A similar situation of indomitable will and the transgression of adversities is highlighted in Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind which is a 1939 American epic-historical romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell 's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. Set in the 19th-century American South, the film tells the story of Scarlett O 'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. The film is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, and the story is told from the perspective of rich white Southerners. The leading roles are portrayed by Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Clark Gable(Rhett), Leslie Howard (Ashley), and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie). The film was honoured at the 12th Academy Awards, where it received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen nominations, including wins for Best Picture, Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Leigh) and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first African-American to win an Academy Award).
The film depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O 'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in. The underlying focus in Fleming’s Gone with the Wind is that only those who are born survivors will really prosper during times of true hardship. A born survivor is one who will do anything to