My sons came up with the idea a few years ago i should take p n plantation mistress to hollywood and say, real housewives of the old south. You should. But the patriot, at the same time, youre sitting there and these little freshmen come in, and why are you here, whats your interest . And they saw the film. Part of it is to get people excited about the past even if its not our past, even if its nobodys past, some fantasy past. Vampire past. And this brings us a question of what constitutes a film about slavery . Would you think of ride with the devil as a film about slavery or Cold Mountain . No. There are slaves in those films, but theyre very marginal and theyre thereubidleh almost to establish Cold Mountain had no slaves, no black voices. You see a black woman being drugged, being carried. R t hahp hc nod. And i think that was a subconscious Cold Mountain view of the world. We know theyre there, but this is our film. You even see Nicole Kidman taking refreshments out to the slaves b
Image of a time that never really was. Its something beautiful, romantic and exciting and they can get away from how much their lives absolutely suck. Thats why the movie industry does incredibly well during the great depression. You wouldnt think it does well, but it does incredibly well for that reason. So we are to the point where we talk about what the movie does right. 12 minutes left. How does the movie measure up historically speaking when dealing with some of the elite white characters and their lives. Better or worse than how they deal with africanamericans . Hard to be worse than the treatment of africanamericans, so then better. So Laura Michael and brooke at the beginning talk about, i think, sort of overall southern white perceptions of race. And brooke makes the argument both of them make the argument that this is an accurate depiction of the way whites perceived the way things went or an accurate portrayal of the souths memory of that time at that time. So again to that
Those hospitals. I think brooke put in our comment too that the women werent really around the men changing bandages but scarlet was all up in there. Shes was literally watching what was going on. Women usually removed from that because they were that pure for that sort of thing. She was kind of like a traditional, say your typical war nurse you would think of. Thats really not what it was like. Another thing to think about is that all of the hospital scenes that are portrayed are in the south at the end of the war so there are very few men around to help as nurses anyway. So there was a greater chance that women would take up these roles as acting as nurses whether she would do it in garb to do it is an entirely different matter but it is certainly possible to have women filling those roles in hospital. Right. Certainly in the south, it is more likely to see this in extreme circumstances where women would step in. . qc okay. What about scarlet owning a mill, running a mill and galavan
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City for the parade wear a light jacket. 42 in wilmington. Reading, 41. Trenton, 40. Millville, 42 and wildwood, 43. Right now wind speeds are generally light out of the west northwest at 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Theres the leading edge if you look toward the lefthand side of the screen. Lancaster seeing a sustained wind of 22 Miles Per Hour with a gust always highs 30. The winds will sweep across the area during the course of the day. If you look across the screen, the counter clockwise swirl above upstate new york, thats the low thats thats responsible for the winds gusting later on. Well see winds gusting 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. Well see a decent amount of sunshine with clouds mixed. Temperatures generally in the upper 40s low 50s. The idea is for it to feel like 40, 45 because of the winds. Make sure youre wearing a coat today. No big storms in the foreseeable future. Look at spring, officially arrives this friday. Its going to feel anything but as we head into next weekend. Tempe