WEBVTT 00:00:00.970 --> 00:00:03.669 Hi everybody, welcome back to my podcast. I must 00:00:03.669 --> 00:00:06.330 admit I am not a very good podcaster. I keep 00:00:06.330 --> 00:00:09.429 procrastinating on making these things. But a 00:00:09.429 --> 00:00:11.630 little shout out to Victoria in the comments 00:00:11.630 --> 00:00:14.529 for her really nice comment on Spotify. I really 00:00:14.529 --> 00:00:17.789 appreciated it. I hope everybody likes this one. 00:00:17.850 --> 00:00:19.969 Today we're just kind of going to be talking 00:00:19.969 --> 00:00:23.589 about gone with the wind conspiracy theories. 00:00:23.809 --> 00:00:27.620 In other words... headcanons that people have 00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:30.199 about the story that have never been implied 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:35.479 or have been implied but never confirmed. A lot 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.060 of these theories, I'm only going to talk about 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:42.579 six theories, but some of them have never been 00:00:42.579 --> 00:00:45.920 confirmed and actually some of them have been 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:50.100 confirmed as wrong. So we're just going to go 00:00:50.100 --> 00:00:52.329 through each one of these starting with the most 00:00:52.329 --> 00:00:55.649 popular ones, and then go down into more obscure 00:00:55.649 --> 00:00:58.189 theories, which I think you guys might like. 00:00:58.729 --> 00:01:01.770 So, the first one we're going to talk about is 00:01:01.770 --> 00:01:05.650 definitely the most popular theory about the 00:01:05.650 --> 00:01:08.629 story, because it's a little plot thread that 00:01:08.629 --> 00:01:12.390 gets brought up a lot, or a few times in the 00:01:12.390 --> 00:01:15.629 book, and then we never get any sort of conclusion 00:01:15.629 --> 00:01:20.159 to it. And it's about does Rhett Butler have 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:24.659 a son with Belle Watling? So there's actually 00:01:24.659 --> 00:01:27.700 quite a bit of evidence for this theory. The 00:01:27.700 --> 00:01:31.540 first time we hear about a kid, a little boy 00:01:31.540 --> 00:01:34.819 being associated with Rhett, is when he is on 00:01:34.819 --> 00:01:39.239 the porch at Scarlett's house and she has the 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:42.219 new baby with her, Ella. And they get to talking 00:01:42.219 --> 00:01:45.540 and she asks him why he always goes to New Orleans. 00:01:46.379 --> 00:01:49.840 And this is his response. I will satisfy your 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.099 vulgar curiosity since you ask such pointed questions. 00:01:53.379 --> 00:01:55.840 It isn't a sweetheart that takes me to New Orleans. 00:01:55.939 --> 00:01:59.280 It's a child, a little boy. He is my legal ward 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.379 and I am responsible for him. He's in school 00:02:01.379 --> 00:02:03.459 in New Orleans. I go there frequently to see 00:02:03.459 --> 00:02:07.000 him. And then he goes on and says, he's too handsome 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:09.639 for his own good. He's a perfect hellion. I wish 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.979 he had never been born. Boys are troublesome 00:02:11.979 --> 00:02:13.900 creatures. Is there anything else you'd like 00:02:13.900 --> 00:02:17.099 to know? And then he didn't want to talk about 00:02:17.099 --> 00:02:21.580 it anymore. So this is on page 700 something 00:02:21.580 --> 00:02:25.180 of the book in my copy. So it's pretty far into 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:28.099 the story and at no point in the book before 00:02:28.099 --> 00:02:31.060 this have we been given any implication that 00:02:31.060 --> 00:02:34.199 Rhett has any strings to hold him down. He's 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.979 always advertised himself as being carefree, 00:02:38.060 --> 00:02:40.919 being able to do whatever he wants because he 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:42.979 has no family or anything that he's responsible 00:02:42.979 --> 00:02:46.590 for. And this chapter, he goes into depth in 00:02:46.590 --> 00:02:49.629 his family. We learn about his parents a little 00:02:49.629 --> 00:02:52.030 more and his siblings, his brother and sister. 