Too much drama makes it look too fake

Rating: 6/10 (18 December 2015)

I waited all my life to see this movie, I've heard about it since I grew up in the 70s but never got the chance to sit properly to watch it until I was 44 because of the length of the movie and the theme made me feel always a little apprehensive to withstand it.
I cannot review this movie with today's standards, as this movie was a pioneer in some dramatic elements which nowadays seem very obsolete (like the extreme melodramatic acting only seen in modern day Spanish soap operas) and some other flaws in camera work like weird framing, scene transitions or even editing, which again, at that time probably it was barely insignificant.
I was more disappointed with some directing choices on the drama curve and Scarlett weird and awkward behavior.
Scarlett's character seemed to me more like a mentally-ill person, ultra immature (too much), with an extreme obsession for Ashley and for the money. I'm sure in real life there are a lot of people today, men or women, just like her, who after getting married they still feel secretly in love with the one they didn't get to have, to the point it becomes an obsession and a reason to leave, even after having a perfect life. But if this type of person was the original type developed by Margaret Mitchell, it would fit better in a thriller movie where the lover is a psycho or a stalker.
As I was watching the movie and when Brett and Scarlett finally became a couple, I felt pleased that they were going to be finally a real happy couple, especially for the always charming Rhett. Of course, there's no novel nor movie without obstacles, but in here they seemed to appear out of nowhere. Scarlett with her ill-obsessions seemed to spoil it every time. She just could not see what a great husband and father Brett was and how much he loved her. Was she too immature to not see it (Rhett's love), too obsessed with money and her little palace, too obsessed with Ashley or just mentally sick and oblivious of the world around her? Just until the very end when Ashley's wife, Mel, died, she realized she could love or was in love with Brett but was too late. What a bummer!
In terms of the directing choices, there were a couple of mishaps. For instance when in one scene Rhett was mourning his little daughter, completely secluded with his pain, and Melanie was able to convince him to allow the funeral, right after she left the room, she collapsed ill, as if her effort to convince Brett was too physically exhausting. Then, a short scene of the funeral is lacking, because the next scene, when Brett and Scarlett are visiting dying Mel, Rhett now looks completely fine and seems that his immense pain has gone abruptly. Also, in this scene, Scarlett looks again like a psycho woman, completely oblivious of her surrounding circumstances, who doesn't even care about her daughter who had just died nor her ultra close dying friend, but she is solely interested in getting Ashley's love at last right on the spot, regardless of the people around her (that's why she got caught) while Ashley is crying for her beloved wife. At the end of the movie she promises in a maniacal way that she will get him back. Psycho Scarlett. Definitely a very weird character only comparable to Norma Desmond's in Sunset Boulevard.
I loved Mammy's acting, she became the first African American to win an academy award. Prissy's character (Butterfly McQueen) was kind of awkward too and also a little bit of a psycho as well, this can be seen when Scarlett had to go to look for the doctor after Prissy refused to do it. She's left in the scene completely out of her mind.