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A lot less frail than Ms. Mellie

#1 Post by Jeemie » Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:29 pm

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?
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#2 Post by mrkelley23 » Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:48 pm

Well, as long as they don't do something REALLY horrendous, like display the battle flag of the army of North Virginia.

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#3 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:49 pm

Jeemie wrote: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?
The first Klan was founded in 1865, after the war. Of course GWTW was fiction.
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#4 Post by Jeemie » Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:19 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
Jeemie wrote: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?
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").
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#5 Post by Beebs52 » Wed Jul 01, 2015 5:57 pm

It was also something to move the narrative along. This was not a civil rights book. It was a family saga/romantic thingie. Jeez.
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#6 Post by Jeemie » Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:43 pm

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!
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