"Gone With The Wind" 60 Years Later

I saw this film when I was a teenager and has always been one of my top 2 movies ever. Mostly for the production stories that came from it, but also for the story. I'm always fascinated by strong female characters because my Mom and two sisters are as tough as they come. Sometimes I wonder if they ever did tap into gender stereotypes. I haven't seen it. Scarlett O'Hara lives within the modern woman, so how can that be wrong?

There's been a recent backlash about this film being racist. First off, get the fuck out of here. People are looking for issues. And a few things still irk me about the title of racism...first, it wasn't racist enough. The reality was probably much worse. In fact, the producer David O. Selznick understanding the awful history...toned it down. But still wasn't going to re-write history to suit the general tastes. We're talking 1939 here for a film that takes place during the American Civil War. So people who lynch this film, like Spike Lee for drawing cinematic comparisons to the celebration of the old South, go fuck yourself (though you still make good movies yourself).
The other thing... of course there were two fucking redneck biker dykes yapping during the film. I told them to shut up, that didn't work. I sometimes wonder if asshats like these come to a film about the Civil War thinking the history would change (hint: it doesn't).
That said, the film still holds up in my book. It's beautiful structurally and cinematically. And BOY, Vivien Leigh is sexy and bold to play someone so driven by the fear of poverty she trades herself to get there. In today's vernacular, that is a feminist. Now, it's not the fact that she needed a man, as some would probably whine about, it's the fact that she wanted a single man. And it wasn't Rhett Butler (played impeccably by Clark Gable). The original book had Scarlett (named in the book Pansy) as a total whore. This one brought that down...a bit. She is the definition of why men love bitches. She absolutely gives men boners with her resting bitch face. Too bad, she's also batshit crazy. To which no one can really tolerate her. But does she give a fuck? No.
And that is the basis of a strong female character. She is more macho and brave than any faux superheroine being tossed out today, because she cuts with her mind, not with this phony idea that a woman can throw a man through drywall. Fuck this new Hollywood that believes that. Scarlett is a TOUGH lady. Smart, tough and shrewd. The type of woman, when first we meet, was the girl men flirted with, fucked a few times and left, but she grew into a woman men would die to marry today.
She is resilient and crafty and steamrolls men to her will. Then becomes successful. How is that bad?
Anyway, fake Leftist assholes who find racism in everything, I guess better to be accused of being racist for liking this film than being accused of being a homo for it.