Gone With The Wind |
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Gone With the Wind stands out as one of the most brilliant movies of all times ever to hit the theatres. It's a 1939 screen adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel by the same name and has the distinction of winning 10 Academy Awards and being one of the greatest Hollywood movie of the 20th century. It was produced by David O. Selznick, the music score was done by Max Steiner and the movie was directed by George Cukor.
Gone With the Wind deals with the complexities of love. It tells the story of a young Southerner Scarlett O'Hara daughter of a rich cotton plantation owner. The story revolves round Scarlett and her life, her struggle, her failed marriages, and of course her loves. She seems to be destined to love and marry the wrong and go through the sufferings which such union entails. Through her reckless and crazy attitude she lost Rhett Butler, the man whom she really loved but this realization came to her when Ashley, the person she supposed herself to be in love with all her life, was grieving over his dead wife.
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Unfortunately for Scarlett, she lost Rhett because of her foolhardiness and inability to understand herself. During the American Civil War, Twelve Oaks was thoroughly plundered and ruined, but Tara had maintained a semblance of home. Tara was Scarlett's home and Twelve Oaks was the home of her first husband. With mouths to feed, with maddening poverty snapping at her heels, with pieces of life to pick up, Scarlett shows exemplary courage and fortitude. She became the provider for her family, but in the process, lost her innocence and goodwill of the then highly moralistic society.
Love kindles hope. That is what Scarlett learnt pathetically when Rhett left her in the end. For more on Scarlett's love and life, connect to My Dear Valentine.
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