In 1939, David O Selznick produced a film of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gone with the Wind. The movie proved to be among the most important in the history of world cinema. To this day, in fact, it remains the American box office champion when adjusted for inflation. In 1940, the film won a record-breaking eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Recently, however, Gone with the Wind has increasingly come under fire due to allegations of racism in the movie. Consequently, its reputation has fallen in many critical circles.
The film tells the story of a Southern family who fight on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Scarlett O’Hara, the main character, is a slave owner whose civilization goes to war to preserve the right to own and degrade African Americans. Life before the Civil War, during the days of slavery, is depicted as a golden age.
Scarlett’s maid and confidante, Mammy, is not even given a first name in the script. Meanwhile, Butterfly McQueen, who portrayed Prissy, a house servant whom Scarlett slaps across the face at one point in the film, was told by the director to deliver a hysterical performance emphasizing the character’s dim-wittedness, speaking to age-old negative stereotypes. Civil rights activist Malcolm X wrote of his embarrassment seeing Butterfly McQueen’s performance as Prissy that it made him want to crawl under the rug of the theater.
For all of these reasons, when watching Gone with the Wind today, modern viewers cannot help but feel admiration for how far the movie industry has come since its infancy. There is much to be embarrassed about in the early days of Hollywood films.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
Gone with the wind is one of the greatest movie made of all time. It won eight academy award. The text states that although the movie was most important movie in world cinema but it was racist and demeaning for certain communities. On the contrary the lecturer think that the ideas in the text is totally overstated.
The lecturer thinks that the movie has shown women limited opportunities for women outside household community which was true at that time but also help create job opportunities for black people in film industry. Although the text suggest that it is demeaning for the women folks.
Manny who is the main character's maid has not been given a first name also but as the lecturer enlighted the class that despite of it Manny was potraid as the very rich character. Manny was unafraid for speech even in front of her masters and warm towards the loved ones. The actress that potraid the role of Manny became the first african women to win a academy award.
McQueen who was a slave was potraid as the worst character in the movie, she was stereotyped and was given dim-wittedness. The lecturer thinks in the opposite way. McQueen as a character Prissy was unafraid of the world. She was rebellious in nature and discontent with her situation.
Time has changed, slavery has been abolished and promotion of slavery has been judged in this new world. People have fought for the rights. They fought for equality of gender, color. In today's world the movie Gone with the Wind might look as racist, but it has potraid the truth of the era and enlightend the audience with the problem that the society faced.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'award' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'awards'.
Suggestion: awards
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'characters'' or 'character's'?
Suggestion: characters'; character's
...e women folks. Manny who is the main characters maid has not been given a first name al...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...y became the first african women to win a academy award. McQueen who was a sla...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, look, so, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 43.0788530466 44% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 52.1666666667 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1344.0 1977.66487455 68% => OK
No of words: 284.0 407.700716846 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7323943662 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.48103885553 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40465890461 2.67179642975 90% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 212.727598566 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492957746479 0.524837075471 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 407.7 618.680645161 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.2720380181 48.9658058833 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.0588235294 100.406767564 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7058823529 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.52941176471 5.45110844103 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.106676060358 0.236089414692 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0356973052353 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0517515859969 0.0737576698707 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0660119477743 0.150856017488 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580769692335 0.0645574589148 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 11.7677419355 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 58.1214874552 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 10.1575268817 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 10.9000537634 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 86.8835125448 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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