"Can we make classic works like "Gone with the Wind" come back? Please!" President Trump's call in February this year is still in my ears. On June 10, this film, which won 8 Oscars 80 years ago, was removed from the Warner streaming platform (HBO Max). It caused widespread controversy and a huge backlash. The limitations of the times are inevitable. Isn’t it possible that fine art works are not precious ? ! Both the movie's DVD and the original novel soon topped Amazon's sales charts; the farce of "smashing statues and burning churches" was staged in the United States. The one-size-fits-all "political correctness" not only harmed cultural heritage and creative freedom, but also endangered the foundation of the United States. Stills of "Gone with the Wind".
On June 25, Gone with the Wind was back on the shelves with an explanatory video "Protested for beautifying slavery". Compared to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which exposes the crimes of slavery and Faulkner's short stories reflecting racial issues;
Margaret Mitchell tells the Civil War (1861-1865) from the unique perspective of the daughter of a southern planter. The years of youth and emotional entanglements before and after, there is no lack of nostalgic warmth in the magnificence. The brilliant interpretations of the actors played the characters in the novel. Heidi, who played as a nanny, was the first black to win an Oscar (supporting actress).
Stills from the movie "Gone with the Wind" filmed in 1939. (Public domain) For more than 20 years, I still remember the scene in the movie where the nanny Black Sister gave the eldest lady a corset, which was quite humorous. She was in charge of Scarlett who was going to show off at the banquet, pulling up her green strapless tube top skirt. Ashley returned after the war. Melanie ran towards her husband happily like a bird. Scarlett was also excited to rush up. The black mother hugged her and said with a grimace, "That's her husband!" The theater audience burst into laughter while drinking the dreamer. When Scarlett (for taxes) seduce her sister's boyfriend, the black mother sitting in the back seat of the carriage was dumbfounded and then turned her lips in contempt.
The conscience of heaven and earth is a scale, the simple and loyal black mother played such a role in the film. On July 26, 104-year-old Olivia de Havilland (Olivia de Havilland) drove west. The most popular screen image of her acting career was Melanie in Gone with the Wind. An unforgettable video of the Oscar awards ceremony. Accompanied by the magnificent "Gone with the Wind" theme song, Olivia in blue and white hair steadily walked to the podium, and the audience stood up to pay tribute to the Hollywood golden age queen, with warm applause. The waves are endless. Looking up at this noble and kind old grandmother, people's hearts are ups and downs, "Ashley" (Lesley Howard), "Brad" (Clark Gable), "Scarlett" (Vivien Leigh)
As early as half a century ago in the smoke and clouds, "Gone with the wind", and "Melanie", which symbolizes "indestructible spirituality", is still soothing like the sea, sky and the moon... In 2017, the Queen of England awarded the beauty of the century "Mei" Lanni" is a female knight.
Hollywood golden age classic masterpiece "Gone with the Wind" (Gone with the Wind) stills. (Public domain) Gentle, quiet and rebellious, wild novel "Gone with the Wind" tells the fate and love stories of different types of American Southerners before and after the war in the 1860s. It is a strong homeland under the majestic epic style. feelings. Mitchell created two very different and contrasting female images. When writing Scarlett, he incorporated family traits and personal experience, with a lot of psychological descriptions, fresh and full; while Melanie used the perspective and evaluation of the sidelines. Written, simple and subtle, intriguing.
Melanie in the original book is not as beautiful in the movie. At the engagement banquet at Twelve Oaks Manor, in Scarlett’s slightly slanted green eyes, the 17-year-old Melanie and her cousin Ashley appeared arm in arm, tender and petite. She is wearing a gray cicada-wing veil dress with cherry red ribbons on her waist and hat. The hair is not messy, the manner is steady and dignified, and the shy smile carries the serenity of the boudoir.
Scarlett heard Melanie and Ashley talk about the British writer Dickens, and laughed secretly that she was a nerd, she had no tricks to charm men at all, and had a serious air like in a church. How could she lose to such an ordinary girl, who is so glamorous? ! In the Old South of the United States more than 160 years ago, in the more distant era of admiring gentlemen and ladies, Scarlett was a strange thing.
Since childhood, he climbed trees, rode horses, and threw stones like a boy. In the 28th year of China, she was keen to be the queen of the prom and fascinated the boys. What makes the girls even more jealous is that she always likes to win love with a sword, and is invincible with her charming and wild style, and Ashley is almost the only young talent who has not fallen under her pomegranate skirt. Scarlett seized the gap to confess to her crush, but was turned down unexpectedly.
