Gone with the Wind [DVD] [1939]

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Extras: DVD 9, Language(s): English, Castilian Spanish, German, Czech, Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English, German, Subtitles: English, German, Castilian Spanish, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Norwegian, Potuguese, Swedish, Interactive Menu, Screen ratio 1:1. to celebrate the film's seventieth anniversary than with this spectacular collectors' edition on Blu-ray? Try to imagine any star today filling Gables’s shoes as Rhett Butler in Gone With The Wind and you’ll see what I mean. Some of the dated racial stereotypes are a little cringeworthy, and the insistence that cotton is and will forever be the backbone of the South seems kind of myopic even in 1939.

Making of a Legend also touches on the challenges the film would continue to face in post-production, including composing three hours of music with an impossibly tight deadline, editing without ever having a final script to use as a reference, and the daunting task of completing the extensive visual effects used to convey the scale of this Civil War epic. They also touch on how this approach reveals more detail than has ever been visible before as well as the restoration of the audio. The former slaves have either joined the war effort or fled, and the plantations and cotton fields have been burnt to the ground. GWTW is full of people playing roles, just like its actors, trapped in the past as times change; and is it better to pull yourself up by the boot straps or sink solemnly and with dignity down into the oblivion, true to the old ways?The King Remembered" certainly looks and feels dated, from its approach to the shoddy condition of the film excerpts scattered throughout. The scandalized Scarlett's icy stare as she enters the Wilkes' home for a birthday party is just one in a long series of examples of how skillful Vivien Leigh is at eking the most from facial expressions and subtle physical gestures.

The film is so artfully crafted and its production values so staggeringly high that even limiting myself to a handful of screenshots for this review proved to be a challenge. Selznick’s epic Academy Award-winning masterpiece swept away audiences and defined what a Hollywood blockbuster should be: fearless filmmaking with a grand scope, intimate drama and enduring romance… all in stunning Technicolor. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. It does encompass the golden age of the mighty MGM musical, after all, and "The Lion in Winter" delights in exploring the successes of such films as Meet Me in St.She soon meets her match in the roguish Rhett Butler (Gable) and in the war itself which destroys the genteel way of life she has always known. Along with speaking about the production of Gone with the Wind, Behlmar also takes care to put the events of the film in a historical context, touching on the accuracies and the inaccuracies alike.

Scarlett clearly finds some comfort in the convenience of a reasonably loyal multimillionaire, but it's never overwhelmingly clear how much more than that, if anything at all, Rhett actually means to her. As someone who has yet to read the Margaret Mitchell novel, I appreciate that Behlmar takes the time to highlight some of the differences between this adaptation and the printed page: characters that are fused together, material that has been softened to suit the filmgoing audiences of 1939, and other subplots and objectionable moments that are excised entirely. Gone with the Wind draws much of its strength from its striking use of color, and these hues play a key role in shaping the mood and tone of the film. There is also a gallery of the GWTW trailers released over the decades and the prologue from the international release which was also used to introduce GWTW when it was secretly previewed to unexpected but excited audiences. Scarlett has certainly hardened and has been forced to draw from a reserve of strength she never knew she had, but it's debatable just how much she's actually matured.

Though Gone with the Wind is a four disc set, the soundtrack CD sampler is packaged apart from the rest of the discs. Nonetheless, this 1939 box-office smash remains one of Hollywood's finest achievements, an irresistible spectacle chock-full of the finest stars in the filmic firmament striking sparks off one another. It's almost completely about the international demand for cotton and how prosperous the South was with the advent of the cotton gin. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.