On Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 7:44:23 PM UTC-8, Bill Anderson wrote:
> "K. Smith" wrote:
> > The wind done gone! Last week, I finally saw "Gone with the Wind" in its
> > entirely and I have to say, I'm impressed. The special effects actually
> > hold up pretty well to today's standards. The casting was perfect.
> > Scarlett O'Hara, I think, was an accidental anti-heroine. Surely she
> > wasn't meant to be sympathetic? She's got to be the most imperius
> > character ever created. I can only imagine audiences must have cheered
> > when Gable finally got around to saying, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give
> > a damn." That was the only curse word in the whole movie and it carried
> > more power than an entire Quentin Tarrantino movie.
> >
> > I don't know if I love this movie but I certainly can't stop thinking
> > about it.
> >
> > I'd like to hear opinions about what people thought of this grandiose
> > movie.
> >
> I go back and forth on this one. "Gone With the Wind" was reissued when I
> was just a kid, and all my parents’ friends were talking about how they'd
> loved it for years. So my level of anticipation was high when my folks took
> me to see it, and I was not disappointed. It was one of my first *adult*
> films, and I was swept away by the story and the music and the Technicolor
> cinematography and the sheer power of the melodrama. Since then, for me,
> GWTW has pretty much defined what it means to see a "big" movie. I checked
> IMDB to learn what year I must have seen it for the first time. It was a
> theatrical release -- saw it at the now-demolished Loew's State in Memphis,
> a fabulous old converted vaudeville house. Had to be in the late 50's, 1960
> at the latest. I was in Jr. High. But IMDB doesn't show a release date
> around that time. In fact, IMDB seems to indicate the first US re-release
> after 1939 was in 1967. That cannot be right.
> Anyway, years later, I took a date to see it -- she hated it and so did I..
> How could I ever have enjoyed such an overwrought potboiler? Then a few
> years ago, Ted Turner restored the print to its original glory and I watched
> it on television. This time I deemed it a masterpiece. And, I'm sure that
> someday I’ll watch it again. But frankly, I don’t know whether I’ll give a
> damn.
> --
> Bill Anderson
> I am the Mighty Favog

(Y. upload):

"GONE WITH THE WIND Screen Tests for Female Characters"