玛格丽特·米切尔的《飘》其影响可谓深远。但是1949 年米切尔去逝时，她的私人信件及文稿，甚至连《飘》的原始打字稿全部都被销毁了。至此，人们一直认为米切尔生前只有一部作品传世。然而，50 年后的今天，世人发现米切尔在创作《飘》之前写成的另一个令人喜爱的故事，这就是中篇小说《失去的莱松岛》。
该书的发现披露了真实生活中的一个浪漫故事，这就是米切尔与她年轻的恋人安吉尔的爱情故事。安吉尔的后代将这部手稿，以及米切尔的信件、照片一直保存了半个多世纪，今天终于将它们交到了有关米切尔生平的博物馆长手中。
该小说围绕南太平洋的一个火山岛构筑了一个令人激动的、爱情与荣誉的故事。
Mitchell, who is best known as the author of Gone with the Wind, was believed to have only written one full book during her lifetime. However, when she was 15, she had written the manuscript to Lost Laysen -- a romance set in the South Pacific. She gave the two notebooks containing the handwritten work to a suitor named Henry Love Angel, who kept the manuscript along with a number of letters Mitchell had sent him. Angel died in 1945, but Lost Laysen remained undiscovered until his son found the manuscript while preparing to donate the letters to the Road to Tara Museum.
Lost Laysen was first published in 1996 by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster (ISBN 0684824280 . Edited by Debra Freer, the book includes an extensive introduction telling the story of Mitchell and Angel's relationship, complete with photographs and reproductions of some of her letters.
该书的发现披露了真实生活中的一个浪漫故事，这就是米切尔与她年轻的恋人安吉尔的爱情故事。安吉尔的后代将这部手稿，以及米切尔的信件、照片一直保存了半个多世纪，今天终于将它们交到了有关米切尔生平的博物馆长手中。
该小说围绕南太平洋的一个火山岛构筑了一个令人激动的、爱情与荣誉的故事。
Mitchell, who is best known as the author of Gone with the Wind, was believed to have only written one full book during her lifetime. However, when she was 15, she had written the manuscript to Lost Laysen -- a romance set in the South Pacific. She gave the two notebooks containing the handwritten work to a suitor named Henry Love Angel, who kept the manuscript along with a number of letters Mitchell had sent him. Angel died in 1945, but Lost Laysen remained undiscovered until his son found the manuscript while preparing to donate the letters to the Road to Tara Museum.
Lost Laysen was first published in 1996 by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster (ISBN 0684824280 . Edited by Debra Freer, the book includes an extensive introduction telling the story of Mitchell and Angel's relationship, complete with photographs and reproductions of some of her letters.
《乱世佳人》（GONE WITH THE WIND）是好莱坞影史上最值得骄傲的一部旷世经典文学电影，影片放映时间长达4小时，观者如潮。其魅力贯穿整个20世纪，有好莱坞“第一巨片” 之称。影片当年耗资400多万美元，历时三年半完成，其间数次更换导演，银幕上出现了60多位主要演员和9000多名配角演员。在1939年的第12届奥斯卡奖中一举夺得八项金像奖，轰动美国影坛。这部耗资巨大，场景豪华，战争场面宏大逼真的历史文学题材影片，以它令人称道的艺术成就成为美国电影史上一部经典作品，令人百看不厌。
1861年南北战争爆发的前夕，塔拉庄园的千金小姐郝思嘉爱上了另一庄园主的儿子艾希利，但艾希利却选择了郝思嘉的表妹——温柔善良的韩媚兰为终身伴侣。郝思嘉出于妒恨，抢先嫁给了韩媚兰的弟弟查尔斯。不久，美国南北战争爆发了。艾希利和查尔斯作为征兵上了前线。查尔斯很快就在战争中死去了。郝思嘉成了寡妇， 她内心却一直对艾希利念念不忘。
一天，在一次举行义卖的舞会上，郝思嘉和风度翩翩的商人白瑞德相识。白瑞德开始追求郝思嘉，但遭到她的拒绝。郝思嘉一心只想着去追求艾希利，结果也遭到拒绝。
在战争中，美国南方军遭到失败，亚特兰大城里挤满了伤兵。郝思嘉和表妹韩媚兰自愿加入护士行列照顾伤兵。目睹了战乱带来的惨状之后，任性的郝思嘉成熟了不少。这时，从前线传来消息，北方军快打过来了，不少人家惊惶地逃离家园，开始了不安定的流浪生活。正在此时，韩媚兰不巧要生孩子了，郝思嘉只好留下来照顾她。
在北方军大军压境之日，郝思嘉哀求白瑞德帮忙护送她和刚生下孩子的韩媚兰回塔拉庄园。白瑞德告诉郝思嘉他不能目睹南方军溃败而不去助一臂之力，他要参加南方军作战，他留下一把手枪并和郝思嘉拥吻告别。郝思嘉只好独自驾驶马车回到塔拉庄园，而这时家里已被北方军士兵抢先洗动一空，母亲在惊吓中死去。昔日美好的家园变成了荒凉的栖息地，郝思嘉面对这一切悲惨时，表现出了女人少有的坚毅，她决定重建家园。
不久，战争结束了。但是生活依然困苦。北方来的统治者要庄园主缴纳重税，郝思嘉在绝望中去亚特兰大城找白瑞德借钱，却得知他已被关进监狱。归来的途中，郝思嘉遇上了本来要迎娶她妹妹的暴发户弗兰克，为了要重振破产的家业，她骗取弗兰克和自己结了婚。
郝思嘉在弗兰克经营的木材厂非法雇用囚犯，并和北方来的商人大做生意。此时，白瑞德用钱贿赂从而恢复了自由。两人偶然碰面，再次展开爱恨交织的关系。
弗兰克和艾希利因加入了反政府的秘密组织，在一次集会时遭北方军包围，弗兰克中弹死亡，艾希利负伤逃亡，在白瑞德帮助下回到韩媚兰身边。郝思嘉再次成为寡妇。此时，白瑞德前来向她求婚，她终于与一直爱她的搞私运军火和粮食致富的白瑞德结了婚。婚后，夫妻二人住在亚特兰大的豪华宅邸中。一年后，他们的女儿邦妮出生，白瑞德把全部感情投注到邦妮身上。郝思嘉偶然翻阅艾希利的照片被白瑞德发现，终于导致了二人感情的破裂。其后，在艾希利的生日会前夕，郝思嘉与艾希利相见时热情的拥抱引起旁人非议，韩媚兰虽然不相信他们之间有暧昧关系，但白瑞德却心生怀疑。
当郝思嘉告诉白瑞德她已经再次怀孕时，白瑞德怀疑地问那是谁的孩子，郝思嘉在羞怒之下欲打白瑞德，却不慎滚下楼梯引起流产。白瑞德感到内疚，决心同郝思嘉言归于好，不料就在他俩谈话时，小女儿邦妮在骑马时意外坠地而死。与此同时不幸的事也在另一个家庭里发生，韩媚兰终因操劳过度卧病不起。临终前，她把自己的丈夫艾希利和儿子托付给郝思嘉，但要求她保守这个秘密，郝思嘉不顾一切扑向艾希利的怀中，紧紧拥抱住他，站在一旁的白瑞德无法再忍受下去，只好转身离去。面对伤心欲绝毫无反应的艾希利，郝思嘉终于明白，她爱的艾希利其实是不存在的，她真正需要的是白瑞德。
当郝思嘉赶回家里告诉白瑞德，她是真正爱他的时候，白瑞德已不再相信她。他决心离开郝思嘉，返回老家去寻找美好的事物，被遗弃的郝思嘉站在浓雾迷漫的院中，想起了父亲曾经对她说过的一句话：“世界上唯有土地与明天同在。”她决定守在她的土地上重新创造新的生活，她期盼着美好的明天的到来。
《飘》-主要演员介绍
克拉克·盖布尔
克拉克·盖布尔克拉克·盖布尔
克拉克·盖布尔，1901年出生于美国俄亥俄州的农村小镇，母亲在他十个月大时便去世了，父亲在他三岁时另娶图书馆职员珍妮为继母。珍妮无所出，视克拉克．盖博如亲生子。十四岁时，父亲卖掉田产，到奥克拉荷马州去当油井工人，克拉克不愿意随父亲搬家，乃离家出走，到当地的一家剧院打工，从此展开了他日后的演艺生涯。就外形而论，克拉克．盖博并不算是英俊小生，主要是有一对特大号的招风耳。在他投身电影界参加试镜时，曾先后被米高梅公司副总裁艾文泰尔伯格取笑他有一双蝙蝠翅膀一样的大耳朵，雷毫萍公司老板霍华休斯更刻薄地说他的耳朵像一辆打开了两扇门的计程车。虽然这些影坛大亨并不欣赏克拉克．盖博，但女同胞却爱他爱得要死。首先是年龄比盖博大两岁的女演员法兰西丝杜芙娜。他俩在波特兰城订婚后，杜芙娜就积极地运用自己的关系为盖博打天下，安排他在新戏中演出角色，又介绍他认识戏剧圈中有头有脸的人物。盖博因此结识了年龄比他大十四岁的资深女演员约瑟芬狄伦，她同时也是剧坛著名的演技指导，门生甚多。盖博在狄伦女士的大力引荐下，演出机会增加了不少。他在投桃报李之下，抛弃了未婚妻，于1924年与约瑟芬狄伦结婚。
参与作品：
《娱乐世界续集》 (1976) 、《米高梅公司的喜剧电影回顾 》(1964) 、《碧港艳遇》 (1960) 、《太平洋潜艇战 》(1958) 、《教师之恋 》(1958) 、《金汉艳奴》 (1957) 等
费雯·丽
费雯·丽（Vivien Leigh) (1913年11月5日－1967年7月7日)。原名费雯·玛丽·哈特利（Vivien Mary Hartley），英国电影演员。她成功地饰演《乱世佳人》的斯佳丽·奥哈拉和《欲望号街车》的布兰奇·杜波依斯，两度获得奥斯卡最佳女主角。1999年，她被美国电影学会选为百年来最伟大的女演员第16 名。
费雯·丽费雯·丽
主要作品：
1965《愚人船》1951《欲望号街车》（获奥斯卡最佳女主角奖）1946《Caesar and Cleopatra》 1941《汉米登夫人》1940《21 Days》 1940 《魂断蓝桥》1939《乱世佳人》 《飘》（获奥斯卡最佳女主角奖） 1938《Sidewalks of London》 1937 《Storm in a Teacup》 1937《Dark Journey》 1937《Fire Over England》
《飘》-经典片段
瑞德离开郝思嘉后，Scarlett O’Hara最后坐在楼梯的台阶上说——“After all， tomorrow is another day。”
思嘉在回到被毁的家园后,在山头上说----“上帝为我作证,上帝为我作证,北佬休想将我整垮.等熬过了这一关,我决不再忍饥挨饿,也决不再让我的亲人忍饥挨饿了,哪怕让我去偷,去抢,去杀人.请上帝为我作证,我无论如何都不再忍饥挨饿了!”
