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for it's time it was one of the most intricately produced film----the 2 main actors were popular in hollywood and as today popularity does not always equal being good at the craft----as for me i loved it as it appealed to my inner desire to be a southern lady(AVIDLY READ AS MANY SOUTHERN ORIENTED BOOKS AS I COULD SINCE I WAS 10)
Vivien Leigh was actually an unknown at the time in the US. Olivia de Havilland was better known at that time.
Vivien Leigh was actually an unknown at the time in the US. Olivia de Havilland was better known at that time.
That is true. Vivien Leigh was a rising star on the English stage. She had just made an English film called Fire Over England with Laurence Olivier at the time they were considering actresses for the role of Scarlett. Myron Selznick (David O.'s brother) was a Hollywood agent considering Olivier for American representation, and therefore was screening the movie. As he watched the movie (and being well aware of his brothers' casting dilemma), his attention drifted to Leigh's passionate performance, and a bell rang.
Scarlett O'Hara was a crazy, conceited, conniving, sociopathic beeyotch. And she serves as the movie's protagonist?
Then there's Mammy.
"Oh, Miss Scarlett, if you don't eat right nows....oooooh, you gonna make me die Miss Scarlett cuz you knows I cants take the thought of you doing anythang to hurt yourself. I looves this family Miss Scarlett and I dun loves you before I even loved me Miss Scarlett."
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I believe it's a archetypal literary form. Called the Anti Hero.
Gotta watch it in the proper context. A lot of it makes me wince, but Gable's so textbook-great-how-to-be-charming (straight male here) and Leigh and McDaniel are so good and the Technicolor's so gorgeous that I always watch part of it if it's on.
Also always got creeped out when she first returns to Tara after the ride from Atlanta, and the ride itself. Great effect.
Also always got creeped out when she first returns to Tara after the ride from Atlanta, and the ride itself. Great effect.
And if that scene was well portrayed in the film, the part in Mitchell's book is incredibly drawn. It still gives me chills, years after first reading it.
So don't watch it. I, personally, have loved it since I first saw it when I was about six in the early 60s (they regularly ran it at major theatres so I got to see it on the big screen). But, hey, I didn't like Star Wars (the first one - never saw any of the others). So to each his own.
And if that scene was well portrayed in the film, the part in Mitchell's book is incredibly drawn. It still gives me chills, years after first reading it.
I remember reading the book when I was a teenager. No wonder it was 1,037 pages long. Mitchell was so descriptive. I marveled at the detail she included. But, the degree of detail was actually ultimately overdone and overwhelming for the average reader.
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