Reply #87: The movie is racist, the book is not [View All]

[noonwitch]

According to Butterfly McQueen, the only white people on the set that were nice to the black cast members were Clark Gable and Olivia Dehavilland. She said the Selznick was a racist, and it's pretty obvious from how the black characters are portrayed.

The book, on the other hand, is very clear about it being told from the perspective of a biased individual, that is, Scarlett O'Hara. She is shallow, racist, and sees the way the whole lifestyle of the planters class that she was a beneficiary of, fall apart. She survives by being business smart and emotionally frigid. But the book captures interactions between the white and black characters that the movie fails to show properly. The movie ruins the black characters by making them stereotypes. Except Mammie, because she was such an integral role, played by a great actress. You can never totally diss the movie, for no other reason than the performance by Hattie McDaniel.