点评
有人说这部电影最经典的场面是Scarlett O’Hara在战争后回到被毁的家园，在园中手握红土发誓，无论去偷去抢都不会让家人挨饿那段，因为那时她的眼神和表情真的特别震撼人。这样说我也不反对，因为这实在是一部太经典的片子，经典的场面太多，各人有各人的偏爱。我倒是情愿选择这个：以后，明天就是新的一天了。什么是爱？什么是恨？爱和恨可以象两条永不相交的平行线，爱和恨也可能只需要一缕阳光就可以消融。珍惜拥有的人是幸福的，因为我们总是并不确切知道我们需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的时候，才知道去珍惜。泰戈尔有一句诗我特别喜欢：如果错过太阳时你流泪了，那么你也将错过星星了。历尽沧桑，你要学会忽略过去。因为——tomorrow is another day。
“不要不辞而别，我的爱人。
我看望了一夜，现在我脸上睡意重重。
只恐我在睡中把你丢失了。
不要不辞而别，我的爱人。
我惊起伸出双手去摸触你，我问自己说：
“这是一个梦么？"
但愿我能用我的心系住你的双足，紧抱在胸前！
不要不辞而别，我的爱人。”
——泰戈尔《园丁集》
《飘》-人物性格
斯佳丽
一个猫一样的女人。有着猫一样的目光，猫一样的微笑，猫一样的步伐和猫一样的敏捷。那么，这个猫一样的女人提供给我们是怎样的一些对待生活、对待爱情、对待困难和挫折的态度和经验呢？
乱世佳人乱世佳人
第一她在困难的时候敢于承担责任，虽然也有动摇，但最后仍然承担责任,比如她救了玫兰妮，她重振塔拉庄园, 后来长期扶助阿希礼一家等等。
第二她敢于去爱、无怨无悔，她的整个青春都在爱着阿希礼，没有回报但她仍没有放弃努力，直到能力的极限为止。
第三知错能改，当她最后明白她之前所为是错误时，她马上向瑞特道歉，请求原谅。
总的来说，斯佳丽堪称巾帼不让须眉的奇女子，人中龙凤，难怪瑞特这样的牛人也拜倒在她的石榴裙下。每次看《乱世佳人》，每次都有不同的收获。年轻时看，讨厌虚荣爱出风头的斯佳丽，喜欢纯洁善良的玫兰妮，不喜欢油腔滑调的瑞特巴特勒，喜欢温文尔雅的阿希礼，喜欢南方如画的景致和田园牧歌式的生活，不喜欢北方的浮华和放荡。后来看了多次之后，不由得对斯佳丽敬佩起来，原本是一个弱女子，任性而年青，第一次结婚是一时的冲动报复，嫁给了不爱的男孩，让自己成为了年轻的寡妇。第二次结婚是为了一家人的生存，抢走了妹妹的心上人，肯尼迪。肯尼迪虽然是一个半老头子，却不是斯佳丽的对手，面对她的冷酷和无情，他束手无策。最终为了斯佳丽差点遭受的侮辱去报复穷白人而被人击毙，不幸枉死，却从未享受过斯佳丽的一点爱。于是斯佳丽再次成为寡妇，而且还是个有钱的寡妇。在那个战火纷飞的年代，为了答应过阿希礼照顾玫兰妮的一句承诺，在北军就要攻占亚特兰大的时候，斯佳丽又果断地替玫兰妮接生，并找到瑞特冲破重重阻碍和关卡，回到了乡下老家－－塔拉庄园。在又饥又饿之时，她又遭受了母亲病亡、父亲痴呆、家里被劫，一穷二白的多重打击，她不屈不挠，带头种田干活，喝令妹妹下床摘棉花，并照顾玫兰妮和小波，支撑一家人的生计，那时她顶多也不过是个二十来岁的小姑娘，本应是个在母亲怀里撒娇的小姑娘。可是面对如此巨大的困难，她没有选择逃避，而是勇敢挑起家里的重担，以常人难以企及的毅力抗争命运，每每看到斯佳丽举着萝卜向天盟誓，决不愿让家人再受苦挨饿时，我总是觉得拍片导演对光线和背景的运用是那么巧妙和艺术， 它那么生动地刻划了思嘉渴望安定、渴望生存、渴望富裕的强烈而真实的内心情感。我觉得那时的她，已完成了最艰难的嬗变，由一只丑陋的毛毛虫破茧而出变成了美丽的蝶，自由而高贵，那时的思嘉就像一个女神－－－渴望富有、并为此能不择手段的欲望女神。
刚强、坚韧
无论是面对战争的废墟和硝烟、母亲和父亲的去世、生活的贫穷艰难还是女儿的夭折，在和她承受同样的痛苦和艰难的人们当中，她都是最刚强、最坚韧的一个和最先从痛苦和艰难中走出来的一个。当斯佳丽面对着已是满目伤痕泰勒庄园时，她的坚韧和刚强令她这个家中的长女担起家长的重担。在影片的末尾，她还坚定地告诉我们：Tomorrow is another day。
虚荣
这应该是一个贬义词了，可是，斯佳丽的虚荣心似乎格外的可爱，在她的身上，虚荣似乎也变成了褒义词。有位名模曾说：“女孩子总是要有一点虚荣心的，无论这虚荣心表现在什么方面。”当斯佳丽扯下母亲唯一的遗物——窗帘，无论如何也要用它做一件漂亮的衣服，还将它披在身上憧憬着新衣服的样子时，她的虚荣心使她成了一个看起来不孝的女儿，但她的这种做法（也就是她的虚荣心）是当时拯救全家的唯一出路。由虚荣心而使全家人都有了生存下去的希望，这样的虚荣心也不应该算是值得摒弃的。
贪婪
这总应该是个贬义词了。但是，斯佳丽的贪婪不仅是有情可原的，在某种程度上来讲还是难能可贵的。战后的泰勒庄园在北方军的控制之下，母亲的去世和父亲的崩溃使斯佳丽——家中的长女担起了“家长”的重担。斯佳丽一家人过着艰辛的生活。战争使她贫穷，贫穷继之以饥饿。然而最可怕的是无钱交税险些失去生活来源的土地，为了借钱交税，斯佳丽勾引了妹妹的情人，继而当起了一家小店的老板娘。在经历这一切后，她明白了她所处的是一个什么样的社会以及在这个社会中钱的重要性。所以，当她拥有了当前她所需要的钱之后，她自然会想拥有更多的钱。在她追求“更多的钱”的过程中，她表现出了一个早期资本主义的资本家所必须具有的优秀品质——贪婪。
残忍与自私
这两个词无论用在什么人身上似乎都应该是表贬义的词语，特别是以温和、善良为美德的女性。但是，斯佳丽的残忍与自私在某种适度上却是值得褒扬的。首先，在社会转型的时期，人的观念需要从传统的观念转变成为新型的、与社会发展相适应的观念。不能在第一时间内转变观念的人就失去了领导时代的主动权。斯佳丽就是一个在第一时间内转变观念，接受了新的社会和社会制度、新的价值观念、新的生活方式，并且成为了一个小资本家的女人，在这一点，她是非常了不起的。而且，在刚刚建立了资本主义制度时，自私和残忍对于一个资本家来说是生存和发展的关键。在资本主义社会，对世界的博爱已经是阻碍资本的自身生存和发展的一个因素，此时，自私与残忍就成了强者的优点。
美丽
斯佳丽为我们提供了一种对待爱情的态度。她美丽，但她只是适当地运用她的美丽来得到她所喜爱的东西，从来不用自己的美貌来玩弄爱情，无论是自己的还是他人的爱情。斯佳丽是美丽的，但美丽不是拥有爱情的必备条件——你可以没有斯佳丽那样美丽动人，但你也有权利去追求属于自己的爱情。
综上所述，我们得出了这样的一个结论：
斯佳丽，猫一样的女人，刚强的、坚韧的、虚荣的、贪婪的、残忍的、自私的女人，女人的典范。
思嘉这个人，很可悲，可悲到了一种可笑的程度。
就像她自己意识到的的，“她对她所爱过的两个男人哪一个都不理解，因此到头来两个都失掉了。现在她才恍惚认识到，如果她当初了解艾希礼，她是决不会爱他的；而如果她了解了瑞德，它就无论如何都不会失掉他了。”
她一直不明白战后的人们为什么会去追忆战前，直到邦妮死后，她才明白了原因，但是，哪些可以与她追忆过往的人，已经由于她自己的疏远，排斥已经越来越远，而她的那些“新朋友”却也无法使思嘉高兴起来。
一直很喜欢瑞德离开前的那一段话，“思嘉，我从来不是那样的人，不能耐心的拾起一些碎片，把它们粘合在一起，然后对自己说这个修补好了的东西跟新的完全一样。一样东西破碎了就是破碎了——我宁愿记住它最好时的模样，而不想把它修补好，然后终生看着那些破碎了的地方。也许，假使我还年轻一点——可是我已经这么大年纪了，不能相信那种纯属感情的说法，说是一切都可以从头开始。我这么大年纪了，不能终生背着谎言的负担，在貌似体面地幻灭中过日子。我不能跟你生活在一起同时又对你说谎，而且我决不能欺骗自己。就是现在，我也不能对你说谎话啊！我是很想关心你今后的情况的，可是我不能那样做。”
如果没有瑞德，思嘉是不完整的，哪么《飘》也就不能被称为“名著”了。思嘉，自私，虚荣，贪婪，刚强，坚韧。如果说这些形容词用在别人身上，只怕全部都是贬义的，但是对思嘉而言，我倒觉得有点像是褒义词。其实，就像瑞德说的，“我们都是流氓，我们都是无赖。”他对于自己与思嘉的分析是很透彻的，也正因为他的这些分析，《飘》才会被无数人所拜读，思嘉也才完整。
关于电影版《飘》 ——《乱世佳人》，我只能说，我看完电影就喜欢上了费雯丽。因为她所演绎的思嘉真的就像活着的一样，让我再一次感受到了思嘉的美，思嘉的一切。
瑞德
我必须承认，对我来说，《乱世佳人》的吸引力之所以这么大，和克拉克盖博主演的瑞特巴特勒绝对有关系。
当然，斯佳丽眯着那双像猫那样的绿眼，迷人而妖媚，同样也让人倾倒。她是个让女人都能为之神魂颠倒的女人，她自私、冷酷、无情、聪明、不择手段、坚强，却不乏善良、美丽、脆弱；她是一个高不可攀的女神，让许多女人都梦想着能像她那样，集财富、美貌、能干、坚强于一身，让瑞特那样的男人能够为她而倾倒。至少我曾经就那样想过。但我认为，瑞特给我们这些女性观众带来的却更多是对爱情和婚姻的甜美幻想，他是那么潇洒倜傥，那么玩世不恭，那么自信过人，富有并充满了成熟男人的魅力，该是多少女性心目中的偶像啊。
在这里，简单回闪思嘉和瑞特相遇、相识、相爱的几个片段，就能让人对瑞特爱我所爱，坚持自儿，富有个性的男性魅力印象深刻：
片段一：瑞特第一次见到斯佳丽是在十二像树园的烧烤会上。斯佳丽向所有的男士卖弄风情，却发现瑞特正注意她，斯佳丽向身边的女伴抱怨说：“他看我的样子，就像我没穿衣服”可见瑞特给人的感觉不是温文尔雅，富有绅士风度，对世事的有种别人所不具备的强大洞察力和影响力，表明了他与一般的南方男人不同点：现实、大胆而富有进攻性，当他躲在书房里偷听斯佳丽大胆地向阿希礼表露爱慕，但因遭到婉拒，她气急败坏地搧了阿希礼一个耳光，并砸碎了一个小花瓶时，他吹了一个口哨，于是他被斯佳丽指责为不是一个绅士，而他同时也反唇相讥斯佳丽不是一个真正的淑女，让斯佳丽气极。俩人第一次相见就是一次爱情的交锋。
片段二：斯佳丽因查尔斯病亡到亚特兰大散心，正在服丧的她，十分渴望能再度飞旋于舞池中，表现了她在内心里对无拘无束、自由生活的向往和憧憬。是瑞特看出了她的心思，并出重金替她撬开了那个压抑而沉闷的社会道德囚笼，使她走上了和别的南方女人最不相同的命运之路。这正是斯佳丽反叛旧的社会道德标准迈出的关键性一步，而这一步，如果没有瑞特暗中片段三：瑞特为了帮助斯佳丽重返故里，拼死弄了一匹身负重伤的老马，并帮助她把玫兰妮抱到马车上，同时一路历经辛苦，并在即将要到达的时候，瑞特看到许多南方兵前仆后继，视死如归，深感震撼，并决定上战场，为保卫家园尽一份力。这时可以看出，为了心爱的女人，他能出生入死； 同样，面临家园被毁之境，他也是一个热血之人，导演在这里才向我们描绘了一个深藏在平日玩世不恭外表下，也具有一颗为荣誉甘洒热血之心的典型南方男性的形象。在这里我们看到，虽然瑞特平日里非常精明、现实，但他骨子里其实还是一个南方人。
片段四：瑞特在经历了丧女之痛和斯佳丽在精神上的背叛后，面对玫兰妮的之死，对一切都灰心失望至极，回家收拾行李，返回自己的故乡，查尔斯顿。当愚蠢的斯佳丽最后发现自己已深爱瑞特时，才发现已最终失去了自己最心爱的人。瑞特最后走得十分干脆，让斯佳丽深感懊悔。直到这里，我们才听到那颗曾经为爱而柔软的心破碎的声音，同时也因为破碎而对斯佳丽变得“冷酷无情”，这里的瑞特才让我们感觉到，这个男人敢爱敢恨，处理事情十分干脆利落，极富男性魅力。
瑞德这个人敢爱敢恨，就如上文所说，他不愿拾起破碎的感情，所以才会在最后变得那么冷酷无情。这个人物很富有男性魅力，就像思嘉所拥有的女性魅力，同样使人沉醉。
他们两个的结合，确实就像瑞德所说，“珠联璧合”。但是，在瑞德的现实与思嘉的幻想中，瑞德失败了，他的感情也因此真正的破碎了。
而克拉克·盖博的演绎更是无可挑剔，在那种翩翩风度背后的嘲弄，在那种沉稳冷静背后的狂放不羁，都是让人颇为迷醉的。
艾希礼与媚兰
再说说阿希礼和玫兰妮，他们是相似的，具备南方的一切美德，有知识，有文化，有思想，有修养。
玫兰妮基本上是完美的，她善良，仁慈又不乏勇气，斯佳丽摘棉花时，她想帮忙，斯佳丽杀人时她也帮忙，除了瑞特，她是斯佳丽的另一个支持者。我做过小范围的调查，先看书的基本都喜欢斯佳丽，而先看电影的则喜欢玫兰妮。我觉得美兰妮太好了，好得不真实，而斯佳丽是有血有肉的，是真实的，有缺点也有优点。
阿希礼是真实的，他是个活在过去的人，时世变迁，他不想面对，他是缺乏勇气的。他不爱斯佳丽，又不说不爱她。斯佳丽走投无路找他时他只给了她庄园的红土，后来知道斯佳丽卖了自己，他说他该去抢劫，他也只是说说吧，估计不会去的，这一点，他确实不如拖着军刀想帮斯佳丽对付逃兵的美兰妮。
乱世佳人里的人物都是完美的，如果没有美兰妮的淑女风范，怎能体现出斯佳丽的桀骜不逊。没有阿希礼的懦弱，怎能体现出瑞德的风范呢？
斯佳丽的奶妈.玛格丽特
温暖，可靠，安全。象母亲一样时刻保护她的孩子斯佳丽。
理智，聪明，现实而且冷静，带一些黑人的狡猾。她懂斯斯佳丽，支持她，爱她，虽然没有多说什么，但是她一直是斯佳丽的靠山，坚强有力。
忠诚，固执，可爱。对自己的宝贝，那是不顾一切的去保护；虽然只是一个家奴，但她有自己所要维护的处事原则。
黑人奶妈的形象刻画的非常成功。 由此扮演黑妈的演员哈蒂·麦克丹尼尔(Hattie McDaniel）战胜了奥丽维亚(玫兰妮)获得了第十二届奥斯卡最佳女配角奖，据说是历史上第一个获得奥斯卡奖的黑人。哈蒂将其特有的幽默感注入奶妈玛格丽特一形象中，台词念得完美无缺，与斯佳丽的扮演者费雯丽配合默契，犹如绿叶扶红花，结果两人双双获奖。由于奶妈一角的成功，哈蒂后来几乎垄断了银幕上所有的黑人保姆角色，在许多影片里可以看到她那肥胖、温顺、饶舌的形象。
《飘》-幕后花絮
时代背景：美国内战；
地点：美国南方；
戏剧高潮：火烧亚特兰大。
在如此壮丽的时代画卷上演绎出一个极不寻常的爱情故事，开创了以真实而辽阔的历史背景加虚构人物故事的爱情史诗片先河(该传统发展出《日瓦戈医生》和《泰坦尼克号》等佳作)。这部早期的彩色片保持了玛格丽特·米切尔原著的韵味和深度，既有色彩浑厚的大场面(如女主角跨过遍地伤员的镜头)，又有对人物命运的细致刻画(请注意黑人女仆的性格)。无论你认为素材像莎翁名剧还是像庸俗肥皂剧，影片取得惊人的艺术和商业成就。英文片名《飘》(即《随风而去》)出自美国诗人欧内斯特·道森的一句诗。女主角的经典压轴台词“明天是新的一天”乃原作出版前的暂定名。本片荣获奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳女主角、最佳女配角等七项大奖。1994年的续集《郝斯佳》(Scarlett)是一部长达360分钟的电视剧，豪华制作，服装布景等下了血本。故事讲郝斯佳跟白瑞德离婚后依然藕断丝连，她甚至回到爱尔兰，被控谋杀等等。影片根据雷普利小说改编。
影片拍摄耗资390万美元，在当时仅屈居于《宾虚》和《地狱天使》之后。在小说出版的一个月后，制片人大卫·塞尔兹尼克就用5万美元买下了小说的电影拍摄权，对于新人的处女作来讲，这个价码在当时可谓是天文数字。在1942年塞尔兹尼克的制片公司解散时，他又向小说作者玛格丽特·米歇尔支付了5万美元的分红。玛格丽特笔下艾什利和梅兰尼的人物原型都是她的表兄妹，多克和马蒂相爱，但他们是虔诚的天主教徒，有血缘关系的亲属是严禁结婚的。后来，多克离开了马蒂，到西部成了不法之徒，而马蒂则作了修女。
片中失火的场景是最先拍摄的，包括1933年《金刚》中使用的布景均被付之一炬，这段胶片长113分钟，共耗资25000美元，当时的火情十分猛烈，以至不知情的公众以为米高梅都化为灰烬了，报警电话响作一团。
在拍摄斯嘉丽从火中逃生的画面时，剧组需要一匹瘦骨嶙峋的老马，几经寻找，终于物色到一匹，然而当几周后马被带到片场，原先清晰可见的肋骨痕迹因为增重已经荡然无存，由于时间紧迫，化妆师只好在马的肋骨部位画出阴影。
《飘》-经典台词
美国电影学院每年都会为一些特别的电影项目评出前100名。05年取得经典台词榜第一的电影《乱世佳人》是克拉克·盖博在1939年出演的的一句台词。那是白瑞德对郝思嘉说的一句话：“坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。”“盖博的这句台词被人们在不同的场合引用，”鲍博说。“无论男女，当他们陷入一种并没有完全投入的恋爱关系时，想要控制局面，就会用到这句话。”
《飘》-所获奖项
本片在第十二届奥斯卡金像奖（1939）中荣获八项大奖：
最佳女主角奖（Best Actress）.........................费·雯丽（Vivien Leigh）
