April 8 & 9th, 2012 Days 151 & 152
Gone with the Wind
movie worksheet
12 x 12
Credits *title, date,
producer, director, actors, poster
1. Gone With the Wind
2. 1939
3. David O’Selznick
4. Victor Fleming
5. Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de
Havilland
Summary *12
sentence (or more) paragraph:
Scarlett O’Hara, living at the plantation of Tara in Rural
Georgia, is joined by the Tarleton twins in her fancy white dress who are
saying how much they love her, they invite her to the nearest plantation,
Twelve Oaks, where Ashley Wilkes is, who Scarlett believes she loves. But it
announced that Ashley is to marry Melanie Hamilton and there is going to be a
barbeque to celebrate, Scarlett believes she is heartbroken.
At
Twelve Oaks, Scarlett realizes that she is being admired by Rhett Butler who
has recently been thrown out of West Point and disowned by his Charleston
family. Later, a discussion of the Civil War that Scarlett is eavesdropping on
makes men dislike Butler since he disapproves of the war entirely.
Scarlett
quickly becomes a widow and then moves to help Melanie Hamilton, newly wedded
to Ashley in Atlanta when Ashley went to war. At a bazaar, she meets Rhett once
again and he auctions of 150 dollars so he can dance with Scarlett, which was
strictly prohibited since she was a widow but Scarlett very excitedly accepts.
While they are dancing Rhett tells her of his feeling about her and asks if she
loves him back, Scarlett replies saying she will never as long as she lives.
The
tide of the war turns against the south after Gettysburg, in which many of the
men of Scarlett's town are killed. Scarlett makes another unsuccessful appeal
to Ashley’s heart while he is visiting on Christmas although they do share a
private and passionate kiss while in the parlor on Christmas Day, just before
he leaves for the war. In the hospital, Scarlett and Melanie are helping Dr.
Meade with the patients.
Eight months
later, as the city is besieged by the Union Army
in the Atlanta Campaign, Melanie goes into a premature and difficult labor.
Staying true to a promise Scarlett made to Ashley to "take care of
Melanie," she and her servant Prissy must deliver the child without
medical attendance. Scarlett calls upon Rhett to bring her home to Tara
immediately with Melanie, Prissy, and the baby. He appears with a horse and
wagon to take them out of the city on a journey through the burning depot and
warehouse district. He leaves her with a nearly dead horse, helplessly frail
Melanie, her baby, and tearful Prissy, and with a kiss as he goes off to fight.
On her journey home, Scarlett finds Twelve Oaks burned out, ruined and deserted.
She is relieved to find Tara still standing but deserted by all except her
parents, her sisters, and two servants: Mammy and Pork. Scarlett learns that
her mother has just died of typhoid fever and her father's mind has begun
to crumble under the strain. With Tara pillaged by Union troops and the fields
untended, Scarlett vows she will do anything for the survival of her family and
herself, exclaiming, "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry
again!"
In the
second half Scarlett is trying to rebuild her life at Tara, but it is much
different. She has to pick the cotton and she only has one dress which is tattered
up. She goes into Atlanta since she has just learned from a carpetbagger that
she needs 300 dollars in taxes. Mammy makes her a beautiful dress made out of
her mother’s old curtain and she goes in to see Rhett who is in jail but
survived the war. Rhett refused to give Scarlett eh money since she lied to
him. So she goes to Frank Kennedy who is going to marry Scarlett’s sister
Suellen and tells him that Suellen is marrying someone else and so Kennedy asks
Scarlett if she would marry him giving her the money she needed to save Tara.
She still was broke so she started a lumber business with Ashley.
After a
scandal with a nearby shantytown one night, Frank secretly goes to settle it
and is killed. Scarlett is heartbroken and feels totally responsible but when
Rhett proposes to her she accepts graciously and they go on a grand honeymoon
to New Orleans. When Scarlett falls asleep in New Orleans she proposes that she
wants to go home to Tara.
Scarlett
soon has a baby, a little girl named Bonnie Blue Butler who Rhett loves very
much. Rhett was still very much jealous of Ashley and Scarlett and Rhett were
having marriage problems. Rhett took Bonnie on an extended trip to London but
when she had a terrible nightmare they went back to Georgia.
At the
end Scarlett realized that Ashley only truly loved Melanie and Scarlett truly
loved Rhett she goes to tell him that and he is so jealous that he doesn’t
believe it. As Rhett walks out the door,
she pleads, "Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?" He
answers, "Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn" and walks away into
the fog. She sits on her stairs and weeps in despair, "What is there that
matters?" She then recalls the voices of Gerald, Ashley, and Rhett, all of
whom remind her that her strength comes from Tara itself. Hope lights
Scarlett's face: "Tara! Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to
get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!"
People/Places
1.
Scarlett O’Hara: Of the plantation Tara, the
main character. The young Scarlett is absolutely beautiful and all the boys
love her. But she loves Ashley Wilkes, or believes she does but when she meets
Rhett Butler, he immediately falls in love with her and is very jealous of
Ashley. After the war Scarlett becomes very strong and swears she will never be
hungry again.
