dependent on slave labor. Furthermore, the "arrogance" can be interpreted as their belief in white supremacy and how that may have driven the South to go to war (which the movie eventually proved to be destructive to them). - David F | One of Rhett Butler's first lines in this film is him explaining how the North was better equipped than the South, a reason why they shouldn't have gone into war in the first place. He states that while the North was armed with factories, superior weapons, and coal mines, all the South had were "slaves, cotton, and arrogance." This is a nice summary of the South's economic dependence on the production of cotton, which is of course directly dependent on slave labor. Furthermore, the "arrogance" can be interpreted as their belief in white supremacy and how that may have driven the South to go to war (which the movie eventually proved to be destructive to them). - David F | ||
