There are certain movies you can count on seeing during Christmas holidays on tv. One of the obvious titles that quickly comes to my mind is Gone with the Wind.
This is the classic of the classics on my list and I'm never tired of watching it. To be honest, there is no Christmas without Scarlett and Rhett :) At least in my home :)
What's so amazing about Gone with the Wind that people come back to it so often? Well, the answer is simple, EVERYTHING :) The story is beyond perfect, I really enjoy movies showing so called Family Saga, old times with the etiquette and those dresses, world of plantation owners and American Civil War. Margaret Mitchell, who started writting the novel in 1926 has not expected such a huge success coming. In 1937 she received a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction followed by adaption to a movie few years later.
Actors were chosen well, Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton Wilkes and Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara. There is one more background 'actor' that makes the whole movie unforgettable, the music composed by Max Steiner! The main theme melody is one of the most popular and well recognized ones in the movie industry.
Gone with the wind has earned 390 mln dollars worldwide and if you take into consideration inflation it would be around 3,3 billion $ and that figure was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the most successful film in cinema history.
There was such an interest in what happened to Scarlett and Rhett that many years later another movies arrived trying to depict their love story...but in my opinion noone can replace Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable:)
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