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[Wagamama]

how exactly am i weird?

 

[lilboo]

Originally posted by Wagamama
how exactly am i weird?

Must... not ...tyyyype...is the search function up?

Oh have never seen GWTW...but I vaguely recall the Carol Burnett sketch parody...she's wearing an elaborate window treatment as a dress or something...?

 

[Wagamama]

Originally posted by lilboo
Must... not ...tyyyype...is the search function up?

thanks buddy, i know i can always count on you!

 

[disneyjunkie]

I hate Gone With The Wind.

The first time I saw it I think I was about 8 or 9. I can recall watching the scene with the fire and hoping Tara would burn to the ground.

My mother and her sisters love the movie; must be a southern thing. Whenever it comes on she tries to get me to watch it. No thanks.

 

[denisem]

Too funny! I'm currently re-reading GWTW at age 50 (a fewwww years after my 1st reading at age 11 ).

I'm on both sides. Without the book as background, the film IS melodramatic (Vivian Leigh soooo over the top, and who the heck chose THAT wimp as Ashley??).

But when ya consider film-making in the 30's, and their attempt to condense such a popular book at that time, they did a pretty decent job.

Denise < --- also LOVES the Carol Burnett spoof: Scarlett DID make a gown of velvet "po-teers", but she remembered to leave out the curtain rod shoulderpads

 

[SnowAngel]

I shall never go hungry again



I prefered the book to the movie. What in the heck happened to Scarlett's other children??

 

[LarryE]

Originally posted by Wagamama
I will never watch Gone With the Wind again!! What the hell kind of movie was that?!

Your not the only one, Im like from the mid south I guess you can call it and I couldn't stand the movie or the book.. go figure

 

[d.kurz]

Originally posted by denisem
I'm on both sides. Without the book as background, the film IS melodramatic (Vivian Leigh soooo over the top, and who the heck chose THAT wimp as Ashley??).

I just recently watched this film again for the umpteenth time. I found I was getting annoyed with Scarlett mostly BECAUSE Ashley is such a WIMP!!!!!! I mean, WHO would pine away over that DRIP when Rhett Butler AND his $$$$ wanted you??!!??

I think I am due for a re-read on the book!

 

[scarlett873]

i understand that not everyone agree totally with the "windies" of the world!! there are a great many books and movies that everyone else in the world liked, but i didn't...

i think i fell in love more with the idea of the story than anything. when i saw it the first time, i was maybe 11 or 12...at that time, i thought that if scarlett could survive all of that, then i sure as heck could do anything! and of course, the character of rhett butler certainly kept my interest! in my opinion, the movie was perfectly casted. the only character i don't agree with was who they chose to portray ashley wilkes. if a woman like scarlett was going to madly in love with someone like ashley, they needed a "beefier", if you will, actor to portray him. although i like leslie howard, with him in the movie, ashley came off as a wimp to me. i don't feel that vivien leigh was "over the top"...there is no other woman in this world that fit the role of scarlett as perfectly as she did. she remained true to the character that margaret mitchell created...

 

[Gette88]

ANOTHER JERSEY GIRL WHO LOVES GWTW

GWTW is my favorite movie and book. I've read the book 3 times and have seen the movie many more. I have the movie on video.

 

[ILUVDXL]

When I read the post line I thought " Oh no, another big mac attack".

 

[Wagamama]

Originally posted by ILUVDXL
When I read the post line I thought " Oh no, another big mac attack".

huh?

 

[Chattyaholic]

Another big fan of GWTW here! I first saw it, in our local theater, when I was 8 or 9 years old. It was the first movie I'd ever been to with an intermission!! I LOVED the movie at that young age, and STILL LOVE IT today!! I used to watch it every time it came on TV, then bought my own copy of the video, but now I'm thinking I'd rather have the DVD...you know, I've never read the book though, maybe I should rectify that. I did see the sequel with Timothy Dalton and Joan Whaley-Kilmer (not sure I spelled her name right) and I loved it as well and bought the video. You can't have a sequel with the original characters as they're mostly all dead, so I thought the ones they chose for the sequel "filled their shoes" quite nicely.

 

[Megan's Mom]

In the movie Scarlet's other children never existed. Which was such a loss. I guess they thought people would think she was a bad mother or something. I get to use one of my favorite lines at school. My last period class was bad about watching the clock. they were all the time saying when it was time to close up shop. I finally told them that I was the foreman at Tara and I said when it was quitting time. From then on whenever anyone said that it was time to go someone else in the room would tell them she's the foreman she says when it is quitting time. I really don't think that they had a clue what it meant but it was fun to hear them say it.

