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Summary: What can you say?
Review: Rhett Butler; Clark Gable, Scarlett O'hara; Vivien Leigh, two legendary characters performed to perfection by two great actors. Beautiful, confused and volumptous Scarlett is desperate to find love. If not with her first love, the second to come along, Rhett. She and he confront the American Civil War head on and comes out with a couples scrapes and bruises. A few dead friends. But both are stronger and wiser. Great great great! Anymore can be said??
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Summary: Brilliant... One of the Best Films Ever Made.
Review: Gone with the Wind is, in my mind, the best movie ever made... topping even Citizen Kane in cinematic genius, style, and direction. If you have read the book, like I did, you will not be disappointed. Mitchell's cruel and beautiful vixen, Scarlett O'Hara, and southern scoundrel, Rhett Butler, are both played brilliantly. Both Vivien Leigh and Clark Gabel make their finest performances in this film. Aside from a few minor changes, the film is very loyal to Margaret Mitchell's classic novel. The film tell's Mitchell's story of a world undone and lost forever by a war, of the struggle to preserve dignity and honor, and of love and misery. A dramatic, painfully sad, and yet beautiful film that should not be missed by anyone!
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Summary: The best film ever
Review: I have seen this movie so many times it is disgusting. Everything filmed was just beautiful. Especially Vivien Leigh as the catty Scarlett O'Hara who will do anything for a buck even going as far as almost selling herself to that nasty dog Rhett Butler. It's funny how they just fight each other all the time before they finally realize they belong to eacht other. Well Rhett knew from the very beginning that "like marries like", and should marry like. The sad thing is watching Scarlett throwing it all away for Ashley? Who would marry him? Melanie. Melanie is just too good to be true. Always looking for something good in everybody. Well she found something good in Ashley what it was I will never know what it was and I read the book to try to find out what that was and still I don't know. Even now I still can't figure out what Scarlett saw in Ashley. If you want to while a way the hours for a day rent this movie or better yet buy this movie.
...This is a great film that is not historically correct but who cares this film is the best thing that has come out of Hollywood. Enjoy.
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Summary: A classic that shouldn't be overlooked!
Review: A must for every dvd collection, and IMHO the best movie of all time.
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Summary: Gone With the Wind- A historical memory
Review: GWTW is an incredible movie. If you haven't seen it, you need to. The storyline is incredible, the cinemtography is breathtaking, and Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable give some of the best performances of thier careers. Yet GWTW should not be watched with any expectation of historical accuracy. GWTW is a historical memory of the south that is extremely romantic and wonderfully sugar-coated.
The Civil War plays a background part, as does most of history in this movie. This is not to say that there is anything wrong with that, but no one should expect the movie to educate them with regard to US history. GWTW also glazes over the institution of slavery, carefully portraying only those slaves that felt a familial bond with thier owners. While this was sometimes the case, history tells us that more often than not, slaves did wish to be free and few stayed on with thier owners after the war was over.
All in all, however, this was an excellent movie. It was well worth the four hours, never really dragging. Just don't use this moive as historical education about the south or the Civil War.
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Summary: Gone with the Wind
Review: Although I enjoyed "Gone with the Wind" as a wonderful form of entertainment, I was disturbed by the message that presented itself within the film. While "Gone with the Wind" portrays the antebellum South in all its glory, it does not provide an honest account of either the South before or after the Civil War. Mammy, Big Sam, Prissy and the rest of the black slaves seen in this movie, are simply ideals. Realistically, black slaves in the antebellum South were never regarded as such important and affectionate creatures as was seen in "Gone with the Wind". Instead, they were seen as property. Property that could be abused, used and degraded as white men and women saw fit. Yes, Mammy seems to be an integral part of Scarlett's family, but if there was any degree of reality present in this film, Mammy, most likely, would have been physically and verbally abused, raped and degraded. Moreover, it's not that I doubt that Big Sam would have come to Scarlett's aid when she was accousted in Shanty Town, but I do not think that he would have felt so much obiligation or love for his former master's daughter. I was quite disturbed by many of the review's I read which seemed to ignore "Gone with the Wind"'s inaccurate portrayal on slavery and seemed to concentrate, instead, on the acting and story line. The portrayal of slavery in "Gone with the Wind" is an important and essential part of the film. (...). I did not see any elements of racism in the film, but I wish there had been some. At least racism, in this context, would have provided a forum for discussion and thought. (...)
