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G (General Audience)
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David O. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half of this Civil War drama is taut and suspenseful and nostalgic, the second is ramshackle and arbitrary. But there's no question that the film is an enormous achievement in terms of its every resource--art direction, color, sound, cinematography--being pushed to new limits for the greater glory of telling an American story as fully as possible. Vivien Leigh is still magnificently narcissistic, Olivia de Havilland angelic and lovely, Leslie Howard reckless and aristocratic. As for Clark Gable: we're talking one of the most vital, masculine performances ever committed to film. --Tom Keogh
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It's still the same old story . . .
You know, the thing about Gone With the Wind (hereinafter GWTW)is that here, in the age of techno-crats, where Amazon brings hundreds of thousands of reviewers, watchers, critics, readers together, GWTW still garners 600 reviews. So to say the movie is racist or historically inaccurate really should mean that its a product of it's time, nothing more.
Mrs. Cleaver walks around her kitchen 20 years later with high heels, seamed stockings and pearls, caring for Wally and Beaver. Alan Ladd and Sydney duke it out on The Defiant Ones. Kisses were just a brush of the lips. Couples slept in separate beds. Rock Hudson was straight.
This is a great movie. It can't touch those areas that were then impermissable. We don't dump Hemingway, Chandler and O'Hara in the 'racist-anti semetic' pot. We say they wrote as the times dictated. And 50 years from now, who knows?
The picture roles through a remarkable, wrenching story that at the time, was only a genearstion and a half old.
The women are beautiful. The men are noble and silly. Hey. That sounds like today. 5 stars. Larry Scantlebury
Ahead of it's time!
How can anyone not say that Gone with the Wind is one of the best films ever made. Not only cinema wise was the movie ahead of its time, but it gave a true picture of what the Civil War era was about given that they could only show so much back in 1939. Just because the film betrays Margaret Mitchell's novel to the core does not make it a horrific film. It was the first film where women and blacks were actually betrayed as strong and intelligent not weak and inferior. Gone with the Wind is one of those films that will stand the test of time.
One of the Great Classics Beautifully restored
I have viewed this film theatrically, on television, video, and dvd and this is one of the most stunning restorations I have ever seen. The packaging is beautiful and this 4 disc set is spectacular in all respects. For one who remembers the 1967 70mm widescreen reissue (as a kid), the 1976 television premiere, the 1989 "restoration" rerelease for the 50th anniversary and the 1998 dye transfer reissue, this is, hands down, the best presentation of this classic in terms of clarity, color rendition and sound (the 5.1 remastering is excellent). Of course, nothing can replace seeing GWTW on the big screen with a live audience, but, if you can't see it that way, this is the next best thing.
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