Gone With The Wind

1.  While discussing Gone With The Wind, we learned that this film was actually based off of a novel written by Margret Mitchell. She wrote this novel in 1936 and it took her over 10 years to write. This was her only novel and she passed away in 1949 because she was struck by a speeding car. The leading characters were Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh playing Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara. Vivian Leigh won an award for Best Actress and Clark Gable was nominated for Best Actor but unfortunately lost. Hattie McDaniel won an award for Best Supporting Actress and is also the first black woman to win an Oscar for her inspiring and loving role as Mammy. This was one of the longest films being 3 hours and 44 mins until 1939, and was also one of the first films shot in technicolor. Gone With the Wind is also still today the leading #1 film at box offices being the highest grossing film ever!

2. http://www.filmsite.org/gone.html
Within this article most of the information was discussed in class, but there was one thing that stood out to me. There was a lot of things in the film that were not represented from the novel. Like for example in the novel, Scarlett had two children before Bonnie. Also there was a lot of mentions of the KKK in the novel, but none was represented in the film. Which explains a lot about how movies today that are based of novels are created. Not every film can add every eccentric detail that novels have, and I believe that this film started that objective for other films to go by.

3. After reading this article, I didn't think about the film differently because I didn't read the novel. But I believe that the people who read the novel would be disappointed because in the article there was a lot of things mentioned that were not in the film. But if I did read the novel I think that I would be disappointed because I would be expecting the details that i first picked up on. But then I'd realize that when making films a lot of details would be left out and id have to accept that.

4. Before reviewing this film, I have heard of it before. It is a film that would always be noted as a film that stood the test of time and after watching the movie, I fell in love with it the same way audiences fell in love with it during this time period. The length of this movie was way to long for me but after understanding that Mitchell's novel was over a thousand pages long I understood why it was time consuming. The different stories all came together at the end and blew my mind. I never imagined Bonnie dying, as well as Scarlett's sister Melanie. I believe Gone With The Wind is an American classic and will always be the highest grossing film. The representation of the Civil War and staying home during that time while your loved ones are risking their lives is completely believable.  This film kept my attention the entire time and told a great story that I will forever remember.