This week on Cinematix Problematix, we tackle Gone With the Wind: Hollywood’s glamorous love letter to the Confederacy, complete with plantation nostalgia, enslaved people who “love” their captors, and a heroine who treats the Civil War like an inconvenient garden party. Scarlett O’Hara shines as a heroine who can charm her way out of starvation, while the film clings to a fantasy where slavery was mild inconvenience to a few people and that the Civil War was for States Rights.. It’s epic, it’s iconic, and it’s a three-hour denial of history wrapped in great costumes and moral rot. Please enjoy. 

This film stars Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie MacDaniel, Olivia de Havilland, Butterfly McQueen, and Leslie Howard, and has an epic-worthy runtime of 3 hrs 58 minutes.

CREDITS

Hosted by: Kristina “Krissie” Rettig & Erin Maxwell

Edited by: Russ Lichter

Theme song by: Spooky Dan