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A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:29 pm
by Jeemie
Olivia de Havilland turns 99.
http://www.today.com/popculture/gone-wi ... -99-t29601
PS I wonder how long until this movie stops getting shown? Frank and Ashley belonging to the Klan, which is way downplayed?
Re: A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:48 pm
by mrkelley23
Well, as long as they don't do something REALLY horrendous, like display the battle flag of the army of North Virginia.
Oh. Wait.
Re: A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:49 pm
by Bob Juch
The first Klan was founded in 1865, after the war. Of course GWTW was fiction.
Re: A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:19 pm
by Jeemie
Bob Juch wrote:
The first Klan was founded in 1865, after the war. Of course GWTW was fiction.
Yes- in both the book and the movie, Ashley's and Frank's Klan activities took place post-war.
(Of course, in the movie, the Klan was never mentioned. It was a "political meeting").
Re: A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 5:57 pm
by Beebs52
It was also something to move the narrative along. This was not a civil rights book. It was a family saga/romantic thingie. Jeez.
Re: A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:43 pm
by Jeemie
Beebs52 wrote:It was also something to move the narrative along. This was not a civil rights book. It was a family saga/romantic thingie. Jeez.
Nonetheless, there apparently is a move afoot to ban it- sales of the movie have been spiking lately because people are thinking it is going to be banned.
Anyhow, I trolled my own thread. Happy birthday, Ms. de Havilland!