My first or second blog entry I mention, “Gone with the wind"as my favorite movie of all time. I can relate my life to it in any form orfashion. Most girls relate their relationship troubles to epic tales of“Carrie” and “Big” From Sex in the City...but my quarrels with love andrelationships is more “Gone with the Wind” then “Sex and the city” any day.Scarlet O’Hare who I find to be one the strongest leading ladies in filmhistory, is strong, beautiful, and independent...Like myself. In the film thewrong men always pursued her in her eyes. In my case I find myself always beingpursued by the wrong men. Scarlet was a women who thought she knew whatshe wanted, and like myself I have always been a girl who thought I found whatI was looking for. Throughout the Film there were these two men that manage toalways stay constant in Scarlet's life you have the brooding, tortured soul,and compassionate Ashley Wilkes, whom was also married and yet Scarlet is so blindlyin love with. Then there is the daring, yet dashing, arrogant, Rhett Butlerwhom is madly in love with Scarlet who was willing to give and do anythingfor her...but she despise this man so! So you have this epic lovetriangle between these three characters and the clear choice is for Scarlett tochoose Rhett Butler and not the Married Ashley Wilkes because they were made for each other! Spoiler alert! This kindof happens but Scarlett realizes she is too little to late. She tells Rhett how she feels, and his wordsin Response are "frankly my dear I don't give a damn!"... Such anepic and amazing scene I must add!
For years I thought I found my version of Rhett Butler. This talldashing guy that was passionate, romantic and aggressive whom either left mespeechless or completely and utterly frustrated. Like Scarlet and Rhett we bothare very passionate and ambitious and we are both stubborn and reckless people.Today or maybe even a year ago I realized he wasn't my Rhett Butler afterall...what we had was like smoke and mirrors...somewhat not real. Love is soblind lol It really truly is...it consumes us and allows of to see say and do crazy things without fully thinking them through...Again he wasn't my Rhett Butler. I haven't found my Rhett Butler yet...Hewas my Ashley Wilkes, a man that I have Been chasing after for almost 7years... like Scarlet He was somebody I would plot, plan and scheme,over...which I admit was very stupid and childish. Honestly his name is quiteridiculous like Ashley Wilkes as well...I wont repeat it for your sake, my sakeand of course his sake...I'll just leave it at that. Throughout the film,Ashley Made all these false promise to Scarlet, which allowed her to latch oneven tighter and she of course didn't realize that the right man was staringher plain in the face. With my situation there is no love triangle and no RhettButler staring me plain in the face for me to make my choice easier…there is orshall I say was an Ashley Wilkes who lead me own with false promises andactions. Again Like Scarlet, I don’t fault him for his actions or his words andfor leading me on as long as he did. I still think of him as a very good guy,but for months or rather years I thought that he was the only guy for me… myversion of Rhett Butler. Irealized today I have so much time to find my Rhett Butler I am only 24 yearsold. Its not too late and I haven’t missed out…for me its only the beginningYou wont find me like Scarlet at my door watching Rhett Butler leave allbecause I was chasing after Ashley Wilkes.
ill try not to post too much about this movie anymore..but today I honestly had a life lesson.. well an epiphany about something I've been holding on to for a long time...done being bummed and upset about it.
stay tuned...my review for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows will be up in a few days.
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