tony curtis as david o. selznick in moviola: the scarlett o'hara war

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie

Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard as Scarlett O’Hara and Ashley Wilkes in Gone With The Wind 1939 🍃

AS GOD IS MY WHITNESS...I WILL NEVER BE HUNGY AGAIN!!!

VIVIEN LEIGH as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind GWTW 1939.

This is very specific but Jo March and Scarlett O’Hara in the same room

Something I made of myself with a little help from AI. If I was in Gone with the Wind. #gonewiththewind #scarlettohara #ideclare #georgia #movie #civilwar #acting #photoshop

Film Weekend - Gone with the Wind (1939)

A classic historical epic, Scarlett O'Hara begins her life on the sprawling Southern plantations and the story follows her through the Civil War, the Reconstruction period, and her many loves and losses..

"After all…tomorrow…is another day!"

𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒅 is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming.

Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).

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Hi.. Could you explain more about this?

"Actually, I've always held a theory that the parents' love triangle represents the fate of Panem in the first rebellion/the Dark Days that lead to the creation of The Hunger Games, while the Katniss/Peeta/Gale triangle represents Panem in the second rebellion."

Thank you :)

@curiousnonny

Absolutely! I thought about going further into this the other night, but I was so tired that I couldn't find the energy. Thanks for asking!

The first time I read the books, I couldn't help thinking that Katniss reminded me a lot of Scarlett O'Hara because they were both survivors. In Gone with the Wind, the love triangle between Scarlett/Rhett/Ashley is meant to serve as a symbol for the South's struggle to adapt to the changes that the end of the Civil War brought about, or if it would allow itself to be overcome by its refusal to change with the times.

So with this influence in mind, I couldn't help seeing both Everdeen women as being representatives of Panem -- Mrs. Everdeen was Panem before it attempted rebellion but failed miserably. Mr. Mellark, who was from Mrs. Everdeen's old life that held considerable more comforts (even if it still wasn't great) represented what Panem was before that first rebellion. Mr. Everdeen represented the change, the possibility to improve your quality of life by just being brave enough to rebel against the status quo. Mrs. Everdeen made this choice when she chose a life with Mr. Everdeen, the man she loved, and left her life of comfort to live in the Seam. Unfortunately, just as the first rebellion ended poorly for the districts, and now had an even worse life because of the Hunger Games, Mrs. Everdeen's choice ended similarly when Mr. Everdeen was killed in the mines.

The next generation is born, and now we have Katniss, Peeta, and Gale. Katniss is what Panem has become in the story's present time. Worse than things used to be (and now we have evidence of this, knowing things were still less harsh for the districts during the events of TBoSBaS). Panem is surviving, but not thriving. And the same can be said for Katniss. Now, the love prospect from the Seam represents Katniss's status quo before the Hunger Games, and before the rebellion. He's Seam, like her, which is just about as bottom rung as you can get in Panem except for maybe the Avoxes. But it's Katniss's life, it's all she's ever known, and because it's familiar and doesn't capture the attention of anyone who can cause her or her family any harm, it's comfortable for her.

Then she goes into the Hunger Games, and along with that, Peeta, who had always been dancing around the backdrop of her life the way thoughts of freedom did in the minds of every citizen of Panem, suddenly becomes a realistic prospect in her life. Despite her defenses telling her not to do it, she can't help choosing compassion and humanity in the face of the Capitol's threats. These things are inherently, deeply rebellious to the Capitol because Snow's number one method to keep control is to keep every single citizen as divided as possible. (This is the point of his little quip at the end of TBoSBaS where he decides if he ever gets married, it'll be for power and not love.)

After her act of rebellion, with the boy who represents actual rebellion because he represents compassion and humanity and hope, she's had a taste of what life could be if she decides to go after it. Panem, too, has seen two teenagers have the absolute audacity to choose to remember each other's humanity on live TV aired on forced viewing across the nation, and suddenly they have a glimpse of this life as well. That's why the act with the berries has such a profound impact on the districts that it tips things over into rebellion.

