The Greatness Of Gone With The Wind 

This is the greatest praise I could get for this video. Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

@@BigShotCritic Hello from France It was a pleasure to hear from you. The final scene with Scarlett crying on the stairs, as familiar voices lead her back to Tara is DOS's idea. He explains in his memos that when he brought this idea to his team they were skeptical and thought it wouldn't work, of course he imposed his point of view. And it gave us one of the most beautiful scenes in the history of cinema.

Agreed. I wasn't kidding when I said in the video that without that scene I would've hated the movie. Oh, the internet. Someone watched my video in France! 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

@@BigShotCritic In Austria as well!

@@BigShotCritic in Argentina as well. As a GWTW collector myself all my congratulations to you!!!

I think you're right

Yeah because she didn't realize that she loved Melanie, she couldn't imagine Ashley loving Melanie. But once she realized just how love worthy Melanie was amd how much she herself loved her, she finally understood that Ashley really loved Melanie. Before that she just didn't and couldn't believe it since she didn't see Mekamie's worth

Not particularly interested in Scarlett… it’s all about Rhett and Melanie

No, I think you are wrong. Rhett Butler saw exactly who was Scarlett : a childish personality who breaks her toys. He said something deep after rejoining the confederates at the last moment and being slapped by Scarlett : I love the lost causes. Of course he was referring to his unrequited love for Scarlett and his desperate attempt to be loved by her. No Scarlett O'Hara never loved Melanie or Rhett. She only regretted to have lost them.......HUGE DIFFERENCE ! The only thing she constantly loved was Tara. A plantation.

Here's hoping I never take comments like this for granted. I appreciate you and your very kind words.

@@BigShotCritic You are welcome and I am looking foreward to watch more of your videos - one of the very few advantages of lockdowns :)

me too i've never seen a better one, he did such an awesome job with this--i agree with you sooo much with this just wanted you to know !!!

I first saw the movie when I was 11 and have been enthralled with GWTW ever since 💚

Glad you enjoyed it!

No argument here!

I've watched the movie three times, lol! It's my favorite movie.

Is it bad to admit I've only seen it twice?

@@BigShotCritic No not at all!

For comparison... you say it's your favorite movie... I've watched my favorite movie probably around sixteen times. That's my estimate.

Perhaps the problem Selznick faced wasn't how to make the ending less sad, but rather how to represent Scarlett's thoughts. The making-of documentary included in the version I used for this review did not mention that about the book.

The documentary is misleading. It does make it sound like Selznick came up with the idea when he was desperately trying to decide upon a good ending. The truth is that Sidney Howard ended his original screenplay with the three voices (Gerald, Ashley, Rhett) coming back to Scarlett in her mind. Selznick (with the help of other writers) did make considerable changes to Howard’s original work; however, the entire end of the movie (from Melanie’s death scene to THE END) was filmed exactly as written by Howard 😇 BIG EDIT: Oops! Now *I* stand corrected! I just re-read the introduction to the book GWTW: The Screenplay (Collier/McMillan, 1980), and it explains that Howard’s original ending was brief and anticlimactic and, not surprisingly, to Selznick’s liking. (Sorry! It’s been a while since I’ve read the introduction to this book!) The screenplay printed in this book “takes Sidney Howard’s adaptation as a base and adds to it material written by the other sixteen (count ‘em!) collaborators.” The final scene in this book appears just as in the film, but apparently it was indeed one of the scenes re-written by Selznick, and he sent it to the set (just in time!) on June 8. I’m glad I was able to find this specific information and correct myself here. Selznick and his team were constantly re-writing scenes, even all during the shooting, so tis a wonder how anyone knows exactly who wrote what!

@@cturtleGA I guess that's what you get when the documentary was produced by the David Selznick's descendants, wasn't it? Lol. Even so, it's clear Selznick was a great producer. And that was what struck me the most about all of it. Producers these days are SO out of touch with theme and how to tell a story.

@@BigShotCritic I made a BIG EDIT to my comment above, so please take a look! Selznick WAS a great producer, and he’s famous (infamous?) for his control of every detail. In the case of GWTW it certainly paid off, and the screenplay in its much-tinkered-with final form certainly ended up working beautifully! 💚

The guy was a genius, no doubt. Thank you for all your additional information!

I have to say, the Gone With The Wind community is easily the kindest and most supportive I have had interactions with on RU-vid. Thank you so much!

In the ten years from the film until her tragic death, it seems that Mitchell's attitude toward race became much more progressive: She contributed thousands upon thousands of dollars to the local Black college, drove into the segregated part of Atlanta to nurse her housekeeper ill with 'flu when no white people would go there, had a hospital built for Black citizens, and funded many scholarships for Black doctors. PBS American Master's series did an excellent biography on her some years back. Had she lived into the 60's she might very well have supported the civil rights movement of the time.