最佳女配角奖（Best Supporting Actress）......哈蒂·麦克丹尼尔（Hattie McDaniel）
最佳影片奖（Best Picture）...........................《乱世佳人》（Gone With the Wind）
最佳导演奖（Best Director）..........................维克多·弗莱明（Victor Fleming）
最佳编剧奖（Best Screenplay）....................悉尼·霍华德 （Sidney Howard）
最佳艺术指导（Best Art Direction）...............Lyle R. Wheeler
最佳摄影奖（Best Cinematography）............Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan
最佳剪辑奖（Best Film Editing）....................Hal C. Kern & James E. Newcom
《飘》-点评
有人说这部电影最经典的场面是Scarlett O’Hara在战争后回到被毁的家园，在园中手握红土发誓，无论去偷去抢都不会让家人挨饿那段，因为那时她的眼神和表情真的特别震撼人。这样说我也不反对，因为这实在是一部太经典的片子，经典的场面太多，各人有各人的偏爱。我倒是情愿选择这个：以后，明天就是新的一天了。什么是爱？什么是恨？爱和恨可以象两条永不相交的平行线，爱和恨也可能只需要一缕阳光就可以消融。珍惜拥有的人是幸福的，因为我们总是并不确切知道我们需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的时候，才知道去珍惜。
泰戈尔有一句诗我特别喜欢：如果错过太阳时你流泪了，那么你也将错过星星了。历尽沧桑，你要学会忽略过去。因为——tomorrow is another day。
《飘》-《飘》获选英国史上最受欢迎电影
根据英国电影学院近日进行的一项评选，由老牌影星克拉克·盖博和费文丽主演的描写美国内战的影片《飘》荣获英国历史上最受欢迎影片奖。根据电影票的销售数量统计，自从1940年在英国上映以来，已有3500万观众观看了《飘》。《音乐之声》名列第2，自从1938年上映以来，有3000万人观看。名列第3和第4的分别是《白雪公主和七个小矮人》(2800万人)和《星球大战》(2070万人)。这次入选最受欢迎的十部电影排行榜的电影三分之一来自英国，其中名列第5的是《枯木逢春》。这次评选活动的主办方表示：“这是英国历史上第一次评选最受观众喜爱的影片。”位列6到10名的影片分别是《黄金时代》、《森林王子》、《泰坦尼克》、《地狱圣女》以及《七宗罪》。
Title
The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson: "I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind". The novel's protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara, also uses the title phrase in a line in the book: when her home area is overtaken by the Yankees, she wonders to herself if her home, a plantation called Tara, is still standing, or if it was "also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia". More generally, the title has been interpreted as referring to the entire way of life of the antebellum South as having "Gone with the Wind". The prologue of the movie refers to the old way of life in the South as "gone with the wind…."
The title for the novel was a problem for Mitchell. She initially titled the book "Pansy", the original name for the character of Scarlett O'Hara. Although never seriously considered, the title "Pansy" was dropped once MacMillan persuaded Mitchell to rename the main character. Other proposed titles included "Tote the Weary Load" and "Tomorrow is Another Day", the latter taken from the last line in the book; however, the publisher noted that there were several books close to the same title at the time, so Mitchell was asked to find another title, and "Gone with the Wind" was chosen.
Plot
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Overview
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of an Irish immigrant who has risen from humble origins to become materially and socially successful in the deep south of 1861. He owns a plantation named Tara in Georgia. Scarlett is infatuated with Ashley Wilkes, who, although attracted to her, marries his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. Wilkes is genuinely ambiguous about his feelings toward Scarlett. He knows his feelings run deep, and are both emotional and sexual in nature; but he never resolves whether to act upon his feelings, or to renounce them and definitively reject Scarlett’s flirtations, in favor of his wife and his social position. And though he never sins in the flesh, the novel clearly implies that he does so in his heart, leading Scarlett along; limited only by his weakness in making a decision as to what ultimately, he should do.
At the party announcing Ashley's engagement to Melanie, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, who has a reputation as a rogue. As the Civil War begins, Scarlett accepts a proposal of marriage from Melanie's brother, Charles Hamilton, who soon dies of disease in training. Scarlett's main concern regarding his death is that she must wear black and cannot attend parties. After the war, Scarlett inherits Tara and manages to keep the place going. When Scarlett cannot get money from Rhett to pay the taxes on Tara, she marries her sister's fiancé, Frank Kennedy, takes control of his business, and increases its profitability with business practices that make many Atlantans resent her. Frank is killed when he and other Ku Klux Klan members raid a shanty town where Scarlet was assaulted while driving alone. Remorseful after Frank's death, Scarlett marries Rhett, who is aware of her passion for Ashley but hopes that one day she will come to love him instead. Scarlett eventually comes to realize that she does love Rhett, but only once the couple has been through so much that Rhett has fallen out of love with her.
Part one
Scarlett O'Hara is the belle of the County. Her flirtatiousness and charm won the hearts of many men in Clayton County, Georgia. At sixteen years old, however, she begins the trials that will completely overtake her life for the next twelve years. She does this by having an impromptu marriage with the bashful Charles Hamilton to save face and make her real love—Ashley Wilkes—jealous. However, soon after their wedding, Charles and all the other men in Georgia who are able to bear arms, go to war against the Yankees at the start of the Civil War. After six weeks of being in camp, Charles dies of measles. With Charles's death, Scarlett's main concern is that, in order to conform to society, she must dress in black mourning clothes and attend no parties.
Parts two and three
Scarlett moves to Atlanta to stay with her sister-in-law and Ashley’s wife, Melanie Wilkes and Melanie's Aunt Pittypat. Melanie grows to love Scarlett like a sister; however, Scarlett is very self-centered and resents Melanie. Scarlett meets Rhett Butler again while in Atlanta; he is attentive to her and she uses him (and his money) when it is convenient. Rhett has a bad reputation and is "not received" in polite society. Ashley is able to come home for Christmas from the war and stay with the ladies. At the end of his stay, Scarlett promises him that she will keep Melanie safe. With the help of Rhett and her personal slave, Prissy, Scarlett delivers Melanie's child Beau in the middle of a battle and leads Melanie, the baby and Prissy to safety back at Tara. The Civil War is ending and the northern army is marching through Georgia laying waste to the country. Upon her arrival, Scarlett hears the news of the death of her beloved mother, Ellen, of typhoid. Scarlett stays at Tara Plantation and tries to keep it solvent and care for its inhabitants.
Part four
Scarlett hears that Tara is about to be charged an enormous amount of tax by the new corrupt local government which she cannot pay. She decides to go to Atlanta and charm Rhett into paying the bill. After offering herself to Rhett as his mistress and being refused, however, Scarlett marries Frank Kennedy, who has enough money to pay the tax on Tara. Frank is the fiancé of Scarlett's sister Suellen so she deceives him into thinking that Suellen is engaged to someone else in Clayton County.
