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Enjoying Gone With the Wind-Bonding Time for a Mother and Her Daughters

Updated on August 1, 2022

Bonding time in our family has always been special and one of my favorite moments are the time we spend watching Gone With The Wind. People may call us a bit crazy but as a teacher I had special moments with my daughter and one of those times was spent watching our favorite movie. Each time we readied ourselves to start school, we began it by watching Gone With The Wind.

From the time the girls started their educational careers we would watch this movie the day before school started. So that meant at the end of Summer Vacation, Thanksgiving, New Years Day, Spring Break and Easter Break. It became a custom we did to make the restarting of school.

We sat in front of the television with our popcorn, cold drinks and whatever snack we could find. My husband chose not to participate in this event. He would quietly find something else to do when his girls bonded over a movie he just couldn't understand. He never made a fuss and knew it was something we needed to do.

Our bonding time was special and as I think back on those time we really celebrated our lives together as women. Now the girls are grown with families of there own and on occasion we have the opportunity to bond together over out favorite movie. We love the drama, the clothing and the storyline it was a time for sharing and a time for just us girls. I will always remember these moment with my beautiful daughter and cherish the quality time we spent together marking our moment together.

The Main Characters

  • Scarlett O'Hara: Gone with the Wind's main character, the most senior of the O'Hara sisters, sticks to her former life as a southern belle in the antebellum South; cunning, enterprising, and deceptive does everything in her power to remain a southern belle.
  • Rhett Butler: A slick businessman is intrigued by Scarlett, marveling at her female and monetary schemings.
  • Charles Hamilton: is Scarlett's first husband by default. She marries him because her first love Ashley marries his cousin Melanie. Unfortunately, he dies during the Civil war.
  • Frank Kennedy: Atlanta storeowner, committed to Scarlett's sister, falls for her feminine wiles and ends up marrying Scarlett in her scheme to pay the taxes on her home Tara.
  • Ashley Wilkes: Scarlett's childhood sweetheart marries his cousin Melanie Wilkes. He loved Scarlett but knew Scarlett was not like him.
  • Melanie Wilkes: The sister of Scarlett's first husband, Charles, and the wife of Ashley, believes she loves but later discovers it would never happen.
  • Sarah Jane "Pittypat" Hamilton: Melanie's aunt in Atlanta. asks Scarlett to stay with her after her first husband dies.
  • Ruth "Mammy" is a house enslaved person and servant at Tara. Scarlett's grandmother initially owned her. Mammy is in charge at the plantation." She travels to Atlanta with Scarlett to watch over and escort her guardian and conscience.

Trials and Tribulations

No action or cost was spared in the enterprise to convey to the screen a cinematic completion that did righteousness to the novel. The bulk of the screenplay was penned by Sidney Howard, a revered playwright and writer of others’ movies, unfortunately, Howard perished prior to the film's opening. Nevertheless, there were screenwriters available to complete the project. Some of the included were prominent writers such as Scott Fitzgerald and Ben Hecht. Although, in the end, the principle was credited exclusively to Victor Fleming who completed his work on The Wizard of Oz. The first director of the movie was George Cukor, who had accomplished a year’s rehearsal on it but who, after three weeks of filming and to was fired because of what was dubbed ‘creative differences with the producer. Directo r Sam Wood was also contacted to help towards the ending of the project when Fleming had an anxiety attack after another flaming fight with his leading actress. She left him unable to continue the film. Meanwhile, Selznick’s tenacious top publicist, Russell Birdwell, was plotting more creative techniques to keep the movie on the public stage, actually sending the media foreign-made typewriters with the initials of Gone with the Wind highlighted by colored keys. The move kept the film in the public view making it one of the best films of the yearl

A Memorable Movie But Originally a Book

Gone with the Wind is a book about how war, famine, and hardship can reduce one's humanity to run on the survival instinct.

The book is lengthy and demands the readers' tolerance to comprehend the explicit picture it paints. The book has 63 chapters divided into five parts, all of which follow a documented sequence. While it has a reasonably simplistic essay technique and accomplishes the most enjoyable conversations, it makes up for these weaknesses by captivating human struggles under demanding events.

Although Gone with the Wind was initially a splendid book, the movie is a beneficial story. The cinematography and excellent actors, not to mention meticulous costume design, bring the story to life. If you haven't seen the movie or read the book, you don't know what you are missing.

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