It's in the Novel!! The "running in the mist" section, when she's running for Rhett harks back in the novel to that recurring dream Scarlett always had during her marriage with Rhett. The "running" sequence was also truncated a little bit during post-production and during the sequence's editing -- and before the movie premiered.

I really should read books sometime haha. But there are so many movies! Seriously, I'm thrilled to get all these comments from people who are very familiar with the book.

BSC, reading the book IS quite a time commitment, BUT once you get started you are bound to enjoy it. It’s historically accurate, very moving, and most of all just downright good story-telling. Whenever I read it, I’m always surprised just how entertaining it is, especially for writing that’s 85 years old!

@@cturtleGA Won the Pulitzer as well as the hearts of many!

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It's epic, but it has some really serious problems, too.

Thank you for that. It really does! *Tara theme pops into my head again*

with us too@@BigShotCritic

I hope I can spread some understanding of this movie

Melanie and Rhett?? NEVER! 😅 they respected each other but nothing about it was romantic!

Lol Scarlett was an absolute sow that cared more about her waistline than having sex with her husband. Rhett can do better.

This is such a lovely comment. Thank YOU! Much love from AZ!

A worthy choice for sure

Thank you!

Too bad Margaret Mitchell didn't write more books, she did a genius job on GWTW.

Thank you! It's not my personal favorite movie, but I completely agree that it has no match.

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I used to think that Leslie Howard was miscast as Ashley. However, I now realize the physical description of Ashley in the novel wouldn't have worked in the movie. For the story arc to work, the audience has to know Ashley was never right for Scarlett.

I saw Captain Blood on Turner Classic Movies channel YEARS ago. It's time it goes on my watchlist again. Literally all I remember is the gag about the small piece of wood to "shore up" the man's backbone.

@@BigShotCritic this movie can be found on movie channels on the internet, just enter the title of the movie on a google search and you can watch for free greetings from Poland Robert 😀😀😀😀

Here's hoping we all have the tenacity (if not the ruthlessness) of Scarlett.

I'm not convinced that Atlanta Premiere has been surpassed anywhere in the world.

Thanks!

Thank you for your kind words! I'm thrilled you enjoyed it

I don't think there is enough talent left in Hollywood to even attempt to remake it.

Thankfully there seems to be no interest in remaking it

@@BigShotCritic They cast a black woman as Scarlet, Rhett would be transgender and slavery wouldn't even be mentioned. That is literally how deranged Hollywood has become.

Thank you very much, and welcome aboard!

Thank you so much! I could go into the reasons why I think I only have that many, but for now I'll just say tell your friends about the channel, and rest assured I have no plans to stop!

How did you find my channel?

Dude, I know plenty of native English speakers with way worse English than yours haha. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your compliments.

@@BigShotCritic and I really love your review. I love GWTW so much that I become one of the greatest GWTW and Vivien Leigh collector in the world. I was very shy when I first saw it and Scarlett spirit and strengh made me stronger. I will treasure your priceless review. Big hugs and Thank you!!!!!

That's awesome that the movie affected your life in that way

@@BigShotCritic GWTW is special. It touches our inner feelings. The film shows the love for your loving places..your family..how to survive..your roots. It was done in a way that its impossible not to feel close to those feelings..if u can understands me. Every single day I have to see some scenes and they gaves me strengh. Your comment on the film is exactly. You " touches" or make a point in all GWTW things. Again..the film changed my life. It MOVES.

It's powerful. There's no other movie like it that I know of

With a comment like this I'm ready to watch your review of Gone With The Wind! Thank you for watching! I'm glad you liked it

Thank you!

Thank you! You're very kind!

@@BigShotCritic thank you for your work.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!

It's one of the most beautiful films to behold, surely

@@BigShotCritic ❤️❤️

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I appreciate you. I believe I have that DVD with that documentary. If it’s the one I’m thinking of I did watch that as part of my research for this video.

@@BigShotCritic So glad you've got it. Btw, I live one block from the Margaret Mitchell House, where she wrote The Book. :)

Thank you for watching! I really appreciate it!

It's unbelievable. And as much as I love movies and believe in the future of movies, I don't think it will ever be topped. I don't believe public interest in motion pictures will ever be as high as it was in 1939 (movies are no longer the new, exciting form of entertainment), and the storytelling mastery on display in GWTW can hardly be exceeded anyway. It will remain the biggest box office smash in history, and it deserves it.

"Cancelling" Gone With The Wind has nothing to do with slavery. It's just part of an ongoing effort to make history itself unfashionable so that the masses have no sense of culture whatsoever, and are that much easier to control and manipulate. Fortunately, human nature values culture very much. It is for this reason this effort to do away with culture will fail.

