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.
The reading section and the lecture have a varied opinion about the movie, Gone with the wind. The reading calls the movie racist and points out a few examples supporting it whereas the professor loves and appreciates the movie for the wonderful performance by the artists.
Firstly, it is mentioned in the reading that the movie talks about the war from white's perspective and life before war and days of slavery are depicted as a golden age while the professor appreciates the film for timeless romance and feminist theme. The professor says that nowhere in the movie the time before war is romanticized. Also, the professor says that the life of women changed for better and they had more opportunities after war.
Secondly, the reading is not happy with the fact that Mammy was not given her first name in the movie while the professor says that Mammy was the smartest character in the film and she was unafraid and protective for her loved ones.
Finally, in the reading, it is mentioned that the performance of McQueen as Prissy wasn't an embarrassment where she rebels against the owner. The professor says that the director wanted to add hysterical comedy but McQueen added rebellious character. Even then she appreciates both characters, Mammy and Prissy and states that their performance was appreciated and they won awards for it. Furthermore, it paved the way for future generations to work in Hollywood which wasn't the case earlier.
Therefore, the reading section considers the movie, Gone with the Wind as an embarrassment whereas the professor supports and praises the movie and the casts' performance stating the examples of awards and says that it has made it easier for African Americans to find jobs in Hollywood.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, whereas, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1462.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 290.0 270.72406181 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04137931034 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.04702891845 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66231908777 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 145.348785872 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.540411800872 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 446.4 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 21.2450331126 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.6925844937 49.2860985944 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.909090909 110.228320801 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3636363636 21.698381199 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.63636363636 7.06452816374 136% => OK
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 : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0846520043587 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0341041002401 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0351924884837 0.0662205650399 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0568756920624 0.162205337803 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333452284101 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.3589403974 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 63.6247240618 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.498013245 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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