{"id":1501,"date":"2016-12-27T04:55:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2016-12-27T04:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:55:37","slug":"years-gone-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/12\/years-gone-wind.html","title":{"rendered":"The year’s gone with the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gone with the Wind<\/em> is a traditional holiday movie around Christmas and New Year\u2019s. It has that epic scope that makes it a worthy holiday film. Perhaps a soap opera, this film has people and the days of their lives at its core. It\u2019s told on a huge canvass and is set in the South at the time of the American Civil War. Gone with the Wind<\/em> is big.<\/p>\n

There is one line that makes Gone with the Wind<\/em> a truly New Year\u2019s kind of movie. \u201cTomorrow is another day\u201d says Vivien Leigh\u2019s Scarlett O\u2019 Hara in the final scene. Scarlett goes through all sorts of bother during the year. But at the end she is able to have smidgen of hope in what\u2019s the future.<\/p>\n

New beginnings<\/h4>\n

That\u2019s the sort of New Year I would like to have\u2014if the rest of the year has been porridge.<\/p>\n

Scarlett has one of those years.<\/p>\n

Not only does she get dumped by her husband, their relationship has been competitive, outrageous and downright silly.<\/p>\n

From her perspective, Scarlett doesn\u2019t get what she really wants from a relationship. She actually fancied someone else, but couldn\u2019t get him because he is engaged. Her marriage is one of those passionate\/tumultuous love affairs bound to go wrong.<\/p>\n

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Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone with the Wind (Image sourced via google images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I am tempted to say that Scarlett deserved it because she is self-centered, self-absorbed and flirtatious. But when bad things happen to her–she loses so much including loved ones–I sympathized. Not that her husband is any better.<\/p>\n

Her big downer moment is when her hubby Rhett Butler, played by the always charismatic Clark Gable, is about to leave her. \u201cFrankly dear I don\u2019t give a damn,\u201d he says in a temper and in a flash he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

Scarlett leaned on Rhett for support, but the strong Scarlett musters enough courage on recalling the supportive words of her father all those years ago. \u201cRemember the land\u2026\u201d She then realizes to put her hand to the plow because working the land is going to produce something. Then, she utters those immortal words: \u201cTomorrow is another day\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sounds like New Year\u2019s to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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