00:02:52.530 --> 00:02:56.110 And for them to bring up this little boy that 00:02:56.110 --> 00:02:58.610 he's a guardian of, it implies that this boy 00:02:58.610 --> 00:03:01.449 might be his family too, because it's never explained 00:03:01.449 --> 00:03:06.169 at any point how Rhett came to be in possession 00:03:06.169 --> 00:03:11.710 of this little boy. So the association with... 00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:15.050 bell comes a little later so later in the book 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:19.789 bell watling is talking to melanie this is after 00:03:19.789 --> 00:03:23.469 the trial where they got all of the men off um 00:03:23.469 --> 00:03:27.789 in the raid and bell goes to thank her and she 00:03:27.789 --> 00:03:31.289 mentions to melanie she has a boy herself because 00:03:31.289 --> 00:03:36.060 they're talking about beau and she says He ain't 00:03:36.060 --> 00:03:38.280 here in Atlanta. He ain't never been here. He's 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.060 off at school. I ain't seen him since he was 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:45.139 little. So that's a pretty big piece of information 00:03:45.139 --> 00:03:48.159 right there. I mean, this is the only time Belle 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:50.120 ever brings up her son. I mean, we don't see 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:52.280 her very much, but I think it is a little bit 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:56.479 too much of a coincidence that... she says she 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.439 has a son who's off at school somewhere not in 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.419 Atlanta, and that Rhett has a legal ward who's 00:04:02.419 --> 00:04:05.199 in school in New Orleans, and that Rhett goes 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.039 to New Orleans all the time to see him. I think 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.439 that we can say without a shadow of doubt that 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:15.060 this is the same boy. Whether or not Rhett is 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:20.879 the father is not confirmed at all, but I think 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.680 it is way too much of a coincidence not to say 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.199 Rhett takes care of Belle's son for her for whatever 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:32.879 reason. Then this kid is mentioned one last time. 00:04:34.459 --> 00:04:37.560 Sort of. It's in the scene right after Bonnie 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:42.579 is born and Rhett is talking to Wade. Rhett is 00:04:42.579 --> 00:04:45.480 really thrilled that he has a daughter instead 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.300 of a son. When Wade asks him if he would have 00:04:48.300 --> 00:04:50.779 preferred a little boy, Rhett immediately says 00:04:50.779 --> 00:04:55.069 no. Wade is happy about this, but then he asks 00:04:55.069 --> 00:04:58.550 him if he has any other little boys and Rhett 00:04:58.550 --> 00:05:04.129 does not answer him. So I think that this scene 00:05:04.129 --> 00:05:09.790 is kind of odd because if the child is just Rhett's 00:05:09.790 --> 00:05:14.329 ward and not his son, why wouldn't he just tell 00:05:14.329 --> 00:05:17.930 Wade about him? I mean, he already told Scarlett 00:05:17.930 --> 00:05:20.430 and he was very reticent about it. That's a little 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:24.019 more evidence right there. But why is it such 00:05:24.019 --> 00:05:27.240 a big secret that he has a legal ward? Why is 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.500 it this thing that he's trying to keep from everybody? 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:31.500 And maybe it's just because it's Belle's son. 00:05:31.699 --> 00:05:34.100 Maybe it's because he doesn't want to betray 00:05:34.100 --> 00:05:36.819 her in some way. I don't know why it would be 00:05:36.819 --> 00:05:38.899 a betrayal. Maybe it's just something he doesn't 00:05:38.899 --> 00:05:41.519 want to share with a little kid like Wade. But 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.560 I think that the choice of words used here is 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:49.610 very interesting when Rhett says, He understands 00:05:49.610 --> 00:05:54.250 little boys and Wade says you haven't got any 00:05:54.250 --> 00:05:57.470 other little boys of your own is the implication. 