I made my 20 yr old son watch it last night. I thought his attention span would have been about an hour & we would have to watch it over the next 4 nights. Not only did he watch it straight through, captivated & in awe, but his first words when the movie finished, were " Now I understand why this is considered one of the greatest movies of all time"...happy momma ❤
I’m a 48 yr old Hispanic that just seen the movie for the first time in my life. I’m not in favor of going around removing or deleting history. I saw this movie and was in awe. What a great film. It made me feel sad because I like my naiveness when I see movies and tv. I want to see great actors play great roles. I don’t want to feel like I have to count the amount of different races are playing in the movie so it can feel “equal.” I’m not sure if I’m just getting old but I don’t like where we’re all heading.
Carlos Medrano, If they would just tell the TRUTH.... Many of these Americans that they "LABELING," for their "Racial Diving of America, as "White Supremacists," many of them dna proces they are some percentage "Native American!" And the earliest of the making of a government, on North America started with "Native Americans." The lying going on in 2021... to LABEL an American group of people is Unconscionable...And is STEPS right out of the "Old Socioligy Play Book" of steps to DESTROY a NATION.. For the Evil Elites know a "Divided NATION can NOT STAND!" It's Biblical.
Carlos, can't thank you enough for sharing your thoughts and impressions of GWTW. Read it when I was the same age as Scarlett at the beginning of the story. Sixteen. Saw the film the following year in 1974 when it was re-released in the theater for its 35th anniversary. The book and the film hit me on a visceral level and led me on a journey of discovery about my country's history and its continuing "growing pains" as it tries to fulfill its promise for all of its citizens.. I am so grateful for people like you who can truly understand and appreciate the beauty, importance, and cultural significance of this film. The love story hooked me as a teenager, but the time and setting of both the book and the film enlightened me about the complexity, contradictions, and conflicts that exist between and within human beings. Thank you again for your insightful comment.
Hattie McDaniel was Beautiful. And performed her character with the utmost honor. She ran the "O'haras' World." And Miss McDaniel deserved the award. It was a different time then. "Love one another, as I have Loved You!" "Do unto others, as ye would have them do unto you." "You Reap what you sow!"
I read the book in 1959 as a 16 year old. We were spending a holiday weekend in a loaned cottage. It rained all the time and I found the book in a bookcase in my room. I spent 2 days and part nights reading in bed till I finished it. It was the best book I ever read and at 19 the film arrived and it was so wonderful. I own the DVD now and have watched the film many times. I don’t think a better film has ever been made. Vivian Leigh was so beautiful. As for Rhett.......❤️
Your experience has been replicated thousands of times. I lost track of where I was when I first read it in '73. RU-vid has dozens of videos of GWTW montages accompanied by modern songs. During the late 2000's and 2010's, a new generation of 16 year olds has discovered its magic.
"Gone with the Wind," is one of the last movies that they used REAL settings. It took David O Selznick, days to video the sun rise scenes. "I'LL NEVER GO HUNGRY AGAIN!" Americans today, do not realize what Abraham Lincolns' war did to the entire USA economically. By 1863, with the Northern Army consisting of most small, individual dirt farmers: No food crops had been grown in the North since 1861. And with the Union Army destroying the Southern Farms,as well. THERE WAS NO FOOD, ANYWHERE. Abe Lincoln could NOT even feed his army.. And the Union Army was confiscating food every where, North and South and was warehousing it... only for the Union Army. Especially in New York, New York...Desperation for food became so bad: The Union Army had guards on their "Food warehouses:" A bunch of WOMEN had had enough of Mr. Lincolns' War and their children STARVING: The WOMEN took on the UNION ARMY. And the Women took the Union food Warehouses.. And the Women past out UNION ARMY FOOD UNTIL THE WAREHOUSES WAS EMPTY. These Union Army guards.... Said, "They thought it was hard fighting against men but they never wanted to ever a fight with angry WOMEN ever again."
