Russ Weiss, West Windsor
Yes, perhaps, “Gone with the Wind” is an “epic classic“ with “one of the all-time great movie couples.“
However, in proposing this as a Packet Pick you should have at least given some kind of mention to its egregious glorification of the slave-holding antebellum South.
After all, the movie portrays a Technicolor pretty culture of contented slaves who sing in the fields with no whips, or chains, or dismembered slave families in sight. Slaves are generally portrayed as cheerful and childlike and feckless without whites to supervise them.
It is a film permeated with racism and the mythology of “the Lost Cause“ of the Confederacy. Your recommendation mentions the good, but what about the bad and the ugly?
Russ Weiss
West Windsor
