lovethemtigers
Senior Member
A comparison between Gone With The Wind and POTC....
Let's consider the Rhett and Scarlett love affair fro GWTW:
Rhett always had a thing for Scarlett...but she was too busy chasing after stupid Ashley...whom she believed that she loved. Ashley was a kind-hearted, upstanding boring gentleman.....(sounds like someone we know....hint: W. T.)
Rhett was a scoundrel....he had a woman in every city...but he had a soft spot for Scarlett..(sounds like someone else we know...J.S.) he loved to tease her about her feelings for Ashley...he was drawn to the spitfire in Scarlett..he always told her Ashley wasn't man enough to handle her...that she needed a real man, like him.....
So, because she could never have Ashley she finally married Rhett....but continued to "love" Ashley...then when Melanie (Ashley's Wife) is on her death bed it finally hits Scarlett that she LOVES Rhett and that she never really loved Ashley she was in love with the ideal of Ashley....but alas, it was too late.....and then we get that famous scene.....Scarlett runs down the stairs as Rhett is leaving and she says "If you go, where will I go, what will I do?" and he walks out the door, turns and says "Frankly, my dear, I dont' give a damn!".......and Scarlett falls down on the stairs and cries but then picks herself up, dusts herself off and starts all over...
so in the end you just have to imagine that with Scarlett's determination she will eventually convince Rhett how much she loved him and they will end up together in the end.......(there never was an official sequel, I don't count that crap that came on tv several years ago...cause Only Margaret Mitchell -the true author- truly knows what she had in store for Rhett and Scarlett)
Such a great love story......and he was 41 and she was 16 when they met...Rhett was 25 years older than Scarlett....
Now take into consideration how this kind of relates to Sparrabeth.....
I think Liz married Will out of love - because she did love Will....but more than anything out of duty and her previous commitment..the good and moral side of Elizabeth not wanting to hurt Will and break his heart....and a part of her not knowing how Jack really feels about her.....and believing that there is no place for her in Jack's life/world.....
the goodbye scene says it all...."It would have never worked between us"...and Jack says "keep telling yourself that darling".....many think this is Jack once again just flirting and being funny....but I believe that he meant it...................
kind of like the Pearl Harbor moment when Ben's character knows that the girl has to stay with his best friend because she is carrying his baby....they basically are saying bye to each other.....and it always ripped my heart out when she tells him "I will love you forever"..........
but of course in Pearl Harbor, the friend dies, and Ben and the chick marry and raise the baby together.......Jerry B. Production!