Scarlett and Black: Why The Wind Done Endured
Published March 14, 2003
Overall, Gone With the Wind is weakest on race. It draws its power generally from the situation of the South, which was conquered without being annihilated. Rather, it was, more peculiarly, absorbed into an inimical civilization, a situation producing tensions that endure to this day (e.g., Trent Lott's comments about Strom Thurmond). But it's the character of Scarlett that accounts for the movie's enduring hold on our imagination--the flirty-pouty heroine who, despite herself, finds an empire-builder inside the corsets and hoopskirts.
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Alan Dale is the author of Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in Classic American Movies.
- Scarlett and Black: Why The Wind Done Endured
- Published: March 14, 2003
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I am not sure about this but I am almost positive. If you have the dvd version of Gone With the Wind look on chapter 20 in the scene where Prissy comes back without the doctor for Melanie and Scarlett get s angry and says; "And don't you be upsetting her or i'll whipe the hide off you!" Immediately after that Prissy mutters the words "fuck you" quickly followed by a little song. Pay close attention to her lips and the very low pitch of the first part of the song . There is no doubt this is the first retort against racism ever recorded! lol
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Thanks! With your wonderful review you just planted the idea in me that I should get the film on DVD. I love for years, all the bright colors, the epic storytelling and the ambivalent heroine. That makes for a whole evening of good entertaining!