Reply #20: The best part of the movie: Val Lewton's crane shot of the wounded stretching for miles. [View All]

[Hissyspit]

If you turned it off before then, you missed the most important part.

"The crane shot where Scarlett searches for Dr. Meade, making her way among suffering and dying Confederate soldiers was Val Lewton's idea. He had previously been Selznick's assistant editor and went on to produce a string of B movies though the 1940s."

Those B movies are now considered classics of pessimistic and dark themes.

The rest of Gone With The Wind? Eh.

The most popular movie in America for the 20-so years before GWTW? The racist Civil War epic "Birth of a Nation," a technical leap ahead in cinematic form, but a piece of shit as far as theme and content. Ridiculous history and hateful racism. And it was the first film screened in the White House. Woodrow Wilson loved it.