Today I saw Gone With the Wind for the second time, on the big screen. First time round I was mightily impressed by its scope and detail; this time I was bored.
Gone With the Wind Victor Fleming / George Cuckor / Sam Wood 1939 USA2nd time; big screen A stubborn heroine lives through the American Civil War, driven by her three passions - two are men, the other her homeland. Grandiose treatment of an important time in American history, balancing the brutalities of Civil War with a complicated love story which has its ups and downs, and certainly moments of delight. But on the whole, it is a tiresome, rather frivolous affair, all effort and little reward. It is a crafted film, not an artistic one, for which the producer, not the director(s), should get all the merit. Can production values alone save a film, though?
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