Today's topic: Most Romantic book/movie ever.
Book and movie:
Gone With the Wind: This is really a stealth romance. There's not the usual meeting, misunderstanding, getting back together, blah blah blah. The romance in the love between Ashley and Melanie Wilkes.
They are cousins and as is traditional they were expected to get married and keep the family wealth in the family.
Through thick and thin, wealth, war, poverty, after their son and Melanie can't have more children--loss of consortium, the scandal of Ashley and Scarlett found in an embrace... Their love endured to the end.
Rhett and Scarlett is not about love or romance! They are self absorbed. Scarlet is in love with the idea of Ashley Wilkes, but when he is finally available realizes he didn't love her and she was a fool. Rhett is in lust with Scarlet and wants to treat her like a child. When he finally gets her love he spurns it.
All the wealth in the world didn't make them happy or provide a basis for love. All they knew was how to take, not give. They had lust, not love.
12 comments:
Good pick!
I didn't like the movie at all, honestly. I get Scarlett was an "anti-hero" but I didn't even like watching her in the least. If I don't like the characters, I don't like the story. That said, I agree with you 100%.
Ashley and Melanie were great for each other. :-)
Thanks Lydia.
I can understand your point of view, Marianne.
Yes they were, Megan.
I've never read the book but it seems like many women of a certain generation bought into the movie big time and are constantly quoting lines from the movie. (My mother-in-law included)
Yes, it was the most popular movie of the first 50 years on the 20th century.
I've never read the book, and saw the movie once a long time ago, but from what I recall, you're so right about Rhett and Scarlett.
Thanks for coming by, Kate.
I agree with you on Rhett and Scarlett. I always preferred Ashley and Melanie.
Glad we're in agreement.
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