Gone With the Wind

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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE
Review: This movie is amazing! The story is great and the acting is the best I've seen. Vivien Leigh gives the best performance I've ever seen a actor give. Those of you that think this movie is over rated and stupid don't know how to appreciate a great movie when you see it. You'd rather watch dumb movies that are made now adays that have a bunch of people shoting each other. This movie is a little long but if you get into to it, it dosen't seem 4 hours long. If you haven't seen this movie you are missing out on something that has changed many people's lives. If you heard Barbra's speech at the Golden Globe's last night you understand. It dosen't really matter how many awards or praises a movie gets. What matters is that the movie did something great for you. That you'll always remember the first time you saw it, where you were or what just happened in you live, or maybe this movie made you understand something about someone or something more clearly. A good movie has those things. It;s not just another movie you see and forget about. For me Gone With The Wind has this things, when I watch it, it does something for me. E-mail me at [e-mail]

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Summary: yawn
Review: ok, we have: unrealistic acting(common in most old films), really horrible matte shots, black slaves that act like they jumped right out of the Little Rascals, drunken overpaid actors, abuse of the "softening lense", never ending dialoge scenes, yankees doing pitiful southeren accent impressions, unexciting action(i've seen forgotten overlooked B-movies made at the same time that are more exciting than this), and a lame script from a lame novel. now just over hype it with 50 home video and dvd versions and you've got a great sell!

skip it, go see Plan 9 From Outer Space or something.

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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This movie has been a very important part of my life. My father was a look-a-like to Clark Gable. My father died when I was 3. I have read most of the reviews. One review said they couldn't believe the slaves would actually be happy when it was "quitting time." We now have people in our culture who willingly commit crimes so they can go back to prison after having been "freed." Why is this so unbelievable?

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Summary: Gone With The Wind- DVD
Review: David O Selznick's legendary film is regarded as one of the best romantic movies of all time.And one of the best epics many compare this to TITANIC compared to Gone it dosen't hold a candle to it no matter how many awards it won.This is Hollwood in the days where they made a good old fashiond movie and people didn't come to see explosions, like our L.A. reader was looking for you cannot put this movie down.

Set in a panoramic Old South Scarlett O' Hara is the main charachter.Who is quite the flirter with men we are in an age where souther familys owned slaves and the cofederates were going into battle.Times were rough but through it all Scarlett's nerves of steel attitiute and rich girl presona won the hearts of many men.Except one who Scarlett loved or shall we say lust Ashley but Ashley is the type of man that all women wish they had he's commited with his wife. Alas cold Scarlett has befreinded Ashley's wife but she'll see the day that she dies so that Scarlett can get Ashley for herself.But who do we have hear we have the gentelman of an oak Red.We see that Red matches and handles Scarlett as well as she handls herself.Oh we forgot about the war while a town is bombed all Scarlett can think of is getting to Tara and Ashley.When she get's to Tara she learns that it's almost a pile of rubble.

The only thing keeping Tara alive were the slaves.This is when Scarlett begins to sink to a low desperately seeking a job Scarlett finds a mill , oh but where does she get the money when she never had any.You always know in this movie the woman was so beautiful and so much of a con job that she could get anybody to give her money.

Alas when poor old ashley comes back he can't give her anything so where does she go, good old red who even up the ante and tells her that he will marry her and make Tara beautiful again no matter how much the cost.They have wonderful marrige just the way she likes it money Scarlett and Red have a beautiful daughter. But suddenly when Scarlett becomes drunk,Red takes her away.When they come back Scarlett falls down a flight of stairs and also looses her daughter in a horse riding accident.And the rest we all know Red leaves her to her land.

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Summary: Still the Greatest!
Review: The whiner from L.A. below shows how faddishly politically correct he/she is when carping about the "racist" characters. In l939, being politically correct was still somewhere off in the future thank the Lord. The NAACP and other black groups went crazy, however, about actual black characters portraying their literary counterparts in the film. Hattie McDonald and the other blacks were viciously attacked by bird-brained activists. The author and producer created a masterwork that was true to its times. It was a magic movie in that could never be recreated. What actress today could match Vivien Leigh (just possibly Kate Winslett). Clark Gable could never be matched, nor could the fantastic production designs, color, costumes. Today, the roles would go to the "hottest" marquee names: like that animated Q-tip Gwyneth Paltrow or the over-exposed John Travolta. Of course, you couldn't show the blacks as they really were back then. Selznick handled all these tricky situations masterfully. Gone With the Wind could never be made today without frantic protests by the NAACP, feminist groups and the darlings of PETA (who would have gone crazy over the scene of Scarlett whipping the horse pulling her carriage to Tara and it drops dead.)Thank the Lord this eternally glowing miracle can be ours forever on DVD or tape. The activists of the past couldn't stop it, neither can our nauseating politically correct people of today.

