On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
@jolie Gerald O'Hara is probably my favorite man in this book. He's just this wonderful, charismatic redneck take on the concept of the country squire.
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On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
Scarlett is so terrible and reminds me so much of me at my absolute worst, but I unabashedly love her. Melanie Wilkes reminds me of every girl in my college sorority I found insufferably dull.
I recently watched a documentary on PBS about Margaret Mitchell, and the woman definitely had a very complicated and distorted position on matters of race. For its many flaws, I do think GWTW remains an engaging and important fictional work through which we can reflect on the atrocities of slavery, Reconstruction and this country's larger, looming racial issues.
I think the ideas espoused within GWTW about one's relationship to the "land" are uniquely American and a huge part of our cultural identity. This is, for me at least, the heart of the novel.
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On David Byrne Is 60
They just don't make 'em like this anymore...
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On 'The Autobiography Of Henry VIII': Which Ill-Fated Wife Would You Be?
This is a movie, not a novel, so I'm not sure if I should go here...but Glorious 39! Who would have thought that pre-WWII appeasement could be so, so trashy. Please tell me some of you have seen this so we can discuss that fabulous nightgown at the end of the movie. Thank you.
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On What Movies Make You Ignore Everything Else?
Cool Hand Luke, Better Off Dead, The Deer Hunter
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On What's Your Most Played Song?
@Vijith Assar Nothing screams "I got dumped in 2011" quite as loudly as 4+ days of Adele...
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On 'Gone With The Wind': Devil In A Black Bombazine Dress
@melis "Curb them but don't break their spirits". LOVE HER! (Sorry Jolie, I know we're supposed to be talking about men here). I think it's great that Mitchell describes her as eternally in some form of riding dress.