Revise: GWTW Movie Reflection

"Gone with the Wind" is an epic historical romance starring Scarlett O'Hara,
through the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in Georgia.

What Happens

In the first half of the film "Gone with the Wind" it starts off in the pre-Civil War era. The film mainly focused on the main character, Scarlett O'Hara. While the film is showing Scarlett starting drama over a boy at a barbecue, the world hears about the war that has officially started. The film shifts from everyone not having a care in the world to all of a sudden the audience could visually see tensions raised across everyone on the screen. 

While the Civil War is happening, the film focuses on Scarlett loosing her way of life at her family's plantation. It shows her hardships going through having no money and starvation for the first time in her life. She soon realizes that she cannot physically live like this anymore. The film ends with Scarlett swearing in a big open field that she would do anything it takes to change her life around and never be starving again.

My Favorite Character

One of my favorite characters in the film was Mammy. I thought Mammy was the best character out of all of them because I liked that she knew what she wanted and had her life together all the way from the very beginning of the film. It felt like she was the only one who kept her composure and had her life together. 

I think that it was clear that she was the leader of the family and without her they would all fall apart. I also liked how she was the only person to call Scarlett's bad behavior out and she never let it slide past her. All the other characters were to afraid to step up and say something. I liked how Mammy didn't care. 

Mammy was still going through the same thing as everyone else during the war and she kept her composure and lead her family with greatness and dignity throughout it all. I felt very inspired by her character.

What was Fictionalized

I believe that in some parts of the movie the filmmakers looked over some important factors about that time of slavery. I think the film didn't show enough bad parts of slavery, which is really important to see to be able to understand how bad slavery really was at that time. I think the movie could have shown important things at the time like poverty and family separation because that was a huge part of slavery.

Scarlett O'Hara

The main character Scarlett O'Hara, played by the actress Vivien Leigh was very good. In the start of the film I did not like her character. I didn't like how it seemed that she only cared about what boys thought about her and she just seemed like every other normal girl. By the end of the movie I started to like her a little more. She started becoming more aware of herself and the abilities she had. 

While she was going through poverty and starvation she realized that her life should be so much more than this. I like how she realized that she needed to step up and do something about it in order to change her life around and get what she knows she deserves. 

Concluding Thoughts

I honestly went into this movie blind. I had heard about it before and didn't really have any interest in ever watching it. But overall, the movie exceeded my expectations and was way better than I thought it was going to be. I liked the characters, the acting, the style of fashion, and the way it helped me better understand what was going on during that era.