Gone With The Wind
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by admin in Classic Movie Blog, Classic Movies, Guest Column
A 14 Year Old’s Perspective on Classic Movies-Article #6
by Emily Hodges
“Gone With The Wind”
Emily Hodges
“Gone With The Wind”. Where to begin? It was a long movie and I have to admit, at first, I thought it was going to be a boring movie. I mean, a long old movie about the civil war? But it surprised me. It was interesting and towards the end, my heart caught in my throat.
In my opinion, Ashley Wilkes did not fit in the society the war left in its wake. He was a studious and a sort of romantic man. With him, it was always dreams. He was untouchable to Scarlett. He may have been her beau before, but Scarlett had had many anyway. Before he left for the war, he married a shy (and later good friend of Scarlett’s) Melanie (Mellie) Hamilton.
Because Scarlett O’ Hara had gone through the trauma of a war, I expected her to straighten up and to forget about Ashley Wilkes. Yet she grew more conniving and selfish. For one, she stole her sister’s beau, Frank Kennedy not for love but for money. Secondly, she did not love the daughter she had with Rhett Butler. To me, that is just plain awful. Would you ever even dream of having a beautiful daughter and not love her?
It seems to me, that Scarlett does not know the meaning of love. She doesn’t know what it is. It might as well be a foreign or lost language to her. She may have felt the loss when Bonnie died, and she might have even felt lonely when Rhett left her. But her heart did not break; She put on a good act. At the end of the first half of the movie was very powerful, “…. for as long as I live, I shall never be hungry again….”
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