00:05:57.750 --> 00:06:02.290 So in my opinion, I think that this is definitely 00:06:02.290 --> 00:06:05.930 Rhett's son. I think that all the signs point 00:06:05.930 --> 00:06:11.180 to yes. The only thing is maybe. There was no 00:06:11.180 --> 00:06:14.639 way of knowing back then if the kid really was 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.100 Rhett's. Maybe Rhett just took him on as his 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:19.920 responsibility. But the thing that really has 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.420 me convinced is the way Rhett describes him as 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:25.839 being a perfect hellion. Because we know Rhett 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:30.060 himself is pretty much a hellion. And I think 00:06:30.060 --> 00:06:33.579 that, in my mind, this is his kid and he sees 00:06:33.579 --> 00:06:36.870 a lot of himself in the kid. And that's why he's 00:06:36.870 --> 00:06:39.610 so happy to have a daughter because he realizes 00:06:39.610 --> 00:06:42.610 that he doesn't have to be as much of a role 00:06:42.610 --> 00:06:45.290 model for this kid. He can just spoil her. That's 00:06:45.290 --> 00:06:49.430 his thought process anyway. So that's the first 00:06:49.430 --> 00:06:52.689 theory, which I totally agree with. The second 00:06:52.689 --> 00:06:55.329 one is also another one that I tend to agree 00:06:55.329 --> 00:06:58.810 with. And this is one you've probably also heard. 00:06:58.870 --> 00:07:04.629 And it's about Ella. So Ella is... the most mysterious 00:07:04.629 --> 00:07:09.189 of Scarlett's children, I think. She is one of 00:07:09.189 --> 00:07:11.209 the main character's children, and yet she doesn't 00:07:11.209 --> 00:07:14.129 have a single line of dialogue. Even Bonnie, 00:07:14.250 --> 00:07:16.730 who comes into the story later, has some dialogue. 00:07:16.990 --> 00:07:20.129 But Ella's always just kind of there in the background. 00:07:20.230 --> 00:07:23.009 We don't learn much about her. And oddly enough, 00:07:23.069 --> 00:07:26.889 we do see a lot of her pregnancy, Scarlett's 00:07:26.889 --> 00:07:30.449 pregnancy with Ella. But then once the kid is 00:07:30.449 --> 00:07:33.250 born, it's like she's just a background character. 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:37.129 She's always there with Wade, but she doesn't 00:07:37.129 --> 00:07:40.910 really get described that much. So the first 00:07:40.910 --> 00:07:44.750 time that we hear about Ella being described, 00:07:45.310 --> 00:07:48.689 Scarlett calls her a silly child. She says that 00:07:48.689 --> 00:07:51.589 she can't keep her mind on one thought any longer 00:07:51.589 --> 00:07:53.649 than a bird can stay on a branch or something 00:07:53.649 --> 00:07:59.069 like that. That implies that she might have some 00:07:59.069 --> 00:08:01.769 sort of inattention disorder or it might just 00:08:01.769 --> 00:08:04.889 be her personality. But the reason a lot of people 00:08:04.889 --> 00:08:08.589 think fetal alcohol syndrome, that's the theory 00:08:08.589 --> 00:08:11.269 that Ella has fetal alcohol syndrome. I should 00:08:11.269 --> 00:08:14.350 have started with that. But the reason people 00:08:14.350 --> 00:08:19.470 think this is because earlier in the book, Scarlett 00:08:19.470 --> 00:08:22.829 really starts drinking a lot at the time that 00:08:22.829 --> 00:08:26.180 she's pregnant with Ella. And there is a little 00:08:26.180 --> 00:08:29.180 passage about how she starts drinking brandy 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:33.360 every night. And it says that Dr. Mead never 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.399 thought to tell her that a woman who is pregnant 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.000 should not drink. And I just don't know why that 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:45.240 line would be included if not to hint at something. 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.179 I think that Scarlett's dismissal of Ella is 00:08:50.179 --> 00:08:54.669 supposed to be pretty symbolic because She affected 00:08:54.669 --> 00:08:57.769 this child's well -being by drinking during being 00:08:57.769 --> 00:08:59.590 pregnant, even though she didn't know that she 00:08:59.590 --> 00:09:01.690 wasn't supposed to. You got to give her that. 00:09:01.929 --> 00:09:06.570 But then she just blames the child for this issue 00:09:06.570 --> 00:09:09.049 that she inadvertently gave her. And I think 00:09:09.049 --> 00:09:11.230 that is very symbolic of Scarlett's attitude 00:09:11.230 --> 00:09:14.350 towards her children in general. She harms them 00:09:14.350 --> 00:09:17.970 unintentionally and then doesn't take responsibility 00:09:17.970 --> 00:09:21.389 for it. She just judges them. And that is really 00:09:21.389 --> 00:09:24.009 all we know about Ella. She's kind of an afterthought. 