>slavery and rebel traitors were good actually
wtf, why was this KKK shit so popular with boomers?

This movie was good until Rhett joins the army like a cuck, it was fun as hell watching him dab on Rebs

>>212946248 (OP)
I met an old boomer black lady that absolutely loved this movie. Like maybe the biggest fan of it that's still alive. She had an authenticated poster from it's original theatrical release it, and a a replica of Scarlet's dress. This wasn't like a mulatto lady with a white parent or anything either, I'm talking giga sheboon gorilla genes, black as coal, and she loved this movie, it's themes, and above all else for it's costuming and set design, for reasons I'll truly never understand. Possibly the most confusing person I've ever interacted with. Maybe the confederates were right that blacks yearn for the simple lives they lived on the plantation.

>>212946248 (OP)
Because blacks running wild is bad and rebelling against black worship is good

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>>212946248 (OP)
I’ve never seen this movie because it was hyped so much growing up. Is it any good?

>>212946517
>Maybe the confederates were right that blacks yearn for the simple lives they lived on the plantation.
https://youtu.be/Za9381AlbyU?si=DRI1j-0BuTztZUEh

>>212946248 (OP)
The book was published in 1936 and was an instant bestseller long before there was even a concept of a generation known as "boomers". Jesus this board is just stupid sometimes.

>>212946248 (OP)
>why was this KKK shit so popular with boomers
Because Boomers are based.

>>212946744
It’s magnificent. If the first hour was its own film it would be one of the best comedies ever.

>>212947520
>not realizing boomer is a mindset instead of a range of birth years

>>212946517
She probably just wishes she was white

>>212946248 (OP)
shoo, slave

>>212946918
it's what they are suited for. The last 100 years of letting them free has shown us how they behave when we try to treat them as if they are equal.

>>212947586
>being retarded enough to buy this bullshit

>>212947575
One thing that surprises many about the film (much more so than the book) is how much humor there is in it. Most is towards the beginning of the film, but tipsy/drunk Scarlett right before Rhett proposes is a total hoot.

>>212946701
lmao

>>212947933
I love Scarlett, she’s such a brat.

>>212947974
She really is. So many tantrums. She'd get so many spankings from me.

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>>212946283
he may as well not have, it's pretty much inconsequential to the story

>>212950057
I've always thought it was just the author's setup for Rhett being in jail after the war, so that he can't bail out Tara when Scarlett goes to him for the back taxes. And not even a human jail, but a horse jail. Kek.

>>212946517
That seems to be a fairly common thing. Right out of highschool I was in a small string ensemble and the cellist was an old jewish guy. His favorite movies almost without exception had nazi villians, but never serious somber stuff like Schindler's List or The Pianist. It was shit like war movies where the nazis were depicted as professional soldiers doing what they had to, or cool imposing fantastical depictions like in Hellboy. I used to talk movies with him all the time and the only other semi-modern movie I can recall his eyes lighting up when talking about that didn't involve cool nazi villains was the first Blade.

It really feels like a disney movie, so no wonder women love it. it's alright.

What's so bad at being a slave if another alternative is to work a minimum wage job? slave life was probably more comfy. Better job security too. The whole reason why the north fought so hard to end slavery was because they wanted freed slaves to flood to the cities to work in the factories. At the same period russians ended serfdom for the same reason, and that turned out to be a disaster.

>>212946283
I dislike in general the trope of historic inevitability. It's ex post facto nonsense.
>look how smart this guy is he sees where history will go
>look how dumb everyone else is for not knowing the future
Miss me with that gay shit.

>>212950435
Peckinpah's Major Dundee avoids this trope

The confersacy sympathy thing was a huge black pill on right wing politics for me.

You're telling me, out of pure contrarianism, I'm supposed to support displacing white working class folk by importing millions of Africans Into my communities to work as slaves?

And millions of whites died in a pointless war to to protect the plantation owners assets when slavery was banned?

What part of this could POSSIBLY be considered ethical or in my best interest to support?

This realization was a black pill straight to the gourd that woke me the fuck up, completely broke my programming and made me reassess the type of people I was rubbing shoulders with and letting influence me

>>212946248 (OP)
Because it's based

>>212950284
Being a slave was like playing Russian Roulette with a gun where all but one chamber has a bullet in it.

