Gone With The Wind

1) Relate what was discussed in class or the text to the screening.

African Americans emerged on the movie scene during this time. Alot of time they often used white actor in blackface so that they black people wouldn’t have to get that role. They were to play mostly musicals and comedies weren’t giving the changed to play serious roles. A movie like Shirley Temple in the 1930’s where Robinson dances with Shirley in the movie. Between 1915 and 1959 there were nearly 500 race movies produced for all black audience and it was an all-black cast and those movies where financed by white backers. This gives black people the short they need to play the roles that they were able to play without anyone holding them back .

2) Find a related article and summarize the content.
(http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm) Jim Crow was a law that was operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and Border States, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. This law was a racial caste system that was more than a set of anti-black laws it was a way for life for many people that believed in it. They live there life by those set of laws and never 2nd guess it once. For many that all they know and other is what they want to believe in “Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation.” These laws made people consider that African American were nothing but second class citizens and would never be anything but that. The educational level, buttressed the belief that blacks were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to whites. This law was made to belittle the black people in any why that white people had seen fit at that time.

3) Apply the article to the film screened in class.

Hattie McDaniel had won best supporting actress for the roll she played in Gone with the Wind. It should have been a happy night for her and the cast of the movie, when the film opened in Atlanta Georgia, none of the African American actors in the film were able to attend the world premiere, because of Jim Crow laws which barred them from the whites-only theater.

4) Write a critical analysis of the film

Gone with the wind was a movie about a girl name Scarlett O’Hara that didn’t know what she really wanted in life because the world was given to her, and she got anything that she wanted this had made it hard for her to grow up as a person where she think everything should be given to her without having to really do much for her, and when something come up that she couldn’t have she didn’t know to act. When she lost everything she needs to step up and work hard so that she can survive. A lot of time when people have to fight for them to survive they will do anything and this what Scarlett did she killed lied and cheated. She was willing to do anything to make sure she lives. She will even hurt her own family just to make sure that she comes up on top. Her view of lift is that she doesn’t care what happen to other people just as long as things go the way she wanted and that she’s happy with what ever happen around her. When something come up right in front of here where there willing to show her that he loved her, and she won’t see pass what she wanted.