Film Classic my foot!!

Rating: 2/10 (30 December 2006)

Gone with the Wind is an extraordinary book and I was looking forward to seeing the movie, but it was horrible. It cut out so much important from the book and included all the minor details. And all the good lines were changed, and the actors don't look like their characters at all! Viven Leigh does not even remotely look like what Margaret Mitchell described Scarlett to be. Her eyes aren't even green! And Clark Gable DOES NOT look a bit like Rhett Butler. He's too kind to Scarlett. Rhett is supposed to be sarcastic and disliked. That's what makes the whole thing fun. He finds something to laugh about (even if its not right to laugh about) and makes Scarlett laugh too. And the other actors were good as actors, but not as who they were supposed to be. The movie cut out a lot of scenes when Scarlett arrives in Atlanta, and it gets rid of all of Wade's early scenes and Melanie isn't even pregnant when she's supposed to be! These scenes were probably cut out because they didn't have Rhett in them, but its not Rhett's movie! Clark Gable's role can't be made into a leading one when its not! Rhett Butler is a supporting role and Scarlett is supposed to be the star, but in the movie almost all of Scarlett's scenes without Rhett are cut out. All in all this movie was a waste of four perfectly good hours. I'm just going to go read the book again- at least that's the way its supposed to be.