#scarlett mitchell

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It's officially spooky season. So here's a sneak peek for chapter 9 of Hear You, Seek You.

Scarlett pressed her lips tightly before speaking, expression firm. “It was Nicole, wasn't it?”

Tatum tilted her head while Sidney nodded her head, sniffling. 

“How did you know?” 

Scarlett frowned, memories going back to middle school. 

“Nicole used to say mean things to me when we were younger. Mainly about my dad but Casey got her to back off.” 

The redhead paused, heart hurting and eyes stinging at the thought of Casey. After what felt like a lifetime she cleared her throat, composing herself as much as she could. 

“Plus, she’s the only mean cheerleader on the squad.”

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Teachers, am I right?

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Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

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GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)

dir. victor fleming, george cukor and sam wood

[amilinak]

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

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A sun :D

Based on science.

[colour-of-dream]

"Znudziło mi się ciągle udawać i nigdy nie móc robić tego, co chcę. Znudziło mi się udawać, że jem jak ptaszek, i chodzić, kiedy właśnie mam ochotę biegać, i mówić, że słabo mi po walcu, kiedy mogłabym tańczyć przez dwa dni i nie czuć zmęczenia. Znudziło mi się mówić: "Jaki pan nadzwyczajny!" do głupich chłopców, którzy nie mają nawet ćwierci tego rozumu co ja, i udawać, że nic nie rozumiem, aby mężczyźni mogli mi wszystko tłumaczyć i aby byli dumni, że to robią..."

Margaret Mitchell - "Przeminęło z wiatrem"

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A key moment comes almost halfway through Gone with the Wind, book and movie, when Rhett abruptly abandons Scarlett on the road to Tara to join the Confederate army. His desertion follows hard upon one of their tenderest scenes together, when, finding her exhausted and terrified after Melanie’s agonizing delivery and determined to get back to Tara, he holds and comforts her in the manner of the mother she longs to return to—or the mother she never had.

In attempting to explain Rhett’s change of heart, which had a bevy of screenwriters gnashing their teeth, Sidney Howard et al decided to translate their bafflement into Rhett’s, having him puzzle over his own motives. “I always had a weakness for lost causes once they’re really lost,” he offers, or alternatively, “maybe I’m just ashamed of myself.” In some ways it’s the inexplicability of the act that marks it as deeply personal, springing from some demons of the unconscious on Mitchell’s part, a prompting of the past rather than a rational plot calculation. [...]

Rhett’s withdrawal of those protective arms, and the chasm that suddenly opens up, reaches back to the turning point of Margaret Mitchell’s own young life. “Stunned, nauseated” by Rhett’s abandonment, the book’s Scarlett compares it to a moment of terror when as a child of six she fell out of a tree and endured the frightening near-death sensation of having the wind knocked out of her. This was precisely the age when Margaret had her own expulsion from Paradise. It was September 1907; Margaret had begun school and hated it. Unpopular, resistant to anything “academic,” and forced to exchange her boy’s pants for a dress, she pleaded with her mother to let her quit. May Belle said not a word, but she had the carriage brought round and took the would-be truant for a ride north of Atlanta, in the open country on the famous road to Jonesboro. Here on land that still lay fallow years after the war stood many grand old mansions now derelict, tenanted by impoverished widows and spinsters. Margaret imagined these antebellum ghosts peering through cob-webbed windowpanes, Miss Havershams haunting the present day. This is what can happen, Mrs. Mitchell admonished her daughter, if you don’t prepare. The world can go mad in an instant, crumble around you overnight. “For God’s sake, go to school and learn something that will stay with you,” Margaret later quoted her mother as saying. “The strength of women’s hands isn’t worth anything, but what they’ve got in their heads will carry them as far as they need to go.” This is the conversion narrative of Margaret’s life, her Saul on the Road to Damascus peripeteia, only instead of finding Christianity on the road to Jonesboro, she learned a lesson in brute survival. Gumption would be her byword, not the grace of the Lord. And for Scarlett, not Christian forbearance but action and self-interest.

Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited by Molly Haskell

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how would each ghostface (billy, stu, mickey, mrs. loomis, roman, jill, charlie, amber, richie, detective bailey, ethan and quinn) react to an altercation with scarlett and randy's daugther? xx

Billy: I don’t see him actually stabbing Jamie. However he definitely would’ve done to her what he did to Scarlett in the final act of Scream. And that’s break her leg. He’d claim it’s the only way he could keep her from running off 😭 (Fun fact: How Amber breaks Tara’s leg in the movie is how Billy does it to Scarlett.)

Stu: Okay unlike Billy, Stu would actually stab Jamie. BUT it would only be stab wounds that would slow her down, not kill her. He knows that if she died by his hand he’d have to deal with Billy 😳 (really he should fear Scarlett more)

Mickey: I’d imagine any altercation Jamie would have with Mickey would be in a car 🤣 So she’d have to deal with his crazy ass driving.