Exasperated, she slapped Ashley and dropped a vase. Then, she quickly married Melanie's brother, Charlie, and entangled herself as a relative. Stills from the movie "Gone with the Wind".
Life and death support and protect the thin Melanie encounters the fiercest love enemy. Different from the jealousy of ordinary women, Melanie liked her youthful vitality very much when she first saw Scarlett. After Scarlett became her sister-in-law, she gave birth to a posthumous son Wade (the role was deleted from the movie) to her only elder brother who had just died in the war. She inherited the blood for the family. Melanie is very grateful and sympathetic to Scarlett. , Invited her to bring her son to live with her aunt in Atlanta. My aunts attended the bazaar together, went to the hospital to take care of the wounded, and went to the central square to wait for the list of the dead.
In the summer of 1864, the Northern Army approached Atlanta, and the people in the city fled. Even Melanie's aunt ran away. Scarlett wanted to fly home to see her critically ill mother, but she promised to go to the frontline Ashley to take care of May. Lanny's.
In the deafening sound of guns, the doctor who was busy rescuing the wounded had no time to take care of it, so Scarlett bit her scalp to help deliver the child to her rival in labor. If Melanie and the baby were left behind, then no matter whether she was in the Yang world or in the underworld, she would face the uncertain Ashley. For the first time, this selfish and willful beauty will never leave for others!
In the chaos and the flames, the caravan rushed out of Atlanta’s sea of flames, and in the wind and rain, to avoid military accidents and hid under the bridge of the soaring river, in the car were the wife and children of the sweetheart, little Wade and the maid... Ashley The family's Twelve Oaks Manor has become scorched earth, and the mother and father of the ransacked family stayed dead. The 19-year-old Scarlett wiped away her tears and carried a heavy burden to become the pillar of the family.
She took the lead in farming, digging radishes, picking cotton, and plowing barefoot behind the horse. Her blood-filled hands soon formed thick calluses. She is very carefree and takes care of the mother and the baby. She gave Melanie the only good shoes in the house and gave the thickest bed to the mother and son. Stills from the movie "Gone with the Wind". (Public domain) She also shot and killed a Northern soldier who had entered the house. Melanie carried Charlie's saber to help guard, telling her panicked to bury the body and scrub the blood stains, and then the two divided the work to clean the scene. Melanie's calmness and thoroughness made Scarlett amazed: "I didn't expect her to understand my heart!"
Another group of Northern soldiers swept away, snatching food and poultry that were too late to hide, and the cotton was burned. Melanie was the first to rush to help Scarlett put out the fire, and she was relieved that she had fainted: "Nothing has been lost, we are still together, the baby is fine, and there is a house to live in." She saw Scarlett hiding in a baby diaper. In her wallet with gold coins, she laughed: "You are really my most wonderful sister-in-law!" Scarlett secretly praised this love rival that she often hates, "She is always by my side when needed." In danger, bravely Scarlett is a military commander in charge, and Melanie is calm and steady, like a pin on the sea.
Blood instinct and character cultivation "Only the land is with the sun and the moon, it is worth fighting for." Tara Manor is Scarlett's source of strength and healing place, "The tranquil atmosphere of the country at dusk It hung around her like the happiness during prayer." The clay is like her rough father of Irish descent, and the white cotton is like a gentle mother's love. In the war, this pretty daughter became a desperate Sanniang who guarded her homeland, the tenacious will to survive and the burden of duty-free, with the brutal and brutality of fighting and fighting in the bloody mud.
Hunger, poverty, exhaustion and despair follow each other. After the defeat, the banknotes of the Southern Union became waste paper. Driven by blood and instinct, Scarlett rushed from left to right, unscrupulous and shocking the world. In order to pay for the tax and insurance of the farm, he moved to the shopping mall, and even robbed his sister's fiancé. As the first female businesswoman in Atlanta, she did not hesitate to show her feminine charm, but she did not hesitate to kill her. In order to earn more profits, hiring prisoners to work has been criticized.
