Gone With The Wind Review

Hello my fellow bloggers this is swimmergirl10 and i'm writing a review about Gone with the Wind. First I'll tell you a little bit about why I'm doing this. Well I'm in a class called film studies, which is basically a class where we watch movies and discuss them. Well, for our assignments we have to either write a blog, do a podcast, do a vodcast, or just discuss the movie with our class. For this movie we have to do a blog.

my rating scale

1-terrible
2-tolerable
3-its ok
4-great
5-i would watch this again

I would rate this movie a three, because I was somewhat interested in what was going on, but it is also a movie that I wouldn't say "lets see that one again" to.

Director - Victor Flemming

Main Characters

Scarlet O'hara - Vivien Leigh
Rhett Butler - Clark Gable
Melanie Wilkes - Olivia de Havilland
Ashley Wilkes - Leslie Howard

Supporting Roles
Mammy - Hattie McDaniel

I believe Mammy was an important supporting actress because she played a mojor role in us finding out information about what was going on with Rhett and Scarlet. She also helped raise Scarlet so in a way she gave Scarlet the personality that we as the audience had to deal with throughout the movie. Then in the end she becomes Rhetts friend and starts to side with him when Scarlet is acting like she is always the victim.

The genre of this film is romace, war, and drama. Romace because Sacarlet thinks she is in love with Ashley Wilkes, but in reality she is in love with Rhett, and he is trying everything to get her to realize this. She doesn't figure this out until it is too late and now Rhett is leaving her and now she'll do anything to get him back. War because in the middle of the film the civil war is going and and everybody is involved in it. Ashley is off fighting, Rhett is avoiding the war, and Melanie and Scarlet are both nurses in a hospital caring for the victims of the war. Finally drama because Scarlet is a huge drama queen. She is very good friend with Melanie Wilkes who is married to Ashley Wilkins, but she is trying to get Ashley to leave Menalie so that they can get married.

The Story
Scarlet hears that Ashley Wilkes is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton and this upsets her. Then there's a party at the Wilkins plantation where Scarlet tries to make Ashley jealous by getting all the men at the party to attend to her needs. This doesn't work so she decides to marry Melanies brother Charles Hamelton to make Ashley jealous. Which didn't work. Then Charles and all the other males go off to war, where Charles ends up dieing, and Scarlet has to morn, but she doesn't want to. Then the war happens and there's this huge tax on Tara (their plantation) and to save it she marries Frank Kennedy who her younger sister is in love with. Frank then ends up dieing because Scarlet got attacked in the woods and they were trying to kill the men who did it. During this whole time Scarlet is still trying to get Ashley to love her. Then Scarlet marries Rhett Butler and they have a daughter and he gives her everything she ever wanted but she still loves Ashley. It isn't until her daughter and her best friend Melanie die that she realizes that she really loves Rhett, but by that time it is too late and he leaves her.

Great Quotes

"As god as my witness I will never go hungry again." - Scarlet O'Hara
"Frankly my dear I don't give a damn!" - Rhett Butler
"I'll go back to Tara and find a way to get him back." - Scarlet O'Hara
"Ya'll are acting like a bunch of white trash!" - Mammy
"I only know that I love you." Scarlet
"Well that's your misfortune." Rhett

I think that Scarlet should just get over herself and realize what's right in front of her face, the person she really loves, Rhett. But, I guess if she realized this in the begining there wouldn't be a movie for us to watch.

Until Next Time
Leah

P.S. This is my first blog and I don't really know how it went but I hope you liked it.

Sources - http://www.starpulse.com/ and http://www.great-quotes.com/