When I was in college many years ago, my sociology teacher gave our class an assignment to do a paper on a movie of our choice and write about the relationship between two characters. I chose “Gone With The Wind” and wrote about the relationship between Scarlett O’Hara and Melanie Wilkes. I got an A+ because most people would have focused on Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler’s relationship but I chose to approach it differently because Scarlett and Melanie had more screen time and interaction than any two characters in the movie. This was a great motion picture that had the perfect cast and script and film score. I’ve watched this movie probably a hundred times in my life and it never gets old. The movie was a huge vehicle for its Black character actors and had a huge impact on the storyline. The character of Mammy, was portrayed as intelligent and strong woman who was bold enough to stand up to Scarlett O’Hara, Rhett Butler and didn’t hesitate to put them in their places when they were behaving foolishly. Too many people today, are calling for this movie to be banned because of the slavery theme. They miss the entire point of the movie and the house slaves were portrayed with certain strengths and the 1940 academy awards awarded Hattie McDaniel as best supporting actress and was the first African American actress to win an Oscar.
Thank God for Mammy! She was telling them exactly the things I wanted to tell them while reading the book. She was smart, loyal, caring and I loved her character.
I grew up hearing how "GWTW" saved my grandmothers life, after her sister died, she must have gone to see it 50 times.She said that it saved her life and gave her the courage to keep on going, regardless of what other miseries were present in her life. It pulls my spirits up too when I slip below my levels.
Ultimately GWTW is a story of survival with a flawed but very strong heroine at it's center. It's not really surprising that it could inspire someone going through a very difficult time.
Hattie McDaniels became the first African American to win an Oscar for her role in this film. Not to mention the first African American woman to win an Oscar in this time frame period.
Isabella Xoxo and yet you wouldn’t win a single prize if you played a queen. What does that say about you, if someone can play a slave and win one of the most prestigious accolades in the film industry?
I’m sure Hattie appreciated her role in “GWW” being acknowledged with a Oscar, but the Supporting award wasn’t in figure form back then. I wonder what year Oscar was the same for Supporting as it was for Best ?
A superb film. Great script and great acting. A wonderful cast of supporting actors such as Leslie Howard and Thomas Mitchell, who were wonderful. But also Olivia de Havilland, who played Melanie, and Hattie McDaniel, who were both marvellous in their roles.
Hattie McDaniel was quoted as saying, "I'd rather PLAY a maid than BE one." If those were the only roles available to her, she did magnificently with what she had. Though Mammy is surprisingly not in the novel a lot, her role in the movie was likely built up because McDaniel was proving to be the glue holding the whole thing together. I'm not sitting here saying slavery was great or justifiable, just that this movie must be seen as a product of its times. Some of the greatest moments are hers, such as the scene where she is walking up the stairs with Melanie telling her about the death of Bonnie and Rhett's reaction. It makes me weep EVERY time. She is a consistent presence in the movie and yet acted her part so seamlessly that you almost don't see how crucial she is to the whole story.
@@rnn5676 I was going on a 45(ish) year old memory so thanks for the actual words. I have since found the entire skit on RU-vid and it's still hilarious.
Celia Lovett Watching “Went with the Wind” on the Carol Burnett Show was quite the experience!!! I was laughing so hard I ended up rolling on the floor. My Mom’s side of the family lived in Atlanta during the Civil War. I’m from the west coast and would have been a Yankee! Anyway my MOM made my brother and I go see the movie when we were high schoolers. I read the 1300 page novel and cried at the end. A very epic movie 🥰🌷.
To think that Olivia De havilland has out lived them ALL even the little girl that played Vivien Leigh's little daughter , " Bonnie Blue" ! I think Olivia's over 100 yrs old now !!!
I first read the book when I was about 16 and feel in love with it. It was the first time that I felt the realization of the civil war and the importance of it. I’ve been fascinated with that era ever since. It was such a tragic time in history.
