Movie Monday

We watched Gone with the Wind yesterday night for Valentine's. Granted we thought it fit the holiday a little better without seeing/remembering it, though it does have a surface level of romance in it, however, it is mostly about a genteel woman doing everything she can to save her home no matter what the cost. While most see the surface layer of it being a selfish white rich lady not getting her way with unrequited love...until she realizes too late what she had was what she wanted, watching it again, I think it was waaay more about her home turf than anything else. I also think she had little growth sports, though Ashley Wilks did get her head turned every freaking time. From the get-go, she did everything to stay and get back to and then keep Tara (her home). It was brilliantly put together, we all disliked (or pitted) the main characters, oohed and awwed over the set, and clothes, and the atmosphere. We even admired that it stuck so freaking close to the book (and oh my gosh were those first 3 hours long and whiny). The fact that is, this movie was much more a tragedy drama horror film than anything else. Especially with the backdrop of the revolutionary war (as it played before, during, and after) in the south. I guess as it was made in the 1930s (both book and movie), one can say it was produced mostly to give hope for those to have hope and courage...and their own agency in fighting for their cause/survival...

Speaking of why movies were made and so popular living legends, I saw a thing on Disney's Snow White and I must say after watching it-as it wasn't one that I partook in regularly like all the 1990s Disney movies- it is a timeless classic and perfect for the period it was for. An animation cartoon letting the hero be that gets her happy end. Snow White may not be the "save me, I want" trope but the "I wish, kind, brave" survival trope. Snow White doesn't figure out how to save the day, but she does figure out how to survive, living in the day but wishing for the future. In a world that was ravished by war, devastated by the depression/dust bowl, and on the verge of another war, they all wanted to have to see others like then survive with a happy ending (her price came)! Though the fact that the prince didn't have much screen time, there was the whole grumpy affection and the castle in the sky, it could totally be one of those matchgirl moments...



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