Happy Birthday "Gone with the Wind"

[MAKE BELIEVE]

15th December celebrates "Gone with the Wind" premiere in Atlanta

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...one-of-its-last-surviving-actors-mickey-kuhn/

 

[niennumb1]

I am convinced had this movie been released in competition with 5 other movies and as much volume of releases as we have now at the box office it would have never made as much as it did.

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

I am convinced had this movie been released in competition with 5 other movies and as much volume of releases as we have now at the box office it would have never made as much as it did.

The book that it was based on was THE bestseller at the time, the movie rights were bought before the book was released, a bit fo a gamble but in the end it paid off.
Those "if´s" can be used for a lot of movies, including our beloved Star Wars. Because today it may have never been made. But then again, didn´t Hollywood start planning a remake a few years ago?

 

[niennumb1]

Well I think you are mostly right on that. Who knows what would have been the bar raiser for fantasy/sci-fi films had Star Wars never come out. Lots of inspiration came from that film for years to come (and still do), so it's hard to say what would have been the Star Wars before Star Wars (based on had there been no inspiration from that film from the get-go).

Lucasfilm set a new standard for visuals and sound experience. It was an entirely separate beast on its own that did things no one else did. We've seen a lot of "best selling" novels get made into movies and do terribly or even just mediocre at the box office.

I wish Hollywood would take more gambles into the unknown instead of rehashing what's already out there into reboots. I think the only person they really let do that to a huge budget extent these days is James Cameron.... well and Marvel now (Guardians was a pretty big gamble for a property not many were familiar with like Avengers characters).

 

[0neiros]

It is a well crafted epic, just not one that I particularly like.

 

[Neoproks]

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about this movie.





Sorry, I had to :lol. I just never did enjoy Gone With the Wind, not my cup of tea.

 

[Probe Droid]

I've seen it a few times and always find it a big, hammy soap opera.

Don't know if it's true, but I heard once that in the scene where Atlanta burns and everyone's fleeing it's King Kong's wall burning in the background.

 

[FordPrefect]

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about this movie.





Sorry, I had to :lol. I just never did enjoy Gone With the Wind, not my cup of tea.

HAHAHA - OK that made me lol

 

[Monkey67]

The movie is good for what it was back in the day. The movie still stands the test of time tho. It won't be that huge today since times and ways have changed. But it did give you a huge ass fire and explosions that can't be beat today with out graphics.

It even produced the 1st African American Oscar nomination & winner. That is kinda big for a movie made in 1939.

Love it or hate, it is a classic and your grandma had the hots for Clark gable. Jk

your grandkids will likely find the movies we love today as cheesy or stupid. It's a cycle of the silver screen.

 

[batguy]

Modern people can't see that movie for what it was for a lot of reasons.

For one thing, the Civil War was barely out of living memory at the time.

The war, its fallout, the post-slavery reconstruction in the later 1800s . . . the South was trainwrecked in the 1860s-1880s. That doesn't just heal up in a couple decades. The effects were still being felt in the Depression before WWII. The economy was still shot. The landscape was still visibly scarred. Much of the audience watching Gone With the Wind in 1939 had grown up with amputated Civil war veterans sitting in their living rooms telling stories.

 

[JD]

We can try to knock the accomplishments of this movie. But, if you think about it - when this came out, there weren't a megaplex movie theaters everywhere you look. Going to a movie was an event - not something you did just about every Saturday night.

Adjusted for inflation the movie made $1.6 billion and 200 million saw it... in 1939, when the population was smaller; but, they also had multiple releases and no home video. Anyway you add it up, this movie was huge and incredibly successful and worthy of recognition.

(...and I've never seen it).

 

[Michael Bergeron]

Overrated as a film, but undeniable as a ground breaker on a several levels.

Happy birthday GWTW!

 

[Apollo]

Like it or not it is an Iconic Classic for many reasons.