John Ridley
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| - | "On June 9, 2020, the film was quietly removed from [[HBO Max]]'s library amid the [[George Floyd protests]] as well as in response to an [[op-ed]] which was written by screenwriter [[John Ridley]] and published in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' earlier that day in which he called for the streaming service to temporarily remove the film from its library. A spokesperson for HBO Max said that the film was "a product of its time" and as a result, it depicted "ethnic and racial prejudices" that "were wrong then and are wrong today". It was also announced that the film will be returned to the streaming service at a later point along with "a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions, but will be presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. If we are to create a more just, equitable and inclusive future, we must first acknowledge and understand our history.""--Sholem Stein | ||
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| - | '''''Gone with the Wind''''' is a [[1939 in film|1939]] [[United States|American]] [[drama film|dramatic]]-[[romance film|romantic]]-[[war film]] adapted from [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s [[1936 in literature|1936]] [[Gone with the Wind|novel of the same name]] and directed by [[Victor Fleming]]. The [[epic film]], set in the American South in and around the time of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], stars [[Vivien Leigh]], [[Clark Gable]], [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]], and [[Olivia de Havilland]], and tells a story of the Civil War and its aftermath from a white Southern viewpoint. | + | '''John Ridley IV''' is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for ''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'', for which he won an [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]. He is also the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed [[anthology series]] ''[[American Crime (TV series)|American Crime]]''. His most recent work is the [[documentary film]] ''[[Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992]]''. |
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| - | In 1861, on the eve of the [[American Civil War]], [[Scarlett O'Hara]] lives at [[Tara (plantation)|Tara]], her family's [[cotton plantation]] in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], with her parents and two sisters and their many slaves. Scarlett learns that [[Ashley Wilkes]], whom she secretly loves, is to be [[Cousin marriage|married to his cousin]], [[Melanie Hamilton]], and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation [[Twelve Oaks]]. At the Twelve Oaks party, Scarlett makes an advance on Ashley, but instead catches the attention of another guest, [[Rhett Butler]]. The barbecue is disrupted by news of the declaration of war, and the men rush to enlist. In a bid to arouse jealousy in Ashley, Scarlett marries Melanie's younger brother Charles before he leaves to fight. Following Charles's death while serving in the [[Confederate Army]], Scarlett's mother sends her to the Hamilton home in [[Atlanta]], where she creates a scene by attending a charity bazaar in her mourning attire and waltzing with Rhett, now a [[blockade runner]] for the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. | + | |
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| - | The tide of war turns against the Confederacy after the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], in which many of the men of Scarlett's town are killed. Eight months later, as the city is besieged by the [[Union Army]] in the [[Atlanta Campaign]], Melanie gives birth with Scarlett's aid, and Rhett helps them flee the city. Once out of the city, Rhett chooses to go off to fight, leaving Scarlett to make her own way back to Tara. Upon her return home, Scarlett finds Tara deserted, except for her father, her sisters, and two former slaves: Mammy and Pork. Scarlett learns that her mother has just died of [[typhoid fever]] and her father has become senile. With Tara pillaged by Union troops and the fields untended, Scarlett vows she will do anything for the survival of her family and herself. | + | |
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| - | As the O'Haras work in the cotton fields, Scarlett's father attempts to chase away a [[scalawag]] from his land, but is thrown from his horse and killed. With the defeat of the Confederacy, Ashley also returns, but finds he is of little help at Tara. When Scarlett begs him to run away with her, he confesses his desire for her and kisses her passionately, but says he cannot leave Melanie. Unable to pay the [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstructionist]] taxes imposed on Tara, Scarlett dupes her younger sister Suellen's fiancé, the middle-aged and wealthy [[general store]] owner Frank Kennedy, into marrying her, by saying Suellen got tired of waiting and married another suitor. Frank, Ashley, Rhett and several other accomplices make a night raid on a [[shanty town]] after Scarlett is attacked while driving through it alone, resulting in Frank's death. With Frank's funeral barely over, Rhett proposes to Scarlett and she accepts. | + | |