With money borrowed from and then repaid to Rhett, Scarlett buys two timber mills and proceeds to make them very profitable. Her actions are considered very inappropriate for a woman by Atlanta society. As she travels home from it one night, she is attacked. Frank, Ashley, and many other men in the newly formed Ku Klux Klan avenge her attack. In the fight, Frank is killed.
A few months later Scarlett marries Rhett, who has become very rich by dubious means during the War.
Part five
Scarlett and Rhett start to enjoy their new life together. They have a child named Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler, who becomes Rhett’s pride and joy. They live happily until Scarlett’s old infatuation with Ashley takes over. When Bonnie is killed in a riding accident Scarlett in the first flush of grief tells Rhett that she blames him. Rhett is heartbroken over the death of his beloved daughter. He drinks heavily and finally decides, after the death of Melanie Wilkes, to leave Scarlett forever. However, Scarlett realizes that she loves Rhett and never truly loved Ashley, but merely an idea of him. She confesses this to Rhett, but he is adamant. The book ends on an ambiguous note, as she decided to return to the familiarity of her beloved Tara, where she will find a way to win Rhett back: "Tomorrow is another day!".
Characters
Butler family
* Rhett Butler – Scarlett's love interest and third husband, often publicly shunned for scandalous behavior, sometimes accepted for his charm. He is financially a very shrewd man and initially appears to love Scarlett dearly.
* Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler – Scarlett and Rhett's pretty, beloved daughter.
Wilkes family
* Ashley Wilkes – The gallant Ashley married his unglamourous cousin, Melanie, because she represented all that he loved and wanted in life, that is, the quiet and happy life of a Southern gentleman of the "Twelve Oaks" plantation. Ashley Wilkes marries Melanie Hamilton as an arranged marriage between the Wilkes-Hamilton families; in which the marriage of cousins (which Ashley and Melanie are) is the practice; when necessary to preserve the blood line and social position of the family. As such, Wilkes is not, in the strictest sense, brought to marriage by love, money, or sexual infatuation; but by a sense of duty to preserve the socio-economic status quo of a world which he personally enjoys and agrees with; and believes this marriage will support and sustain.
Wilkes becomes a soldier for the Confederate cause though he personally would have freed the slaves his father owned had the war not erupted, or at least that is what he claimed. Although many of his friends and relations were killed in the Civil War, Ashley survived to see its brutal aftermath. He remains the object of Scarlett's daydream of infatuated devotion, even throughout her three marriages. She is simply obsessed with unobtainable Ashley. Believing that she was in love with him, Scarlett imagined Ashley to be the "perfect man", leaving her unable to love another.
* Melanie Hamilton Wilkes – Ashley's wife and cousin, her character is that of the genuinely humble, serene and gracious Southern woman. As the story unfolds, Melanie becomes progressively physically weaker, first by childbirth, then the effects of war, and ultimately illness. She had her own unique inner spirit of perseverance, as did Scarlett. Melanie loved Ashley, Beau, and Scarlett unwaveringly, and dutifully supported the Confederate cause, revealing the naivete of her character.
* Beau Wilkes – Melanie's and Ashley's lovable son.
* India Wilkes – Ashley's sister. Almost engaged to Stuart Tarleton, she bitterly hates Scarlett for stealing his attention before he is killed at Gettysburg. Lives with Aunt Pittypat after Melanie kicks her out for accusing Scarlett and Ashley of infidelity.
* Honey Wilkes – another sister of India and Ashley. Originally hoped to marry Charles Hamilton until Scarlett marries him; following the war, she marries a man from Mississippi, and moves to his home state with him.
* John Wilkes – Owner of Twelve Oaks Plantation and patriarch of the Wilkes family. Killed during the Civil War.
O'Hara family
* Scarlett O'Hara – The wilful protagonist of the novel, whose travails the novel follows throughout war and reconstruction. She marries Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy and Rhett Butler, all the time wishing she was married to Ashley Wilkes instead. She has three children, one from each husband: Wade Hampton Hamilton (son to Charles Hamilton), Ella Lorena Kennedy (daughter to Frank Kennedy) and Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler (deceased daughter to Rhett Butler).
* Gerald O'Hara – Scarlett's impetuous Irish father.
* Suellen O'Hara – Scarlett's selfish sister.
* Carreen O'Hara – Scarlett's timid, religious sister who, in the end of the story, joins a convent.
* Ellen O'Hara – Scarlett's gracious mother, of French ancestry.
Other characters
* Mammy – Scarlett's nurse from birth; a slave. Cited by Rhett as "the real head of the household." She has a no-nonsense attitude and is outspoken and opinionated. She chastises Scarlett often. She is extremely loyal to the O'Haras, especially Scarlett, whom she cares for like a daughter.
* Prissy – A young slave girl who features in Scarlett's life. She is portrayed as flighty and silly.
* Pork – The O'Hara family's butler, favored by Gerald.
* Dilcey – Pork's wife, a strong, outspoken slave woman of mixed Indian and Black decent, Prissy's mother.
* Charles Hamilton – Melanie's brother, Scarlett's first husband, shy and loving.
* Frank Kennedy – Suellen's former beau, Scarlett's second husband, an older man who only wants peace and quiet. He originally asks for Suellen's hand in marriage, but Scarlett steals him to save Tara. He is portrayed as a pushover who will do anything to appease Scarlett.
* Belle Watling – a brothel madam and prostitute; Rhett is her friend. She is portrayed as a kind-hearted country woman and a loyal confederate. At one point she states she has nursing experience.
* Archie – an ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is taken in by Melanie. Has a strong disliking for all women, especially Scarlett. The only woman he respects is Melanie.
* Jonas Wilkerson – former overseer of Tara, father of Emmie Slattery's illegitimate baby. After being dismissed because of the aforementioned he eventually becomes employed by the Freedmen's Bureau, where he abuses his position to get back at the O'Haras and becomes rich.
* Emmie Slattery – later wife of Jonas Wilkerson, whom Scarlett blames for her mother's death.
* Will Benteen – Confederate soldier who seeks refuge at Tara and stays on to help with the plantation, in love with Carreen but marries Suellen to stay on Tara, and repair her reputation. He is portrayed as very perceptive and lost half of his leg in the war.
* Aunt Pittypat Hamilton – Charles and Melanie's vaporish aunt who lives in Atlanta.
* Uncle Peter – Aunt Pittypat's houseman and driver, he is extremely loyal to Pittypat.
Setting
* Tara Plantation – The O'Hara home and plantation
* Twelve Oaks – The Wilkes' plantation.
* Peachtree Street – location of Aunt Pittypat's home in Atlanta
The novel opens in April 1861 and ends in the early autumn of 1873.
Politics
The book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of that aspect was missing from the 1939 film). The novel showed considerable historical research. According to her biography, Mitchell herself was ten years old before she learned that the South had lost the war. Mitchell's sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.
An episode in the book dealt with the early Ku Klux Klan. In the immediate aftermath of the War, Scarlett is assaulted by poor Southerners living in shanties, whereupon her former black slave Big Sam saves her life. In response, Scarlett's male friends attempt to make a retaliatory nighttime raid on the encampment. Northern soldiers try to stop the attacks, and Rhett helps Ashley, who is shot, to get help through his prostitute friend Belle. Scarlett's husband Frank is killed. This raid is presented sympathetically as being necessary and justified, while the law-enforcement officers trying to catch the perpetrators are depicted as oppressive Northern occupiers.
Although the Klan is not mentioned in that scene (though Rhett tells Archie to burn the "robes"), the book notes that Scarlett finds the Klan abominable. She believed the men should all just stay at home (she wanted both to be petted for her ordeal and to give the hated Yankees no more reason to tighten martial law, which is bad for her businesses). Rhett is also mentioned to be no great lover of the Klan. At one point, he said that if it were necessary, he would join in an effort to join "society". The novel never explicitly states whether this drastic step was necessary in his view. The local chapter later breaks up under the pressure from Rhett and Ashley.
Scarlett expresses views that were common of the era. Some examples:
* "How stupid negroes were! They never thought of anything unless they were told." — Scarlett thinks to herself, after returning to Tara after the fall of Atlanta.
* "How dared they laugh, the black apes!...She'd like to have them all whipped until the blood ran down...What devils the Yankees were to set them free!" — Scarlett again thinking to herself, seeing free blacks after the war.
* However, she is kind to Pork, her father's trusted manservant. He tells Scarlett that if she were as nice to white people as she is to black, a lot more people would like her.
* She almost loses her temper when the Yankee women say they would never have a black nurse in their house and talk about Uncle Peter, Aunt Pittypat's beloved and loyal servant, as if he were a mule. Scarlett informs them that Uncle Peter is a member of the family, which bewilders the Yankee women and leads them to misinterpret the situation.
* It was mentioned that only one slave was ever whipped at Tara, and that was a stablehand who didn't brush Gerald's horse. The only time Scarlett hit a slave was when Prissy was hysterical.
* Scarlett at one point criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, saying no one treated their slaves that badly.
Inspirations
As several elements of Gone with the Wind have parallels with Margaret Mitchell's own life, her experiences may have provided some inspiration for the story in context. Mitchell's understanding of life and hardship during the American Civil War, for example, came from elderly relatives and neighbors passing war stories to her generation.
While Margaret Mitchell used to say that her Gone with the Wind characters were not based on real people, modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Mitchell's own life as well as to individuals she knew or she heard of. Mitchell's maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, was born in 1845; she was the daughter of an Irish immigrant, who owned a large plantation on Tara Road in Clayton County, south of Atlanta, and who married an American woman named Ellen, and had several children, all daughters.
Many researchers believe that the physical brutality and low regard for women exhibited by Rhett Butler was based on Mitchell's first husband, Red Upshaw. She divorced him after she learned he was a bootlegger amid rumors of abuse and infidelity. Some believe he was patterned on the life of George Trenholm.
After a stay at the plantation called The Woodlands, and later Barnsley Gardens, Mitchell may have gotten the inspiration for the dashing scoundrel from Sir Godfrey Barnsley of Adairsville, Georgia.
Belle Watling was based on Lexington, Kentucky, madam Belle Brezing.
Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt may have been an inspiration for Scarlett O'Hara. Roosevelt biographer David McCullough discovered that Mitchell, as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal, conducted an interview with one of Martha's closest friends and bridesmaid, Evelyn King Baker, then 87. In that interview, she described Martha's physical appearance, beauty, grace, and intelligence in detail. The similarities between Martha and the Scarlett character are striking.
Reception
The sales of Margaret Mitchell's novel in the summer of 1936, at the virtually unprecedented price of three dollars, reached about one million by the end of December. Favorable critics found in the novel and its success an implicit rejection of what one reviewer dismissed as "all the thousands of technical tricks our novelists have been playing with for the past twenty years," while from the ramparts of the critical establishment almost universally male reviewers lamented the book's literary mediocrity and labeled it mere "entertainment." [citation needed]
Symbolism
Over the past years, the novel Gone with the Wind has also been analyzed for its symbolism and treatment of archetypes. For example, Scarlett has been characterized as a heroic figure struggling and attempting to twist life to suit her own personal wishes in society. The land is considered a source of strength, as in the plantation Tara, whose name is almost certainly drawn from the Hill of Tara in Ireland, a mysterious and poorly-understood archeological site that has traditionally been connected to the temporal and/or spiritual authority of the ancient Irish kings. It also represents the permanence of the land in a rapid changing world. Scarlett’s beautiful, perky hats take part of the symbolism as well. They show her feminine side and how she wants nothing more than to be the most attractive woman and the center of attention.
Sequels
Although Mitchell refused to write a sequel to Gone With The Wind, Mitchell's estate authorised Alexandra Ripley to write the novel Scarlett in 1991.
Author Pat Conroy was approached to write a follow-up, but the project was ultimately abandoned.
In 2000, the copyright holders attempted to suppress publication of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone, a book that retold the story from the point of view of the slaves. A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction against publication in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001), on the basis that the book was parody protected by the First Amendment. The parties subsequently settled out of court to allow the book to be published. After its release, the book became a New York Times bestseller.
