Woman in Society

In a film, the way a certain character or a certain type of character is portrayed depends on the director, writer, or even the actor playing that character. However there are times when characters are portrayed a certain way because that is how society would general portray them. If you released a movie in the 1800s about a 19th century rich and powerful black man, the odds are the movie would not sell to well. Not because it is not a good movie, but because it doesn't truly represent the times, or how black people were viewed in the 1800s. But if you released the same movie in 21st century, as a historical drama the movie would most likely sell better then it would in the 19th century.. This is because audiences would probably see the rich powerful black man, not as a threat but as a symbol. Someone who, against all odds, still manage to make it. It would be an inspirational story. A story although set in historical 1800s inspires the people of today. This is the way to make a great movie. Even if the movie is set in historical time periods, it should still mirror or affect today's society.
The movie Gone With the Wind, a 1930's film about a woman and her hardships during the civil war. And Cold Mountain, a 2003 film about a man on his journey back to his love, and a woman on a mental journey to find herself, through working a farm, during the Civil war. These two movies are very similar in some ways but then very different in others. Both of the movies for example have gender stereotypes that have been placed, but the journey that the two female protagonists, Scarlet O'Hara and Ada Monroe go through are very different from one another.
Gone with the Wind follows Scarlet O'Hara and her love for Rhett Butler. But their love is not as simple as that. Throughout the movie Scarlet claims that she truly loves Ashley, the man that her cousin marries. Scarlet proclaims her love to Ashley multiple times and gets rejected. Scarlet then precedes her advancements with... [continues]

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