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Gone with the Wind (1939) watch along (Patreon)

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2026-06-06 07:01:01
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Here we are! At #6 on the AFI list!

An interesting and immensely flawed epic masterpiece! Yet extremely compelling! My favourite takeaway is getting to watch the amazing Vivien Leigh! I left it all in my outro. I did have a hard time sorting through my thoughts on this one, so thank you for listening to my post-movie rambles as I digested this film in real time, LOL!

I cut out my long-winded intro because I had thrown out my neck, so it took me extra time to get to sit down and watch this one the other day, but ALAS I made it, no problems! The pre-movie nap, Advil, and L-Theanine really helped!

Anywho! I will be interested to hear your thoughts on this movie, as usual!

xx

ames

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Toc

I'm starting this at 4 in the morning! A crazy time to start Gone With The WInd! :P

PIG

Incredible movie! Looking forward to your thought on both why you liked it and also why you saw flaws. I went to Margret Mitchell Elementary in Atlanta and they had these gigantic beautiful paintings in the gallery as kids waited to go to first and second grade. One particular one was a beautiful woman in a green gown with these steely eyes that mesmerized me. But it had this big stain on the corner, so I thought it was just old. Turns out it was the actual painting in the movie. The stain was from the drink that Clark Gable threw at Scarlet’s portrait (Margret Mitchell is the writer of Gone With the Wind). It only occurred to me when I grew up (followed by wikipedian the shit out it) but it’s so cool that they did that for an elementary school! The painting is now in a museum in Atlanta. I should go back to pay it some respect. Meet it as a little boy, meet it as a grown man.

Toc

Fantastic reaction, my favorite time ever watching Gone With The Wind......and congratulations!! A major title to cross of the list!

Reggie

I certainly agree that Gone with the Wind is epic. The production values of this film for 1939 are astonishing. I’d like to see it on the big screen like my dad did when he was ten years old that year. If pressed to offer an opinion on who the greatest actress in the history of cinema is, I’d be inclined to say it is the beautiful Vivien Leigh. That is based on this performance and the one she gave in A Streetcar named Desire. Her acting ability was just on another level. Hattie McDaniel made history winning an Oscar for this movie, and deservedly so. The performance she gave as the charming and decent Mamie is absolutely brilliant. Clark Gable as Rhett and Olivia Dehaviland as Melanie are superb as well. Which brings me to Leslie Howard’s Ashley, and a big problem I have with GWTW. When offered that role, he was initially reluctant to take it, as he did not think it was right for him. I would have to agree, as he is terribly miscast. Vivien Leigh was a British actress who absolutely nailed a southern accent, but Howard curiously retained his British accent despite portraying a man born and raised in Georgia. The dialogue of the film is engaging and funnier than I recalled, however Scarlett’s constant pining for Ashley does get annoying after a while. All things considered though, this is indeed a great movie. On a personal note, my family is from Louisiana, and two of my great-great grandfathers fought for the Confederacy. One lived for about thirty years after the war, and one died in the final year of it. My fundamental view of the war between the states (the motivations of which are passionately argued about even today) is that though it resulted in the end of the terrible institution of slavery in the U.S., the elites of both sides were primarily motivated by economics in waging it. The film focuses on wealthy southern plantation owners, but a huge number of men who fought for the south were farmers of modest means who were not slaveholders. The sad reality is that most people fight in wars out of a sense of duty, but often the wars they fight in are in someone else’s dubious interest, and not their own. Great reaction to an interesting film Ames!

JM63

First-time watch. This is an entertaining film with incredible performances from Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, and Olivia de Havilland, and it's also amazing from a technical standpoint. The main characters are pretty unlikeable and it's maybe a bit too long, but it's a fairly well-made movie. So for me, the difficulty is what to think about the film's troublesome political aspects, such as romanticizing the slavery-based plantation lifestyle and promoting the idea that Southerners fought to preserve a chivalrous and elegant way of life (i.e. the myth of the "Lost Cause"). I think this is an important film to watch while keeping in mind that Scarlett's ideas about how Southern whites and plantation holders were the "real victims" accurately depicts a certain type of misguided attitude in the post-Civil War South (and some other parts of the US).

Eric Lucas

I can't believe this! Amazing! My favorite historical movie of all time. Can't wait to see the reactions. Hype!

Brian

This is one I’m having to tackle in stages. I’m up to the mid movie intermission, just after Scarlett’s infamous “As God is my witness…” line, and I’ve got to stop & get some work done around the house. I’ve seen this several times before, but it’s been years since doing so. It’s jarring to see some of the scenes & dialogue, when seen & viewed through 2026 eyes & etiquette. Pretty uncomfortable to watch. But, I don’t think it’s completely fair to judge art from nearly 90 years ago by modern standards. No condoning, but… it was just a different time. Shit, I’ve recently seen a few movies from the 70’s that are so jarring in their blatant & over the top racism, they make Gone With the Wind look like an episode of Sesame Street by comparison. But, from a storytelling perspective, this absolutely holds up today. And Vivien Leigh is an absolutely smoke show! So beautiful, even though her character is such a spoiled brat asshole sometimes. But that’s the beauty of the role. She’s so fascinating to watch on screen, even when you want to strangle her sometimes!! 🤣❤️ To be continued soon. Loving this one, Mrs. A. 🙂

Clay F

The iconic "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is the only line I had heard from the movie before watching the movie the first time a month ago. Agree the interaction between Vivien and Rhett could be annoying. I was surprised the two lead characters had the type of flaws they did. Not the happy ending. Agree was tragic. The movie definitely an epic. The production is awesome, especially for the time. I thought some of the fire special effects were good. The main characters = good acting. All the Oscars seem well deserved. As a U.S. southerner, I am glad that civilization (with or without the caricatures) is gone with the wind. Sherman was a brilliant strategist and tactician, often regarded as one of the first "modern" generals. His 1864 Atlanta Campaign and "March to the Sea" = sad but severely crippled the Confederacy's ability to wage war, forcing a swifter end to the conflict. Sherman's March to the Sea (+ his Carolinas Campaign that immediately followed) = decisive in winning Civil War by breaking the Confederacy’s economic, logistical, and psychological capacity to fight. By marching 60,000 troops through Georgia, destroying infrastructure/supplies, and living off the land, Sherman decimated Southern morale and hastened war's end – an application of “total war.”