In 2002, the copyright holders blocked distribution of an unauthorised sequel published in the U.S, The Winds of Tara by Katherine Pinotti, alleging copyright infringement. The story follows Scarlett as she returns to Tara where a family issue threatens Tara and the family's reputation. In it Scarlett shows just how far she will go to protect her family and her home. The book was immediately removed from bookstores by publisher Xlibris. The book sold in excess of 2,000 copies within 2 weeks before being removed. More recently, in 2008, Australian publisher Fontaine Press re-published "The Winds of Tara" exclusively for their domestic market, avoiding U.S. copyright restrictions.
A second sequel was released in November 2007. The story covers the same time period as Gone with the Wind and is told from Rhett Butler’s perspective – although it begins years before and ends after. Written by Donald McCaig, this novel is titled Rhett Butler's People (2007).
Adaptations
Gone With The Wind has been adapted several times for stage and screen, most famously in the 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
On stage it has been adapted as a musical Scarlett (premiering in 1972). The musical opened in the West End followed by a pre-Broadway tryout in 1973 (with Lesley Ann Warren as Scarlett). The book was again adapted as a musical called Gone With The Wind which premiered at the New London Theatre in 2008 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn.
The Japanese Takarazuka Revue has also adapted the novel into a musical with the same name. The first performance was in 1977, performed by the Moon Troupe. It has been performed several times since by the group, the most recent being in 2004 (performed by the Cosmos Troupe).
There has also been a French musical Autant en Emporte le Vent, based on the book.
Awards
The novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning 1939 film of the same name. The book was also adapted during the 1970s into a stage musical Scarlett; there is also a 2008 new musical stage adaptation in London's West End titled Gone With The Wind. It is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime. It took her seven years to write the book and a further eight months to check the thousands of historical and social references. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies. Over the years, the novel has also been analyzed for its symbolism and treatment of archetypes.
Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
1861年南北战争爆发的前夕，塔拉庄园的千金小姐郝思嘉爱上了另一庄园主的儿子艾希利，但艾希利却选择了郝思嘉的表妹——温柔善良的韩媚兰为终身伴侣。郝思嘉出于妒恨，抢先嫁给了韩媚兰的弟弟查尔斯。不久，美国南北战争爆发了。艾希利和查尔斯作为征兵上了前线。查尔斯很快就在战争中死去了。郝思嘉成了寡妇， 她内心却一直对艾希利念念不忘。
一天，在一次举行义卖的舞会上，郝思嘉和风度翩翩的商人白瑞德相识。白瑞德开始追求郝思嘉，但遭到她的拒绝。郝思嘉一心只想着去追求艾希利，结果也遭到拒绝。
在战争中，美国南方军遭到失败，亚特兰大城里挤满了伤兵。郝思嘉和表妹韩媚兰自愿加入护士行列照顾伤兵。目睹了战乱带来的惨状之后，任性的郝思嘉成熟了不少。这时，从前线传来消息，北方军快打过来了，不少人家惊惶地逃离家园，开始了不安定的流浪生活。正在此时，韩媚兰不巧要生孩子了，郝思嘉只好留下来照顾她。
在北方军大军压境之日，郝思嘉哀求白瑞德帮忙护送她和刚生下孩子的韩媚兰回塔拉庄园。白瑞德告诉郝思嘉他不能目睹南方军溃败而不去助一臂之力，他要参加南方军作战，他留下一把手枪并和郝思嘉拥吻告别。郝思嘉只好独自驾驶马车回到塔拉庄园，而这时家里已被北方军士兵抢先洗动一空，母亲在惊吓中死去。昔日美好的家园变成了荒凉的栖息地，郝思嘉面对这一切悲惨时，表现出了女人少有的坚毅，她决定重建家园。
不久，战争结束了。但是生活依然困苦。北方来的统治者要庄园主缴纳重税，郝思嘉在绝望中去亚特兰大城找白瑞德借钱，却得知他已被关进监狱。归来的途中，郝思嘉遇上了本来要迎娶她妹妹的暴发户弗兰克，为了要重振破产的家业，她骗取弗兰克和自己结了婚。
郝思嘉在弗兰克经营的木材厂非法雇用囚犯，并和北方来的商人大做生意。此时，白瑞德用钱贿赂从而恢复了自由。两人偶然碰面，再次展开爱恨交织的关系。
弗兰克和艾希利因加入了反政府的秘密组织，在一次集会时遭北方军包围，弗兰克中弹死亡，艾希利负伤逃亡，在白瑞德帮助下回到韩媚兰身边。郝思嘉再次成为寡妇。此时，白瑞德前来向她求婚，她终于与一直爱她的搞私运军火和粮食致富的白瑞德结了婚。婚后，夫妻二人住在亚特兰大的豪华宅邸中。一年后，他们的女儿邦妮出生，白瑞德把全部感情投注到邦妮身上。郝思嘉偶然翻阅艾希利的照片被白瑞德发现，终于导致了二人感情的破裂。其后，在艾希利的生日会前夕，郝思嘉与艾希利相见时热情的拥抱引起旁人非议，韩媚兰虽然不相信他们之间有暧昧关系，但白瑞德却心生怀疑。
当郝思嘉告诉白瑞德她已经再次怀孕时，白瑞德怀疑地问那是谁的孩子，郝思嘉在羞怒之下欲打白瑞德，却不慎滚下楼梯引起流产。白瑞德感到内疚，决心同郝思嘉言归于好，不料就在他俩谈话时，小女儿邦妮在骑马时意外坠地而死。与此同时不幸的事也在另一个家庭里发生，韩媚兰终因操劳过度卧病不起。临终前，她把自己的丈夫艾希利和儿子托付给郝思嘉，但要求她保守这个秘密，郝思嘉不顾一切扑向艾希利的怀中，紧紧拥抱住他，站在一旁的白瑞德无法再忍受下去，只好转身离去。面对伤心欲绝毫无反应的艾希利，郝思嘉终于明白，她爱的艾希利其实是不存在的，她真正需要的是白瑞德。
当郝思嘉赶回家里告诉白瑞德，她是真正爱他的时候，白瑞德已不再相信她。他决心离开郝思嘉，返回老家去寻找美好的事物，被遗弃的郝思嘉站在浓雾迷漫的院中，想起了父亲曾经对她说过的一句话：“世界上唯有土地与明天同在。”她决定守在她的土地上重新创造新的生活，她期盼着美好的明天的到来。
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克拉克·盖布尔
克拉克·盖布尔克拉克·盖布尔
克拉克·盖布尔，1901年出生于美国俄亥俄州的农村小镇，母亲在他十个月大时便去世了，父亲在他三岁时另娶图书馆职员珍妮为继母。珍妮无所出，视克拉克．盖博如亲生子。十四岁时，父亲卖掉田产，到奥克拉荷马州去当油井工人，克拉克不愿意随父亲搬家，乃离家出走，到当地的一家剧院打工，从此展开了他日后的演艺生涯。就外形而论，克拉克．盖博并不算是英俊小生，主要是有一对特大号的招风耳。在他投身电影界参加试镜时，曾先后被米高梅公司副总裁艾文泰尔伯格取笑他有一双蝙蝠翅膀一样的大耳朵，雷毫萍公司老板霍华休斯更刻薄地说他的耳朵像一辆打开了两扇门的计程车。虽然这些影坛大亨并不欣赏克拉克．盖博，但女同胞却爱他爱得要死。首先是年龄比盖博大两岁的女演员法兰西丝杜芙娜。他俩在波特兰城订婚后，杜芙娜就积极地运用自己的关系为盖博打天下，安排他在新戏中演出角色，又介绍他认识戏剧圈中有头有脸的人物。盖博因此结识了年龄比他大十四岁的资深女演员约瑟芬狄伦，她同时也是剧坛著名的演技指导，门生甚多。盖博在狄伦女士的大力引荐下，演出机会增加了不少。他在投桃报李之下，抛弃了未婚妻，于1924年与约瑟芬狄伦结婚。
参与作品：
《娱乐世界续集》 (1976) 、《米高梅公司的喜剧电影回顾 》(1964) 、《碧港艳遇》 (1960) 、《太平洋潜艇战 》(1958) 、《教师之恋 》(1958) 、《金汉艳奴》 (1957) 等
费雯·丽
费雯·丽（Vivien Leigh) (1913年11月5日－1967年7月7日)。原名费雯·玛丽·哈特利（Vivien Mary Hartley），英国电影演员。她成功地饰演《乱世佳人》的斯佳丽·奥哈拉和《欲望号街车》的布兰奇·杜波依斯，两度获得奥斯卡最佳女主角。1999年，她被美国电影学会选为百年来最伟大的女演员第16 名。
费雯·丽费雯·丽
主要作品：
1965《愚人船》1951《欲望号街车》（获奥斯卡最佳女主角奖）1946《Caesar and Cleopatra》 1941《汉米登夫人》1940《21 Days》 1940 《魂断蓝桥》1939《乱世佳人》 《飘》（获奥斯卡最佳女主角奖） 1938《Sidewalks of London》 1937 《Storm in a Teacup》 1937《Dark Journey》 1937《Fire Over England》
《飘》-经典片段
瑞德离开郝思嘉后，Scarlett O’Hara最后坐在楼梯的台阶上说——“After all， tomorrow is another day。”
思嘉在回到被毁的家园后,在山头上说----“上帝为我作证,上帝为我作证,北佬休想将我整垮.等熬过了这一关,我决不再忍饥挨饿,也决不再让我的亲人忍饥挨饿了,哪怕让我去偷,去抢,去杀人.请上帝为我作证,我无论如何都不再忍饥挨饿了!”
