what do you think of gone with the wind?

Question

what is your opinion on it is rate please

Answer 1

i rate it a ten
this is my favorite book and movie of all time
people have to remember that is is fiction and not a fully true historical account of the south at that time. just watch it and try to enjoy it is excellent entertainment.i do not find it dated.

Answer 2

Greatest of All Movies....ever

Reasons are many:

Gone With The Wind is considered one of the greatest depictions of the Horror of the Civil war.

Clark Gable and Vivien were cast together and the association was Magical.

When Brett carried Scarlett up that staircase to the Bedroom in that Famous scene. No additional details were needed.

Yes, there was slavery. War was romanticized and certain stereotypes were depicted in the Movie.

I have read many critical reviews of Gone With The Wind. Some talk about racism and the Klan as being tolerated by the Producers.

In order to enjoy the Movie... You must put your self at that time and in that place in the South during the Civil War.

The film was awarded 10 academy awards.

The Painting of the Mona Lisa is a great work of art.....don't waste your time trying to explain why that painting is such a great piece of art............It just is...smiles.

Gone with the Wind is a great story and a Great movie.....Why?
It just is...more smiles.

View the Movie as it is: a Tale of the Civil war with Slavery and Love stories intertwined.

Gone with the Wind is and always will be a Cinematic Classic.

One has to see the Movie or Read the Novel to appreciate that.

Good question...Thanks

Answer 3

While it was truly an epic for its time, and the book is fantastic, it's way too overblown and overacted to me. The minor actors do a better job than the main... although I can't imagine anyone else portraying Rhett Butler than Clark Gable. Hattie McDaniel is a treat and even Olivia de Havilland as the saccharine Melanie is so-so, but I personally feel Vivien Leigh is a little melodramatic and not completely deserving of her Oscar. In fact, I would bet because it was such a HUGE film and epic, it won the Best Picture Oscar that year, beating out a TON of other worthy contenders (1939 was one of Hollywood's truly 'Golden' years). I would recommend reading the book, which is a little grittier and more entertaining than the slightly soap opera taste you get with the film. A 'fair' film that was well-costumed and filmed (good cinematography), but not excellent.

Answer 4

It was based on Margaret Mitchell's only novel, and was a big hit. Though it was long, (when rented, three parts), it told a great story about the war. Due to some polls, it's been listed at the AFI's for the best movie of all time. Go to AFI.org to see it there among other polls. It's a legendary film.

Answer 5

Frankly darling, I don't give a damn!!
Nah! I loved the movie, even if I find it too tragical... but that was the style at the time.... I don't know how Scarlett could be in love with the other guy when Rhett is such a hunk!!!
Too bad for the little girl, she was cute... I don,t think it was necesary to kill her.... I once saw a "sequel" mini-series where they finally get back together but it's not the original.....

Answer 6

Strictly as a movie, it's okay, I suppose, although a little melodramatic for my taste. As history, however, it is abominable. Unfortunately, too many people see it as an accurate representation of the Old South and of the Civil War, which is most emphatically is not.

The movie is a perfect depiction of what is called the Moonlight and Magnolias vision of the Old South. This was the mythical version of the South that Margaret Mitchell learned from her grandparents and other relatives and which she brought to life in her book. This vision has been more or less perfectly translated to the screen.

From the movie, one would tend to see the antebellum South as a period of gentility and grace, honor and chivalry, with beautiful people living in beautiful homes and wiling away the hours at a seemingly endless round of beautiful parties. All of this beauty is apparently made possible by a mere handful of slaves, all of whom are loyal to their beneficent masters.

This fabulous world was then smashed to bits by those dirty Yankees, who imposed their mercantilism and commonness on the Ladies and Gentlemen of Dixie, raising men like the uppity overseer Jonas Wilkerson to stations above what they deserved.

In reality, only about three percent of the population of the South owned any slaves at all, and most of those owned fewer than ten. Only about one percent were of the Planter class, meaning that they owned ten or more slaves and 150 or more acres of land. People at the level of Scarlett and Ashley would have accounted for a small fraction of that one percent. Plantations of the size of Tara and Twelve Oaks would have required the labor of hundreds of slaves.

Of the remaining 97% of the people in the South, there was a small middling class of merchants and fairly prosperous farmers, a much larger class of poor, hardscrabble farmers, and a very large number of slaves.

Slaves made up a third of the population of the South, and in some states, such as South Carolina and Mississippi, equaled or outnumbered the whites. Some slaves were treated better than others, but the majority were treated little better than livestock. For instance, slave marriages were not recognized, so it was not uncommon for families to be broken up, with wives, husbands, and children being sold off, like cattle or pigs, never to see each other again.

As an example of the sanitizing of history that goes on in the movie, consider the little nighttime excursion that Ashley and Rhett, et al., go on later in the movie, after the War. Their after-hours foray calls to mind the early rides of the Klan to scare blacks into keeping to their places, but in the movie the ride is presented somewhat more benignly.

I have no problem with people getting all misty-eyed over the love triangle between Ashley, Scarlett, and Rhett, or imagining themselves swirling around the dance floor at Twelve Oaks or Tara. Just remember that the movie is a fantasy, with little more grounding in reality than Star Wars.

Answer 7

Honestly,
I see that it is an american classic, and such a good cultered story, but I couldn't stay awake for the first 10 minutes,
And the book I didn't get passed the first page.

Answer 8

In 45 years of living, I've managed to never have seen the movie. At this point, it's kind of like a record, now, and I'm trying not to break it.

Therefore, my opinion of it is this: It's not worth breaking my record to watch it.

Answer 9

after all the hype through the years I was very disappointed I think the part that ruined it the most for me was that little black maid and her annoying voice "I don't know nothing bout birthin no baby's" aaahhh!!!!!!! some one kill her !
I give it half a star.

Answer 10

I dont think the wind blew hard enough