Frankly, my dear, I can't fucking believe I wasted almost 4 hours of my life watching pro-Confederacy revisionist propaganda. Nor can I believe that, even during the height of Segregation, it was lauded by critics and was nominated for and won an unprecedented number of Academy Awards. Americans are so forgiving of white supremacy when it comes from within our own borders, it just makes me want to vomit.

And like, okay, if this were a technically brilliant film with a fantastic script and a director and cast that knocked it out of the park but also super racist and manipulative, this would be an entirely different conversation. But it's not! It's a bloated melodrama with basically zero redeeming qualities,…

Exceptionally well crafted and laden with characters so fleshed out I half expected them to step out from the big screen into my living room at any minute!

The cinematography and iconic shots such as Rhett Butler standing at the foot of the grand staircase gazing up at Scarlet O'Hara with a come hither look that could melt even the coldest of hearts and cause all the ladies to sigh and go weak in the knees!

Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) met is match when he crossed paths with Scarlett O'Hara ( Vivien Leigh)! Their tale of love, passion and heartache will go down in the annals of history as one of the greatest romances in cinematic history!

The film is…

**Part of the Best Picture**

Few films, if any, accomplish technical excellence, and it’s not hard to see why. Many films, even good ones, have some flaws that keep them from perfection. So it really amazes me that a film like Gone with the Wind with the production history it had managed to be just so damn perfect. There isn’t a thing wrong with it. It is a master class lesson in nearly everything that makes up cinema, and what amazes me even more is how the sheer epic nature of the film holds up even today.

Until this watch, I had not seen Gone with The Wind since I was very young, and my grandmother took me to see…

In many ways, one could call Gone with the Wind dated. I tried my best to not view this with my modern lens, and I think I understood the movie more with that. It tells the story of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), an emotionally complex, somewhat self-centered, somewhat spoiled yet brilliant heroine. She goes through a lot in the film. We see her as she is pushed around, argued over, in conflict, battling emotion, figuring out who she needs and loves, and trying to understand the time period and events surrounding her. She’s honestly a really interesting character to see unfold as she clearly symbolizes a woman of the time in the South. We also see Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)…

Four hours! Four fucking hours! And even then you don't get a proper conclusion! A colossal disappointment by all means, Gone with the Wind is one never ending soap opera filled with characters you never grow to care about, iconic dialogues that look better on paper, and other than its technically accomplished production, there's nothing memorable about this sappy & overlong melodrama.

Set in the American South during Civil War, Gone with the Wind follows a young, spoiled woman who claws her way out of war, poverty & other misfortunes yet has a weakness for a man who never returned her love. Things take an interesting turn when a roguish fellow takes an interest in her after which the two conduct their…

Okay, I know it's a cliché to consider this among the greatest 1930s movies made, but it's nearly impossible not to be impressed with David O. Selznick pulling off a monster epic of such proportions as Gone with the Wind (1939)!

Visually this was sensational! Such style in every frame. Poetic, classy, haunting and with such color. Those red nights are magical. A masterful job capturing the beauty of the south.

Clark Gable is Rhett! No more needed to be said. A career high, unable to top! Vivien Leigh gets the big part and grabs the chance with both arms and more. An tremendous display rarely ever seen! Clicks perfectly and awards her the Oscar! As her opposite Olivia de…

„Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn.“
     (Clark Gable as Rhett Butler)

Hi everybody, there are evergreens, classics and then there are movie monuments. And even Hollywood doesn’t dare to touch them for reboots or remakes. Films like „Schindler’s List, „The Godfather“, „Casablanca“ and...you right, this one here „Gone with the wind“. 
A motion picture that sets new standards, for filmmaking and commercial success as well as critical tribute. 
It was 1939 when Hollywood starts to be the biggest movie factory of the world, it was this film who gives Hollywood a head start against all the other movie industries, like Europe or Asia, it was this movie who turns Hollywood to the dream factory and it…

1,001 Movies You Must Say Before You Die (The 1930s: 62/90)
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I watched the movie so there was no pressure to finish the novel by the end of January.

That crane shot of going over those wounded confederates, beautiful. The shot with Scarlett at the tree, beautiful.

Clark Gable. What a man.

Just know that I was happy to have gone through this experience. It's a great movie despite the marital rape, the racist stuff, and the fact we have to care about the confederates was gross. At least this lead to Hattie McDaniel being the first African American to win an oscar.

I haven't finished the novel, but I like Scarlett here more than Scarlett in the novel.…