Gone With the Wind (1939)　 - "Tomorrow is another day!"

2022年11月12日

今日は私の大好きな映画「風と共に去りぬ」を楽しみましょう。最初の行=彼女は 2 人の男性を愛していましたが、結局、どちらの男性も理解できませんでした。第 1 幕、最後の行 =「神様お聞きください。私はこの大いなる試練に決して負けません。家族に二度とひもじい思いをさせません。きっと生き抜いてみせます。その為は嘘もつき、盗み、騙し人をも殺すでしょう。神様に誓います。二度と飢えに泣きません。」 Act 2、最後の行 =「結局、明日は別の日なのです！」(English) Today we will enjoy my favorite movie, "Gone with the Wind." The first line=She loved two men but, in the end, understood neither of them. Act 1, last line= "As God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over...I'll never be hungry again.No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!" Act 2, last line= "After all, tomorrow is another day!"

Gone with the Wind (1939)

General description.

The film is set against the backdrop of Atlanta, Georgi, during the Civil War.

Scarlett O'Hara had an Irish immigrant father and a mother from a prominent French family in the American South.

Scarlett was a feisty Southern woman.

It is a magnificent portrayal of her life and the people surrounding her.

Story

The story takes place in Georgia, in the southern part of the U.S, in 1860, slavery still existed. It was the time of the Civil War.

The beautiful Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant and successful plantation owner, was in love with Ashley Wilkes, a tall and handsome young man of the same upper class as herself.

But Ashley was engaged to Ashley's cousin Melanie.

Scarlett was horrified at a barbecue party at the Twelve Oaks House to learn of their marriage and confided her feelings to Ashley.

However, while Ashley admitted to being attracted to Scarlett, he said he would marry Melanie.

After Ashley left, Scarlett threw a tantrum and threw a vase at the Wilkes family nearby, breaking it.

Rhett Butler, who happened to witness the whole thing, was strongly attracted to her vital and dynamic spirit.

Scarlett heard insinuations from friends who despised her.

She arranged for Melanie's brother (Charles Hamilton) to ask her to marry him to make a play for Ashley.

Charles, who knew nothing about the matter, did as Scarlett had intended and asked her to marry him amid the excitement over the news of the start of the Civil War.

Scarlett ended up marrying him, despite her regrets.

Charles, however, went off to war and died of illness soon after their marriage.

Scarlett became a widow at the age of 17.

Scarlett went to Atlanta to start a new life with Pittypat Hamilton and Melanie.

Rhett Butler heard that Scarlett had become a widow.

He had once been barred from social life for his unsolicited conduct, but he appeared before her.

Rhett saw in Scarlett a resemblance to himself.

He wanted to remove the mask of the lady that Scarlett wore and reveal her true self.

Scarlett also attended the dance party in mourning.

This unprecedented act caused consternation among the people around her.

The Confederate army was struggling against the Union army.

Finally, the fall of Atlanta was imminent.

However, Scarlett, who was nursing Melanie, who was about to give birth, lost her chance to escape.

Under the enemy Union gunfire, she lost her chance to escape with Melanie and her baby just after giving birth.

She had no choice but to ask Rhett, whom she hated, for help.

Scarlett was Hoping to return to Tara.

Rhett got her out of the burning Atlanta in an old horse-drawn wagon.

After they made it through the danger zone, Rhett told Scarlett that he was joining the army and that she should go home alone for the rest of the trip.

Laughing at Scarlett, who thought he was joking, Rhett passionately kissed her and went to the Confederate-held front line.

Scarlett was angry at being left behind.

They finally arrived at their hometown, Tara.

Tala, however, had been devastated by the Union army, and Ellen, their mother, who they had relied on, had died of typhoid fever.

Overnight, she became the head of the O'Hara family, and her consciousness was focused solely on avoiding hunger and protecting her homeland.

10)

Struggling to pay her taxes, Scarlett stole Frank Kennedy, her sister Suellen's lover and a shopkeeper, and remarried him.

However, she soon found that Frank had no talent for business, so she started her own business.

11)

At that time, it was almost taboo for a woman to take the initiative in running a business in preference to a man.

Scarlett also became friends with an army Union emigrant, which made her unpopular with those around her.

Her old friends, except Melanie and Rhett, began to leave her in droves.

Her careless behavior also led to an incident where refugees attacked hers, and Frank fell to a bullet when he tried to sanction the perpetrators.

12)

Scarlett married Rhett for the third time.

Unlike her previous husbands, Rhett did not oppose his wife's business and allowed Scarlett to do what she wanted.

They eventually had a daughter, Bonnie, and Rhett doted on his first daughter.

13)

Scarlett's feelings, however, were still for Ashley.

Rhett also knew that Scarlett was cruel to those who loved her.

Rhett made a secret that he had loved Scarlett for a long time.

Scarlett herself gradually came to love Rhett.

Nevertheless, she believed that she was still in love with Ashley.

14)

One day, in a conversation with Ashley, Scarlett learned he was jealous of her marital relationship with Rhett.

Scarlett told Rhett that she wanted separate bedrooms because she did not want more children.

Rhett then told her that from now on, he would have a relationship with another woman, of which there were plenty.

15)

Scarlett had nightmares of wandering through the cold fog in fear, desperately seeking something.

After Rhett left, she cried with regret and unhappiness that she would no longer be able to wake up in the middle of the night and be comforted by Rhett as she had been.

16)

One day, a drunken Rhett forcefully took Scarlett to bed with him, and Scarlett discovered physical pleasure for the first time.

Rhett, however, is ashamed of the act himself.

Meanwhile, Scarlett, waiting for Rhett's passionate visit, thinks she is being tortured by Rhett, who has never visited her.

Their feelings for each other became even more irreconcilable, and their marriage grew more bitter by the day.

17)

Rhett verbally abused Scarlett when she became pregnant again.

It caused Scarlett to fall down the stairs.

She miscarried, and her baby died.

Rhett told Melanie that he could not bear it if Scarlett died. He reveals his intense love for Scarlett.

18)

This miscarriage, however, caused a deep rift between them.

Rhett gave all his love to Bonnie.

However, Bonnie fell off "Mr. Butler," the pony he had given her.

Bonnie died before Scarlett's eyes.

It severed the last bond between Scarlett and Rhett.

Rhett stopped coming around the house.

19)

Scarlett never got over the shock of losing her daughter.

Even Melanie, who had shown her friendship to Scarlett until the end, lost her life due to pressure from childbirth.

Scarlett realized for the first time that Melanie, whom she had thought she hated as the love interest who had stolen Ashley from her, actually loved and relied on her with all her heart.

20)

Also, on her deathbed, Melanie conveyed Rhett's love for Scarlett.

For the first time, Scarlett realized that it was Rhett, not Ashley, whom she loved.

She realizes that he has also understood and helped her so far.

21)

Scarlett hurries home through the fog, thinking she has found "that something" she was looking for in her nightmare.

If Scarlett could sincerely apologize to Rhett, she thought their relationship would be restored.

But Rhett was already tired of chasing Scarlett.

22)

Rhett told her that he had been hiding his love and that his doting on Bonnie was the price for not being able to love Scarlett, honestly.

In conclusion, he explained that he no longer loved Scarlett.

He said he intended to return to his hometown of Charleston alone.

23)

Scarlett cried desperately.

However, she realized it was impossible to subvert Rhett's resolve.

Scarlett was finally alone, having lost Rhett and Melanie simultaneously, both of whom had supported her throughout her life.

However, she eventually puts her hope in tomorrow and escapes her despair.