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Summary: Must have on DVD!
Review: I hesistated to buy this on DVD since already having it on VHS. But after seeing the DVD I couldn't resist. The details and definition are wonderful to behold. I did a side by side comparison with the videotape and while the tape seems blurry the disc brings out details I never saw before. They must have used the best print available for this transfer. And I thought DVD was only for modern action films! If you don't care about quality stick with VHS but DVD finally does this classic justice. Amen.

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Summary: Learn your film history, people!
Review: I've seen several reviews on this which whine about the standard format (1:33:1 aspect ratio). Anybody who knows anything about film knows that 'widescreen' format was not developed until the 1950s as a way to differentiate the movies from the then much popular television. Thus, all classics such as Casablanca and Citizen Kane were made in the standard format.

As far as this movie goes, I considered it one of the most overrated of all time. How anyone could sympathize with a brat like Scarlett is beyond me. Clark Gable is very good however as Rhett. The movie is very soap opera-ish and if made today would have been a TV mini-series rather than a feature film. It romanticizes the old South to such a degree that it makes the film hopelessly racist. Am I supposed to feel bad that Atlanta was burning? Boo-hoo.

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Summary: MASTERPIECE
Review: David Selznick's Civil War blockbuster justifiably earned the "classic" that usually precedes any review of it. This movie shows off its considerable budget, imagination and wealth of detail in virtually every frame, and to top it all off, features an electrifying ensemble of superb performers, all of whom chew into their roles with relish. What continues to surprise me about this movie is its freshness -- it never dates. The sexual tension that exists in every frame between Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable feels every bit -- if not more so -- as sparky and enjoyable today as it ever was. The Margaret Mitchell story is whittled down, eliminating some extraneous characters (some of Scarlett's children for starters), but the streamlining does nothing but improve upon the essentials of this big, sprawling epic, which manages to be both intimate and satisfying as a melodrama of the highest order, and also as a quaint, if skewed, look back at the most vicious battle ever fought on our soil. The production values continue to have your eyes popping out of your head -- costumes, sets, sunsets -- all that COLOR drenches every inch of the screen. And the Max Steiner score still engenders goosebumps with every viewing. Vivien Leigh is so -- so -- SCARLETT it is impossible not to envision her perfectly beautiful arched eyebrows whenever you hear the name Scarlett O'Hara. And the ending is one of the best in Hollywood history -- it caps off the whole saga with humanity and more than a hint of suspense. Perfect.

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Summary: Yet Another Stunning Classic Masterpiece!
Review: Gone with the Wind is the epitome of classic movies. The all star cast radiates the screen, Clark Gable as the rough and ready Rhett Butler, Vivien Leigh as the tempstous and ostentatious Scarlett O'Hara, Olivia de Havilland as the sweetly naive Melanie Wilkes and Leslie Howard as the long suffering Ashley Wilkes. The Civil War of America is perfectly depicted in the David O Selznick masterpiece, the struggling Southern states and the seemingly victoious Yankees and the suffering of the civilians. At the centre of this beautiful story is Scarlett O'Hara, who is fighting a war of her own, a war with her emotions and trying to battle on for herself, seemingly hard and bitter. When times turned sour for her, she had the ever present but at the same time elusive figure of Rhett Butler, who played a major part in her destiny and was a decider for her future and she had a frail, seemingly vulnerable sidekick in Melanie Wilkes, who loved Scarlett more than she loved herself. Sadly in the finish, Scarlett had finally succeeded in pushing away all those that had given her a chance and loved her, and when she had finally grasped the man whom she had thought was her lifeline, she knew she had made a mistake and that she was following the wrong path. This story of tender love, ruthless war, and jealousy and sacrifice is one not to be missed and can be enjoyed by all ages. The watcher revells in the beauty of it all.....even the sad parts can be beautiful

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Summary: GONE WITH THE WIND
Review: I saw this movie for the first time 21 years ago and to this day it still is my favorite movie.