I read the book and Vivien Leigh was perfect for the role of Scarlett. There was only 1 difference between Scarlett and Vivien and it was eye color. Scarlett’s eyes were green but Vivien Leigh’s eyes were blue so that’s why Vivien wore a lot of green was to try to make her eyes look more green than blue.
And the eye colour is incidental anyway. There were actually lots of differences (Scarletts black hair, not being described as beautiful, strong brows) but none of that matters. Vivien was perfect as she was. She WAS Scarlett
I’ll say it was iconic ! Probably the most recognized item from a film as Dorothy’s ruby slippers ! And didn’t the curtain dress look great on Carol Burnett ?! ( lol ).
Has anyone watching this ever read the book. It has nothing to do with slavery or perceived racism. Those issues are only a backdrop to the story. It is a story of privilege, love and loss. Built around a time of brother killing brother and the tribulations of a 16yr old girl who grows into womanhood through the horrors of war and the realisation of what her womanhood could do for her advancement. Instead of, as Ashley did, lamenting a lost age. Scarlet powers forward to rise above mediocrity and laziness. As with the human condition, you never realise what you have until its gone. Gone with the Wind.
The movie is a great film, the book is closer to real life & deserved the Pulitzer. Mitchell did a huge amount of research, and grew up around people who lived through the war. Mitchell can’t be faulted for the racial attitudes, she was a Southern woman of her time & it’s just the way it was. Scarlett was a planter’s daughter, people criticize the story because it was about a rich girl who lost everything. She fared no better than poorer landowners. I have my family stories, poorer families with farms, one couple lived on corn pone for awhile because it was all they had after the Yankees stole & destroyed everything. The story of loss is universal. My family had the same experiences, starvation, dead & maimed loved ones, loss of money & land. That book is extraordinary as a tale of America. A story of the CW registered with people during the Depression. It ranks with Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, & I like to add To Kill a Mockingbird because it’s my favorite book after GWTW.
I saw this movie at the theater for the first time when I was about 9 years old. If you haven't seen it on the big screen you are really missing something. After seeing it on television many times it came to our local theater. My husband had never seen it on the big screen. Only a few people showed up and we were the only ones that stayed to the end. I loved all the costumes and hats and for that reason will continue to enjoy it for what it is. A book made into a movie.
You miss the point i think. Django portrayed the true brutality whereas i think people have a problem with the sugarcoating of slavery this movie has. Still a great movie though. It will survive for sure.
@@jd0604 Yes, sugar-coating or not showing reality. We can think of it this way about the film: what Scarlett did to that exhausted horse = the actual treatment of slaves in the era.
I had poor farmer ancestors who had a slave whipped. I also had plantation ancestors who treated the slaves so well they came back to the farm after they nearly starved with the Yankees. Slavery was a brutal system that the South held onto too long, & if you read enough history you find a lot of Southerners were disgusted with it & the deep South planters who owned hundreds of slaves & wanted to continue the system-slavery was a huge part of the financial system of the South. I dislike the generalization of the treatment of slaves. Every slave owner was not brutal. Every slave did not get whipped.
Gone with the Wind is miles better than anything Hollywood makes these days, and it will be remembered long after all the modern woke rubbish has been forgotten.
The thing with the HBO removal is that they were put in a situation of ‘damned if u do and damned if u don’t”. Making it available to stream can be considered as being in favor of slavery and idolizing confederates by a lot of people, while at the same time, many other people will get pissed if they think they’re banning it by removing it. HBO did the right thing by relaunching GWTW with an explanation behind this great film and how preserving these films can be hurtful and intense but necessary for understanding history.
Show the movie. People with a problem can stay home & leave the rest of us the hell alone. All the whining in the world currently makes me sick & angry.
