Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind
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A film beyond criticism, a work that welds together Hollywood classicism and literary adaptation with grace. Victor Fleming is the credited director, though at various times George Cukor and Sam Wood helped shape the narrative and rhythm. Ben Hecht was among several uncredited writers who worked on the screenplay adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's popular novel. William Cameron Menzies was the production designer. With Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel. "[the] moviest of all movies...there is something in most of us that will always treasure Selznick''s flair for old-fashioned, full-bodied narrative..." (Andrew Sarris, Atlantic Victor Fleming---USA---1939---222 mins.

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   | JohnH#1

Admittedly a great spectacle, but how can Facets say that Gone with the wind is "a film beyond criticism"? Let me start with one of my pet peeves: movies about the South that don't feature southern actors. Of the four leads, two (Leigh and Howard) were Brits and one, DeHavilland was a semi-Brit (born In Japan of a British father albeit partially raised in California). Only Clark Gable was American, and he was a Yankee. Even Black stars Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen came from up north. Beyond casting, Gone with the wind glorifies the worst aspects of the ante-bellum, Civil War and reconstruction South. It resuscitated the myth of the Lost Cause, made the Klan respectable again, gave Americans a skewed version of their history and poisoned raced relations for fifty years. Beyond criticism indeed! P.S. Let it be know that I have lived in rural South Carolina for 37 years. White South Carolinians have voiced the same criticisms to me.

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