00:09:24.190 --> 00:09:27.090 But I like the fetal alcohol syndrome theory 00:09:27.090 --> 00:09:32.309 because I think that it just gives a little more 00:09:32.309 --> 00:09:35.870 lore to Ella's character. It helps to describe 00:09:35.870 --> 00:09:38.389 her a little more because otherwise we really 00:09:38.389 --> 00:09:41.610 know next to nothing about her. She's only really 00:09:41.610 --> 00:09:45.610 mentioned and described a few times. But let's 00:09:45.610 --> 00:09:48.049 move on from that because the book doesn't really 00:09:48.049 --> 00:09:52.940 say much more about it. So this next theory is 00:09:52.940 --> 00:09:58.700 kind of a favorite of mine. And I don't think 00:09:58.700 --> 00:10:01.340 this one is supposed to be true. It's just more 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:04.799 of a headcanon. This one is about Prissy. And 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:10.460 the theory is that she is completely faking being 00:10:10.460 --> 00:10:15.980 lazy and stupid and sullen and all that. She's 00:10:15.980 --> 00:10:19.289 just... intentionally trolling everyone, trying 00:10:19.289 --> 00:10:22.049 to get on their nerves because she doesn't like 00:10:22.049 --> 00:10:25.870 them. The reason I like this theory is because 00:10:25.870 --> 00:10:30.009 I think it is totally unrealistic that none of 00:10:30.009 --> 00:10:34.870 the slaves in the book are opposed to being slaves. 00:10:35.090 --> 00:10:37.350 And that is a whole other issue that I'm not 00:10:37.350 --> 00:10:41.710 going to go into in this episode. I love the 00:10:41.710 --> 00:10:45.929 idea of Prissy being a representation of a slave 00:10:45.929 --> 00:10:48.509 who is just kind of pretending to be stupid because 00:10:48.509 --> 00:10:52.269 that was a tactic slaves sometimes used to survive. 00:10:52.649 --> 00:10:56.250 And I think it makes a lot more sense in some 00:10:56.250 --> 00:10:59.929 scenes for Prissy to just not be helping because 00:10:59.929 --> 00:11:03.370 she doesn't. like being legally owned by other 00:11:03.370 --> 00:11:06.970 people rather than just being so stupid that 00:11:06.970 --> 00:11:09.450 she can't carry out basic tasks that are going 00:11:09.450 --> 00:11:11.809 to save somebody else's life because think about 00:11:11.809 --> 00:11:16.230 it scarlet legally owns her she has forced her 00:11:16.230 --> 00:11:19.210 to be a maid for her child since she was 12 years 00:11:19.210 --> 00:11:24.419 old and Here, Prissy is having to once again 00:11:24.419 --> 00:11:27.759 take care of Scarlett and Melanie in their time 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:31.440 of need, even though it's during a war where 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:35.700 she's going to be freed if the other side wins. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:41.000 So I think that this adds some depth to Prissy's 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.659 character. Now, in terms of what Margaret Mitchell 00:11:43.659 --> 00:11:46.460 had to say about her. Margaret Mitchell actually 00:11:46.460 --> 00:11:49.899 said that Prissy was the one character who was 00:11:49.899 --> 00:11:53.600 based on a real person. I have not looked into 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:55.960 it that much more, but that is what she said 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:57.960 in her letters. I don't know what real person 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:00.919 she's based on. And then in another letter, Margaret 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.720 Mitchell says that Prissy is one of her favorite 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:07.759 characters. So she doesn't say much more than 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:12.519 that. I don't know if prissy is just supposed 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:16.279 to be taken at face value or if we can look further 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:19.440 into her character i don't think that she is 