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This doesn’t 100 percent fit in this section but it is relevant. The actress who played Mammy, Hattie McDaniel, was forced to sit in a segregated section at the Oscars when she won the award for best supporting actress. This corroborates the racism that is so present in the film and supports our use of it as a primary source about it’s time. – Wesley Weeks | This doesn’t 100 percent fit in this section but it is relevant. The actress who played Mammy, Hattie McDaniel, was forced to sit in a segregated section at the Oscars when she won the award for best supporting actress. This corroborates the racism that is so present in the film and supports our use of it as a primary source about it’s time. – Wesley Weeks | ||
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| + | The scene at the end of the first half of the movie serves as a pretty good allegory to the survival spirit of the Depression, where Scarlet shakes her fist against a blood red sky, crying "As God as my witness, I'll never go hungry again. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God as my witness, I'll never go hungry again!" I think this determination, as well as Scarlet's eventually overcoming of all of these obstacles, presented a character that much of the original audience could relate to. People of the 1930s wanted to believe with hard work and determination, they too could accomplish the American dream. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
== 5 Other movies/questions of style/framing/storyline == | == 5 Other movies/questions of style/framing/storyline == | ||
