In the beginning, Scarlett is a pampered young lady at Tara, the Georgia plantation owned by her Irish-American father, Gerald O'Hara (Thomas Mitchell). Leigh pretty much grabs onto this character and never lets go, giving Scarlett an admirable perseverance which never gets showy or mannered.Įssentially a four-hour way of saying "you can never go home again," Gone with the Wind chronicles Scarlett's feisty spirit before, during and after the Confederates' defeat. It could have been a sprawling, revisionist bore, yet the story is told with a remarkable clarity by focusing on a single, memorable character - selfish Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, who is fantastically brought to life by Vivien Leigh.
Selznick's mission was to faithfully transfer Margaret Mitchell's wildly popular novel onto film, using all the resources his (and MGM's) money could buy. Gone with the Wind is a rich, lengthy yet captivating fever dream of a movie, the singular vision of driven producer David O. As people watching Gone with the Wind today on their widescreen TVs can view it as an glossed-up version of the way Hollywood was in 1939, so did audiences back then flock to theaters to escape grim reality for a stylized, hyper-melodramatic version of one of American history's sorriest episodes. Warner Bros' lavish box set Gone with the Wind: 75th Anniversary Edition has arrived as another excuse to revisit Scarlett O'Hara and her myopic world of "war, war, war." Interestingly, the 75 years that have elapsed since the film came out mark the same timespan that passed between the movie's original release and the Civil War. Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
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