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.120 supposed to be smart in any capacity to be quite 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:25.539 honest with you but i personally just like to 00:12:25.539 --> 00:12:29.000 headcanon that she is i just love the idea of 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:31.700 prissy being secretly very smart and just trying 00:12:31.700 --> 00:12:36.529 to screw everybody over because she can so That 00:12:36.529 --> 00:12:38.830 is all I have to say about that one. There's 00:12:38.830 --> 00:12:41.950 not a ton of evidence for it other than just 00:12:41.950 --> 00:12:48.549 interpretation. The next one is kind of a weird 00:12:48.549 --> 00:12:51.830 one, but I have seen it crop up multiple times, 00:12:51.909 --> 00:12:55.129 and I hope I can kind of entertain you guys with 00:12:55.129 --> 00:13:01.500 a real anecdote about it. This one is that Rhett 00:13:01.500 --> 00:13:05.059 and Melanie actually have a little bit of an 00:13:05.059 --> 00:13:09.299 affair and that they sleep together at the point 00:13:09.299 --> 00:13:11.919 where Scarlett has the miscarriage and she's 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.820 calming him down. So I know that this sounds 00:13:15.820 --> 00:13:18.860 absolutely ridiculous and I agree that it is, 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.960 but I actually have seen multiple people bring 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:23.899 it up as a sort of a crack ship thing. Maybe 00:13:23.899 --> 00:13:27.080 not taking it super seriously, but it is something 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.690 that has come up before. And it might interest 00:13:30.690 --> 00:13:35.210 you to know that certain people in the 1930s 00:13:35.210 --> 00:13:39.490 came to the same conclusion. There is one old 00:13:39.490 --> 00:13:43.049 letter to Margaret Mitchell that this guy wrote 00:13:43.049 --> 00:13:47.169 to her. He was saying that he was at a meeting 00:13:47.169 --> 00:13:50.700 with his bridge club and... Everybody started 00:13:50.700 --> 00:13:53.519 arguing about this scene and now certain people 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.299 are no longer speaking to each other. And Margaret 00:13:56.299 --> 00:13:58.620 Mitchell responded and she just thought it was 00:13:58.620 --> 00:14:02.120 hilarious. And she said, next time I will make 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.039 sure that a character is very clear about what 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:09.100 she's doing when she closes the door, even if 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:12.000 she's fictional. So she totally poked fun at 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.679 it and she said no and she defended Melanie's 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.799 virtue. So this is one that can definitely be 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:22.190 disproved. But it's definitely something that 00:14:22.190 --> 00:14:24.250 I've seen people like to entertain because they 00:14:24.250 --> 00:14:27.350 ship Rhett and Melanie. And then a less dramatic 00:14:27.350 --> 00:14:30.590 headcanon would be that Rhett falls in love with 00:14:30.590 --> 00:14:34.509 Melanie. I've seen people say that before. I 00:14:34.509 --> 00:14:38.250 personally don't think he's in love with her. 00:14:38.330 --> 00:14:40.529 I think he has a great deal of respect for her. 00:14:40.710 --> 00:14:44.330 And I think that it's a really common trope in 00:14:44.330 --> 00:14:47.389 stories like this for the bad boy to be reformed. 00:14:47.820 --> 00:14:51.059 by the gentle girl, but this isn't one of those 00:14:51.059 --> 00:14:53.720 stories. This is a story where the bad boy falls 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:59.480 for somebody who is just as bad as he is. So 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.820 I think that Melanie is just the one woman that 00:15:02.820 --> 00:15:05.240 he really respects, but he doesn't feel anything 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:09.220 romantic for her like he does for Scarlett. Now, 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:12.419 that might be another episode, too, is written 00:15:12.419 --> 00:15:15.490 Melanie's relationship, but... That's another 00:15:15.490 --> 00:15:18.309 theory that I wanted to touch on that he feels 00:15:18.309 --> 00:15:21.009 something for her. As for whether Melanie has 