Gone with the Wind? Not yet!

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2001)

It is really amazing that even now, over 60 years later this film can still be enjoyed. I mean comedic standards change, filmmaking techniques change, special effects change and so on. But all that did not made a difference to this films class. The jokes still work, the set decoration is good, the battle scenes and effects are still good (even nowadays and I didn't even watch the restored version from 1998), the film has a couple of great shots and a lot of diversity. But it is the effort and class of the two leading actors that make this film so good and worth while. Vivian Leigh is just perfect as the breathtaking and naive yet selfish and cruel Scarlett whereas Clark Gable pulls off the best ungentlemanly yet likeable money chaser I've ever seen. The combination of these two is really great, with Scarlett always whining and pretending to be such a poor, poor girl while Clark Gable makes fun of her and enjoys it himself extent.

The thing that I found most amazing though was that although I felt not for Scarlett until the very end of the film, I found myself in the same situation as Rhett Butler. I fell for the charm of Scarlett and I must say, I sometimes hated myself for loving her. This is a classic film in many ways and one I must say I cannot imagine they will remake soon, because everyone who has seen this film, has the characters as they were portrayed by Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh imprinted into their memory forever.

8 out of 10