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Gone With the Wind, 1939

Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Written by: Margaret Mitchell

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 238 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.2

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The mood of Gone With the Wind is sentimental, captivating, and touching. The plot centers around wartime life, a love triangle, and falling in love. It is a drama, romance, and period movie. Stylistically, Gone With the Wind is a saga, has a Hollywood tone, and is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Gone With the Wind takes place, at least partly, on an estate. The setting is Georgia. It happens during the American Civil War. Gone With the Wind is based on a book. The movie is known for being a classic, an Oscar winner, and a masterpiece. It is especially suggested for a girls' night.

Summary of Gone With the Wind

Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest, blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett's passion. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett's first two marriages. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. Gone With the Wind stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	15 December 1939
Runtime:	238 min
Awards:	Academy Awards

Awards

Vivien Leigh for Best Actress at the 1939 Academy Awards

Sidney Howard for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1939 Academy Awards

Ray Rennahan for Best Cinematography at the 1939 Academy Awards

Ernest Haller for Best Cinematography at the 1939 Academy Awards

Victor Fleming for Best Director at the 1939 Academy Awards

Awarded Best Film Editing at the 1939 Academy Awards

Lyle Wheeler for Best Interior Decoration at the 1939 Academy Awards

Awarded Best Picture at the 1939 Academy Awards

Hattie McDaniel for Best Supporting Actress at the 1939 Academy Awards

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Vivien Leigh

as Scarlett O'Hara - Their Daughter

Clark Gable

as Rhett Butler - a Visitor from Charleston

Olivia de Havilland

as Melanie Hamilton

Hattie McDaniel

as Mammy - O'Hara House Servant

Leslie Howard

as Ashley Wilkes

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The themes of this film are so sweeping, I find it impossible to approach its qualities in a few lines. I find this film to be very much about individualism, romance, a timeless nostalgia for golden days. I also think that herein is depicted a... Read and rate it

04.March.2011
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by: Eduardo Moreno
Eduardo Moreno rated this movie0/10

08.October.2009
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by: DukeofOmnium
DukeofOmnium rated this movie0/10

If movie are made as diversions or as sheer entertainment, then this is the greatest of them all. Certainly there have been better films than GWTW, including several made in the same year (Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- and those are just from the US!). But this film shows what the studio system was capable of when it invested enough effort and money into a property. In retrospect, the film's sentimental attitude towards marital rape and slavery and race relations is almost grotesque some seventy years later, but Hattie McDaniel actually gets to act without (quite) being a caricature. Of the four principals, Melanie is too good to be true. Olivia de Havilland plays her with a cloying sweetness that is more a script limitation than any slur on her talent. Leslie Howard as Ashley is honorable and decent and as bland as a slice of Velveeta(R); I believe the film's biggest flaw is that the viewer can't see why Scarlett wants him so badly. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh give performances for the ages. Clark Gable is handsome, virile, dashing - he makes Rhett into a perfect example of the morally ambiguous hero (think Han Solo with a little more polish). Leigh really sells her role as Scarlett well - her transformation from fatuous manipulative flirt to cunning manipulative vixen to the happily tamed wife is very convincing. The film is in glorious Technicolor, so most of the colors are more saturated than in real life. In fact, the picture ends up with more than its share of entirely-too-gorgeous sunsets and sunrises, not to mention explosions and fires. Very well shot, including a few shadows borrowed from German expressionist films. If the film was made now, Atlanta would be a computer image, Brad Pitt would be Rhett, and half the running time would be cut. So let's be happy it's an relic of different age in Hollywood.

08.October.2009
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by: DukeofOmnium

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