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Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker
"Gone with the Wind." Sorry . . . Can't stand it. It romanticizes womanizing and for me personally, all four hours of it basically
boil down to a shallow drama about a spoiled brat who eventually learns that it would be a good idea to change because
a war just burned down her entire state and impoverished everybody and their dog including her. Sorry, but she
should have figured that out by the end of the first reel. "As God is my witness I'll never be hungry again," rah-rah-rah
we get it, now get out in the field and work to repair your state like every single one of your neighbors already is. Sorry
to any fans, but I just simply don't get this movie.
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She's even more dis-likable in the book, and dumber. Rhett rips her to shreds through the whole book, but it just goes over her head. The movie didn't really capture that aspect of the book, but despite her behavior you end up somehow rooting for her. How ruthless and passionate she is, which is why she survives while others who are stuck in the "old" ways fail in the New South, like Ashley. Plus I saw this movie when I was pretty young and was mesmerized by Vivien Leigh. I'm also a big fan of Clark Gable. I will say the romanticizing of slavery in both the book and movie is distasteful, but unfortunately a product of the times.