Wednesday 28 August 2013

p.Show - Gone With the Wind

The last part is here:   Show - Lord of the Ring Trilogy (con't)

The show is here:   Gone with the Wind (乱世佳人)

Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to expand this concept, and Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, into nearly four hours' worth of screen time, on a then-astronomical 3.7-million-dollar budget, creating what would become one of the most beloved movies of all time. Gone With the Wind opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry "mealy mouthed" Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland). Despite warnings from her father (Thomas Mitchell) and her faithful servant Mammy (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett intends to throw herself at Ashley at an upcoming barbecue at Twelve Oaks. Alone with Ashley, she goes into a fit of histrionics, all of which is witnessed by roguish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), the black sheep of a wealthy Charleston family, who is instantly fascinated by the feisty, thoroughly self-centered Scarlett: "We're bad lots, both of us." The movie's famous action continues from the burning of Atlanta (actually the destruction of a huge wall left over from King Kong) through the now-classic closing line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Holding its own against stiff competition (many consider 1939 to be the greatest year of the classical Hollywood studios), Gone With the Wind won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar). The film grossed nearly 192 million dollars, assuring that, just as he predicted, Selznick's epitaph would be "The Man Who Made Gone With the Wind." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi 

Scarlett: As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh were so perfect in their roles. It is so beautiful to watch the show again in its full flavour. It is a story of a farmer in love with her land. The love of a farmer to her land is so magical.

Thank you Heavenly God for teaching me the way. I will name one of the land: Twelve Oaks. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

I am working very hard to remove the poison that I have ingested for so many decades. Please help me God to finally break free. Teach me to be soft -hearted once more. Remove the hard lines on my face and the stolid gaze of a cold hunter.

How many love must one give up before one can feel love again?

Sadly, yet no one realized the civilization that is gone with the wind ... 

Let's enjoy the show ...

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