I agree. The performances of Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen brought more dignity and compassion for Black Americans and for that alone, this movie should be protected and remembered. The selfish self absorbed portrayal of Scarlette O'hara with Hattie McDaniel's character was shocking to many of the time and showed the first Black character with more love, compassion and real charity than many other characters and her work alone needs to be respected.
@@billmeeker774 I’m as liberal as you can get, and I don’t want it banned either. And honestly, as good as Vivian Lee is, and her performance is probably the best ever committed to film, we have Clark Gable to thank. The script was full of the n-word (just like the book) and Mr. Gable refused to say that word. He said “If you want me, that word goes.” And everyone wanted Gable as Rhett. This one man taking a stand will keep this movie with us.
I lack words to respect all about this film. I love the film and the author and all characters in Gone with the Wind. Terrific both the novel and the film. Until now, no film has ever caught the more attention and love for it will live forever, I hope.
The production is just so otherworldly. GwtW simply shows how literature art would stand on its own... to be pulled of so accurately and to be presented so fantastically in a visual form.
Por todos conocida pero vista por tan pocos actualmente, un pecado de omisión para quien se llame un verdadero cinéfilo, en lo personal, la mejor película de la historia aunque pese, adelantada a su época, la obra maestra de David O’ Selznick y apoyado por un ejército de los mejores de su época!!!
We have got to stand up for this movie!! Together in One Accord or we will lose it! This movie is Awesome & Hattie McDaniel is Spectacular in it! HISTORY shld never ever be trashed but cherished for the love of those who lived it. We learn from the past & from those who endured it! Our History shld be upheld & left standing!
I saw this movie the first time in 1976, it was required viewing for school, we took the bus to the local theater to see it. I went to the theater to see it on the 80th anniversary also. I read the book the first time to find out what Melanie told Rhett to let them bury Bonnie. It wasn’t in the book either😊, but I loved the book too and have reread it several times. I watch GWTW on DVD at home. GWTW is a beautiful movie. Not as close to truth as the book, but it should not be taken as a real history lesson. It’s the story & the beautiful presentation, the way it makes you feel. Great achievement in movie making. The book is extraordinary.
The first black persons to win the Oscar and she earned it too, no quotas or political bullshit, just good acting and a grateful heart. She was black in 1938, !!!
She dealt with racist shit until the day she died. She couldn't even be buried at Hollywood Cemetery( now Hollywood Forever Cemetery) because of being black. Black in 1938, do you really know what that meant?
18:23 it is said here, and I have always heard it told, that Hattie McDaniel, the actor who played Mammy, could not attend the oscars to collect her award in person because she was black, yet in another documentary from 1987, we can see Hattie stepping up to collect her Oscar. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3B4blSwOqNM.html approx 23 minutes in. So what’s happening there?
I believe it was the director, fought hard to even get her in. Yes it’s unbelievable but what’s worse is that aside from winning the oscar, no one mentions she was the first African American to ever even be at the oscars. I think that in itself is amazing.
This is exactly why we MUST learn True History & uphold it bcz there are others trying to erase it & tell our young people lies! Even during the Civil war & before that were whites that did not have slaves. There were many more who had them but regarded them as friends & family. Treated them so well, that they did not want to leave & stayed on as paid workers & part of that family. The lies are rampant about that era. We must not believe the new narrative but remember & tell the true History of that time. I think most of the misinformation is told now days to stir up hate in America. Furthering the tensions through the land. Mainly bcz if we can not stand in one accord, our enimies from without can march in & destroy our Country & wipe us off the map!! Let us not choose hate but love & stand together in the modern era we live in! Red & yellow, black & white they are precious in His sight!! Pray for America & each other. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hattie McDaniels attented the Oscar's but had to sit at a separate table in the back. She could NOT attend the premiere in Atlanta because of the Jim Crow laws in place at the time.
I heard about that, and it was quite a shame, considering that she contributed greatly in that movie, and fully deserved to win that Oscar.It's a great, classic film.