Nancy Loomis: Well, this would all depend if Billy had survived the first Scream. If yes, she wouldn’t go after Jamie knowing how much Jamie means to Billy. If no, if Billy had died then Nancy would go after her.

Roman: Ah, the man who started it all. Well, I see him only going after Jamie as a way to draw Sidney out. He knows how much Jamie means to her. So he’d use that to his advantage.

Jill: This would be such an interesting altercation. Because Jill is so unhinged. I honestly see her hurting Jamie the same way she hurt Sidney. Obviously Jamie would survive but with severe injuries.

Charlie: Whatever the scenario Jamie would’ve beat his ass easily. You know this is true. He’s also my least favorite Ghostface 🤣

Amber: It’s Amber who Jamie has the encounter with in Scream 5 when she goes through the doggie door. She manages to get a few hits on Amber before doing so.

Richie: Jamie’s encounter with Richie will be short as she one ups him with her skateboard. Amber really was the better Ghostface between the two 🤣

Detective Bailey: The dude’s gonna send a pizza bomb. Enough said. He ruined pizza for Jamie.

Ethan: An altercation between these two will happen. It’s the final one that has me excited because of what Jamie’s going to do to him. But before that Ethan definitely messed with her. I mean, he even stabs Jamie so when he comes to the ‘rescue’ she has to rely on him more.

Quinn: She’d be eager to stab Jamie. Unlike Ethan, Quinn doesn’t care about her. But I’d imagine Jamie just grabbing a brick like Tara and hitting Quinn in the face. She’d lose more teeth.

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Poor boy would’ve suffered by the hands of his own father 😭

And as you pointed out Billy wouldn’t have laid a hand on Scarlett, but the same can not be said for their son.

Even though Scarlett would’ve been a wonderful mother to him, all those fanatics have no idea how terrible Billy would’ve been as a father.

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Scarlett's Scandalous Saga

This 1968 edition of Margaret Mitchell’s American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind was created for the Limited Editions Club and published in New York in a limited edition of 1500 copies. The two-volume work is signed by John Groth, an American illustrator and teacher best known for his depictions of combat, and Henry Steele Commager, an American historian who “helped define modern liberalism in the United States,” introduces the book.

John August Groth (1908-1988) produced more than one hundred fifty black-and-white drawings and twenty-one color illustrations, which were then turned into plates by Rainbows, Incorporated of Hazardville, Connecticut, and printed by The Holyoke Lithographing Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The text was set and printed at The Sign of the Stone Book in Bloomfield, Connecticut. 

Book designer Ted Gensamer chose the font for the text, set in 10 pt. Janson and Jaguar script in various sizes for the display lines.

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), an American novelist and journalist, completed only one novel published during her lifetime. Her classic, sweeping epic Gone with the Wind was released in 1936. It won her the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel in 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. This was after she spent ten years of her life writing the story out of boredom at home, recovering from a recurring ankle injury.

The book is not without its share of controversy. It has been the subject of intense debate, with its racist rhetoric and idealized portrayals of slavery coming under fire. Critics argue that it romanticizes the antebellum South and glosses over the horrors of slavery, depicting the Lost Cause as something heroic. While these criticisms are significant and should not be ignored, they do not detract from the novel's literary value. Instead, they spark critical reflection and discussion, inviting readers to engage with the text in a more nuanced way.

At its core, the story is a classic historical romance filled with love and heartbreak. It is a coming-of-age story about southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, a strong-willed, determined young woman who refused to bow to the patriarchy and societal standards of the time. The tale is set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction in Georgia, a period of substantial social and political upheaval. This context is central to understanding the characters' lives and their resilience and determination to survive and thrive in the face of adversity.

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-Melissa, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[charlie-grusin]

They come from families who live in luxury under a social system which shouldn’t exist and is inevitably doomed to fail.

They survive the devastations brought onto their land and name through sheer ruthless determination that borderlines on childishness.

Said ruthless determination brings them out of ruin into wealth but in turn alienates everyone they ever knew and love for the heartless monsters they have become.

They’re the same bitch.

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Nicole, sweetie, just you wait. Scarlett is going to mangle up your face. No one is going to disrespect our sweet Tatum and her memory.

I'm just picturing Tatum cheering for her bestie. <3

[mary-maud]

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind

[izzythehutt]

Underrated (unintentionally) hilarious GWTW scene: when Grandma Fontaine describes her entire family being brutally massacred by Creek Indians in front of her and how this single event fundamentally altered her worldview for the next fifty years and tries to use it as a cautionary tale for the price of fearlessness on the human psyche and Scarlett is just like ":/ why don't old people ever talk about anything useful"