When I start watching Gone with the Wind, and believe me it’s hard to watch, I find myself watching a biased, historically inaccurate film portraying the Civil War from a Southern perspective. When I see black soldiers from the south telling the main character Scarlett that she doesn’t have to worry because they’re going to fight the Yankees, I can’t help but smile from the irony and historical inaccuracies. The film portrays slaves and southern whites living in a symbiotic relationship and it’s the damn Yankees that have come and spoiled it. It’s the Yankees' fault that the Civil War has come to fruition and the Yankees should have just left the Confederacy alone because they didn’t do anything wrong. The movie fails to portray the true horrifying aspects of being a slave and that if you were an abled bodied slave, you would have run away long before Sherman’s army had gotten to Atlanta. I’m amazed by the ignorance that existed at the time the film and book were made, and I hope people look at the film as being fiction and historically false.
MIKE
6 comments:
I'm with List. It was a very biased movie that did not portray the old south accuratly. Although this was the point. Of the parts I did watch, I enjoyed it. Although it could be slow at parts, and other sections were so horificly inacurate I still found it to be entertaining. I wish we could watch the rest of the movie, if only to recognize the innacuracies of the film.
~Khris~
I kind of agree with the fact that the movie was pretty inaccurate. I mean, the part when slaves were like "yeah lets go take down those yankees" was pretty rediculous and I dont think they would have ever said that. Also, slaves and whites would have never had the type of relationship that was shown in the movie. On the other hand, I dont really think that the movie was going for historical accuracy as much as just entertainment. Gone With the Wind is pretty much considered a chick flick so I dont think they were really too concerned about making a lot of the movie accurate.
Brittany
I agree with Mike that Gone with the Wind was biased and completely inaccurate. I haven't seen all of Gone with the Wind, just what we watched in class, and I don't plan on watching it in the near future. The portrayal of slaves was ridiculous in this movie, and the truth is the opposite what occurred in this movie. I guess when this movie came out, this is what people thought was what happened during the Civil War. I think this movie gave a false impression of what happened during the Civil War to many people at the time it was released.
List has got it right. i couldnt believe how biase the movie is and i was shocked when the slaves told scarlett that the were gunna go the yankees. I also thought it was terribly biased in the movies view of Sherman and the union troops. The movie shows a firey background as if sherman troops were straight out of hell. I do think though that the fear/hatred of the north was portrayed somewhat correctly and the setting was excellent. Still a little disappointed i didn't hear the last line.
-Jeff
I agree with Mike. The movie was totally biased because the slaves were going off to war against the people who were trying to free them. Plus we learned in class that by then a lot of them had fled to the Union lines. The portrayal of the Union troops was also very biased, but that part i can understand because the movie is still from a southern point of view and that was bound to be biased like the myths about how Union prisoners of war were treated in southern camps.
Before I post this, i might note that my relatives fought and died for the Union. But none of us were there so we can't say how complex the relationships between slaves and owners might have been. No doubt, however as a whole, because of the gross mistreatment they received the majority of slaves would have bailed and ran given the first chance. One of the biggest problems with the film is that they portray one view of the south, from a rich elitist perspective when the vast overwhelming majority of civil war era whites were poor dirt farmers who owned no slaves. Its a sad and bloody mark on our history as a nation, one that we will never fully understand.
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