I went to this exhibition in 2014. It was spectacular. There's an error in this film. At 3:39 it mistakenly shows a picture of George Cukor instead of David Selznick. Which is funny, because they were frequently mistaken for one another back in the '30s. Cukor made jokes about it in interviews.
The photo at 3:39 is unquestionably Cukor and not Selznick. The photo appears, correctly identified, in the book commissioned for the exhibition, "The Making of Gone With the Wind" by Steve Wilson, page 2.
But Hattie McDaniel DID attend the Oscar ceremony contrary to what is stated in this documentary. I read somewhere though that her acceptance speech had been written for her.
I think they got confused. Hattie did attend the Oscars but was banned from the premiere because Atlanta was racist as hell. Even Clark Gable threatened to not attend if they not allowed Hattie to go, but she talked him out of it.
I am 78 years old I first saw this movie when I was 9 over the years I couldn't possibly remember how many times I have watched it. It is timeless in fact I think I will watch it right now ❤
❤ I watch part two in early 1970s Boxing day x it was split into two parts x to.make sure other movies and shows got fair slots x just brought another dvd mine was bit old x
I first saw GWTW when it was re-released in theaters in 1967. I was 10 years old and l was just blown away. I loved everything about it from the opening theme song to the characters and the costumes and sets. I thought Vivien Leigh was the most beautiful actress l ever saw. I remember the large theater was packed.
And to all those who want us to engage in censorship of this film (not to mention the removal of statues and more erasure of HISTORY, I do not care about your knee-jerk responses to my comments. Rational dialogue may currently be unpopular in some quarters and under attack in others. And that I DO care about. But it’s pushing 4am so I’ll make this uncharacteristically short and simply remind all of us of an old expression; “ACT IN HASTE. REPENT IN LEISURE.” A dialogue on this issue would be welcome.
Scarlett’s experience was the same as my poor farmer ancestors, starvation, want, fear, dead & maimed men, loss of money & land. My people survived, Scarlett went further, she was going to survive and be rich. Great character study, Scarlett.
My family moved to Florida when it was the deep south. My school still wasn't desegregated 4 years after the Supreme Court decision. We've come so far now in the US.
It's absolutely heartbreaking that Margaret Mitchell was mowed down by an Atlanta taxi driver. The story of Margaret Mitchell is fascinating, including how Gone With the Wind came to be. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4rzQBbIOvks.html
People should make up their own minds, skip it if you don’t like it. This is censorship & cultural marxism. NOBODY has the right to tell me what or how to THINK.
If you want to assess the importance of GONE WITH THE WIND, compare it to THE JAZZ SINGER only ten years before. GONE WITH THE WIND was a great achievement in film making. Listen to the dialogue. Rhett and Scarlett aren't hero and heroine. They're anti-hero and anti-heroine. Read Margaret Mitchell's letters, too. I think they will confirm this.
I understand the reason GWTW is a horrible representation of slavery and it’s black characters. Unfortunately that also is part of America’s history. Erasing our past from books and movies doesn’t erase history. It’s important we all reflect on this movie and talk about it’s faults, if we cancel it, there’s no dialogue.
I would like to write the second book to "Gone with the Wind." I thought the tv version of the second book ... was a flop. And was sadly disappointing.
I didn't see the tv version, but did read the book... and gave it right back to the library. It was written in the 1990s with a 1990s mindset and was very self-consciously, and anachronistically, trying to "atone" for the "sins" of the original, from a 1990s point of view. Blecch.
For a professor of film. Tom Schatz is pretty ignorant of his subject. In one sequence, he says Margaret Mitchell had Gable in mind when she wrote the book. False; She always insisted Rhett Butler was not based on Gable at all. Then he says Vivien Leigh was a last-minute decision when introduced by brother Myron at the burning of Atlanta. False; Leigh had been one of the 2 finalists (with Paulette Goddard) for some time. Selznick screened all her movies and watched Fire Over England at least six times before he met her in the flesh. Bad professor! Bad! Bad!!
