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<blockquote data-quote="Miss Texas 1967" data-source="post: 444596" data-attributes="member: 36">Seconding this. I&#039;m your sister-in-law&#039;s age, and I went through a GWTW phase a couple of years ago. I own the gorgeous deluxe edition of the book, two DVD copies, the Scarlett miniseries, and Rhett Butler&#039;s People (which I hated, tbh).It&#039;s one of those things people feel the need to put a disclaimer before admitting they enjoy, but the real ones know the magic of the property. I think a lot of the criticism in recent times comes from people who see (or worse, have only heard about) the surface-level racial stuff and don&#039;t actually engage with what a critical masterpiece the film is, or with the fact that the book is written from a very specific perspective, with a certain level of raised eyebrows at the attitudes of its characters.Even the fact that Rhett points out that all the South has is cotton, slaves, and arrogance, and that Scarlett is completely over all the talk about doing it for the cause, those elements, written by Mitchell herself, actually represent a viewpoint that is much closer to many modern critical perspectives than some people would care to admit.&nbsp;<img src="https://i.imgur.com/V9IRxcQ.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Miss Texas 1967, post: 444596, member: 36"] Seconding this. I'm your sister-in-law's age, and I went through a [I]GWTW[/I] phase a couple of years ago. I own the gorgeous deluxe edition of the book, two DVD copies, the [I]Scarlett[/I] miniseries, and [I]Rhett Butler's People[/I] (which I hated, tbh). It's one of those things people feel the need to put a disclaimer before admitting they enjoy, but the real ones know the magic of the property. I think a lot of the criticism in recent times comes from people who see (or worse, have only heard about) the surface-level racial stuff and don't actually engage with what a critical masterpiece the film is, or with the fact that the book is written from a very specific perspective, with a certain level of raised eyebrows at the attitudes of its characters. Even the fact that Rhett points out that all the South has is cotton, slaves, and arrogance, and that Scarlett is completely over all the talk about doing it for the cause, those elements, written by Mitchell herself, actually represent a viewpoint that is much closer to many modern critical perspectives than some people would care to admit. [img]https://i.imgur.com/V9IRxcQ.png[/img] [/QUOTE]

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