So come Catching Fire, Katniss now has the choice: does she go towards this new rebellion, the rise against the oppressive system that's stripped her and everyone else of all shreds of what humanity they have? Or does she stay with the boy she's known her whole life, because it's comfortable and safer than the unknown of seeking what she knows in her heart she actually wants?

In the end, Katniss has no choice but to reject the old life, which is so often the case in life. But she does make the choice to embrace the new world and life, just as she made the choice to become the Mockingjay. And even though she lost every single facet of her old life in an unfathomably cruel way, we still see that in the end, she was able to find her way to a life that gives her the freedom she always yearned for. Just as Panem made the choice to fight the second rebellion, and this time succeeded in winning its freedom.

Walburga is just Scarlett O'Hara. Like... we (you the author and the reader) all know that right?

I've publicly said she's an influence on my version of Wally but they are definitely not the same characters.

I don't know that I can ever imagine Scarlett being as controlling of a mother as Walburga, to be honest—but the novel ends when she's 28, so who knows? It's hard to say where she would have ended up regardless of whether she gets Rhett back or not.

Scarlett is also far less of a social snob and way less rigid. I don't actually think Scarlett enjoys playing games beyond her pre-War teen years, though I suppose she does have her occasional fantasy moments of dressing Rhett down.

Walburga feels like a bit of a cross between Scarlett and Lady Mary Crawley...eff it, even throw in some Regina Mills and Mrs. Bennet.

carrie nye as tallulah bankhead in moviola: the scarlett o'hara war

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actress in a limited series or movie

Friends, here's a topic I'd like to offer for debate. Those of you who are familiar with the book/movie Gone With the Wind: do you believe Scarlett O'Hara could be autistic?

Her character has always fascinated me. She's petulant, selfish, and willfully ignorant, yet also brave, strong, determined, and admirable. Her love of parties could be a sign of sensory-seeking. She maintains her hyperfixation on Ashley Wilkes for over a decade, not realizing they're not right for each other. In fact, she completely lacks understanding of other people and their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.

Yet Scarlett also has a keen mind for numbers and business, and defies the cultural norms of the 1860s to become a successful businesswoman. She has no moral qualms about using convicts for dirt-cheap labor, as she's hyperfixated on her goal of earning as much money as possible. She also lacks a sense of danger, as she often travels to the lumber mills she owns by herself, a dangerous trip for a woman alone.

Then again, Scarlett was only sixteen when the Civil War started and her world was upended. It could be that she simply never had a chance to grow and mature. She values money and material possessions because they represent safety and security for her. This could be due to autism, or simply because she had to rebuild her life from the ground up.

What do you guys think?

queen rosalyn was mentioned in a recent post, so: can you give us any lore about her, her family, and how they managed to marry into sunderland royalty? if louisa had ended up queen, do you think she would have resisted and opposed rosalyn's politics once she reached majority?

This is actually a very helpful question, anon! Thank you for not getting mad since I took forever to answer <3

Uh, under the cut is a shit ton about the American Civil War and that means talk about slavery, so read at your own risk.

So, Rosalyn as I've made it clear was a Daughter of the Confederacy, like, a literal OG one a la Varina Anne Davis, born and raised on a plantation in South Carolina during a very contentious time. She had a very charmed childhood (like completely obvious to the horrors of slavery and raised as a true Southern Belle), but everything she loved became threatened by the inevitable Civil War and what she saw as the threat of Northern aggression.

Rosalyn in my head has always been similar to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh's character from Gone With the Wind), she was absolutely stunning, at least appearance-wise. Sunderland and the USA are right next to each other, so it was typical for Sunderlandian royals to venture into the USA for both political and social reasons. I'd like to imagine that Rosalyn met her future husband Louis at a ball in Maryland.