I'm very grateful people are appreciating this video so much. GWTW was a tough nut to crack!

Thanks much!

If you watched the whole video bracing yourself for when I would talk about "problematic" portrayals, and breathed a deep sigh of relief when I didn't even acknowledge the alleged controversy around this movie, then that makes me very happy indeed. On my channel, the only mention of woke-ism you will find is me occasionally making fun of it, and revealing it for the destructive mindset it really is. And if you want channels specifically devoted to making fun of woke-ism, and pointing out how damaging it is, I'd recommend Overlord DVD, Nerdrotic, and The Critical Drinker.

Thank you for stopping by on my channel. I'm really glad you liked it

Thank you so much! And that is awesome! I've never even been to Georgia! But when I go through, I'm sure to make a point of seeing Clayton County!

@@BigShotCritic Clayton County is a suburb of Atlanta now and part of the big sprawl. But right in downtown Jonesboro there is a small but very nice GWTW museum (The Road to Tara Museum, located in the old train depot) where you can also take a bus tour, an antebellum plantation house (Stately Oaks), and a Confederate cemetery where soldiers who died in the Battle of Jonesboro were laid to rest.

Dang! I know who to talk to when I want to go visit!

@@BigShotCritic HA HA 🤪 Well, I’ve been a “Windy” since I was 11 years old. I grew up in DeKalb County (another Atlanta suburb) and it’s just serendipitous that I ended up in Jonesboro later on in adulthood, and lived a stone’s throw from these attractions. I now live on the GA coast, but I would be delighted to meet you up there when you do visit 😎

Always glad to see Southern hospitality alive and well. I lived in parts of Texas and Louisiana for a time, and found the people there very friendly and kind

Thank you! Perhaps with more practice I'll be ready to say more about GWTW. As of now, I have not the skill to go beyond twelve minutes and have anything meaningful and original to say. Of all my videos, this was the hardest to write, and this movie was the toughest nut to crack.

Thank you!

My pleasure!

I'm glad you liked it!

Isn't it amazing? These people were brilliant

Gone With The Wind has so many super-fans that know so much more about it than I do. I'm humbled that many of them have enjoyed my video

Wonderful! If I have genuinely contributed to the analysis of GWTW, I count that as one of my greatest achievements.

Thanks!

I love hearing about everybody's experience with this movie and all the different positive impressions people have! Thank you for stopping by and enjoying my video!

I really really appreciate that. That seriously means a lot to me.

I appreciate you. Just reading the tone of this comment, I’m pretty sure you and I are on the same page about those things. I can sum up my opinion of people getting hung up on those things in a single emoji: 🙄

It's a lot to take in

Yeah you're right I could've phrased that better. It's only in terms of hanging onto Ashley that she looks back or lives in the past. In all other ways you're right, she looks forward.

I'm a fan of Timothy Dalton, so I do want to see that movie one day. Was it a book as well? I don't recall.

@@BigShotCritic yes it was also a book

I take it it's a bit more divisive than the original then 😅

@@BigShotCritic It is, but I quite liked it myself when I read the sequel. I enjoyed Timothy Dalton as Rhett, and how he tried to do a passable Charlestonian accent, because Rhett was from Charleston in the book.

Thank you for your kind words!

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

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There are no real contenders

Our gorgeous Vivien Leigh should never be forgotten, the British should be proud of her, she was the best actress to come out of England.

Thank you!

Thank you very much!

Thank you! Yeah I can't stand thinking she doesn't get him back

Thank you for watching!

Welcome aboard! Is it too early to talk world domination?

@@BigShotCritic never to early! We might have spiderman try to stop us on our way but well get there!

Very well said

Say it loud and proud

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video

I'm really glad you like it!

Her stubbornness and tenacity was a strength as well as a weakness. She didn't lose Tara, but she did a few dishonorable things to keep it. And there's plenty wrong with marrying her first husband just so Ashley would be jealous.

It’s just astronomical

Hard to disagree

They can try, but I don't believe they will succeed.

@@BigShotCritic I have the German edition of GWTW on DVD, just in case 😅😉👍

You are right! I wanted to talk about it but by the time I rounded out the script as you see it, I just couldn't find the right moment to discuss the music. Perhaps the music warrants a video of its own!

a tough one to review too

It's absurd. It's foolish.

Amazing how riveting it can still be

Thank you for watching

True!

I'm very glad I could provide something new for the GWTW community. You guys have been the highlight of the fandoms I've touched on.

Thank you

Hahahaha there is far too much realism to your interpretation, oh dear

Who doesn't love Mammy? As a fan of Timothy Dalton, it is on the list! And my expectations are . . . reasonable, I think.

The sequel, “Scarlett” was awful!

Makes for a nice thumbnail too