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| - | Rhett and Scarlett have a daughter whom Rhett names Bonnie Blue, but Scarlett, still pining for Ashley and chagrined at the perceived ruin of her figure, lets Rhett know that she wants no more children and that they will no longer share a bed. One day at Frank's mill, Scarlett and Ashley are seen embracing by Ashley's sister, India, and harboring an intense dislike of Scarlett she eagerly spreads rumors. Later that evening, Rhett, having heard the rumors, forces Scarlett to attend a birthday party for Ashley. Incapable of believing anything bad of her, Melanie stands by Scarlett's side so that all know that she believes the gossip to be false. After returning home from the party, Scarlett finds Rhett downstairs drunk, and they argue about Ashley. Rhett kisses Scarlett against her will, stating his intent to have sex with her that night, and carries the struggling Scarlett to the bedroom. | + | |
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| - | The next day, Rhett apologizes for his behavior and offers Scarlett a divorce, which she rejects, saying that it would be a disgrace. When Rhett returns from an extended trip to London, Scarlett informs him that she is pregnant, but an argument ensues which results in her falling down a flight of stairs and suffering a [[miscarriage]]. As she is recovering, tragedy strikes when Bonnie dies while attempting to jump a fence with her pony. Scarlett and Rhett visit Melanie, who has suffered complications arising from a new pregnancy, on her deathbed. As Scarlett consoles Ashley, Rhett prepares to leave Atlanta. Having realized that it was him she truly loved all along, and not Ashley, Scarlett pleads with Rhett to stay, but Rhett rebuffs her and walks away into the morning fog, leaving her in tears on the staircase. A distraught Scarlett resolves to return home to Tara, believing that one day she will get Rhett back. | + | |
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| - | * [[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]] as Gerald O'Hara | + | |
| - | * [[Barbara O'Neil]] as Ellen O'Hara (his wife) | + | |
| - | * [[Vivien Leigh]] as [[Scarlett O'Hara]] (daughter) | + | |
| - | * [[Evelyn Keyes]] as Suellen O'Hara (daughter) | + | |
| - | * [[Ann Rutherford]] as Carreen O'Hara (daughter) | + | |
| - | * [[George Reeves]] as Brent Tarleton (actually as Stuart){{refn|group=nb|name=Tarleton|The credits at the start of the film contain an error: George Reeves is listed "as Brent Tarleton", but plays Stuart, while Fred Crane is listed "as Stuart Tarleton", but plays Brent. | + | |
| - | * [[Fred Crane (actor)|Fred Crane]] as Stuart Tarleton (actually as Brent){{refn|group=nb|name=Tarleton}} | + | |
| - | * [[Hattie McDaniel]] as Mammy (house servant) | + | |
| - | * [[Oscar Polk]] as Pork (house servant) | + | |
| - | * [[Butterfly McQueen]] as Prissy (house servant) | + | |
| - | * [[Victor Jory]] as Jonas Wilkerson (field overseer) | + | |
| - | * [[Everett Brown]] as Big Sam (field foreman) | + | |
| - | ;At Twelve Oaks | + | |
| - | * [[Howard Hickman]] as John Wilkes | + | |
| - | * [[Alicia Rhett]] as [[India Wilkes]] (his daughter) | + | |
| - | * [[Leslie Howard]] as [[Ashley Wilkes]] (his son) | + | |
| - | * [[Olivia de Havilland]] as [[Melanie Hamilton]] (their cousin) | + | |
| - | * [[Rand Brooks]] as [[Gone with the Wind (novel)#Other characters|Charles Hamilton]] (Melanie's brother) | + | |
| - | * [[Carroll Nye]] as Frank Kennedy (a guest) | + | |
| - | * [[Clark Gable]] as [[Rhett Butler]] (a visitor from Charleston) | + | |
| - | ;In Atlanta | + | |
| - | * [[Laura Hope Crews]] as Aunt Pittypat Hamilton | + | |
| - | * [[Eddie "Rochester" Anderson|Eddie Anderson]] as Uncle Peter (her coachman) | + | |
| - | * [[Harry Davenport (actor)|Harry Davenport]] as Dr. Meade | + | |
| - | * [[Leona Roberts]] as Mrs. Meade | + | |
| - | * [[Jane Darwell]] as Mrs. Merriwether | + | |
| - | * [[Ona Munson]] as Belle Watling | + | |
| - | ;Minor supporting roles | + | |
| - | * [[Paul Hurst (actor)|Paul Hurst]] as the Yankee deserter | + | |
| - | * [[Cammie King|Cammie King Conlon]] as Bonnie Blue Butler | + | |
| - | * [[J. M. Kerrigan]] as Johnny Gallagher | + | |
| - | * [[Jackie Moran]] as Phil Meade | + | |
| - | * [[Lillian Kemble-Cooper]] as Bonnie's nurse in London | + | |
| - | * [[Marcella Martin]] as Cathleen Calvert | + | |
| - | * [[Mickey Kuhn]] as Beau Wilkes | + | |
| - | * [[Irving Bacon]] as the Corporal | + | |
| - | * [[William Bakewell]] as the mounted officer | + | |
| - | * [[Isabel Jewell]] as Emmy Slattery | + | |
| - | * [[Eric Linden]] as the amputation case | + | |
| - | * [[Ward Bond]] as Tom, the Yankee captain | + | |
| - | * [[Cliff Edwards]] as the reminiscent soldier | + | |
| - | * [[Yakima Canutt]] as the renegade | + | |
| - | * [[Louis Jean Heydt]] as the hungry soldier holding Beau Wilkes | + | |
| - | * [[Olin Howland]] as the carpetbagger businessman | + | |
| - | * [[Robert Elliott (actor)|Robert Elliott]] as the Yankee major | + | |
| - | * [[Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918)|Mary Anderson]] as Maybelle Merriwether | + | |
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| - | Following the death of Olivia de Havilland—who played Melanie Hamilton—on July 25, 2020 at the age of 104, the only surviving credited cast member from the film is Mickey Kuhn, who played Melanie's son, Beau. | + | |
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John Ridley IV is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed anthology series American Crime. His most recent work is the documentary film Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992.
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