From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 5:44:23 PM UTC-10, 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   
      
   (Youtube upload):   
      
   "Gone with the Wind" Psychology: Idealization, Familiarity, Honor & Toxicity   
      
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