00:15:21.009 --> 00:15:23.210 feelings for Rhett, absolutely not. I think she 00:15:23.210 --> 00:15:28.509 is totally in love with Ashley. Just a couple 00:15:28.509 --> 00:15:33.230 more. One of them is pretty short. It's about 00:15:33.230 --> 00:15:37.549 Scarlett after she has Wade there. I don't even 00:15:37.549 --> 00:15:40.090 know if this is really a theory, but it's something 00:15:40.090 --> 00:15:42.970 that is not really confirmed in the books, even 00:15:42.970 --> 00:15:46.360 though it's kind of obvious. It's that she has 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:51.940 postpartum depression after having Wade. I think 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:55.220 that this makes a lot of sense, but I also think 00:15:55.220 --> 00:15:58.960 it doesn't necessarily have to be true. So after 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:05.580 Scarlett has Wade in the book, Scarlett is basically... 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.840 is overcoming a trauma. She's been through a 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:11.940 lot. She married this guy she didn't really want 00:16:11.940 --> 00:16:14.840 to marry. And then he almost immediately dies. 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.879 And she's kind of like, what is my life now? 00:16:18.059 --> 00:16:21.299 I'm a widow. I'm excluded from all social life. 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.059 All of the men have left for the army. My entire 00:16:25.059 --> 00:16:28.100 life has suddenly changed. And now I have a baby 00:16:28.100 --> 00:16:31.700 and I don't know how to feel about it. So I think 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:35.759 that what I'm trying to say here is she has plenty 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:38.580 of reason to be depressed the book goes into 00:16:38.580 --> 00:16:41.919 great detail about why she's depressed and it's 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.379 because she's bored she's completely stunned 00:16:45.379 --> 00:16:48.559 by everything that's happened and she cannot 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.259 adjust to being a mother she feels confused bewildered 00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:59.139 and just really frustrated by everything so The 00:16:59.139 --> 00:17:01.419 theory here that she has postpartum depression, 00:17:01.659 --> 00:17:05.599 I think that it can make sense because it's clear 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.559 that she's going through something and maybe 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.200 she just didn't really know what postpartum depression 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:17.759 was. But at the same time, I think that even 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.900 if her hormones were all over the place, I think 00:17:20.900 --> 00:17:25.039 she would have just been depressed anyway. That 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:26.440 is something that would have happened no matter 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:29.680 what. I think that postpartum depression could 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:33.240 be a factor, though, because it says that Scarlett 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.440 completely refuses food, that she's bored, she's 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.079 listless, nobody can bring up her spirits again. 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.319 And maybe it went further than just her circumstances. 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:49.119 Maybe it was something clinical. But I don't 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.400 know. I think it could go either way. So the 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:57.039 last one is one that I really like, but not necessarily 00:17:57.039 --> 00:18:01.900 one that I think is true. This theory probably 00:18:01.900 --> 00:18:05.039 makes more sense for the movie because in the 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.460 book we kind of have confirmation it didn't happen. 