Gone With the Wind

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People WERE in the wrong for keeping slaves and enacting Jim Crow laws—whether in the North, or the South.

Yes

I think the book and film was only about the girl's perception and experiences,
not the actual situation that was relevant to the time.

Just like most trashy fiction written by conceited authors.

They still show her as a jerkwad towards the female slaves though. Not the men, if you notice.

It's funny how people hold up Scarlett as a true Southern belle, but she was played by a British lady who is the main reason people like the movie.


If you watch the auditions...everyone else came across as unbearable,

only Vivien Leigh made her charming and entertaining enough that viewers can tolerate a whole film of this character without vomiting

really? so Scarlett's accent isn't accurate?
Rhett, etc?

Here's a video of what Georgia accents sound like. I'm from South Georgia like the guy on the right. Yes I pronounce oil as "oy-al" lol.

That sounds so different from what they showed....it sounds normal but with a british tone...
btw I kept imagining the girl in Scarlett's gowns and the guy in Ashley's pale blue outfit more than listening to their accents.

Have to say that the actors must have succeeded at mannerisms and the general vibe.

In the video you have shared, the lady resembles Scarlett's behaviour, poise, vibes--if not Scarlett, another character, she would fit in fine in that film as an extra.

Saucy vibes, but polished and gracious (?) too.

Meanwhile the man has that laid back and good-humoured air like the men in the movie (aside from Rhett, who seemed totally removed from the normal men..almost a caricature)

I think it's the way they are interacting that makes these things show.

As you mentioned, Aspie-ness makes you notice the incongruity.

Me, I now concentrate on and pay extra attention to these things, mannerisms and interactions, to figure out how to describe them,
to
figure out WHY some people give certain vibes,
to form a pattern to match others to./.. so I can rely on THAT to try and gain some understanding ,

which helps in approaching people correctly so you don't offend etc.

i THINK it works...just takes time to build up the 'database'

The accents in the “accent tag” video are not heavy at all. I find the accent of those two to be modified by outside influence. The woman’s accent does get somewhat heavier as the video proceeds.

The B-52s are mostly natives of Albany, Georgia. They don’t speak with heavy accents.

The American pronunciations of words like 'route' and 'leisure' cracks me up sometimes. It was amusing to encounter the use of 'buggy' and 'clicker' by those people from Georgia in the video clip, where we in the UK would say 'trolley' and 'remote'.

We say “wagon” or “shopping cart” for “trolleys” here in NYC.

“Remote” or “channel changer” for “remote.”

A “trolley” or “trolley car” is the UK’s “tram”.

We say both “root” and “rawt” for “route.” “Leesure” for “leisure.”

Many towns and cities in the UK used to have 'trolleybuses'. These were doubledecker buses which ran off overhead electric power lines. They were phased out in the 1960s.

The picture below shows one of these in Stevenson Square in Central Manchester, alongside a conventional doubledecker bus.

I know Manchester has “trams” now.

I guess the overall European term was taken over the erstwhile UK term.