Although the war destroyed the Garden of Twelve Oaks, and the white cylindrical house on the hill like a Greek temple was wiped out, the scholarly nobleness of the Wilkes family has long been integrated in Melanie’s expression, her noble Education and lady character are completely internalized. She was dying after giving birth, and she did not forget to say thank you. She fled with bumps all the way, she didn't scream bitterly. Melanie takes care of her children at the farm, raises chickens, grows vegetables, and does housework, and she takes care of her in good order. She often even shared her share of food with the soldiers who came back to rest after the war. No matter how hard it is, the kindness from the heart has not diminished.
Regardless of whether it is rich or poor, her love for Ashley will never change. Melanie, who returned to Atlanta, settled in a simple brick house. Apart from a few pieces of furniture, Ashley bought the most books. The basement accommodates the victims who were displaced after the war. Melanie looks happy and contented. Her brown eyes are as clear and cute as when she was a girl. Scarlett, who has "hungry cat eyes", is very envious. How does Melanie keep it?
That silly kindness is like a candlelight lit in the dark. Melanie and Ashley’s cozy home often has guests and friends, noble ladies, generals, poets, priests, priests... Although there are only simple tea and treats, the hostess’s friendly smile makes people feel like a spring breeze. What they appreciate most is Melanie's loyalty to all traditions and disdain for flashy trends. Poor and vigorous, he has gone through hardships without resentment. In the great changes of the times when the old is alternated, people unconsciously regard her as the banner of the southern spirit. Stills from the movie "Gone with the Wind".
Melanie is a wonderful person who can always find and remember the good of others. "No matter how stupid a servant is, she can find loyalty and honesty behind the stupidity; no matter how ugly a woman is, she can find beauty in size, character, or other details; no matter how useless a man is, she They will also say that it may change in the future!" It's not about pretending to be kind and worshipping high and low. In addition to etiquette, there is also respect and sincerity, as well as her measuring ruler. "As long as you have a kind heart and consider others, you are a good person."
This is what she said about Will, a disabled soldier from a poor family. (Later, Will, who had been helping to manage the manor, became Scarlett’s brother-in-law.) Melanie has a pair of eyes that penetrate the surface and penetrate the inside. As long as the evil is hidden and the turbidity is clear, she will be kind to others. The current rejects dissidents. When the speculator Rhett's defeat theory aroused anger and closed doors, she still welcomes Rhett's visit, because Ashley's letter also has the same view.
When the wives contemptuously refused the prostitute Bell to donate to the hospital wounded, only Melanie accepted her sincerely. No influence, no prejudice, generous, and not disappointing every kindness and moment of kindness, this is Melanie! After presenting flowers to her brother Charlie's graveyard, she would also pull the weeds and put some flowers on the nearby barren tombs of the unknown Northern Army. In the tears, there was care and compassion that transcended love and hatred. Rhett, who was slick and sarcastic, only respected Melanie and praised her for being truly noble.
When Atlanta fell, Rhett got a carriage to send women and children out of the city and join the army. He also teamed up with Bell to help Ashley and the others prevent the catastrophe. Bell lamented that Melanie was a good Christian and the only wife in the city who expressed her gratitude.
Melanie has always cherished and cared for her fate with Scarlett. The clam wrapped in sand and became pearls. When Melanie passed away, Scarlett discovered that Melanie was her only female best friend, the only one who really loved her except her mother, and the only pearl-like comfort in her childish love in an empty troubled world. . Stills from the movie "Gone with the Wind".
Scarlett, who is married to Barrett, has been married for the third time, and still can't let go of her love for Ashley. The two recalled their pre-war youth in the lumber mill and couldn't help but hug each other. They happened to be bumped into by someone, and scandals spread throughout Atlanta.
Ashley's birthday party was held as usual that night, Scarlett was pushed in by Rhett, who was nervous in her heart. She gathered all her eyes in an instant, and her greetings stopped abruptly. Melanie hurriedly greeted her, as if only Scarlett in her eyes, with a clean and kind face, hugged her and said, "Would you like to be an angel? Come with me to receive guests." The voice was full of love and unabashedly Trust, take her arms, straighten her shoulders to face everyone... "Would you like to be an angel?" Gentle and firm direct guidance, vulgar and simple, pleasant and generous, Melanie opened The wings of an angel protected Scarlett, who was on the cusp of criticism.
People only saw the evil side of her, and Melanie was grateful for her life and death friends who had shared hardships, and felt sorry for this woman who was overwhelmed with difficulties and desperately supporting her family to help them.