点评
有人说这部电影最经典的场面是Scarlett O’Hara在战争后回到被毁的家园，在园中手握红土发誓，无论去偷去抢都不会让家人挨饿那段，因为那时她的眼神和表情真的特别震撼人。这样说我也不反对，因为这实在是一部太经典的片子，经典的场面太多，各人有各人的偏爱。我倒是情愿选择这个：以后，明天就是新的一天了。什么是爱？什么是恨？爱和恨可以象两条永不相交的平行线，爱和恨也可能只需要一缕阳光就可以消融。珍惜拥有的人是幸福的，因为我们总是并不确切知道我们需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的时候，才知道去珍惜。泰戈尔有一句诗我特别喜欢：如果错过太阳时你流泪了，那么你也将错过星星了。历尽沧桑，你要学会忽略过去。因为——tomorrow is another day。
“不要不辞而别，我的爱人。
我看望了一夜，现在我脸上睡意重重。
只恐我在睡中把你丢失了。
不要不辞而别，我的爱人。
我惊起伸出双手去摸触你，我问自己说：
“这是一个梦么？"
但愿我能用我的心系住你的双足，紧抱在胸前！
不要不辞而别，我的爱人。”
——泰戈尔《园丁集》
《飘》-人物性格
斯佳丽
一个猫一样的女人。有着猫一样的目光，猫一样的微笑，猫一样的步伐和猫一样的敏捷。那么，这个猫一样的女人提供给我们是怎样的一些对待生活、对待爱情、对待困难和挫折的态度和经验呢？
乱世佳人乱世佳人
第一她在困难的时候敢于承担责任，虽然也有动摇，但最后仍然承担责任,比如她救了玫兰妮，她重振塔拉庄园, 后来长期扶助阿希礼一家等等。
第二她敢于去爱、无怨无悔，她的整个青春都在爱着阿希礼，没有回报但她仍没有放弃努力，直到能力的极限为止。
第三知错能改，当她最后明白她之前所为是错误时，她马上向瑞特道歉，请求原谅。
总的来说，斯佳丽堪称巾帼不让须眉的奇女子，人中龙凤，难怪瑞特这样的牛人也拜倒在她的石榴裙下。每次看《乱世佳人》，每次都有不同的收获。年轻时看，讨厌虚荣爱出风头的斯佳丽，喜欢纯洁善良的玫兰妮，不喜欢油腔滑调的瑞特巴特勒，喜欢温文尔雅的阿希礼，喜欢南方如画的景致和田园牧歌式的生活，不喜欢北方的浮华和放荡。后来看了多次之后，不由得对斯佳丽敬佩起来，原本是一个弱女子，任性而年青，第一次结婚是一时的冲动报复，嫁给了不爱的男孩，让自己成为了年轻的寡妇。第二次结婚是为了一家人的生存，抢走了妹妹的心上人，肯尼迪。肯尼迪虽然是一个半老头子，却不是斯佳丽的对手，面对她的冷酷和无情，他束手无策。最终为了斯佳丽差点遭受的侮辱去报复穷白人而被人击毙，不幸枉死，却从未享受过斯佳丽的一点爱。于是斯佳丽再次成为寡妇，而且还是个有钱的寡妇。在那个战火纷飞的年代，为了答应过阿希礼照顾玫兰妮的一句承诺，在北军就要攻占亚特兰大的时候，斯佳丽又果断地替玫兰妮接生，并找到瑞特冲破重重阻碍和关卡，回到了乡下老家－－塔拉庄园。在又饥又饿之时，她又遭受了母亲病亡、父亲痴呆、家里被劫，一穷二白的多重打击，她不屈不挠，带头种田干活，喝令妹妹下床摘棉花，并照顾玫兰妮和小波，支撑一家人的生计，那时她顶多也不过是个二十来岁的小姑娘，本应是个在母亲怀里撒娇的小姑娘。可是面对如此巨大的困难，她没有选择逃避，而是勇敢挑起家里的重担，以常人难以企及的毅力抗争命运，每每看到斯佳丽举着萝卜向天盟誓，决不愿让家人再受苦挨饿时，我总是觉得拍片导演对光线和背景的运用是那么巧妙和艺术， 它那么生动地刻划了思嘉渴望安定、渴望生存、渴望富裕的强烈而真实的内心情感。我觉得那时的她，已完成了最艰难的嬗变，由一只丑陋的毛毛虫破茧而出变成了美丽的蝶，自由而高贵，那时的思嘉就像一个女神－－－渴望富有、并为此能不择手段的欲望女神。
刚强、坚韧
无论是面对战争的废墟和硝烟、母亲和父亲的去世、生活的贫穷艰难还是女儿的夭折，在和她承受同样的痛苦和艰难的人们当中，她都是最刚强、最坚韧的一个和最先从痛苦和艰难中走出来的一个。当斯佳丽面对着已是满目伤痕泰勒庄园时，她的坚韧和刚强令她这个家中的长女担起家长的重担。在影片的末尾，她还坚定地告诉我们：Tomorrow is another day。
虚荣
这应该是一个贬义词了，可是，斯佳丽的虚荣心似乎格外的可爱，在她的身上，虚荣似乎也变成了褒义词。有位名模曾说：“女孩子总是要有一点虚荣心的，无论这虚荣心表现在什么方面。”当斯佳丽扯下母亲唯一的遗物——窗帘，无论如何也要用它做一件漂亮的衣服，还将它披在身上憧憬着新衣服的样子时，她的虚荣心使她成了一个看起来不孝的女儿，但她的这种做法（也就是她的虚荣心）是当时拯救全家的唯一出路。由虚荣心而使全家人都有了生存下去的希望，这样的虚荣心也不应该算是值得摒弃的。
贪婪
这总应该是个贬义词了。但是，斯佳丽的贪婪不仅是有情可原的，在某种程度上来讲还是难能可贵的。战后的泰勒庄园在北方军的控制之下，母亲的去世和父亲的崩溃使斯佳丽——家中的长女担起了“家长”的重担。斯佳丽一家人过着艰辛的生活。战争使她贫穷，贫穷继之以饥饿。然而最可怕的是无钱交税险些失去生活来源的土地，为了借钱交税，斯佳丽勾引了妹妹的情人，继而当起了一家小店的老板娘。在经历这一切后，她明白了她所处的是一个什么样的社会以及在这个社会中钱的重要性。所以，当她拥有了当前她所需要的钱之后，她自然会想拥有更多的钱。在她追求“更多的钱”的过程中，她表现出了一个早期资本主义的资本家所必须具有的优秀品质——贪婪。
残忍与自私
这两个词无论用在什么人身上似乎都应该是表贬义的词语，特别是以温和、善良为美德的女性。但是，斯佳丽的残忍与自私在某种适度上却是值得褒扬的。首先，在社会转型的时期，人的观念需要从传统的观念转变成为新型的、与社会发展相适应的观念。不能在第一时间内转变观念的人就失去了领导时代的主动权。斯佳丽就是一个在第一时间内转变观念，接受了新的社会和社会制度、新的价值观念、新的生活方式，并且成为了一个小资本家的女人，在这一点，她是非常了不起的。而且，在刚刚建立了资本主义制度时，自私和残忍对于一个资本家来说是生存和发展的关键。在资本主义社会，对世界的博爱已经是阻碍资本的自身生存和发展的一个因素，此时，自私与残忍就成了强者的优点。
美丽
斯佳丽为我们提供了一种对待爱情的态度。她美丽，但她只是适当地运用她的美丽来得到她所喜爱的东西，从来不用自己的美貌来玩弄爱情，无论是自己的还是他人的爱情。斯佳丽是美丽的，但美丽不是拥有爱情的必备条件——你可以没有斯佳丽那样美丽动人，但你也有权利去追求属于自己的爱情。
综上所述，我们得出了这样的一个结论：
斯佳丽，猫一样的女人，刚强的、坚韧的、虚荣的、贪婪的、残忍的、自私的女人，女人的典范。
思嘉这个人，很可悲，可悲到了一种可笑的程度。
就像她自己意识到的的，“她对她所爱过的两个男人哪一个都不理解，因此到头来两个都失掉了。现在她才恍惚认识到，如果她当初了解艾希礼，她是决不会爱他的；而如果她了解了瑞德，它就无论如何都不会失掉他了。”
她一直不明白战后的人们为什么会去追忆战前，直到邦妮死后，她才明白了原因，但是，哪些可以与她追忆过往的人，已经由于她自己的疏远，排斥已经越来越远，而她的那些“新朋友”却也无法使思嘉高兴起来。
一直很喜欢瑞德离开前的那一段话，“思嘉，我从来不是那样的人，不能耐心的拾起一些碎片，把它们粘合在一起，然后对自己说这个修补好了的东西跟新的完全一样。一样东西破碎了就是破碎了——我宁愿记住它最好时的模样，而不想把它修补好，然后终生看着那些破碎了的地方。也许，假使我还年轻一点——可是我已经这么大年纪了，不能相信那种纯属感情的说法，说是一切都可以从头开始。我这么大年纪了，不能终生背着谎言的负担，在貌似体面地幻灭中过日子。我不能跟你生活在一起同时又对你说谎，而且我决不能欺骗自己。就是现在，我也不能对你说谎话啊！我是很想关心你今后的情况的，可是我不能那样做。”
如果没有瑞德，思嘉是不完整的，哪么《飘》也就不能被称为“名著”了。思嘉，自私，虚荣，贪婪，刚强，坚韧。如果说这些形容词用在别人身上，只怕全部都是贬义的，但是对思嘉而言，我倒觉得有点像是褒义词。其实，就像瑞德说的，“我们都是流氓，我们都是无赖。”他对于自己与思嘉的分析是很透彻的，也正因为他的这些分析，《飘》才会被无数人所拜读，思嘉也才完整。
关于电影版《飘》 ——《乱世佳人》，我只能说，我看完电影就喜欢上了费雯丽。因为她所演绎的思嘉真的就像活着的一样，让我再一次感受到了思嘉的美，思嘉的一切。
瑞德
我必须承认，对我来说，《乱世佳人》的吸引力之所以这么大，和克拉克盖博主演的瑞特巴特勒绝对有关系。
当然，斯佳丽眯着那双像猫那样的绿眼，迷人而妖媚，同样也让人倾倒。她是个让女人都能为之神魂颠倒的女人，她自私、冷酷、无情、聪明、不择手段、坚强，却不乏善良、美丽、脆弱；她是一个高不可攀的女神，让许多女人都梦想着能像她那样，集财富、美貌、能干、坚强于一身，让瑞特那样的男人能够为她而倾倒。至少我曾经就那样想过。但我认为，瑞特给我们这些女性观众带来的却更多是对爱情和婚姻的甜美幻想，他是那么潇洒倜傥，那么玩世不恭，那么自信过人，富有并充满了成熟男人的魅力，该是多少女性心目中的偶像啊。
在这里，简单回闪思嘉和瑞特相遇、相识、相爱的几个片段，就能让人对瑞特爱我所爱，坚持自儿，富有个性的男性魅力印象深刻：
片段一：瑞特第一次见到斯佳丽是在十二像树园的烧烤会上。斯佳丽向所有的男士卖弄风情，却发现瑞特正注意她，斯佳丽向身边的女伴抱怨说：“他看我的样子，就像我没穿衣服”可见瑞特给人的感觉不是温文尔雅，富有绅士风度，对世事的有种别人所不具备的强大洞察力和影响力，表明了他与一般的南方男人不同点：现实、大胆而富有进攻性，当他躲在书房里偷听斯佳丽大胆地向阿希礼表露爱慕，但因遭到婉拒，她气急败坏地搧了阿希礼一个耳光，并砸碎了一个小花瓶时，他吹了一个口哨，于是他被斯佳丽指责为不是一个绅士，而他同时也反唇相讥斯佳丽不是一个真正的淑女，让斯佳丽气极。俩人第一次相见就是一次爱情的交锋。
片段二：斯佳丽因查尔斯病亡到亚特兰大散心，正在服丧的她，十分渴望能再度飞旋于舞池中，表现了她在内心里对无拘无束、自由生活的向往和憧憬。是瑞特看出了她的心思，并出重金替她撬开了那个压抑而沉闷的社会道德囚笼，使她走上了和别的南方女人最不相同的命运之路。这正是斯佳丽反叛旧的社会道德标准迈出的关键性一步，而这一步，如果没有瑞特暗中片段三：瑞特为了帮助斯佳丽重返故里，拼死弄了一匹身负重伤的老马，并帮助她把玫兰妮抱到马车上，同时一路历经辛苦，并在即将要到达的时候，瑞特看到许多南方兵前仆后继，视死如归，深感震撼，并决定上战场，为保卫家园尽一份力。这时可以看出，为了心爱的女人，他能出生入死； 同样，面临家园被毁之境，他也是一个热血之人，导演在这里才向我们描绘了一个深藏在平日玩世不恭外表下，也具有一颗为荣誉甘洒热血之心的典型南方男性的形象。在这里我们看到，虽然瑞特平日里非常精明、现实，但他骨子里其实还是一个南方人。
片段四：瑞特在经历了丧女之痛和斯佳丽在精神上的背叛后，面对玫兰妮的之死，对一切都灰心失望至极，回家收拾行李，返回自己的故乡，查尔斯顿。当愚蠢的斯佳丽最后发现自己已深爱瑞特时，才发现已最终失去了自己最心爱的人。瑞特最后走得十分干脆，让斯佳丽深感懊悔。直到这里，我们才听到那颗曾经为爱而柔软的心破碎的声音，同时也因为破碎而对斯佳丽变得“冷酷无情”，这里的瑞特才让我们感觉到，这个男人敢爱敢恨，处理事情十分干脆利落，极富男性魅力。
瑞德这个人敢爱敢恨，就如上文所说，他不愿拾起破碎的感情，所以才会在最后变得那么冷酷无情。这个人物很富有男性魅力，就像思嘉所拥有的女性魅力，同样使人沉醉。
他们两个的结合，确实就像瑞德所说，“珠联璧合”。但是，在瑞德的现实与思嘉的幻想中，瑞德失败了，他的感情也因此真正的破碎了。
而克拉克·盖博的演绎更是无可挑剔，在那种翩翩风度背后的嘲弄，在那种沉稳冷静背后的狂放不羁，都是让人颇为迷醉的。
艾希礼与媚兰
再说说阿希礼和玫兰妮，他们是相似的，具备南方的一切美德，有知识，有文化，有思想，有修养。
玫兰妮基本上是完美的，她善良，仁慈又不乏勇气，斯佳丽摘棉花时，她想帮忙，斯佳丽杀人时她也帮忙，除了瑞特，她是斯佳丽的另一个支持者。我做过小范围的调查，先看书的基本都喜欢斯佳丽，而先看电影的则喜欢玫兰妮。我觉得美兰妮太好了，好得不真实，而斯佳丽是有血有肉的，是真实的，有缺点也有优点。
阿希礼是真实的，他是个活在过去的人，时世变迁，他不想面对，他是缺乏勇气的。他不爱斯佳丽，又不说不爱她。斯佳丽走投无路找他时他只给了她庄园的红土，后来知道斯佳丽卖了自己，他说他该去抢劫，他也只是说说吧，估计不会去的，这一点，他确实不如拖着军刀想帮斯佳丽对付逃兵的美兰妮。
乱世佳人里的人物都是完美的，如果没有美兰妮的淑女风范，怎能体现出斯佳丽的桀骜不逊。没有阿希礼的懦弱，怎能体现出瑞德的风范呢？
斯佳丽的奶妈.玛格丽特
温暖，可靠，安全。象母亲一样时刻保护她的孩子斯佳丽。
理智，聪明，现实而且冷静，带一些黑人的狡猾。她懂斯斯佳丽，支持她，爱她，虽然没有多说什么，但是她一直是斯佳丽的靠山，坚强有力。
忠诚，固执，可爱。对自己的宝贝，那是不顾一切的去保护；虽然只是一个家奴，但她有自己所要维护的处事原则。
黑人奶妈的形象刻画的非常成功。 由此扮演黑妈的演员哈蒂·麦克丹尼尔(Hattie McDaniel）战胜了奥丽维亚(玫兰妮)获得了第十二届奥斯卡最佳女配角奖，据说是历史上第一个获得奥斯卡奖的黑人。哈蒂将其特有的幽默感注入奶妈玛格丽特一形象中，台词念得完美无缺，与斯佳丽的扮演者费雯丽配合默契，犹如绿叶扶红花，结果两人双双获奖。由于奶妈一角的成功，哈蒂后来几乎垄断了银幕上所有的黑人保姆角色，在许多影片里可以看到她那肥胖、温顺、饶舌的形象。
《飘》-幕后花絮
时代背景：美国内战；
地点：美国南方；
戏剧高潮：火烧亚特兰大。
在如此壮丽的时代画卷上演绎出一个极不寻常的爱情故事，开创了以真实而辽阔的历史背景加虚构人物故事的爱情史诗片先河(该传统发展出《日瓦戈医生》和《泰坦尼克号》等佳作)。这部早期的彩色片保持了玛格丽特·米切尔原著的韵味和深度，既有色彩浑厚的大场面(如女主角跨过遍地伤员的镜头)，又有对人物命运的细致刻画(请注意黑人女仆的性格)。无论你认为素材像莎翁名剧还是像庸俗肥皂剧，影片取得惊人的艺术和商业成就。英文片名《飘》(即《随风而去》)出自美国诗人欧内斯特·道森的一句诗。女主角的经典压轴台词“明天是新的一天”乃原作出版前的暂定名。本片荣获奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳女主角、最佳女配角等七项大奖。1994年的续集《郝斯佳》(Scarlett)是一部长达360分钟的电视剧，豪华制作，服装布景等下了血本。故事讲郝斯佳跟白瑞德离婚后依然藕断丝连，她甚至回到爱尔兰，被控谋杀等等。影片根据雷普利小说改编。
影片拍摄耗资390万美元，在当时仅屈居于《宾虚》和《地狱天使》之后。在小说出版的一个月后，制片人大卫·塞尔兹尼克就用5万美元买下了小说的电影拍摄权，对于新人的处女作来讲，这个价码在当时可谓是天文数字。在1942年塞尔兹尼克的制片公司解散时，他又向小说作者玛格丽特·米歇尔支付了5万美元的分红。玛格丽特笔下艾什利和梅兰尼的人物原型都是她的表兄妹，多克和马蒂相爱，但他们是虔诚的天主教徒，有血缘关系的亲属是严禁结婚的。后来，多克离开了马蒂，到西部成了不法之徒，而马蒂则作了修女。
片中失火的场景是最先拍摄的，包括1933年《金刚》中使用的布景均被付之一炬，这段胶片长113分钟，共耗资25000美元，当时的火情十分猛烈，以至不知情的公众以为米高梅都化为灰烬了，报警电话响作一团。
在拍摄斯嘉丽从火中逃生的画面时，剧组需要一匹瘦骨嶙峋的老马，几经寻找，终于物色到一匹，然而当几周后马被带到片场，原先清晰可见的肋骨痕迹因为增重已经荡然无存，由于时间紧迫，化妆师只好在马的肋骨部位画出阴影。
《飘》-经典台词
美国电影学院每年都会为一些特别的电影项目评出前100名。05年取得经典台词榜第一的电影《乱世佳人》是克拉克·盖博在1939年出演的的一句台词。那是白瑞德对郝思嘉说的一句话：“坦白说，亲爱的，我一点也不在乎。”“盖博的这句台词被人们在不同的场合引用，”鲍博说。“无论男女，当他们陷入一种并没有完全投入的恋爱关系时，想要控制局面，就会用到这句话。”
《飘》-所获奖项
本片在第十二届奥斯卡金像奖（1939）中荣获八项大奖：
最佳女主角奖（Best Actress）.........................费·雯丽（Vivien Leigh）
最佳女配角奖（Best Supporting Actress）......哈蒂·麦克丹尼尔（Hattie McDaniel）
最佳影片奖（Best Picture）...........................《乱世佳人》（Gone With the Wind）
最佳导演奖（Best Director）..........................维克多·弗莱明（Victor Fleming）
最佳编剧奖（Best Screenplay）....................悉尼·霍华德 （Sidney Howard）
最佳艺术指导（Best Art Direction）...............Lyle R. Wheeler
最佳摄影奖（Best Cinematography）............Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan
最佳剪辑奖（Best Film Editing）....................Hal C. Kern & James E. Newcom
《飘》-点评
有人说这部电影最经典的场面是Scarlett O’Hara在战争后回到被毁的家园，在园中手握红土发誓，无论去偷去抢都不会让家人挨饿那段，因为那时她的眼神和表情真的特别震撼人。这样说我也不反对，因为这实在是一部太经典的片子，经典的场面太多，各人有各人的偏爱。我倒是情愿选择这个：以后，明天就是新的一天了。什么是爱？什么是恨？爱和恨可以象两条永不相交的平行线，爱和恨也可能只需要一缕阳光就可以消融。珍惜拥有的人是幸福的，因为我们总是并不确切知道我们需要的到底是什么。太多的人只有在失去的时候，才知道去珍惜。
泰戈尔有一句诗我特别喜欢：如果错过太阳时你流泪了，那么你也将错过星星了。历尽沧桑，你要学会忽略过去。因为——tomorrow is another day。
