Gone With The Wind

"Frankley my dear, I just don't give a damn", is one of the most famous quotes that has been among us for decades, from Clark Gable, formally known as Rhett Bulter; one of the main leads in the flim Gone with the Wind. To us that's just frankley how we feel. It's not one of our favorites although we know that this movie was one of the best in its time it just wasn't for us, but we didn't mind it it's great, clear, historical views gave us a taste of how it was back in the 1930's so we rate Gone with the Wind 3 stars out of 5.


Gone with the wind was directed by Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited), Sam Wood (uncredited), and William Cameron Menzies (credited as Production Designer). The leading actors and actresses were:Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland. The supporting roles were played by: Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil, Ona Munson, Butterfly McQueen, Alicia Rhett, Evelyn Keyes, and Carroll Nye. The Genre to this movie was romance, war, and of course drama.


To us the start of the rising action was when we figured out that Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) was in love with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) who didn't have the same feelings as she did, and he was in love with another women. All of this coming together along with the Civil War just made drama! Scarlet had a feature in her that would never give up on Ashley; it might be that she was so strong-willed and greedy that she always had to get what she wanted. Overall we liked Scarlet as a character.


What really got our attention was the climax. When Scarlet went back home to Tara, Atlanta, her family and all she left behind was just one of the exciting parts in the flim, having to go through the parts of the city conjested with war, burning building, and explosives. We also found that her mother dying and her father going crazy added to our excitement. Not only because Scarlet was going to have to deal with it but because it made her have to grow up and look at herself for advice and hardships in the upcoming future. Bonnie dying on the horse just like Scarlett's dad was also just ironic to us. The death's really opened our eyes on how much life has changed and let us notice all the new technology we have now and should be thankful for.


Rhett (Clark Gable) and Scarlett's (Vivien Leigh) relationship was very intriguing to us because although Scarlet acted hard to get and conceited, we could really tell she cared for Rhett very much. Rhett was a man of luxury, and basically could get anything he pleased, except Scarlet. This we think bothered him and made him stick around longer but then when Scarlet actually wanted him he just didn't care, and picked up and left. It's almost just how young relationships are today, "you want what you can't have". 


"...Tara!...Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!". This shows Scarlett is finally coming to her senses on which Ashley doesn't love her. He loves Melly and always has and always will. Which is no surprise since Melly is a kind, 
outstanding character is this movie. She can hide her feeling and know in the end everything will be alright on her end, especially since she has ashley. When Melly dies we just asked ourselves why? all it did was add one more death to this drama fested movie. Then we noticed it lead to Ashley finally telling Scarlet he didn't love her, which for us was the falling action to the movie. This was very frustrating because the entire movie Ashley was being the cheating, trying to be a good guy character in the movie, especially when he kept Scarlet dangling by a thread, head over heels in love with him.

The movie Gone with the Wind was and still to today is a knowledgeable, soap opera. All about the past in the late 1930's. We didn't exactly care for the film with its length and drama filled scenes. Overall we did like it and would recommend it to viewers who haven't seen it and would like to learn more about  our countries past.



Awards- 1939 Academy Awards:Winner, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vivien Leigh)Winner, Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Hattie McDaniel)Winner, Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler)Winner, Best Cinematography, Color (Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan)Winner, Best Director (Victor Fleming)Winner, Best Film Editing (Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom)Winner, Best Picture (David O. Selznick)Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay (Sidney Howard)—first posthumously awarded Academy AwardWinner, Technical Achievement Award (Don Musgrave)An honorary award for outstanding achievement in the use of color to enhance dramatic mood (William Cameron Menzies), according to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/awards. -Thanks for the information!