Rhett said, "Melanie is stupid, but not what you think. Because she is too noble in her heart and never thinks badly about anyone she loves." Melanie said to Scarlett who came to confess: " My dear, I don’t need any explanation.”
After all, they have walked through the most difficult years of each other. Needless to say, Melanie understands that they can tolerate, be compassionate and understanding. She knew that Scarlett’s fascination with Ashley was a girlish feeling, limited by her cognition, ignorant and stubborn, unable to see her own heart, and she did not understand sublimation. She said implicitly that she couldn't hear it, and she said that she was rebellious. She and Ashley are confidant loving couples, she understands his inner poetry and trauma, knows his bottom line of principles, she trusts her husband and is not moved by the noise of the outside world.
How can fire and water be together? She knew at a glance that Scarlett would look down on Ashley's depression and inaction, and Ashley would not be able to stand Scarlett's domineering. Brad and Scarlett had a quarrel, Melanie told Rhett clearly: "In fact, Scarlett loves you very much, but she hasn't realized it yet." The onlooker cleared that Scarlett's inner balance had already leaned toward Rhett. Before she died, she also told Scarlett: Captain Bai loves you so much, and treat him well.
The good and bad aspects of the spiritual angel guarding Scarlett are very popular and down-to-earth; while Melanie is far more intelligent and generous than ordinary people, so it is more difficult to write, but it cannot be because of the high realm that ordinary people cannot reach. , Deny the existence of beauty. The most impressive passage is that under the heavy bereavement of his daughter, Rhett is almost crazy, guarding his daughter not to be buried. Still with Melanie's encouragement, Rhett agreed to hold the funeral the next day. Melanie was tired and serene, with tears flickering on her eyelashes, she watched for the dead girl.
The black mother sang "Hallelujah" in her heart, full of gratitude and curiosity. I really don't know what Melanie used to persuade Rhett, "I guess it was the angels who stood by her and helped her. Yes, Melanie, who has love in her heart and looks to God, has her own angel to help. She is the soul figure in the book, representing the scarce and precious divinity, and the spiritual good fruit of long-term pious belief.
Benevolence is humble, transparent, and superb insight and understanding. Elegant, graceful and decent, she is an ideal wife and mother, a caring and reliable friend, and a talented woman praised in the Bible.
The first time Melanie admired Scarlett was the moment when she raised her saber to help her, her determined eyes and inner will and courage, "no less than a majestic teacher with flags and a loud army." It was with blood. The bravery of different calm and courageous!
In addition to personal temperament, without the blessing of the gods of the upper world, how can a weak parturient burst out such a shocking energy in an instant? ! The world is sinister and human nature is complicated. Scarlett is such a romantic fairy with evil thoughts. The covetous heart is well known. The time bomb is by her side. Melanie is so nonchalant, gentle and quiet, and unbelievably simple. Don't be jealous, don't struggle, don't fight or grab, the clouds are calm and gentle.
Just thinking about the good and not the bad, Melanie firmly believes in the best in Scarlett. The ensuing blow made Scarlett almost drown in grief and despair, and Melanie became her only support and comfort. In the coma, she heard a soft voice like running clouds and flowing water: "My dear, I am here, always by your side." Melanie's mother-like warmth and unconditional trust nourished the young seedlings in her heart not to wither. She thought: When I make enough money, I will be like my mother and Melanie, and be a respectable lady. Stills from the movie "Gone with the Wind".
Melanie is an angel on earth who embodies spiritual relatives and friends. Even the most difficult person to deal with, she uses stable compassion and care to tolerate, educate, and redeem as much as possible... moisturizing things are silent, weak and strong , Subtly, the invisible energy is dense and long, and it can make up and reform in a timely and appropriate manner, bringing peace and harmony to the people around. She led the rebellious prodigal son Reid back to tradition. She let Scarlett see who her obsession and true love were. She was Ashley's harbor to rest her old dreams and an indispensable cornerstone for the reconstruction of her spiritual home after the war.
Scarlett, who insisted on her promise and took responsibility in the fire of war, was so brilliant, she would really not be a beautiful woman if she did not save her life in troubled times.
Regardless of the age, Melanie, who has traditional virtues and pious beliefs, is a beautiful woman who is reminiscent of life. Nowadays, such an angel-like woman is becoming increasingly rare, rare, and precious. If you encounter any luck, please be thankful;
The guardian angel of Gone with the Wind: Calm