Now, Louis IV, as I've mentioned before, assumed the throne at 15 years old and was of a rather weak constitution. Due to his poor health, he was used to being babied and pretty much always got what he wanted. So, giving this kid basically absolute power was bound to cause issues. For Louis, it was love at first sight and Rosalyn's family, realizing Louis's position, urged her to pursue him. They had a whirlwind Romeo & Juliet-style romance, heavily manipulated by the Southern planter class, who correctly predicted international opinion turning against slavery, and wanted to ensure Sunderland would remain at the very least neutral during a Civil War. There was no better way to promote their interests than a puppet Confederate queen who had a king wrapped around her fingers.

Basically everyone in Louis's inner circle begged him not to marry Rosalyn: Parliament, family, friends, etc. But Louis married her anyway, Sunderland lacked the proper checks and balances to prevent it (they'd fix this later). People were outraged and opinions about Queen Rosalyn ranged from dismissive to downright murderous. In Sunderland, she became a scapegoat for the coming war in America. The more things worsened in America, the more she was resented. The whole nation held its breath when she became pregnant in 1859, and rejoiced when the child turned out to be a girl.

Sunderland really lucked out with Louis's early death. For one thing, he died before the Civil War started and for another, he died before he could father a son with Rosalyn. Both prevented Rosalyn from really doing any damage or having any institutional power to promote Confederate interests. She had been Queen for just under three years. She fled Sunderland with her infant daughter mere weeks after Louis died, fearing for her life. The new king, Louis's cousin George, was fully intending to make an example of Rosalyn and Louisa if they came in the way of his accession, so it was a smart move.

However, the home Rosalyn returned to wasn't the same. Several of her brothers died during the Civil War, and Big Dick William Tecumseh Sherman marched his soldiers straight across South Carolina, destroying any plantations in his path. Suffice it to say, Rosalyn kind of lost it after that, she never recovered and became a recluse until her death.

As for Louisa, she was referred to by Southerners as the Queen of Sunderland for most of her life, but it was more sarcastically than with any real deference. She never attempted to take back her birthright and actually signalled her loyalty to King George several times. George, as a result, left her to live her life in the USA. The cousins were even on friendly terms until Louisa's death.

Lousia was still raised in the South and her mother probably spoon-fed her a wrapped education based on the pro-South Lost Cause narrative (Here's an amazing video about what that means, but it's basically the myth that the Civil War was not centred on slavery, like, "States Rights" and all that BS), but Louisa rejected appeals to becoming a spokesperson for Neo-Confederate groups. She was a very private person and valued a life out of the spotlight.

Now, had she become queen she would have almost certainly been separated from her mother and raised by the State with George serving as regent until she reached adulthood. Rosalyn would have had little power to do anything about it. There was no chance of Louisa being a Confederate sympathizer without getting assassinated. Plus, after the Civil War, there was no Confederate States to represent anyway.

Reminder that Peggy Carter sucks in both the movies/extended universe and comics, but for two different reasons. It is pointed out many times that movie/show version is based on comic book Nazi double agent Cynthia Glass, so much that they casted Haylee Atwell to look like her, and she's a British government agent. Nuff said.

