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Gone with the Wind (1939)

History | 238 minutes
3,68 929 votes

Genre: History / Romance

Duration: 238 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland

IMDb score: 8,2 (345.721)

Releasedate: 15 December 1939

Gone with the Wind plot

"The greatest romance of all time!"

At the beginning of the American Civil war, this epic drama focuses on the life of spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivian Leigh). Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable)

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DVD-T

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Finally took the time to see this classic. Wanted to see him all at once.

For 4 hours you will be taken to the south of the US, which was not US then of course, during the civil war there. Gone with the Wind is just epic. The beautiful music takes the film to an even larger scale. Beautiful. The story is occasionally a bit off the mark, but overall this is a wonderful story. How everything comes together is already great. The war, the romance, the photography, the shadows and their use, the beautiful costumes and sets. Also great to see and experience the aftermath of the war. Towards the end, the last 40 minutes, the film reaches a high level. The ending is also beautiful. Nice to see the recurring theme of home woven into the film. Only problem I had was a bit with the acting. It is sometimes a bit over the top. Found it a bit "off" at times compared to the game in the rest of the movie. Other than that, this is near perfection anyway. The movie is very long but worth every minute.

Very nice scene and shot by the way at the train station

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Bobbejaantje

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The DVD of this movie had been waiting for me for a while, even before the controversy broke out last year. What I got on my plate. Nothing more or less than an elongated soap. In terms of duration and story material, they could have easily made a thirteen-part series of this. But since television didn't exist yet, they stitched it together into an over-length film. A soap opera with epic dimensions, as witnessed by some impressive mass scenes. Yet these scenes, and the American Civil War in general, only provide context for the love life of Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, who is building or planning to build it with various partners.
Excellently made by a range of people who were top of their craft at the time. But that does not alter the fact that it continues to be an oversentimental soap, a genre that you like or don't like. However, it became too much for this Corneel.

As far as the racial controversy is concerned, I totally agree with the criticism. Seen a lot of cringe-inducing scenes. Incidentally, the criticism is not new since the woke movement started, but it has been around since the release of the film, I was informed. The mega success of the film says a lot about the society in which it came into being. Let's not beat around the bush. And just wallow in nostalgia for the past man man. It's really about American myth-making. See also the finale in which Scarlett O'Hara finally decides to return to her home in Tara, which is emphasized visually and orchestrally as if she were returning to the promised land where everything will be fine.

Now that I've finally seen the film, its mythical status has been completely debunked for me... gone with the wind.

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