Essay on Film Critics, Gone with the wind (1939)
Gone with the Wind is an example of great artwork in the history of the American cinema. David O. Selznick’s version is touching and deep, while Victor Fleming, a virtuous director, even despite the fact that he was replaced by Sam Wood because of the nervous exhaustion, creates his vision of Margaret Mitchell’s story brilliantly. Max Steiner is responsible for gorgeous music which helps to make the right accents and makes the scenes so emotional.
Talented actress Vivien Leigh combines all necessary features for Scarlett’s character: tender beauty, real and sometimes childish emotions, intelligence and strong character. She creates such a bright image that Scarlett stays in our thoughts and hearts with her suffering about Ashley, ignorant and even selfish attitude to Rhett and struggle to survive before and after the Civil War.
Rhett Butler of Clark Gable is another bright character. He is torn between his pragmatic common sense and Scarlett – the woman whom he really loves.
The background of the story is the Civil War between the North and the South and Scarlett’s long and twisted way in this movie symbolizes the way of the whole civilization – the Old South. This is a long way of changes and transformations, sometimes dramatic and even dreadful, but very meaningful and necessary as we see at the end of the story. As well as Scarlett restores her broken life from ashes as Phoenix bird, the old southern civilization collapses and then starts a new page in the united American history.
Despite the fact that the end seems not so much optimistic, Scarlett O’Hara proclaims with hope and confidence: “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
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