Comic book Peggy is if you had Scarlett O'Hara but blond working in the French resistence with all the values dissonance that creates. Comic Peggy is a descendent of Virginian plantation slave owners (her being British in movie is an invention to bypass this uncomfortable fact while ignoring the complacency of British Imperialism and it's human rights violations) and in comics her and Sharon live that "genteel, romantic antebellum" inspired upbringing of exploited wealth and it's never explored in any way than as set dressing to these white writers because they think this archetye is 'murica girlboss and thematically contrasts Steve's northerner immigrant background, see. Comic Peggy married Howling Commando Gabe Jones who is black and nothing of her past is addressed about this legacy and then she gets alzheimers and thinks she's still with Steve causing a rift in her marriage and with Steve and Sharon's already weird relationship because before this development by later writers, it was never Stan Lee's intention that Steve dated both Peggy and Sharon who were originally sisters not aunt and niece and then great-aunt and great-niece as time passed from whenever Steve was thawed. Then Peggy dies of old age as the waste of space she was (liberating those poor French notwithstanding) and we still stuck with Sharon the S H.I.E.L.D. cop who shot Steve, but oh it's ok, see she was brainwashed, see. I hate the Carter's and knowing Marvel has no balls to make Bucky, Sam or Jack Moneoe his bf, if I wanted Steve with a woman, I'd rather it be with Bernie Rosenthal who he met sometime after being thawed and almost married before Sharon undied herself or Betty Ross who Peggy replaced in Canon as his war love interest because oops Stan Lee named Hulk's girlfriend that and we can't have both around…

Also another petty note: I didn't hate Haylee Atwell's Peggy initially, but after watching her play a slave owner who loses a fraction of her power marrying a man who inherits her property and has an affair with her once 'favorite slave' she abuses throughout, in the British series called The Long Song, I cannot unsee these two characters played by the same actress as the two sides of the white supremacist girlboss coin.

So Gone With The Wind is a 1939 movie about morally questionable Scarlett O'Hara and her ray of sunshine girlfriend Melanie and they have to cope with the fallout of the American Civil War. There's some men in it I think....Rent?? Ashville?? Who cares.

Anyway, so about the girls,

Trixie

Trixie is a bold and free-spirited girl’s name of Latin origin. It could be originated from the Latin word Beatus, meaning ‘bringer of joy’, or ‘she who brings happiness’. Trixie could also be derived from the Latin word viator, meaning ‘voyager’, or ‘traveler.’

The name is considered a diminutive of names, such as Beatrice, Beatrix, or Patricia. Trixie is also associated with several saintly figures. Beatrice of Silva was a Portuguese noblewoman who founded the monastic Order of the Immaculate Conception. She was imprisoned in a tiny cell and finally escaped her imprisonment and took refuge in the Dominican Second Order monastery of nuns in Toledo. She is the patron saint of prisoners and is still venerated in the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception.

Blessed Beatrice d’Este was the daughter of Azzo VI of the Este family by his second wife, Sophia Eleanor, daughter of Humbert III, Count of Savoy. Beatrice became a Benedictine nun at Solarola near Padua at the age of fourteen, and in 1221 founded a religious house at the site of an abandoned monastery in Gemmola.

The name Trixie is often used as a nickname for Patricia. Hence the name is associated with Saint Patricia of Naples and might have been a descendant of Constantine the Great or related to the Roman Emperor.

Trixie can have several variants, including Trixi and Trixy. Trix can make a cute nickname for Trixie. The name has left a mark on popular culture. Trixie was given to several memorable fictional characters. Thelma “Trixie” Norton is a notable character in the television sitcom The Honeymooners. She is Ed’s wife and the best friend of Alice. She is depicted as an ordinary housewife and was portrayed by Joyce Randolph. Trixie is a blue plastic Triceratops in Toy Story 3 and served as the main character in Toy Story That Time Forgot and is one of the toys owned by Bonnie.

Trixie is wearing a civil war dress that is teal silver and cream. Her reddish hair is put up in the back. She has teal necklace and earrings also. DON'T FORGET HER MESHES SO SHE WILL SHOW UP CORRECTLY.

MESHES

The Arabian Nights Collection earrings and necklace-MURPHY

Scarlett O'hara dress-simna

Scafati Boots-Madlen

FemaleHair_AndrineFlowers and hair V2-simstrouble

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The War on Woke people are always like 'I love Ripley.' and it's like yeah, you "love" her in retrospect. You weren't old enough to ever see that movie in theaters. Characters in that mold were rare at the time. It's why there was such a big casting war over who would play Scarlett O'Hara. Characters that had more happening besides physical beauty were rare.