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:13.000 But the theory is, sorry, the theory is that 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:17.200 Rhett killed Frank Kennedy, that during the night 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:21.579 of the Klan raid. Rhett saw an opportunity and 00:18:21.579 --> 00:18:24.140 he went out and he took care of Frank himself 00:18:24.140 --> 00:18:27.200 because he wanted him out of the way to get it 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:33.359 scarlet. So the reason we have this theory, sorry, 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:37.180 again, is because at the end of the book, Rhett 00:18:37.180 --> 00:18:39.740 says, I cared so much that I think I would have 00:18:39.740 --> 00:18:42.559 killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn't died when he 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:47.200 did. So the desire is there. The intention could 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.789 have been there too. Rhett, again, he was playing 00:18:50.789 --> 00:18:53.970 poker with the Yankee captains. He knew what 00:18:53.970 --> 00:18:55.930 was about to happen that night. He knew about 00:18:55.930 --> 00:18:59.089 the Klan raid. And he knew that Frank was going 00:18:59.089 --> 00:19:03.230 to be out doing his Ku Kluxing stuff and he was 00:19:03.230 --> 00:19:05.750 going to have an opportunity. And he wanted to 00:19:05.750 --> 00:19:08.410 kill him. He wanted to get rid of him. The reason 00:19:08.410 --> 00:19:12.349 why this theory doesn't make sense is, first 00:19:12.349 --> 00:19:17.210 of all, why would Rhett admit to it? um at the 00:19:17.210 --> 00:19:19.450 end that he thinks he would have killed frank 00:19:19.450 --> 00:19:22.809 kennedy because that just doesn't make any sense 00:19:22.809 --> 00:19:25.609 like wouldn't he have just said i killed him 00:19:25.609 --> 00:19:27.829 if he's confessing or just kept it to himself 00:19:27.829 --> 00:19:31.329 and then it also doesn't make sense because ret 00:19:31.329 --> 00:19:35.630 goes out of his way to save all of the men he 00:19:36.829 --> 00:19:40.670 Puts himself in danger by going out and rescuing 00:19:40.670 --> 00:19:43.349 everybody, including Ashley, who he really doesn't 00:19:43.349 --> 00:19:46.869 like and whom he would have been glad to see 00:19:46.869 --> 00:19:51.609 dead, probably, if not for Melanie's sake. So 00:19:51.609 --> 00:19:55.049 the idea of him killing Frank is really, really 00:19:55.049 --> 00:19:58.210 interesting. It's not something that I think 00:19:58.210 --> 00:20:01.109 makes any sense. The reason I think it makes 00:20:01.109 --> 00:20:04.559 more sense. in the movie is because Rhett does 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.599 not have that line about wanting to kill Frank. 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.940 But I do think in an alternate universe that 00:20:11.940 --> 00:20:15.200 Rhett easily could have done it. And also, sometimes 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.460 I think about alternate universes where Frank 00:20:18.460 --> 00:20:20.819 didn't die in the Klan raid if Rhett actually 00:20:20.819 --> 00:20:22.619 would have killed him. Because he says that he 00:20:22.619 --> 00:20:26.119 thinks he would have, but I have to wonder if 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:28.680 he's really that morally bankrupt that he would 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:32.819 do that. I mean, forget... scarlet in how she 00:20:32.819 --> 00:20:37.299 feels how could he ever become Ella's stepfather 00:20:37.299 --> 00:20:40.220 and then look her in the eye knowing that he 00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:42.359 killed her father that would just be messed up 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:46.519 so I mean I guess all in all I really hope that 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:48.480 Rhett did not kill Frank and I don't think he 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.460 did but I think it would have made an interesting 00:20:50.460 --> 00:20:53.140 storyline and it's kind of fun to think about 00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:56.990 in an alternate universe kind of way So let me 00:20:56.990 --> 00:21:00.170 know what you think about any of these theories, 00:21:00.309 --> 00:21:02.750 if you think that any of them are plausible, 00:21:03.109 --> 00:21:06.349 if you think that any of them are completely 00:21:06.349 --> 00:21:10.230 implausible, and give me some of your own theories, 00:21:10.309 --> 00:21:14.549 if you have any. I hope that you all have a great 00:21:14.549 --> 00:21:18.910 weekend, a great day, and I will see you next 00:21:18.910 --> 00:21:19.589 time. Bye!