The granddaddy of all blockbuster,bigger than life

Rating: 10/10 (13 July 2002)

This is the most popular movie of all time.All in it is great:the story of the fall of the Old South,the story of a selfish and pretty young woman named Scarlett O'Hara,the love story,the settings,the costumes,the shots...All the movie is BIGGER THAN LIFE.We must be sincere,it is not a masterpiece but,who cares? David O'Selnick made a great movie in which he redefined the sense of Hollywood spectacle and this is the most important thing about this movie.His glorious technicolor and performances in soap-opera style are definitely attractive to the public.The epic consists in made a spectacle of every gesture or every word.Is a movie to see a thousand of times because if it's the first spectacle movie in all the senses,is the best too. The first part of the movie(until the oath of Scarlett in Tara)is the best because we see the personal fight of Scarlett to conquest the love of Ashley and the fight against the Civil War.The dialogues are too much literary but in this consists the spectacle.The second part is worse because the marriage of Rhett and Scarlett is a stop in the narrative.The film contains unforgettable sentences like the famous "Tomorrow is another day" at the end. Many people is very sceptical with this movie today because its plot twists and its soap opera style but this was the first and real blockbuster of Hollywood.I repeat,it's not a masterpiece but deserves a viewing.Without this film may that Star Wars,Ben Hur,Doctor Zhivago or Titanic(so compared to Gone with the wind)never were existed.A movie for all the ages,a movie bigger than life,the perfect example of the Golden Hollywood,when art and success were a good couple.