An attempt to provide the text of the handwritten letters: 8:24 “Athens GA Mr. David B. Selznick: You are no doubt receiving many letters regarding the (sub? pic) I am (interested) in. To the extent of writing to you.” 8:25 “on your hands when you select the casting of this *_big_* picture. *Clark Gable* is perfect for Rhett Butler. But ____ please give Scarletts (sic) role to a woman who has the *_Southern dialect. Come South_* and study our *dialect*. I don’t know your people as you do, but it” After getting out my magnifying glass to decode the writing, it looks like this is part of the original for the typewritten letter at 8:19. Good that they transcribed it for the director xp
The TV version of "Gone with the Wind" 2and book...Has Scarlett going back to "England, Ireland" with all the frolicking and Not enough about Tara and the rebuilding of the South. In which, I believe Scarlett as a Southern Woman would have gone to no end to restore O' HARA SOUTH....
I try to introduce Gone with the wind to as many people as i can its been almost a year since i first saw it and its still engraved in my mind. This movie will always be my number one and is a great caliber in its own and can rival modern movies to this day.
the older I get, the more I can get outta this movie & the book, (which is better in my opinion, plus must read the sequel "Scarlett") life is hard & we need to be tougher... tomorrow is always another day! I cried after watching it again for like the n-th time I couldn't recall anymore, & I cried for the 1st time upon seeing how Scarlett lost almost everyone & everything when arrived at home, the rich glorious old times is gone now, she must make herself out of nothing & she did it at whatever the costs she could afford, truly remarkable, what a woman!
regardless of slavery, or racism, or whatever cancel culture/WOKE idea is out there, I believe everyone needs someone like Mammy close by to do us some good in life, like just give the real sh*t straight in your face whenever is needed. that's priceless & should be cherished, real love & care. I love it!
The Great Depression DID NOT end in 1936. In fact 1936-37 were two of worst years during the Great Depression era. It wasn't until the outbreak of WW2 that the economy started to turn around and it wasn't until 1943 that full employment was achieved.
@@lauragranger9813 Hey that's another Mary Louise! Funny because I read the book during summer holidays. I was bored & my sister said "Here, read this you'll enjoy it" And of course I did & couldn't put it down & finished it in 3 weeks, then saw the film at the local theatre with my mother & sister & loved it as well. I didn't like Leslie Howard as Ashleigh but my mother said he was considered handsome at the time. Also in the book Scarlett has I think 3 children a boy definitely & another child I can't remember. People always comment on how racist this story is & surely it is, but the author Margaret Mitchell wrote this novel & gathered her information from older relatives who told their stories from this time. So of course the content has a lot of contentious issues relating to civil war, but that's the history of the abolition of slavery & the struggle of the South
laura granger It definitely captures the spirit of the book. In the film, Scarlett is homogenized. There’s no depiction/mention of her reading Melanie’s mail, her threat of abortion, and how she treated her children.
@@tall9317 You are nuts. This was the first time an African American woman won an Oscar. I think you would fit right in when the Nazi burned books! Sounds like you are a PC Nazi. You need to read 'Fahrenheit 451' 1984 and 'Brave New World' Or perhaps you are the product of the Leftist education system that doesn't teach what the First Ammendment really means. I must admit at first I was angry. But really I'm sad and disappointed that we have a large segment of the population that buys into the cancel, PC everything's racist movement. But you definitely have the right to Express your opinions under our Constitutional Republic that puts the rights of the individual above the Mob of the Collective. Sounds like you stand with the Collective☹
STEVE R hmmmm, definitely not the same the film has been used to push a flawed narrative of the south. And am I supposed to be happy that Hattie had to play a mammy maid (slave) in order to win an Oscar at a hotel she wasn’t even allowed to stay in or sit with the rest of the cast. No thank you, this isn’t the history that should be glorified.
