Vintage Poster
Gone with the wind
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This superb Gone With the Wind Poster will add a romantic side to your decoration while giving it an original vintage style!
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- Great UV resistance .
- Maximum color vibrancy, without reflections .
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Description of this Gone With the Wind Poster
1861, shortly before the start of the Civil War: Scarlett O'Hara, who grew up on the Tara cotton plantation near Atlanta, is in love with Ashley Wilkes, the heir to the neighboring Twelve Oaks plantation. She learns by chance that Ashley is preparing to get engaged to her cousin Melanie Hamilton, a kind and silent woman. At a lavish garden party at Les Douze Chênes, she tries to convince Ashley to marry her herself rather than Melanie.
At the party, Scarlett also meets Rhett Butler from Charleston, who has been rejected by his family because of a scandal and has a bad reputation - especially because he dares to tell inconvenient truths, such as inferiority of the Southern States compared to the Northern States. News that Lincoln has declared war on the Southern states breaks into the garden party. After the party, the Southerners, most of whom were passionate about the war, joyfully set off for the Civil War. Previously, Captain Ashley marries Melanie, and Scarlett out of spite accepts the marriage proposal from Melanie's naive brother Charles, one of Scarlett's countless admirers. Charles dies at training camp a few weeks after the wedding.
Hoping to see Ashley again, Scarlett moves to Atlanta to stay with Melanie and her simple-minded aunt "Pittypat" Hamilton. There, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler again at a charity ball for wounded soldiers. At a ladies' "auction" for the good of the hospital, Butler purchases Scarlett as a dancing partner, although as a widow she is not expected to dance. Scarlett, frustrated by the society-imposed mourning period, enthusiastically accepts the offer. She begins working at the military hospital under Dr. Meade, but is put off by the many seriously injured soldiers. Added to this is the fact that the Southern states are increasingly lagging behind the Northern states in the war. Finally, the Northern army attacked the city during the Atlanta campaign.
Meanwhile, Scarlett, accompanied by Prissy, a childish and frightened slave, must assist Melanie during the birth of her son Beau. Rhett Butler then helps them escape to their original plantation, Tara. He gathers a horse and cart and takes him, Melanie, Beau, and Prissy out of the burning city. He then leaves them to join the army of the Confederate States which is in the process of retreating. It is on this occasion that a first kiss is exchanged between Rhett and Scarlett, but the latter opposes it.
When Scarlett arrives in Tara, she finds the body of her mother, who died the night before of typhus. His father, the proud plantation owner Gerald, has lost his mind, his two sisters are sick, and, in addition to Union soldiers, Confederate marauders and freed slaves have taken almost everything. Only two servants from the O'Hara family, including Mammy, remained; the slave owners, until then rich, discover hunger and poverty and must themselves put their hands to work in the fields.
In this situation, Scarlett becomes the head of the family, finds food, tries to bring order to daily life, pushes everyone to work, and even kills a marauding Union soldier to protect her home and his family. Scarlett and Melanie also deal with Southern soldiers returning from captivity, including Ashley. Once again, Scarlett tries to win him over and even wants to run away with him. But Ashley is traumatized by the war and has taken refuge in an illusory world before the war.
As high taxes are set for Tara and former slave keeper Jonas Wilkerson threatens to buy the plantation in a forced sale, Scarlett tries to find money. During a visit from Wilkerson, Scarlett's father, still troubled, is so upset that he falls from his horse and dies. Meanwhile, Scarlett goes to see Rhett Butler, a prisoner of war at the Atlanta prison. She flatters him into borrowing the money from her. Rhett understands her insincerity and refuses.
In her distress, Scarlett marries Frank Kennedy, her sister Suellen's fiancé, who is many years older than her, in order to get his money, as he has a small fortune from a successful store. Scarlett persuades Frank to go into the lumber business and takes over management of the sawmill. She is criticized by society because she employs convicts as workers in difficult conditions, trades with "Yankees" and often travels alone without being accompanied. After an attack on Scarlett, her husband participates in an act of revenge which costs him his life. The others involved, including Ashley and Dr. Meade, narrowly escape and are suspected by the Northerners of wanting to take justice into their own hands. Rhett finally intervenes by giving them an excuse and thus saves their lives.
Rhett Butler, who had been in love with Scarlett for a long time, proposed to her, which she accepted. He tries to win his wife's love by showering her with luxury and traveling with her. In particular, they are building a sumptuous villa in Atlanta. The marriage remains only superficially happy, however, with Scarlett still clinging to her supposed love for Ashley. Scarlett gives birth to a daughter. Subsequently, she refuses marital relations to Rhett, because she is worried about her figure and fears other pregnancies.
One day she meets Ashley at the sawmill, the two talk about their post-war memories. Ashley thanks Scarlett for everything she has done for him and Melanie and hugs her. This scene is observed by India, Ashley's sister, who suspects an affair and spreads rumors to this effect. Scarlett therefore does not dare to go to Ashley's birthday party. Rhett eventually forces her to go to the party. Melanie welcomes Scarlett with love and encourages the guests not to ostracize Scarlett. That same evening, Rhett, furious and intoxicated, attacks Scarlett at her home to "erase the invisible third of her marriage from her mind."
The next morning, Scarlett is too proud to tell Rhett how much she enjoyed this night of love, and Rhett tells her that he is going to leave her. He leaves for London with his daughter, who is unhappy there and wants to return. Upon returning from the trip, Rhett learns from Scarlett that she is pregnant again. A violent argument breaks out, during which Scarlett falls down the stairs and has a miscarriage. Rhett is embarrassed by his behavior. The attempt to save their marriage is thwarted by the death of their daughter, who breaks her neck jumping hurdles with her pony. Scarlett and Rhett blame each other for the girl's death. Rhett almost loses his mind. He locks himself away for days with his daughter's body and only Melanie finally manages to convince him to have the child buried.
Despite doctors' advice to the contrary, Mélanie is pregnant again and collapses. On her deathbed, Melanie asks Scarlett to take care of her husband Ashley and also reconcile with Rhett, because he would love her so much. After Melanie's death, Scarlett realizes that her love for Ashley was only a fantasy and that she found in Rhett Butler her ideal partner, the one she loves in reality. She asks Rhett to forgive her. But for him, this realization comes too late. He is unmoved by Scarlett's pleas not to leave her alone, and he leaves her. Scarlett decides to return to Tara and is determined to win Rhett back.
