'She was a fool' but it took her 4 hours overlong runtime to realise it..

Rating: 7/10 (23 April 2020)

Brief Review :-
Watched Gone With The Wind (1939) :
She was a fool but it took her 4 hours overlong runtime to realise it. Well, i remember watching this film in parts in childhood days when I had no sense of movie reviews. But in last 10 years I realise how legendary this film was and I wanted to watch it in a 'Single Viewing' and somehow I couldn't manage that due to its 4 hours long run time. Today during the lockdown i finally got to see it in 'One Take' so that i can review it properly. I guess I have said so much in the first sentence itself. I always wonder that why the most watched film of the industry never makes it to the Rank 1 in Best Films List well, there are surely reasons for it. Those films where legendary blockbusters in that time because it appealed to that particular audience of that era but it doesn't mean the film will have timeless magic. Fortunately you see most of the Top Rated films of all time are not legendary blockbusters but, as Feature Films they are much Greater than Huge Commercial blockbusters. I would like to add 'Gone With The Wind' in that list. It may be the Legendary and miraculous film of it's time and there is no denying to that but how does it stand today? Recently, I have seen several timeless Hollywood classics which came before GWTW and even today i found them Greatest of all time and not Just of their times. GWTW has a grand scale, so many conflicts but somehow those so many conflicts aren't enough to make a one Best scenario out of it. I was expecting a Clark Gable's show since i have loved him in several classics films before GWTW but in the this film it was moreover Vivien Leigh's show. The entite narrative is about her and she certainly did a great job. Clark Gable got the enough boost in second half of the film and i liked the way his character ended. I felt like, 'Those days when Men used to be like Men' and 'Women used to be like Women'. The latter part is fully justified by Olivia De Havilland's character but not by amateur and fool character of Scarlett. A story of a manipulative woman who is love with a married man who doesn't love her and the woman doesn't understand the man who man truly loves her, ain't a great stuff. That one thing hurt me more than anything else. When the centre character of the film doesn't seems to be making a sense then i just couldn't help myself. It took her so many years in the film and 4 hours of the runtime to realise that 'she was a fool' and audience realised it in first 10 minutes. If there had been something intellectual or even sacrificing stuff at the end, i would have still loved it more than now. I would definitely love to praise the director Victor Fleming for such a Big and intense film. The production value, dialogues, presentation of the War period, costumes of big cast all these deserves admiration even after 81 years of it's release. No one can take away their credit and Oscars honoured them all. Now coming to the most important point what's there so much in the film for my generation when we have seen so advanced, so complex and almost all kind of films by now then i am afraid i couldn't recommend if you're looking something extraordinary. One should watch it to relive the Legendary Blockbuster all time but you cannot expect the Best film of all time because we got some high time Cult Classics for that. A film with almost 40 crores Footfalls cannot be called Overlong or boring or useless feature film but yes it is Overlong for my generation at least and not boring surely. Nevertheless, this wasn't a problem in 40s and 50s decades that i am sure about. On my personal thoughts, Gone With The Wind could have been a better film and i wouldn't have minded if it had not been such a big commercial success. There would be some people who agree with me and surely there would be some bashing me but i think they shouldn't bother because this review doesn't really matter after 81 years.
Rating- 7/10*