A field slave was literally treated as subhuman farm equipment to be worked to death. House slaves had it slightly better but only in the sense that they didn't have to work and die in the fields. House slaves were for ed to live 24-7 in a state of total subservience; if you were a male house slaves, the field slaves despised you for being a race traitor due to you having to be beyond reproach loyal to your master no matter what. If you were a female house slaves, being raped was inevitable and you were explicitly expected to be a mother to your owner's kids, a personal servant of the owner's wife, and run the household and keep it clean and cook for the family without a single complaint.

Ironically it was white trash who might only own a single slave where you have the best chance to be treated like a person, because all they could afford was a single slave and they would be very much financially invested in keeping the slave healthy and treating them decently to maximize the slave's output.

>>212947933
It nails female psychology like few works of art ever have.

>>212946248 (OP)
They cut the KKK out of the film and made it a generic vigilante mob and the people they killed white trash

Also, GWTW is a feminist centric work that helped it stay iconic. Scarlett is a feminist icon and growing up in the South, you'd be shocked at how many women, especially 40+ year old women stan Scarlet hard, like she was Taylor Swift

>>212946248 (OP)
"Traitors" of what, kike? Whom did they betray?

>>212950250
This guy would have loved BloodRayne

>>212950996
The damage was done centuries earlier than that. When you are in a position with millions of slaves, and rapid technological improvements which makes the slaves technically useless, it's not a moral but a practical question. And what the North and the South had was a power play not a morally righteous crusade. Many Northerners subjected Irish immigrants coming to work there to worse conditions than what slaves had in the South in their cushy homes serving their masters.

Great film, even if aspects of the writing are quite retarded (as is OP's questions btw). Pic is one of the few movie props I'd like to own.

sometimes I'll get a Gone With the Wind video on TikTok and I'm always surprised to see that most of the time it was posted by a Russian-speaking account. I've known for years that they're massive weebs, I'd even say underrated in the wider manga/anime scene, but the way they also seemed to really like this movie was new to me.

Not saying I don't get it, it is beautiful and I also enjoy it, but it was interesting to find out.

>>212947933
It surprised me when I last watched it a few years ago and it was already my favorite film. I guess because I was 17 when I first watched it (11 if you count that time in school, do they show it in schools anymore?) and I must have missed the pure absurdism of a lot of it.

>>212950435
I don’t see the issue. If the south hadn’t thought they could win, they wouldn’t have seceded. And it really did almost work, but not sure they foresaw the reason why did it (union generals going full retard in the east). And it’s not hard to imagine someone like Rhett foreseeing the south’s lack of industry and population as an issue. These facts would have been obvious to anyone well traveled.

The only issue is why he’d join a fight so doomed. Of course a chad like Rhett having oneitis for Scarlett is an even bigger issue.

>>212946248 (OP)
>Gone With the Wind
>*actually glorifies the South and slavery*
>*is beloved and re-released endlessly*

>Song of the South
>*takes place after the war*
>*does not glorify the confederacy or slavery*
>*has been banned for public display since 1986*

Society makes no sense.

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>>212947594
Maybe she just liked the movie and wasn't poisoned by 'everything in the past is evil, you must love modernity' arguments.

>>212950996
>You're telling me, out of pure contrarianism, I'm supposed to support displacing white working class folk by importing millions of Africans Into my communities to work as slaves?
It isn’t quite like that. The first people brought in to work the tobacco plantations in Virginia were down on their luck whites from England. The problem is they weren’t treated much better than the later slaves were. They could get some land after three years, but many of them didn’t even make it that long. Word eventually got out in England about how shitty a deal it was, so interest in it dried up. That’s when the slaves were brought in. So they were unironically doing jobs the whites didn’t want to do.
>And millions of whites died in a pointless war to to protect the plantation owners assets when slavery was banned?
It was much more than just a few rich plantation owners. Around 25% of southern households owned at least one slave. For the rest of them, their country being at war was enough for them to fight. Many of these were the hyper patriotic boarderlanders from Scotland and Northern England.
>What part of this could POSSIBLY be considered ethical or in my best interest to support?
That’s actually the magic (and to others, the danger) of Gone With the Wind to me. It presents the old south as this chivalry wonderland, and it actually succeeds. The slaves have a good old time and things aren’t too bad for their owners either, but they face an existential threat.

>>212951237
It’s that always appealing trope of a modern woman getting dropped into an older time period. Same one Titanic used.