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:
Line 1, column 88, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'award' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'awards'.
Suggestion: awards
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Line 5, column 23, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
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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Line 5, column 354, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
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 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1344.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 284.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7323943662 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10515524023 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.40465890461 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 140.0 145.348785872 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492957746479 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 407.7 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.2720380181 49.2860985944 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.0588235294 110.228320801 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7058823529 21.698381199 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.52941176471 7.06452816374 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.106676060358 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0356973052353 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0517515859969 0.0662205650399 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0660119477743 0.162205337803 41% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0580769692335 0.0443174109184 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 13.3589403974 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 53.8541721854 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.86 12.2367328918 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.42419426049 92% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 63.6247240618 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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