Gone With the Wind

Gone With the Wind is a movie made long before our time, 1939 to be exact, but is still one of the movie greats. The rating scale that I am choosing to follow is a simple 1-5 rating scale. This scale will make it easier to grade movies based off of what I watched and observed and felt about the movie. I really did get into the movie. I thought it was a very good movie and its obvious why it was so popular in the box office. This is how i will rate:

1> movie's plot really wasn't clear. was boring and lacked good character developement.

2> plot was definately there but was weak. characters were developed but no main characters pointed out.

3> plot is simple but strong. charcters still not developed well. movie flows decent now.

4> plot is developed. movie flows really well. characters still a bit rigid in certain places.

5> all of the above is covered really well.

I gave Gone with the Wind a rating of 4. For this drama/romance/war film being made back in time when films were not nearly as well made as they are generally now days, this was an excellent film, and it is easy to see how it is the all-time number 1 box office film. Character enactment and developement, by my opinion and rating, was very well done. The movie had a good flow of things, and wasnt too confusing. The plot was developed and played its way out and was easy to understand what was going on.

Victor Flemming- Director of film- obvious talent as a film maker.

Vivien Leigh- Scarlet O'Hara- Rotten: irritating, undecisive, selfish, cold, annoying.

Hattie McDaniel- Mammy- Great: comical, down-to-earth, loving, stern.

Leslie Howard- Ashley Wilkes- Eh: Ashley was a good man...but just irritated me. He was the cause of all the trouble Rhett went through trying to win over Scarlet.

Clark Gable- Rhett Butler- Epic: comical, persistent, smart, cunning.

Olivia de Havilland- Melanie Hamilton- Great: good-hearted, selfless, loving, forgiving, kind.

In this film we focus alot on Scarlet O'Hara. Scarlet is so in love with Ashlet Wilkes, who marries her cousin, Melanie. Scarlet marries another man before he goes off to the war, but she never actually loved him. Her husband dies and she is widdowed but truely doesnt care or have feeling. She still pursues Ashley, despite her cousin being married to him. Rhett Butler is a man who was considered a gentleman by some and not by others. Rhett fell in love with Scarlet and pursued her attention and love. Scarlet moved to Atlanta. The war hit Atlanta and the North had won over the south. Poverty and hunger struck the south and Scarlet re-married again, but this time for wealth. She married Frank Kennedy, who was in love with her sister until Scarlet fooled him into thinking otherwise. in later time, Frank was shot by yankees.

Eventually Scarlet did marry Rhett Butler, but she still after all this time had some feelings for Ashley. Oh snap. Rhett heard of her embrace of Ashley and everything took it the wrong way (so they say) and Rhett got upset and got drunk. He took control of his wife and brought her to bed...haha. Scarlet later had a daughter. The marriage was still pretty shaky on both parts, but its was mostly due to the fact that Rhett was so overwhelmed with the fact that he was convinced that Scarlet never loved him. His very adored daughter died when she fell off of her horse and he was extremily upset by this. He devorces Scarlet and proclaims he is leaving her. "What will I do? Where will i go?" she asks frantically. And with words of epic porportions cuts it off with...

"Frankly my dear, i dont give a damn."