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* [[It Gets Better]]: The book seems to take the longest amount of time possible to get through ''any''thing.
* [[It Was His Sled]]: The book was written in 1936. The movie came out in 1939. You should know how this story ends just by [[Popcultural Osmosis]].
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Is Scarlett a philandering bitch with no real sense of human emotion or empathy who will use, abuse, and kill anyone who stands in her way? Hell yes. Is she [[Stay in
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: From what we hear of Rhett, he manages to manipulate both sides of the Civil War to his own massive profit, speculating, blockading, and swindling his way into millions, without [[Karma Houdini|any significant personal consequences]]. Scarlett just happens to be his Achilles' heel.
** Scarlett qualifies as well. She promises to do anything--lie, cheat, steal or kill--to protect her land and her family, and she bloody well makes good on that promise. Even while the things she does are terrible and she hurts many people including herself, you can't help but be impressed by her.
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** [[Values Dissonance]] is all over the book even if you write the KKK out entirely. Scarlett's servants refer to blacks who would rather be free as trash, and it's looked at as heroic when a black man is killed for so much as insulting a white person. Entire chapters are devoted to describing how free blacks are "tricked" into believing they're equal with whites and should be allowed to vote and sleep with white women. The post-war South is presented as a kind of lawless Badlands where white women are in danger of being flat-out raped in the street and the North would throw anyone who protested into jail. There's horror at the very ''idea'' that a well-bred white Southerner should work and that a black person wouldn't want to. Whether it's an [[Author Tract]] or just a reflection of the philosophies of the time, there's no opposite view shown to challenge any of these ideas that are horribly racist and highly disproven nowadays.
*** The [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] scene also shows an example. Spousal rape wasn't legally a crime in all 50 states until 1993. Especially, at that time, Rhett forcibly taking his wife to bed wouldn't necessarily be seen as a problem. This doesn't make it any better though.
* [[WTH? Casting Agency]]: No one expected a little known English actress would get the role every actress in Hollywood was dying to play. A critic even predicted that there would be [[Serious Business|rioting in the streets to protest the casting of Vivian Leigh]].
** Margaret Mitchell reportedly wanted ''[[Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]]'' to play Rhett. Oh, just try and wrap your brain around that one.
*** Probably because book-verse Rhett was a lot snarkier and smartass than movie-verse Rhett was. Change the costume--it could'a worked.
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