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Summary: Gone With the Wind?
Review: After much hype and inflated expectations, Gone With the Wind Really nearly lived up to its hype, as a reviewer from Yorktown called it, as "one of the best movies ever made". The cinematography and acting were simply superb keeping this very lengthy drama gripping in its own silky Southern way. The movie depicts a distinctly Southern view of the days before, after, and during the Civil War. Truly for woman like Scarlet O'Hara and Southern gentlemen like Ashley, the "end of the war...[was] the end of our world". Gone With the Wind was truly a cinematic world that represented what the Scarlets and Ashleys, if they were alive today, would recall. Happy slaves, parties for the ladies, and honor pervaded their society. The reality of a movie is not, not should it be, called history. There is much to learn from the movie and how it represents interactions amongst peoples, north and south, and races, black and white. However, this is a movie, made for entertainment and it fulfills that duty marvelously. Gone With the Wind is a must see not only for entertainment, but also to see how its historical representations have become a part of our society, regardless of whether they are true or not.
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Summary: GWTW review
Review: Until just this morning I had never seen Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. I had always heard stories and criticisms that it was the greatest love story of all time. Although a very romantic and often times soppy I found myself actually really enjoying the movie. It is a fabulous tale, which I found wonderfully, traces the relationship of Scarlet and Rhet from their first meeting to their end. However, from the beginning you realize that the setting is an almost fantasy world. In the text, which introduces the film, it tells of a lost time of the last knights and ladies. From the perspective, which the movie gives, you almost find yourself longing to be a player amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the twelve oaks plantations ball. Also most extraordinary, is the perspective the movie gives of the slave-master relationship. Not only are most of the slaves portrayed as extremely ridiculous characters in themselves, the way in which they interact with the white members of the plantation is very unlikely. Mammy and Old Sam are lovable characters but as Tim notes in his critique they are totally undeveloped. They remain in their very specific roles throughout the film and rarely is there a scene without a white member in it. Despite these very unbelievable aspects of the film, I think it is important to recognize the context and time period of this picture. The movie was made in 1939 and was written to tell a tale of the glorified Old South and it accomplishes exactly that. In the 1930's there was much more of a focus in glorifying the Civil War time period than showing accurate race relations.
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Summary: The good and bad of "Gone With the Wind"
Review: "Gone with the Wind" has been one of my favorite movies since I was a little girl. The glory of the old south filled with hoop skirts, balls and barbecues. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has a passion for a story filled with love, triumphant and defeat. While I adore this movie, it is important to point out that I on no way condone the idea that it is an accurate portrayal of the "old south". The institution of slavery was a prominent factor in southern lives. Gone With the Wind depicts white masters and slaves having kind and loving relationships, there was rarely any violence shown towards the slaves. I personally feel one cannot discuss slavery without discussing violence. Slaves lived were filled with brutality and violence on a day to day basis, there is no getting around this. Another reviewer named leighuf discusses the idea that Gone With the Wind is seen as "one sided and racist". She herself agrees that slavery is more violent than it is portrayed in the movie but she indicates this film is merely showing that there were a few kind slave owners. I feel if people because the issue of violence was not shown with slavery, one cannot look at this film in a historically accurate way. The south, historically speaking, was not just barbecues and hoop skirts, it was a land of violence and brutality of a group of people based merely on the color of their skin. In Mechal Sobel's book "The World They Made Together", a historical look at the interaction of black and white cultures in America, she also portrays slavery without violence. Like the film, I greatly enjoyed her book yet could not find it to be a true portrayal of slavery because it also failed to mention the issue of violence. "Gone With the Wind" is an excellent movie. The acting, cinematography and script are fabulous and it is truly a pleasure to watch. But one should understand before viewing that this is not an accurate portrayal of the South. While I watch the film for enjoyment, I never mistake the depiction of the South in the movie for the real thing. One must remember while it is fun to watch, slavery and violence were very real in the "old south".
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Summary: A review of Gone With the Wind
Review: I agree with "Simply A Classic" review. Gone With the Wind does ignore the brutality of slavery and focuses on a romanticized view of slave life by "staying away from unnecessary words or insinuations." However, as "Simply" points out this movie was released in 1939, and at that time probably no movies addressed race and slavery realistically. Unfortunately, the romanticized view of slavery presented by GWTW influences our cultural memory of slavery and may negate the truth in, I believe, more realistic and culturally valuble narratives, like the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
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