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Film · 1939 · Epic
Gone with the Wind
Directed by Victor Fleming
1939
★ 7.4 editorial score
Adjusted for inflation no film has ever earned more, and it is still telling the old South's version of itself: enormous, ravishing, and not to be trusted.
“For the story it wanted to tell, it was the right film at the right time. Scarlett O'Hara is not a creature of the 1860s but of the 1930s: a free-spirited, willful modern woman...It fascinated audiences (it fascinates us still) to see her high-wire defiance in a male chauvinist world, but eventually such behavior had to be punished, and that is what "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is all about.”
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