What historically incorrect facts are in the movie Gone With the Wind?

Answer 1

No but the basic history of the war itself in the film would probably be based on real events. The film was based on a book by Margaret Mitchell and it took her ten years to write it. Apparently the English actor in the film I believe was married to Scarlett O'Hara in the film was a spy in real life and died a few years later in mysterious circumstances during the war.

Answer 2

Gone with the Wind is generally thought to be historically accurate by critics. Margaret Mitchell was an avid studier of the Civil War, and grew up in the South listening to Confederate veterans of the Civil War, so the battles and dates she sets up matches historically. The attitudes she presents in the novel, however, are entirely her own and can be up for debate.

Answer 3

in most ways yes, but not the way the slaves were portrayed, they were not treated with that respect which shows in the movie, the book is a bit more accurate. It also depends which side you were on, it is only told from the the side of theSouth, Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner after all.

Answer 4

The writer, Margaret Mitchell, and her husband/editor John Marsh, checked and rechecked all the historical references and facts in the book Gone with the Wind, so if there are historicaly incorrect inclusions in the book, the author was unaware of them. The movie did not follow the book faithfully, so there are bound to be some incorrect facts and events in the movie. Will Benteen, a character in the book, was omitted from the movie.

Answer 5

There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of knights and their ladies fair, of master and of slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a civilization gone with the wind.

This paragraph says it all about the end of a way of life, the collapse of the Old South, which fell to its knees,never to rise again as they once were but could never be again. Instead, the intrepid southerners vacated their plantations and migrated to cities where they started their own businsses based on reconstruction needs for sawmills and many other organiations new to Atlanta and the deep South. It was not easy, but neither was losing their way of life, and again, they rose to the top and won their battles, against whomever dared to challenge them.

The Gone with the Wind book and movie version of history is the historical version, with the same occurrences that are documented in history books and non-fiction accounts of the War Between the States, fought between 1861 and 1865. Magaret Mitchell of Atlanta was the author of the book and double checked all historical references. Throughout her historical narrative, she wove a gripping love story of star-crossed lovers; in the movie they were Vivien Leigh and Clark Cable.

Gone with the Wind follows events from the first of the War when the first yebel yell was heard until the end of it and the fall of the old South. It follows the influx of carpetbaggers and scalawags from the north into Atlanta, where they attempted to make money from the downfall of a civilization.

The Gone with the Wind book written by Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta, and movie released in 1939, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, won ten Oscar nomations that year, Leigh for best actress and GWTW for best movie.

It's story of history isn't a "version," it's the true history of the old South before it was brought to its knees, never to recover.

Answer 6

No. It is a fictional story set against the historical background of the American Civil War.

No it is fiction, however it is based on an actual period of US history and reasonably accurately portrays how people of that time and place might have responded to events.

Answer 7

Extremely! This was exactly how the South really was.