If Gone With The Wind was released today
Sep. 12th, 2005 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI spent a solid chunk of the weekend wallowing in GWTW: 4 discs of a four hour movie (some scenes of which need to be rewatched and repeated "kiss, me Scarlett...once") plus really fun documentaries would do that to you (btw, Clark Gable? *Moan*). Then I went to ff.net to look for fanfic (which was shockingly under "movies" and not "books."). There wasn't much, and none of it (at least from the summaries) looked dreadful. And so I was forced to imagine what would happen if the movie was released now, as opposed to 60+ years ago, with the same conditions (as in "biggest grosser of all time, with the biggest male star and the publicity-hyped beauty in the lead"). Hmmmm...
* Rhett/Ashley slash. Lots of it. To the feedback that this is a Scarlett/Rhett in the original, the authors would reply that the repliers are homophobes. Besides, OMG, didn't you see Rhett carry unconscious Ashley in his arms. There was so something there!
* There would be a few hardcore Ashley/Scarlett shippers who would have happy flame wars with Rhett/Scarlett shippers.
* Someone would write a 50-chapter, 900-page continuation and BNFs would flock to it, saying that the author understood the characters so much better than Margaret Mitchell.
*Book-only fans would come by and flame authors who've based their fanfic only on the movies, saying they are ignoramuses, and that Mitchell's explanation about baked beans on p. 468 is crucial to the whole understanding of GWTW.
* Mary Sues of all varieties: impoverished but noble belles, Northern gentlewomen, teenyboppers thrust back through time. They will be mostly after Rhett (who would have realized he never cared for that stupid Scarlett after all, especially by the time Mary Sue got out her electric guitar and fed her unicorn), but there will be a spillover to console Ashley, make happy Frank and Charles who never died, and even many of the book's characters who were never in the movie.
* Deathfic. You think Sherman took a heavy toll on the South? Just you wait until the fanfic authors will get their hands on the story.
*Scarlett will contemplate her feelings on Rhett/Ashley/Melanie/the neighbor's cat to the tune of Britney Spears' latest.
* Various Mary Sues bring Rhett and Scarlett together, and/or they engage in a lot of reconciliation PWP sex (on second thoughts, hmmmmmmm.....)
* People write RP stories about Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland etc. When other people object, saying that in all likelyhood Clark Gable never took Vivien Leigh/Leslie Howard/Olivia de Havilland/the second unit director on a romantic parachute tour of Brazil as they were being hunted by the evil serial killers and engaged in lots of sex, the RP-people will object, calling their critics narrow-minded as "OMG it is clearly fiction."
* AUs. Lots of AUs. That way the author will have to do no research. Make Rhett an important doctor and Scarlett the new intern. Throw common sense out of the window. See it fly!
*Mpreg. *shudder* You thought Rhett was a good father before?
Heeee. Love my new "morning after" icon. Judging by that grin, Rhett wasn't too bad :D
* Rhett/Ashley slash. Lots of it. To the feedback that this is a Scarlett/Rhett in the original, the authors would reply that the repliers are homophobes. Besides, OMG, didn't you see Rhett carry unconscious Ashley in his arms. There was so something there!
* There would be a few hardcore Ashley/Scarlett shippers who would have happy flame wars with Rhett/Scarlett shippers.
* Someone would write a 50-chapter, 900-page continuation and BNFs would flock to it, saying that the author understood the characters so much better than Margaret Mitchell.
*Book-only fans would come by and flame authors who've based their fanfic only on the movies, saying they are ignoramuses, and that Mitchell's explanation about baked beans on p. 468 is crucial to the whole understanding of GWTW.
* Mary Sues of all varieties: impoverished but noble belles, Northern gentlewomen, teenyboppers thrust back through time. They will be mostly after Rhett (who would have realized he never cared for that stupid Scarlett after all, especially by the time Mary Sue got out her electric guitar and fed her unicorn), but there will be a spillover to console Ashley, make happy Frank and Charles who never died, and even many of the book's characters who were never in the movie.
* Deathfic. You think Sherman took a heavy toll on the South? Just you wait until the fanfic authors will get their hands on the story.
*Scarlett will contemplate her feelings on Rhett/Ashley/Melanie/the neighbor's cat to the tune of Britney Spears' latest.
* Various Mary Sues bring Rhett and Scarlett together, and/or they engage in a lot of reconciliation PWP sex (on second thoughts, hmmmmmmm.....)
* People write RP stories about Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland etc. When other people object, saying that in all likelyhood Clark Gable never took Vivien Leigh/Leslie Howard/Olivia de Havilland/the second unit director on a romantic parachute tour of Brazil as they were being hunted by the evil serial killers and engaged in lots of sex, the RP-people will object, calling their critics narrow-minded as "OMG it is clearly fiction."
* AUs. Lots of AUs. That way the author will have to do no research. Make Rhett an important doctor and Scarlett the new intern. Throw common sense out of the window. See it fly!
*Mpreg. *shudder* You thought Rhett was a good father before?
Heeee. Love my new "morning after" icon. Judging by that grin, Rhett wasn't too bad :D
