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What the deal with Scarlett's cleavage? Every other woman is dressed modestly except for Belle (no coincidence). Once Scarlett returns to Tara and her father, she takes to wearing her pink dress WAY unbuttoned, and after that it seems like the only time you don't see bare chest is when she's in mourning! But when she gets money and all these nice new clothes she does buy some dresses that cover her up more. This all seems quite scandalous to be in a movie in 1939. Someone mentioned "Aviator"--do you remember the cleavage discussion that went on with the board of censors? Yeah. How easy was it to get that much on screen for GWTW? -Whitney H. | What the deal with Scarlett's cleavage? Every other woman is dressed modestly except for Belle (no coincidence). Once Scarlett returns to Tara and her father, she takes to wearing her pink dress WAY unbuttoned, and after that it seems like the only time you don't see bare chest is when she's in mourning! But when she gets money and all these nice new clothes she does buy some dresses that cover her up more. This all seems quite scandalous to be in a movie in 1939. Someone mentioned "Aviator"--do you remember the cleavage discussion that went on with the board of censors? Yeah. How easy was it to get that much on screen for GWTW? -Whitney H. | ||
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| + | As far as censor issues go for this movie, I mostly think language and content was the issue--not cleavage. When comparing the chest size of Hughe's muse Jane Russell and Vivien Leigh it doesn't seem to be as big a deal you know? They weren't pushing the envelope much more than anyone else was back then. And plus, this was a BIG budget movie that was highly publicized and popular before filming even began so censors would not have even had much power over it. Alos keep in mind, they were probably sending things to the Prod. Code Office for approval throughout production. The two censor issues I know of were the lines "I don't give a damn" (got away with it cuz the emphasis was on "give" and not "damn" and the line "maybe you'll get luck and have an miscarriage" which had to be changed to "have an accident."--Jackie Reed | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
