The racism is clearly there for more reasons than historical accuracy. Although the film expresses the racism of the antebellum South, it's blind to more progressive attitudes that existed in 1939. If that rule were applied across the board we'd have very few classics left. The fashion with some today is to dismiss Gone with the Wind as racist trash, something that should be jettisoned as emblematic of an unenlightened past. Thirty-five years later, this Blu-ray is the first presentation I've seen that fairly represents what Gone with the Wind looks like in a good Technicolor print, with rich, often dark colors and a contrast range that leaps off the screen. County Museum of Art gave a memorable in-depth presentation on the movie, and followed it up with an exhaustive making-of book. I was in Los Angeles when Ron Haver of the L.A. Warners released an elaborate boxed set last fall, and followed it up with this single-disc, mostly extras-free Blu-ray edition, which is more than adequate for this reviewer.
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Big pieces of the movie are genuinely grandiose and transcendently emotional, and even the film's unregenerate racial attitudes can't tarnish its essential worth. Selznick must have been an impossible personality - the memos make him seem a megalomaniac - but he had faith in his own taste and judgment. Selznick's gamble was probably bigger than that of the fifties' studios that risked all on Biblical Road Shows, using the new technology of giant screens and stereophonic sound. Griffith's 1915 Birth of a Nation, then 25 years old and still considered an epic landmark. Selznick was certainly trying to top D.W. This particular movie was a big deal.ĭavid Selznick certainly thought big with Gone with the Wind, which may be the first American Road Show epic of the sound era. The scene isn't unrealistic and it doesn't trivialize the French resistance. Melville's hard-bitten French underground agents take time out during a clandestine London visit to catch a matinee of the movie. I'm reminded of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 movie Army of Shadows, which attests to the impact of GWTW. A million fans of Margaret Mitchell's wildly popular novel became instant fans of the film, which was shown in every country not yet overrun by Adolf Hitler. Selznick surprised everyone by coming up with a major event that took traditional Hollywood filmmaking to its logical extreme. After orchestrating a three-year media frenzy, David O. The original multitudes awed by the impact of Gone with the Wind are beginning to pass on now, leaving behind a younger population unaware of what a world-shaker the movie was when it premiered near Christmas of 1939. Written by Sidney Howard from the novel by Margaret Mitchell Production Design William Cameron Menzies Starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Butterfly McQueen, Victor Jory, George Reeves, Ona Munson. 70th Anniversary Edition / Street Date Janu/ 28.99
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GONE WITH THE WIND, winner of 10 Academy Awards, stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed.1939 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 233 min.
Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett's first two marriages. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett's passion. Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett.
Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard).
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