'Gone with the Wind' (Victor Fleming, 1939)

Title: 'Gone with the Wind'

Release Year: 1939

Director: Victor Fleming

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel.

Plot: Scarlett O'Hara is a beatutiful, selfish, greedy woman whose world and life will be turned upside down when civil war hits the country and, by extension, her beloved Tara.

Review: 'Gone with the Wind'. The famous (and long) 'Gone with the Wind'. It's one of those movies you've seen plenty of times on TV but you've never had the will power to watch entirely. Well, once you finally do it, you don't regret it.

Yes, maybe I had to make a break every 2 hours to rest, but even with its extreme length it's a big, powerful movie with huge performances, especially the great Scarlett O'Hara performed by Leigh. In fact, I think it's its length what makes it so huge. It'a a feeling of completion; the film explains war from the beginning to the end. It's so wide that it had time for every bit of it, making of Fleming's immense creation a work of art and an epic classic.

Another aspect that has been widely discussed, it's Rhett and O'hara's relationship. Did she ever love him? I think so. All the time? Maybe. Perhaps she was just too confused and distracted with Ashley to realize it. The ending proves it: once she discovers that her love for him is not requited (as she all the time thought it was, although he couldn't admit it) she realises how much she has made Rhett suffer and how much she misses him (too late, maybe?). Anyway, they surely have a rocky relationship (no wonder why it's said that the actors hated each other); even once married it was like seeing old hollywood golden life that sparkles in the outside but it's rotten in the inside.

And O'Hara? She's been named many things, but in my opinion, she just was clever. Clever enough to see that if she wanted to survive, she had to forget her scrupulousness and do whatever she could, as she herself says in the iconic 'I'll never be hungry again' scene.

Leigh's iconic quote:"As god is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"

Yes, if 'Gone with the Wind' is somthing, that's iconic. From its powerful score, through her characters (including McDaniel's Mammy or the honest and good Melanie Hamilton) to its gorgeous ending. Because, even with its few flaws, it leaves us devastated with its 4-hours duration, convincing us that, "after all, tomorrow is another day".

Ending her greates movie, Leigh looks to the future while saygin her famous 'After all, tomorrow is another day!'