《飘》-《飘》获选英国史上最受欢迎电影
根据英国电影学院近日进行的一项评选，由老牌影星克拉克·盖博和费文丽主演的描写美国内战的影片《飘》荣获英国历史上最受欢迎影片奖。根据电影票的销售数量统计，自从1940年在英国上映以来，已有3500万观众观看了《飘》。《音乐之声》名列第2，自从1938年上映以来，有3000万人观看。名列第3和第4的分别是《白雪公主和七个小矮人》(2800万人)和《星球大战》(2070万人)。这次入选最受欢迎的十部电影排行榜的电影三分之一来自英国，其中名列第5的是《枯木逢春》。这次评选活动的主办方表示：“这是英国历史上第一次评选最受观众喜爱的影片。”位列6到10名的影片分别是《黄金时代》、《森林王子》、《泰坦尼克》、《地狱圣女》以及《七宗罪》。
Title
The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson: "I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind". The novel's protagonist, Scarlett O'Hara, also uses the title phrase in a line in the book: when her home area is overtaken by the Yankees, she wonders to herself if her home, a plantation called Tara, is still standing, or if it was "also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia". More generally, the title has been interpreted as referring to the entire way of life of the antebellum South as having "Gone with the Wind". The prologue of the movie refers to the old way of life in the South as "gone with the wind…."
The title for the novel was a problem for Mitchell. She initially titled the book "Pansy", the original name for the character of Scarlett O'Hara. Although never seriously considered, the title "Pansy" was dropped once MacMillan persuaded Mitchell to rename the main character. Other proposed titles included "Tote the Weary Load" and "Tomorrow is Another Day", the latter taken from the last line in the book; however, the publisher noted that there were several books close to the same title at the time, so Mitchell was asked to find another title, and "Gone with the Wind" was chosen.
Plot
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Overview
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of an Irish immigrant who has risen from humble origins to become materially and socially successful in the deep south of 1861. He owns a plantation named Tara in Georgia. Scarlett is infatuated with Ashley Wilkes, who, although attracted to her, marries his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. Wilkes is genuinely ambiguous about his feelings toward Scarlett. He knows his feelings run deep, and are both emotional and sexual in nature; but he never resolves whether to act upon his feelings, or to renounce them and definitively reject Scarlett’s flirtations, in favor of his wife and his social position. And though he never sins in the flesh, the novel clearly implies that he does so in his heart, leading Scarlett along; limited only by his weakness in making a decision as to what ultimately, he should do.
At the party announcing Ashley's engagement to Melanie, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, who has a reputation as a rogue. As the Civil War begins, Scarlett accepts a proposal of marriage from Melanie's brother, Charles Hamilton, who soon dies of disease in training. Scarlett's main concern regarding his death is that she must wear black and cannot attend parties. After the war, Scarlett inherits Tara and manages to keep the place going. When Scarlett cannot get money from Rhett to pay the taxes on Tara, she marries her sister's fiancé, Frank Kennedy, takes control of his business, and increases its profitability with business practices that make many Atlantans resent her. Frank is killed when he and other Ku Klux Klan members raid a shanty town where Scarlet was assaulted while driving alone. Remorseful after Frank's death, Scarlett marries Rhett, who is aware of her passion for Ashley but hopes that one day she will come to love him instead. Scarlett eventually comes to realize that she does love Rhett, but only once the couple has been through so much that Rhett has fallen out of love with her.
Part one
Scarlett O'Hara is the belle of the County. Her flirtatiousness and charm won the hearts of many men in Clayton County, Georgia. At sixteen years old, however, she begins the trials that will completely overtake her life for the next twelve years. She does this by having an impromptu marriage with the bashful Charles Hamilton to save face and make her real love—Ashley Wilkes—jealous. However, soon after their wedding, Charles and all the other men in Georgia who are able to bear arms, go to war against the Yankees at the start of the Civil War. After six weeks of being in camp, Charles dies of measles. With Charles's death, Scarlett's main concern is that, in order to conform to society, she must dress in black mourning clothes and attend no parties.
Parts two and three
Scarlett moves to Atlanta to stay with her sister-in-law and Ashley’s wife, Melanie Wilkes and Melanie's Aunt Pittypat. Melanie grows to love Scarlett like a sister; however, Scarlett is very self-centered and resents Melanie. Scarlett meets Rhett Butler again while in Atlanta; he is attentive to her and she uses him (and his money) when it is convenient. Rhett has a bad reputation and is "not received" in polite society. Ashley is able to come home for Christmas from the war and stay with the ladies. At the end of his stay, Scarlett promises him that she will keep Melanie safe. With the help of Rhett and her personal slave, Prissy, Scarlett delivers Melanie's child Beau in the middle of a battle and leads Melanie, the baby and Prissy to safety back at Tara. The Civil War is ending and the northern army is marching through Georgia laying waste to the country. Upon her arrival, Scarlett hears the news of the death of her beloved mother, Ellen, of typhoid. Scarlett stays at Tara Plantation and tries to keep it solvent and care for its inhabitants.
Part four
Scarlett hears that Tara is about to be charged an enormous amount of tax by the new corrupt local government which she cannot pay. She decides to go to Atlanta and charm Rhett into paying the bill. After offering herself to Rhett as his mistress and being refused, however, Scarlett marries Frank Kennedy, who has enough money to pay the tax on Tara. Frank is the fiancé of Scarlett's sister Suellen so she deceives him into thinking that Suellen is engaged to someone else in Clayton County.
With money borrowed from and then repaid to Rhett, Scarlett buys two timber mills and proceeds to make them very profitable. Her actions are considered very inappropriate for a woman by Atlanta society. As she travels home from it one night, she is attacked. Frank, Ashley, and many other men in the newly formed Ku Klux Klan avenge her attack. In the fight, Frank is killed.
A few months later Scarlett marries Rhett, who has become very rich by dubious means during the War.
Part five
Scarlett and Rhett start to enjoy their new life together. They have a child named Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler, who becomes Rhett’s pride and joy. They live happily until Scarlett’s old infatuation with Ashley takes over. When Bonnie is killed in a riding accident Scarlett in the first flush of grief tells Rhett that she blames him. Rhett is heartbroken over the death of his beloved daughter. He drinks heavily and finally decides, after the death of Melanie Wilkes, to leave Scarlett forever. However, Scarlett realizes that she loves Rhett and never truly loved Ashley, but merely an idea of him. She confesses this to Rhett, but he is adamant. The book ends on an ambiguous note, as she decided to return to the familiarity of her beloved Tara, where she will find a way to win Rhett back: "Tomorrow is another day!".
Characters
Butler family
* Rhett Butler – Scarlett's love interest and third husband, often publicly shunned for scandalous behavior, sometimes accepted for his charm. He is financially a very shrewd man and initially appears to love Scarlett dearly.
* Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler – Scarlett and Rhett's pretty, beloved daughter.
