Is there a Gone with the Wind: Part 2?

[Inchworm]

Or did I just waste like 6 hours of my life?

:grr:

[nomorenomore08]

1. Didn't somebody write an unauthorized(?) sequel to the novel?

Even never having read the book (or seen the movie), I still think it's a travesty.

[Inchworm]

2. I don't know

I'm glad I didnt read the book :D

:hi:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Yes, but Ms. Mitchell did not write it. There is a film as well.

[Inchworm]

6. Thanks

I was hoping it went somewhere.

:hi:

[supernova]

4. Yes, it's called "Scarlett"

And yes, it's every bit as horrible as you'd imagine. :P

Scarlett escapes Atlanta to return to her family's ancestral lands in Ireland.

The only redeeming thing about it is that my movie star boyfriend is the villain (as usual).

Sean Bean as Lord Fenton:

[Inchworm]

5. ahhh

Thanks. If I catch it I'll watch it, but I doubt I'll go out of my way :D

:hi:

[sarge43]

10. Ooooo.

That might make it marginally tolerable. Love that picture.

[supernova]

12. He really is easy on the eyes

Especially when he wears period costumes.

:D :D :D

[sarge43]

22. Indeed

Eminently doable. :evilgrin:

[BarenakedLady]

7. Ahhh quit yer whining.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

[Inchworm]

8. gah.. that was the line!

:spank:

Then... The End.

What a cliffhanger ;)

:hi:

[flvegan]

9. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[Inchworm]

11. He shoulda torched the place

Now THAT would have been an ending.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. ~

http://www.rhettbutlerspeople.com/



http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20156320,00.html
Book Review
Rhett Butler's People (2007)
Donald McCaig
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'WIND' BLOWN Donald McCaig delivers a second sequel to Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone With The Wind

Credits
Writer: Donald McCaig; Genres: Drama, Fiction; Publisher: St. Martin's Press

By Tina Jordan
Like no other book, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind is inexorably bound up with my Southern girlhood. I discovered it when I was 8 or 9 on my grandmother's bookshelf and, over the years, spent many an hour lost in its pages. But my professor father — who'd gone to some pains to teach his children about the Civil War and its ramifications — dismissed the novel as frippery, a soap opera.

A soap opera? You bet. But what a soap opera, one of the finest ever written, revolving around a spunky, black-haired, green-eyed girl and her love for the wrong man, set against the fiery backdrop of the Civil War. When the first GWTW sequel, Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett, came out in 1991, I was indignant. Was nothing sacred? Oddly, when I heard about Donald McCaig's sequel, Rhett Butler's People, some 12 years in the writing, I was curious. McCaig, unlike Ripley, has a reputation as a real writer, with two acclaimed Civil War novels to his name.

Just as Ripley's book traced Scarlett's life, McCaig's explores Rhett's. The early chapters function as a prequel, a description of Rhett's childhood as the wild son of a low-country rice planter. McCaig fleshes out Rhett's teens and 20s, inventing the details that transformed him into Mitchell's famous reprobate and blackguard. Young Rhett bears biographical similarities to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. McCaig, unlike Ripley once again, knows his facts; his historical depictions are largely correct (and he acknowledges in an afterword where he took liberties). He also corrects Mitchell's romanticized view of the war and reconstruction — his South is one of loss and ruin.

But he strays into all kinds of problems when his story line leaps, timewise, past GWTW's, to ludicrous effect. Then there are the characters: Though he's able to effect a credible Rhett (and he's pretty dead-on with Suellen Benteen, one of Scarlett's sisters, as well as with her simpering aunt Pittypat), he's not much good at Mammy, Melanie, or even Scarlett. Do I think, in a million years, that Scarlett would've kissed a drowsy Rhett and said, ''I'd better see to the children. There'll be coffee when you come down''? Fat chance. Or that she would have confided to Rhett's sister, ''I feel like a maiden again.... I pray life will be good to me!'' (I actually laughed out loud at that one.) McCaig's a decent writer, and the plot is better than middling. But he's missed the point about Scarlett — nothing affected her indomitable spirit and innate selfishness. And since everything must come back to her in the end — as it does even in McCaig's novel — a docile, vapid Scarlett is worse than no Scarlett at all. C+

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. Thanks for the recommendation.

I just ordered it.

[grannylib]

14. I was not a big fan of that "sequel" any more than I liked the

"sequel" to Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca."
Some things need to end where they end. And be left alone.

[Longhorn]

15. What happens?

I didn't know there was one!

[grannylib]

16. In which one, the one for GWTW or Rebecca??

In the GWTW one, Scarlett goes to Ireland and tries to get Rhett back and has affairs and I'm not sure what all.

In the Rebecca one, Mrs. Danvers and Rebecca's cousin, Flavel, split the scene after the fire at Manderley (in the original book, Mrs. Danvers didn't perish in the fire like she did in the movie)and Maxim ultimately commits suicide. I hated it.

[Longhorn]

17. Thanks!

I've seen Scarlett but I didn't know there was a sequel to Rebecca.

Yes, some stories are better left alone. I just saw a recent British production of Jane Eyre (shown on Masterpiece Theater here but I got it on Netflix) and I thought it was very well done. I can't imagine anyone deciding it needs a sequel!

[grannylib]

18. Oh no, you can't do a sequel to that! It has to end where it ends.

I'm not sure if there was ever a film made of the Rebecca sequel (I can't even remember what it was called at the moment...Mrs DeWinter, I think) but I read the book. Disappointing.

[Longhorn]

19. Did you ever read the last Jane Austen book?

I believe she started it but didn't finish and someone finished it in the last ten years or so. My daughter read it and wasn't too impressed. Again, no one could write like Jane Austen. As much as I love other authors of that period, they each had their own style.

I'm a very recent Jane Austen fan. I "read" all of her books while I was commuting to grad school -- that is, I listened to them on tape. I have since acquired every known movie or mini-series made of her books. Some are better than others, of course, but the Brits seem to do them best. :)

[grannylib]

20. I haven't, no! Was never a huge Austen fan myself; started a couple of her

books but her style didn't grab me much.