Gone with the Wind
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Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) has long been a favorite movie of many film lovers, and revivals of the film from time to time draw in new generations. There are a number of aspects of this film which would militate the continuation of such popularity, yet the film overcomes them and continues to be a favorite. Many filmgoers resist older films as a mater of course and concentrate on what is current and popular, but Gone with the Wind seems to appeal to many of these viewers as to older ones. The subject matter is the Civil War, also not a subject with wide appeal, and the treatment of black characters in the film in particular has been much-criticized but does not seem to dim the popularity of the film as a whole. The movie remains popular in part because of the romantic element, which works well in the film and which has a universal appeal to many viewers. The fame of the movie itself is likely to draw viewers who have heard of it and who want to see it. The film itself is a massive soap opera with a Civil War setting, and the soap opera as a genre is still popular, though far more daring than anything that can be seen in Gone with the Wind. the combination of soap opera and romance is interesting--TV soap operas pretend to be highly romantic but are largely only sexual, while the soap opera elements in Gone with the Wind are truly romantic and remain so because of the limitations of the era--romance and sex are hinted at rather than being overtly presente
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good and suggest some of the reasons why the film remains popular to this day. The Hollywood Reporter called the film "an event, the greatest ever to date." Film Daily stated that this was the "Mightiest achievement in the history of the motion picture." The New York Times wrote that the film was the "greatest motion mural we have seen and the most ambitious filmmaking venture in Hollywood's spectacular history" (Parish and Mank 79). The film would also be considered the number one box office film for many years until it was beaten by The Godfather in 1972. By July 1943, Gone with the Wind had a domestic gross of $32 million. the film has been reissued several times. It was reissued in a remasked, widescreen version with "Perspecta" stereophonic sound in 1954 (this being a false stereo produced by shifting tracks to different sides of the screen). In 1961, the film was celebrated at a gala in Atlanta for the Civil War centennial, and this reissue did very well. By the end of 1961, the film had grossed more than $41 million. The sixth national release of the film came in 1967, and at this time the print was enlarged form 35 mm to 70 mm, with added stereophonic sound. The film appeared on network television in 1976 as a s
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