Wilkes family
* Ashley Wilkes – The gallant Ashley married his unglamourous cousin, Melanie, because she represented all that he loved and wanted in life, that is, the quiet and happy life of a Southern gentleman of the "Twelve Oaks" plantation. Ashley Wilkes marries Melanie Hamilton as an arranged marriage between the Wilkes-Hamilton families; in which the marriage of cousins (which Ashley and Melanie are) is the practice; when necessary to preserve the blood line and social position of the family. As such, Wilkes is not, in the strictest sense, brought to marriage by love, money, or sexual infatuation; but by a sense of duty to preserve the socio-economic status quo of a world which he personally enjoys and agrees with; and believes this marriage will support and sustain.
Wilkes becomes a soldier for the Confederate cause though he personally would have freed the slaves his father owned had the war not erupted, or at least that is what he claimed. Although many of his friends and relations were killed in the Civil War, Ashley survived to see its brutal aftermath. He remains the object of Scarlett's daydream of infatuated devotion, even throughout her three marriages. She is simply obsessed with unobtainable Ashley. Believing that she was in love with him, Scarlett imagined Ashley to be the "perfect man", leaving her unable to love another.
* Melanie Hamilton Wilkes – Ashley's wife and cousin, her character is that of the genuinely humble, serene and gracious Southern woman. As the story unfolds, Melanie becomes progressively physically weaker, first by childbirth, then the effects of war, and ultimately illness. She had her own unique inner spirit of perseverance, as did Scarlett. Melanie loved Ashley, Beau, and Scarlett unwaveringly, and dutifully supported the Confederate cause, revealing the naivete of her character.
* Beau Wilkes – Melanie's and Ashley's lovable son.
* India Wilkes – Ashley's sister. Almost engaged to Stuart Tarleton, she bitterly hates Scarlett for stealing his attention before he is killed at Gettysburg. Lives with Aunt Pittypat after Melanie kicks her out for accusing Scarlett and Ashley of infidelity.
* Honey Wilkes – another sister of India and Ashley. Originally hoped to marry Charles Hamilton until Scarlett marries him; following the war, she marries a man from Mississippi, and moves to his home state with him.
* John Wilkes – Owner of Twelve Oaks Plantation and patriarch of the Wilkes family. Killed during the Civil War.
O'Hara family
* Scarlett O'Hara – The wilful protagonist of the novel, whose travails the novel follows throughout war and reconstruction. She marries Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy and Rhett Butler, all the time wishing she was married to Ashley Wilkes instead. She has three children, one from each husband: Wade Hampton Hamilton (son to Charles Hamilton), Ella Lorena Kennedy (daughter to Frank Kennedy) and Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler (deceased daughter to Rhett Butler).
* Gerald O'Hara – Scarlett's impetuous Irish father.
* Suellen O'Hara – Scarlett's selfish sister.
* Carreen O'Hara – Scarlett's timid, religious sister who, in the end of the story, joins a convent.
* Ellen O'Hara – Scarlett's gracious mother, of French ancestry.
Other characters
* Mammy – Scarlett's nurse from birth; a slave. Cited by Rhett as "the real head of the household." She has a no-nonsense attitude and is outspoken and opinionated. She chastises Scarlett often. She is extremely loyal to the O'Haras, especially Scarlett, whom she cares for like a daughter.
* Prissy – A young slave girl who features in Scarlett's life. She is portrayed as flighty and silly.
* Pork – The O'Hara family's butler, favored by Gerald.
* Dilcey – Pork's wife, a strong, outspoken slave woman of mixed Indian and Black decent, Prissy's mother.
* Charles Hamilton – Melanie's brother, Scarlett's first husband, shy and loving.
* Frank Kennedy – Suellen's former beau, Scarlett's second husband, an older man who only wants peace and quiet. He originally asks for Suellen's hand in marriage, but Scarlett steals him to save Tara. He is portrayed as a pushover who will do anything to appease Scarlett.
* Belle Watling – a brothel madam and prostitute; Rhett is her friend. She is portrayed as a kind-hearted country woman and a loyal confederate. At one point she states she has nursing experience.
* Archie – an ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is taken in by Melanie. Has a strong disliking for all women, especially Scarlett. The only woman he respects is Melanie.
* Jonas Wilkerson – former overseer of Tara, father of Emmie Slattery's illegitimate baby. After being dismissed because of the aforementioned he eventually becomes employed by the Freedmen's Bureau, where he abuses his position to get back at the O'Haras and becomes rich.
* Emmie Slattery – later wife of Jonas Wilkerson, whom Scarlett blames for her mother's death.
* Will Benteen – Confederate soldier who seeks refuge at Tara and stays on to help with the plantation, in love with Carreen but marries Suellen to stay on Tara, and repair her reputation. He is portrayed as very perceptive and lost half of his leg in the war.
* Aunt Pittypat Hamilton – Charles and Melanie's vaporish aunt who lives in Atlanta.
* Uncle Peter – Aunt Pittypat's houseman and driver, he is extremely loyal to Pittypat.
Setting
* Tara Plantation – The O'Hara home and plantation
* Twelve Oaks – The Wilkes' plantation.
* Peachtree Street – location of Aunt Pittypat's home in Atlanta
The novel opens in April 1861 and ends in the early autumn of 1873.
Politics
The book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of that aspect was missing from the 1939 film). The novel showed considerable historical research. According to her biography, Mitchell herself was ten years old before she learned that the South had lost the war. Mitchell's sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.
An episode in the book dealt with the early Ku Klux Klan. In the immediate aftermath of the War, Scarlett is assaulted by poor Southerners living in shanties, whereupon her former black slave Big Sam saves her life. In response, Scarlett's male friends attempt to make a retaliatory nighttime raid on the encampment. Northern soldiers try to stop the attacks, and Rhett helps Ashley, who is shot, to get help through his prostitute friend Belle. Scarlett's husband Frank is killed. This raid is presented sympathetically as being necessary and justified, while the law-enforcement officers trying to catch the perpetrators are depicted as oppressive Northern occupiers.
Although the Klan is not mentioned in that scene (though Rhett tells Archie to burn the "robes"), the book notes that Scarlett finds the Klan abominable. She believed the men should all just stay at home (she wanted both to be petted for her ordeal and to give the hated Yankees no more reason to tighten martial law, which is bad for her businesses). Rhett is also mentioned to be no great lover of the Klan. At one point, he said that if it were necessary, he would join in an effort to join "society". The novel never explicitly states whether this drastic step was necessary in his view. The local chapter later breaks up under the pressure from Rhett and Ashley.
Scarlett expresses views that were common of the era. Some examples:
* "How stupid negroes were! They never thought of anything unless they were told." — Scarlett thinks to herself, after returning to Tara after the fall of Atlanta.
* "How dared they laugh, the black apes!...She'd like to have them all whipped until the blood ran down...What devils the Yankees were to set them free!" — Scarlett again thinking to herself, seeing free blacks after the war.
* However, she is kind to Pork, her father's trusted manservant. He tells Scarlett that if she were as nice to white people as she is to black, a lot more people would like her.
* She almost loses her temper when the Yankee women say they would never have a black nurse in their house and talk about Uncle Peter, Aunt Pittypat's beloved and loyal servant, as if he were a mule. Scarlett informs them that Uncle Peter is a member of the family, which bewilders the Yankee women and leads them to misinterpret the situation.
* It was mentioned that only one slave was ever whipped at Tara, and that was a stablehand who didn't brush Gerald's horse. The only time Scarlett hit a slave was when Prissy was hysterical.
* Scarlett at one point criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, saying no one treated their slaves that badly.
Inspirations
As several elements of Gone with the Wind have parallels with Margaret Mitchell's own life, her experiences may have provided some inspiration for the story in context. Mitchell's understanding of life and hardship during the American Civil War, for example, came from elderly relatives and neighbors passing war stories to her generation.
While Margaret Mitchell used to say that her Gone with the Wind characters were not based on real people, modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Mitchell's own life as well as to individuals she knew or she heard of. Mitchell's maternal grandmother, Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, was born in 1845; she was the daughter of an Irish immigrant, who owned a large plantation on Tara Road in Clayton County, south of Atlanta, and who married an American woman named Ellen, and had several children, all daughters.
Many researchers believe that the physical brutality and low regard for women exhibited by Rhett Butler was based on Mitchell's first husband, Red Upshaw. She divorced him after she learned he was a bootlegger amid rumors of abuse and infidelity. Some believe he was patterned on the life of George Trenholm.
After a stay at the plantation called The Woodlands, and later Barnsley Gardens, Mitchell may have gotten the inspiration for the dashing scoundrel from Sir Godfrey Barnsley of Adairsville, Georgia.
Belle Watling was based on Lexington, Kentucky, madam Belle Brezing.
Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt may have been an inspiration for Scarlett O'Hara. Roosevelt biographer David McCullough discovered that Mitchell, as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal, conducted an interview with one of Martha's closest friends and bridesmaid, Evelyn King Baker, then 87. In that interview, she described Martha's physical appearance, beauty, grace, and intelligence in detail. The similarities between Martha and the Scarlett character are striking.
Reception
The sales of Margaret Mitchell's novel in the summer of 1936, at the virtually unprecedented price of three dollars, reached about one million by the end of December. Favorable critics found in the novel and its success an implicit rejection of what one reviewer dismissed as "all the thousands of technical tricks our novelists have been playing with for the past twenty years," while from the ramparts of the critical establishment almost universally male reviewers lamented the book's literary mediocrity and labeled it mere "entertainment." [citation needed]
Symbolism
Over the past years, the novel Gone with the Wind has also been analyzed for its symbolism and treatment of archetypes. For example, Scarlett has been characterized as a heroic figure struggling and attempting to twist life to suit her own personal wishes in society. The land is considered a source of strength, as in the plantation Tara, whose name is almost certainly drawn from the Hill of Tara in Ireland, a mysterious and poorly-understood archeological site that has traditionally been connected to the temporal and/or spiritual authority of the ancient Irish kings. It also represents the permanence of the land in a rapid changing world. Scarlett’s beautiful, perky hats take part of the symbolism as well. They show her feminine side and how she wants nothing more than to be the most attractive woman and the center of attention.
Sequels
Although Mitchell refused to write a sequel to Gone With The Wind, Mitchell's estate authorised Alexandra Ripley to write the novel Scarlett in 1991.
Author Pat Conroy was approached to write a follow-up, but the project was ultimately abandoned.
In 2000, the copyright holders attempted to suppress publication of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone, a book that retold the story from the point of view of the slaves. A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction against publication in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001), on the basis that the book was parody protected by the First Amendment. The parties subsequently settled out of court to allow the book to be published. After its release, the book became a New York Times bestseller.
In 2002, the copyright holders blocked distribution of an unauthorised sequel published in the U.S, The Winds of Tara by Katherine Pinotti, alleging copyright infringement. The story follows Scarlett as she returns to Tara where a family issue threatens Tara and the family's reputation. In it Scarlett shows just how far she will go to protect her family and her home. The book was immediately removed from bookstores by publisher Xlibris. The book sold in excess of 2,000 copies within 2 weeks before being removed. More recently, in 2008, Australian publisher Fontaine Press re-published "The Winds of Tara" exclusively for their domestic market, avoiding U.S. copyright restrictions.
A second sequel was released in November 2007. The story covers the same time period as Gone with the Wind and is told from Rhett Butler’s perspective – although it begins years before and ends after. Written by Donald McCaig, this novel is titled Rhett Butler's People (2007).
Adaptations
Gone With The Wind has been adapted several times for stage and screen, most famously in the 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
On stage it has been adapted as a musical Scarlett (premiering in 1972). The musical opened in the West End followed by a pre-Broadway tryout in 1973 (with Lesley Ann Warren as Scarlett). The book was again adapted as a musical called Gone With The Wind which premiered at the New London Theatre in 2008 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn.
The Japanese Takarazuka Revue has also adapted the novel into a musical with the same name. The first performance was in 1977, performed by the Moon Troupe. It has been performed several times since by the group, the most recent being in 2004 (performed by the Cosmos Troupe).
There has also been a French musical Autant en Emporte le Vent, based on the book.
Awards
The novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning 1939 film of the same name. The book was also adapted during the 1970s into a stage musical Scarlett; there is also a 2008 new musical stage adaptation in London's West End titled Gone With The Wind. It is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime. It took her seven years to write the book and a further eight months to check the thousands of historical and social references. The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies. Over the years, the novel has also been analyzed for its symbolism and treatment of archetypes.
Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.