"Gone with the Wind"

[gggg gggg]

The wind done gone! Last week, I finally saw "Gone with the Wind" in its
entirely and I have to say, I'm impressed. The special effects actually
hold up pretty well to today's standards. The casting was perfect.
Scarlett O'Hara, I think, was an accidental anti-heroine. Surely she
wasn't meant to be sympathetic? She's got to be the most imperius
character ever created. I can only imagine audiences must have cheered
when Gable finally got around to saying, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give
a damn." That was the only curse word in the whole movie and it carried
more power than an entire Quentin Tarrantino movie.
I don't know if I love this movie but I certainly can't stop thinking
about it.
I'd like to hear opinions about what people thought of this grandiose
movie.

I go back and forth on this one. "Gone With the Wind" was reissued when I
was just a kid, and all my parents’ friends were talking about how they'd
loved it for years. So my level of anticipation was high when my folks took
me to see it, and I was not disappointed. It was one of my first *adult*
films, and I was swept away by the story and the music and the Technicolor
cinematography and the sheer power of the melodrama. Since then, for me,
GWTW has pretty much defined what it means to see a "big" movie. I checked
IMDB to learn what year I must have seen it for the first time. It was a
theatrical release -- saw it at the now-demolished Loew's State in Memphis,
a fabulous old converted vaudeville house. Had to be in the late 50's, 1960
at the latest. I was in Jr. High. But IMDB doesn't show a release date
around that time. In fact, IMDB seems to indicate the first US re-release
after 1939 was in 1967. That cannot be right.
Anyway, years later, I took a date to see it -- she hated it and so did I.
How could I ever have enjoyed such an overwrought potboiler? Then a few
years ago, Ted Turner restored the print to its original glory and I watched
it on television. This time I deemed it a masterpiece. And, I'm sure that
someday I’ll watch it again. But frankly, I don’t know whether I’ll give a
damn.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog

Guess who auditioned for the role of Scarlett?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball#Hollywood

[gggg gggg]

The wind done gone! Last week, I finally saw "Gone with the Wind" in its
entirely and I have to say, I'm impressed. The special effects actually
hold up pretty well to today's standards. The casting was perfect.
Scarlett O'Hara, I think, was an accidental anti-heroine. Surely she
wasn't meant to be sympathetic? She's got to be the most imperius
character ever created. I can only imagine audiences must have cheered
when Gable finally got around to saying, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give
a damn." That was the only curse word in the whole movie and it carried
more power than an entire Quentin Tarrantino movie.
I don't know if I love this movie but I certainly can't stop thinking
about it.
I'd like to hear opinions about what people thought of this grandiose
movie.

I go back and forth on this one. "Gone With the Wind" was reissued when I
was just a kid, and all my parents’ friends were talking about how they'd
loved it for years. So my level of anticipation was high when my folks took
me to see it, and I was not disappointed. It was one of my first *adult*
films, and I was swept away by the story and the music and the Technicolor
cinematography and the sheer power of the melodrama. Since then, for me,
GWTW has pretty much defined what it means to see a "big" movie. I checked
IMDB to learn what year I must have seen it for the first time. It was a
theatrical release -- saw it at the now-demolished Loew's State in Memphis,
a fabulous old converted vaudeville house. Had to be in the late 50's, 1960
at the latest. I was in Jr. High. But IMDB doesn't show a release date
around that time. In fact, IMDB seems to indicate the first US re-release
after 1939 was in 1967. That cannot be right.
Anyway, years later, I took a date to see it -- she hated it and so did I.
How could I ever have enjoyed such an overwrought potboiler? Then a few
years ago, Ted Turner restored the print to its original glory and I watched
it on television. This time I deemed it a masterpiece. And, I'm sure that
someday I’ll watch it again. But frankly, I don’t know whether I’ll give a
damn.
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog

(Y. upload):

"GONE WITH THE WIND Screen Tests for Female Characters"