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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
I watched this in a theater when I was about 14 years old. Not one of the currently common multiplexes, but one of the surviving theaters from the golden age of films as the visual entertainment option. I was much taken with the whole spectacle. The love story, especially the Scarlet-Rhett one, not so much. I just could not see what anyone would see in Scarlet other than that she was hot looking.
I saw in again when I was about 22 years old I think. To add to my previous impressions was that it was a glorification of the Old South and slavery, something Margaret Mitchell intended.
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Don't forget that back when she was a kid there would probably have still been some Civil War vets still living as well. As far as movies making slavery look 'not so bad' there was also Disney's "Song of the South" which I remember seeing as a child. Uncle Remus is shown walking around the countryside singing among other things. That's not likely to have been the case back in the day of course. Letting a slave wander around by themselves instead of at work in some way? Very unrealistic.