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Gone With the Wind
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:28 pm
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:28 pm
I was surfing through the channels and ran across Gone With the Wind. I know it is the ultimate chick flick but still enjoy watching it. My take on the characters.
Ellen O'Hara - Was really in love with a Creole. It's been a long time since I read the book (junior high) but he was killed when they were young - I think in a poker game. She called for him as she was dying.
Gerald O'Hara - An Irish drunk and accordingly one of my favorite characters. I love how he died fighting while running the white trash off Tara.
Ashley Wilkes - One of literature's biggest twerps.
Melanie Hamilton Wilkes - A true Southern belle.
Big Sam - One of the most loyal men who ever lived and a world class bad arse.
Rhett Butler - The Sultan of Slit.
Scarlett O'Hara - A manipulating slut. At least Belle Watling plied her trade openly. In the book she bore a son with Charles Hamilton. I do remember that.
Just so you know the bank that Scarlett wrote the check on to save Tara was real and still exists today.
Ellen O'Hara - Was really in love with a Creole. It's been a long time since I read the book (junior high) but he was killed when they were young - I think in a poker game. She called for him as she was dying.
Gerald O'Hara - An Irish drunk and accordingly one of my favorite characters. I love how he died fighting while running the white trash off Tara.
Ashley Wilkes - One of literature's biggest twerps.
Melanie Hamilton Wilkes - A true Southern belle.
Big Sam - One of the most loyal men who ever lived and a world class bad arse.
Rhett Butler - The Sultan of Slit.
Scarlett O'Hara - A manipulating slut. At least Belle Watling plied her trade openly. In the book she bore a son with Charles Hamilton. I do remember that.
Just so you know the bank that Scarlett wrote the check on to save Tara was real and still exists today.
This post was edited on 2/21/26 at 9:31 pm
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Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:32 pm to Missouri Waltz
Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra were on TCM earlier ,, watched both again,,
Liz's boobie when she was a nine
pretty sure you wouldve seen nipple on the big screen
Liz's boobie when she was a nine
pretty sure you wouldve seen nipple on the big screen
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:39 pm to Missouri Waltz
My mom loves this movie and growing up she would watch it anything it was on. I never watched it in whole, but parts of it was filmed near the Mississippi river, on the west side. She wasn't born yet when it was filmed, but one of my grandmothers friends had several ball dresses, that's what she did. Made dresses for mardi gras balls. She threw a load of them in the car and went on location and told them she was working on the set and they let her in and watched them film a scene. I heard that story multiple times.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:39 pm to Missouri Waltz
quote:
Scarlett O'Hara
I can fix her.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:40 pm to Missouri Waltz
Frankly, my dear, I really don’t give a damn.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:42 pm to mytigger
There was no really in the quote.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:43 pm to Missouri Waltz
quote:not even close to being accurate
the ultimate chick flick
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:44 pm to Missouri Waltz
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ultimate chick flick
No
It’s more manly than most of the stuff today
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:48 pm to Missouri Waltz
Watch " Once Upon a Time in The West."
Posted on 2/21/26 at 9:48 pm to Missouri Waltz
quote:
Scarlett O'Hara
Wood
Posted on 2/21/26 at 10:10 pm to Missouri Waltz
quote:
Scarlett O'Hara
She keep it O'hairy...
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:21 pm to Missouri Waltz
quote:
I know it is the ultimate chick flick
Wut?
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:32 pm to OweO
quote:
My mom loves this movie and growing up she would watch it anything it was on. I never watched it in whole, but parts of it was filmed near the Mississippi river, on the west side. She wasn't born yet when it was filmed, but one of my grandmothers friends had several ball dresses, that's what she did. Made dresses for mardi gras balls. She threw a load of them in the car and went on location and told them she was working on the set and they let her in and watched them film a scene. I heard that story multiple times.
The entire movie was filmed in California.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:33 pm to Missouri Waltz
I preferred the Carol Burnett version Went with the Wind! from 1976...
I do like Rhett Butler telling off that manipulative Ashley-chasing ho bag in the original.
I do like Rhett Butler telling off that manipulative Ashley-chasing ho bag in the original.
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:41 pm to OweO
quote:you're thinking of Band of Angels (1957), partly filmed in Plaquemine
My mom loves this movie and growing up she would watch it anything it was on. I never watched it in whole, but parts of it was filmed near the Mississippi river, on the west side. She wasn't born yet when it was filmed, but one of my grandmothers friends had several ball dresses, that's what she did. Made dresses for mardi gras balls. She threw a load of them in the car and went on location and told them she was working on the set and they let her in and watched them film a scene. I heard that story multiple times.
Supposedly during filming Gable became a fixture at City Cafe (does that still exist?) and for decades a photo of him eating there hung on the wall
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:53 pm to Missouri Waltz
It’s a great film that has unfortunately been largely forgotten in the sands of time.
Movies in the 30s, 40s, and 50s were a form of art. If you go back and look at dramas from those decades, the actors had so much emotion in the delivery of their lines. The dialogue and writing was so much better than what filmmakers put out now.
Movies in the 30s, 40s, and 50s were a form of art. If you go back and look at dramas from those decades, the actors had so much emotion in the delivery of their lines. The dialogue and writing was so much better than what filmmakers put out now.
This post was edited on 2/21/26 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 2/21/26 at 11:55 pm to Missouri Waltz
Tara
Not just a High School
Not just a High School
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:38 am to JasonDBlaha
quote:
Movies in the 30s, 40s, and 50s were a form of art. If you go back and look at dramas from those decades, the actors had so much emotion in the delivery of their lines. The dialogue and writing was so much better than what filmmakers put out now.
Because they were plays put to film.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:51 am to Missouri Waltz
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Melanie Hamilton Wilkes - A true Southern belle.
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Scarlett O'Hara - A manipulating slut. At least Belle Watling plied her trade openly. In the book she bore a son with Charles Hamilton. I do remember that.
Nevertheless, every woman I've ever had a conversation with about GWTW--and there have been quite a few--has identified with Scarlett, not Melanie. Without exception.
And in the book, Scarlett is described as rather plain looking. It's her personality that attracts men.
Clark Gable was miscast as Rhett, although it made for a bigger box office. In the book he's in his early twenties and has just been kicked out of West Point.
This post was edited on 2/22/26 at 5:56 am
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:56 am to Jim Rockford
That movie was so popular that they re-released it for a theatre run every 4 years. I think this was true through the 60s.
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