A Film of Archetypes

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2000)

Gone with the Wind is one of the most culturally important films ever made. In particular, Scarlett O'Hara (as portrayed by Vivien Leigh) embodies everything a woman is capable of being. It is tempting to call her the premiere incarnation of the Meridith Brooks hit song: I'm a bitch, I'm a lover I'm a child, I'm a mother I'm a sinner, I'm a saint I will not be ashamed There is no one short of Vivien Leigh who could have created Scarlett as such an archetype. (If a sequel HAD to be made it should have starred Delta Burke rather than Joanne Whalley-Kilmer.) For women searching to find themselves, they could do worse than to examine Scarlett for a role model.