Gone with the Wind

My personal rating scale:
5 *'s means WOW!One of my favorite movies :)
4 *'s means I enjoyed watching this movie!
3 *'s means This movie was okay..
2 *'s means I did not like this movie at all
1 * means I hated this movie A LOT!!


My personal rating for "Gone with the Wind" was 2 *'s out of 5 *'S.

Director: George Cukor
Producer: David O. Selznick
Main actors: Vivien Leigh (in the movie Scarlett O'Hara)
Leslie Howard(in the movie Ashley Wilkes)
Clark Gable (in the movie Rhett Butler)
Olivia de Havilland (in the movie Melanie Wilkes)

This movie's genre is drama-romance and it was adapted 1939 from Margret Mitchell's famous novel (1926) " Gone with the Wind".
The film won 8 Awards and it remains as one of the most popular and commercially successful movie ever made. It also focuses a lot on the Civil War.


This movie was about a woman called Scarlett O'Hara, who falls in love with her friend's husband, Ashley Wilkes. After a short time, he rejects her. Frustrated from that cirumstance, Scarlett marries her friend's husband, Charles. But he goes into war and dies. Scarlett, who is a widow now, moves away from home to her friend and sister-in-law, Melanie Wilkes ( Ashly's wife) in Atlanta.
After the Civil War invades, an old friend named Rhett Butler comes and wants to flee with all of them. But instead of really going with them, Rhett decides to go into war to impress Scarlett, who he has fallen in love with.
After the return to her parents's house( because of the danger during the Civil War), ScarlEtt finds out that her dear mother passed away, which shocks her terribly.
After marrying and losing (death) another man, Scarlett tells herself that she is in deep love with Rhett and she marries him, although deep inside she exactly knows that she is still in love with Ashley.
Scarlett even gives birth to a beautiful daughter, but all she can think of is Ashley and how to get him. After figuring out that his own wife still loves a completly different man, Rhett finally leaves her. And the final question is: Is Scarlett going to get the love of her life Ashley?


During this movie, I asked myself at least three times "Is it over yet?". And the answer was always no. This movie is very, very long, which is really annoying in my opinion. But after I found out that they even cut the length of the film, I was quite happy that I didn't have to watch the long version of it.
In the first few scenes, Scarlett seemed like a fun girl, who knows exactly what she wants and I really started to like her.
Well, that changed a LOT throughout the movie. She got selfish and spoiled and wanted everything to go the way SHE wanted it, otherwise she started yelling and freaking out.
I mean, I understand that she really loved Ashley and that she wanted him so bad, but she just exaggerated. I think, she should have accepted it, that he was married and she could not have him. He was already taken. But she did not, instead she married Rhett.
I didn't even know, which man she actually loved during her marriage with Rhett Butler, but I don't think she knew it either.
All in all, I think the movie was just too mixed up and too much drama to everything, even a little exaggerated, how she married all these man and it was never something serious and she was never really satisfied.
Also, I thought the scenes were way too slow. It took forever for the scenes to change to the next scene and that was kind of bugging me.

A pretty good quote, that I thought was memorable, was:
Scarlett: [to Rhett] If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
and:
Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.
Rhett Butler: And you, Miss, are no lady.

Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/plotsummary
http://www.filmsite.org/gone.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind
http://media.photobucket.com/image/gone%20with%20the%20wind/tlkbuterfly69/gone_with_the_wind.jpg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/quotes