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Topic: Gone With The Wind BR Review
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Frank Angel
Film God
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Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-13-2009 01:44 PM
Claude, I am sure I am only a few years younger than you, if that. Now mind you, I appreciate GWTW on many levels, top of the list in my mind is the great Steiner score -- I swear it's better than Viagra. I can't run that picture without getting goosebumps at the crescendos of the main title theme at the opening and the lead-in to the intermission and finale. And I certainly can appreciate all the other inventive and well executed elements of the film, it's the acting style that just rubs me the wrong way, not to mention that incessent whineyness of it; can anyone say soap-opera?!
And you are right, it is an acting style that was accepted much more during that period. But then again, CASABLANCA and CITIZEN KANE are its contemporaries, yet that broad acting style is much more pulled back and controlled in those films than it is in GWTW. Maybe it just that in the hands of really talented directors it doesn't get quite as out of hand as I perceive it to be in GWTW.
As for it being a "great" film, well, I always contended that what was most masterful about GWTW was the brilliance of the MGM marketing department. They had the hutzpa to announced flat out that GWTW was the "Greatest Film Ever Made" And it seemed to stick. They used a re-release schedule that consistantly reinforced that tag every time they brought it back to the screen pretty consistantly very seven years or so, always making that "greatest film ever made" claim.
No doubt GWTW does resonate with a good portion of the population, but it sure wouldn't be on my top 10 or even my top 100 for that matter.
Using that proverbial "what if" scenario of surviving a shipwreck and being washed up on an island with only one film that I would be able to watch (presumably a DVD, not to mention a battery powered DVD player and monitor, also washed ashore with me as well), I think if I discovered that the DVD was GWTW, I would just jump back into the sea.
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