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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:41 AM Original message |
Check in if you think "Gone with the Wind" and overbloated boring movie |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Frankly, my dear... |
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Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. Here! (And hear hear, too.) |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. Sadly, Scarlet O'Hara was the second most racist feminist of the 19th century |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. Not at all. The book and movie were both of their time, and quite brilliant. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 11:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. have you read Rhett Butler's People by any chance? |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 12:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. You can post anywhere you like |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. No, haven't read it. The "sequel" to GWTW was a disaster. I'll look it up. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 11:20 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig is an authorized sequel to Gone with the Wind. - |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. +1. nt. |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. BTW I want to add something--I don't think the book was very well written. |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 11:17 AM Response to Reply #19 |
29. why, specifically, were you unimpressed? |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 12:46 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. The sequels weren't written by the author of the original novel. |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
33. Scarlett was a bit Johnny One Note, even in the book |
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
5. Back in the 1970s it was re-released and my mom |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
7. No, I hate GWTW.....back when it was first released on video tape |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. I spent the film rooting for Sherman. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 12:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. A local art-house theater showed it on a Saturday afternoon |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
11. No, you aren't alone. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
13. I would love to see a re-make made with a new script - keep the |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. In the modern version Scarlett would tell Rhett to 'Go F*)# Yourself' |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I was thinking of sticking to the story pretty much as is, but altering the POV. |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Try this - The Wind Done Gone. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. It was considered Holy Writ by some female relatives when I was growing up, |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
20. Terrible movie |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
21. Is me saying that I wanted every character in that bloated mess |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. I related to Melanie when I read the book as a teen. I did a year of 'Slavery in the US' history at |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. OMG |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-28-11 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. I have always enjoyed watching "Gorn with the Wind". |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 02:32 AM Response to Original message |
26. Gone with the Wind in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies... |
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MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
27. I've tried to watch it all the way through several times... and grown bored each time. |
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NV Whino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
28. No matter. I still cry when the kid dies. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
31. The part where the guy got his leg sawed off was cool. |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 01:15 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. My mom and aunts took me to see that film when I was 6. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
32. Most movies of the so-called Golden Age appear overacted and schlocky to my modern eye. |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
34. It was a great movie. |
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JeffersonChick (338 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
36. Ugh. I had to read it in high school |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-01-11 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
37. Yep - I tried to watch the whole thing once. |
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