3.
Mammy: The main house slave at Tara who loves
Ellen and her sisters and Scarlett’s baby Bonnie.
4.
Prissy: Scarlett’s “personal slave” who comes
along with her and Melanie to Atlanta and delivers Melanie’s baby Bo. Prissy is
about 13 years old and has an irritating voice!
5.
Tara: The O’Hara family plantation that was not
burned by the Yankees during the Civil War. Scarlett loves Tara very much and
does whatever she can to protect it.
6.
Ashley Wilkes: Lives at Twelve Oaks. The man
that Scarlett believes she loves. The man that Rhett Butler’s jealous of.
Husband of Melanie Hamilton and Civil War soldier and survivor of Gettysburg.
7.
Melanie Hamilton: Wife of Ashley Wilkes, very
sweet and best friend and sister-in-law of Scarlett O’Hara. She has one son Bo
and died in childbirth since she very nearly avoided death at the birth of Bo.
8.
Rhett Butler: Loves Scarlett very much and loved
Bonnie very much. Jealous of Ashley Wilkes. He disagrees with the war but later
becomes a soldier for the Confederate Army. Scarlett realizes she loves him at
the end of the movie.
9.
Tarleton Twins: Boys that fawn over Scarlett and
fight about who they think she loves more. Proud Confederate Army soldiers but
were killed in the battle of Gettysburg.
10.
Big Sam: Former slave from Tara and is forced to
join the Confederate Army during the siege. Saves Scarlett from a shanty town.
11.
Charles Hamilton: Melanie’s brother and first
husband of Scarlett. He went off to war and was killed immediately during
Fredericksburg.
12.
Frank Kennedy: Scarlett’s second husband who she
loved a little bit. She stole Frank from her sister Suellen. A war veteran who
somehow survived but went to fight at the shanty town after Scarlett was
attacked and was killed.
13.
Aunt Pittypatt & Atlanta: Atlanta, Georgia
where Melanie went to watch over her Aunt Pittypatt after Charles died. She and
Scarlett stay in Atlanta until Sherman burns it, then Rhett brings them back to
Tara. Then Scarlett went back to Atlanta to start the lumber business with
Frank and Ashley to save Tara.
Facts/ Details
1.
Scarlett and Rhett’s daughter Bonnie was named
after the “bonnie blue flag”
2.
Scarlett’s mother died of typhoid and her father
and daughter Bonnie died of horse jumping accidents
3.
Scarlett and Ashley started a lumber business in
Atlanta because the city was burnt and they needed to rebuild
4.
During the scene when Scarlett, Rhett, Melanie,
Bo, and Prissy are escaping, to make the fire realistic, they actually burned
the set down!
5.
My favorite characters of Gone with the Wind
were Scarlett, Rhett and Melanie because they were all strong heroines and
heroes.
6.
My favorite costume was Scarlett O’Hara’s green
dress at the beginning of the movie.
7.
After Charles died Scarlett went to Atlanta and was at an auction along
with Rhett, he bids 150 dollars to lead the dance, but since Scarlett was a
widow it was prohibited so Aunt Pittypatt fainted.
8. Margaret Mitchell wrote the
book, “Gone with the Wind.”
9. One of the famous scenes and
lines of Gone with the wind is when Scarlett is in a tattered up and burnt
dress and picks up a rotten carrot, eats it, and throws it up and says, “God is
my Witness, And I will never go hungry again!”
10. The men of Rural Georgia
dislikes of Rhett Butler because he disapproves of the Civil War
11. Rhett joins the army during
the siege and burning of Atlanta because he feels like a coward
12. When Scarlett attended Ashley’s
birthday party, everybody looked at her because she was overdressed but Melanie
said that she looked beautiful.
Reflections/
Feelings/ Thoughts
1.
It was very nice to watch this movie with Gamma
2.
I am very desperate to know what happens to
Scarlett and Rhett
3.
I thought it was sad that the South lost
everything after the Civil War
4.
I learned from Scarlett that sometimes you
shouldn’t be stuck on one thought and waste all your energy on it you need to
be strong because After all, Tomorrow is another day!
5.
I thought that Bonnie was very spoiled and kind
of bratty but it was sad when she died
6. I thought that Ashley Wilkes was whiny
7. I learned about Sherman and how he burned Atlanta, I thought it
was really cruel but it did help the North win
8.
I thought this movie was very interesting and
entertaining and I enjoyed it, I would definitely watch it again.
9.
I think that Ashley should not of told Scarlett
that he loved her because it made her not think of Rhett, I think he should’ve
been more honest so she could have opened up her heart to Rhett
10.
It was very sad when Melanie died but I thought
it was because Ashley and Melanie were related
11.
Gamma said that Scarlett had already had two
babies with Frank already, one named John and one named Wade
12.
I thought Scarlett was brave to be a woman so
much against the war but was able to come back and live with it and it made me
feel strong
