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Aside from the idealization of the Old South, I think one of the biggest inaccuracies in the movie is the issue of slavery. The slaves at Tara and Twelve Oaks aren’t mistreated. Mr. O’Hara even scolds Scarlett for pushing them so hard. Of course, Mammy, Prissy, and Pork don’t run away during or after the war. Big Sam even goes back to Tara because he’s “had enough of those carpetbaggers.” And the O’Hara slaves think of themselves as miles above all that poor white trash riffraff, and they’re also willing to blatantly backtalk and boss around their masters. The worst threat of bodily harm is when Scarlett yells that she’ll whip Prissy for being completely unhelpful when Melly is in labor, but we know she won’t do it. If such a family was that kind toward their slaves, they probably would have been the pariahs of the South. To add on to those inaccuracies, there’s the fact that every black person in the movie is a stereotype: the overbearing mammy, the large gentle giant, the ignorant ninny, and so on. --Taylor Brann | Aside from the idealization of the Old South, I think one of the biggest inaccuracies in the movie is the issue of slavery. The slaves at Tara and Twelve Oaks aren’t mistreated. Mr. O’Hara even scolds Scarlett for pushing them so hard. Of course, Mammy, Prissy, and Pork don’t run away during or after the war. Big Sam even goes back to Tara because he’s “had enough of those carpetbaggers.” And the O’Hara slaves think of themselves as miles above all that poor white trash riffraff, and they’re also willing to blatantly backtalk and boss around their masters. The worst threat of bodily harm is when Scarlett yells that she’ll whip Prissy for being completely unhelpful when Melly is in labor, but we know she won’t do it. If such a family was that kind toward their slaves, they probably would have been the pariahs of the South. To add on to those inaccuracies, there’s the fact that every black person in the movie is a stereotype: the overbearing mammy, the large gentle giant, the ignorant ninny, and so on. --Taylor Brann | ||
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| + | I agree with Lauren on the issue with Ashley’s return to home. He did not step up to his masculinity roles and in a way depended on Scarlett to help him. Scarlett was running the household and keeping people’s hopes up. –Ashley Scutari | ||
== 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 == | ||
