Gone With the Wind Reflection
This famous movie was made in 1938 and released in 1939 with the winner title of 10 Academy Awards. When released it was extremely popular making it the highest earning film for over a quarter of a century. It was the first color film to win Oscars for Best Picture. The movie mainly filmed in North Little Rock, Arkansas after the book written by Margaret Mitchell. It presented a sentimental view of the Civil War. Gone with the Wind provides a romanticized view of the South during the Civil War.
Slavery is shown in a positive light and the film is commiserating to the Confederate cause. This movie tells the story of the American Civil War from the perspective of a young southern woman named Scarlett O’Hara. She is in love with Ashley Wilkes but learns that he wants to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. Eventually, Ashley returns home on a Christmas furlough and asks Scarlett to take care of Melanie because she is pregnant. Then Melanie went into labor and Scarlett with her servant Prissy had to be there with her when she birthed the child. Lastly, they all had to flee through the city that was on fire.
Obviously since this was movie was made many years the technology and movie making was a whole different system. So, they only had so much they could work with to try to make look like it did during the period of the war. In today’s world if this was made now it would be a lot more realistic, and imaginable to the audience. In the past 20 years, film production has been changed drastically by the impact of rapidly improving digital technology. The digital age has allowed for now better quality, color, sound, and computer-generated imagery.
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