 

[Figment22]

Originally posted by SnowAngel
What in the heck happened to Scarlett's other children??

A quote from the book "Scarlett Fever" by William Pratt, Collier Books, 1977:

"...the reduction of those 1,037 pages to three and three quarter theatrical hours involved a massive purging of primary material, secondary characters and subplots."

"The historical scope of the novel pushed the first two children into the background, so readers could easily overlook their mother's shocking neglect. On film, however, the presentation of such callous treatment would have made a vast difference (especially to women) in yielding the sympathy so necessary to bear with Scarlett through her many travails. And Melanie, who loved children, would have seemed rather unrealistic, dramatically, in loving an unfit mother all those years. The elimination of Wade Hampton Hamilton and Ella Lorena Kennedy from the cinematic treatment was, therefore, not a whim or a mere script decision--it was a necessity!"

 

[Figment22]

Originally posted by scarlett873
i understand that not everyone agree totally with the "windies" of the world!! there are a great many books and movies that everyone else in the world liked, but i didn't...

I hear you...I'm probably one of the few people in the world who had no interest whatsoever in seeing Titanic. I also was not big on E.T. the first time I saw it. While the whole theater seemed to be crying at the end, I was laughing hysterically that they were trying to recussitate an alien! I softened a bit when DH and I took our DS's to see it last year on its 20th anniversary, but I still can't consider myself an E.T. fan.

i think i fell in love more with the idea of the story than anything. when i saw it the first time, i was maybe 11 or 12...at that time, i thought that if scarlett could survive all of that, then i sure as heck could do anything!

There are times in my life when Scarlett's been my role model!!!

in my opinion, the movie was perfectly casted. the only character i don't agree with was who they chose to portray ashley wilkes. if a woman like scarlett was going to madly in love with someone like ashley, they needed a "beefier", if you will, actor to portray him. although i like leslie howard, with him in the movie, ashley came off as a wimp to me. i don't feel that vivien leigh was "over the top"...there is no other woman in this world that fit the role of scarlett as perfectly as she did. she remained true to the character that margaret mitchell created...

I agree with you across the board on this one. I cannot believe that any woman would lust after Leslie Howard for 12 years! And he (Howard) really didn't want the role of Ashley and as such never even made the effort to lose his British accent. He was just totally wrong for this role.

As for Vivien Leigh, I also feel that no other actress could have portrayed Scarlett as well. Through the years, I have seen many of the other screen tests taken by other actresses of the time and none comes close to Ms. Leigh's perfect performance. Obvioously her peers thought so too in that they awarded her the Oscar for Best Actress that year.

P.S. It's so nice to chat with other Windys!!!


Oops! I didn't use the quote thingy correctly and some of my comments have now been attributed to Scarlett873. I'm not sure how to fix it. My bad.

 

[katerkat]

Wow, what's with NJ and GWTW? I, too, grew up in NJ and LOVE GWTW! Don't love the movie as much, but... I read the book every year over the summer, and the sequel, and watch the movie every year instead of the Superbowl. (TNT always shows it!) The movie version of the sequel was awful -- they changed the plot far too much, and plus that awful woman who was married to my Val Kilmer was in it.

 

[scarlett873]

YAY!!! i knew that there were other "windies" out there!!!

I did see the sequel with Timothy Dalton and Joan Whaley-Kilmer (not sure I spelled her name right) and I loved it as well and bought the video. You can't have a sequel with the original characters as they're mostly all dead, so I thought the ones they chose for the sequel "filled their shoes" quite nicely.

they casted most of the roles ok...but if you had read the book, you may not have enjoyed the movie nearly as much. they changed the storyline for the movie...the whole thing with someone murdering lord fenton or whatever his name was never happened!! i liked the movie...as far as tv movies go, it was ok....but the book is a million times better!!!

and thank you figment22!! i have been trying to find that info all day!! i knew that i had remembered reading about why they chose not to have scarlett's children in the movie, but i couldn't find it...

woo hoo!! i'm so excited to see more windies on the DIS!!!

 

[katerkat]

Originally posted by scarlett873
but if you had read the book, you may not have enjoyed the movie nearly as much. they changed the storyline for the movie...the whole thing with someone murdering lord fenton or whatever his name was never happened!!

And beyond that, what the heck was up with shuttling Cat off as an unimportant character in the movie? The heck? She was kinda essential in the book! Like, practically single-handedly turned Scarlett around! And yet barely mentioned in the movie in favor of that murdering Fenton line.

 

[catsrule]

Originally posted by Pop Daddy
get him on the dis, then he will know how wierd you really are

Hey, I thought I was the weird one, Pop Daddy!