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© 2019 AFPWhy 'Gone With the Wind' eclipses both 'Avengers' and 'Avatar'
By Thomas Uurbain NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JonathanJo
The most memorable one-liner in GWTW: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
Bugle Boy of Company B
Yes, and sums up my feelings about the "point" of the article as well.
Toasted Heretic
Visually impressive, some magnificent performances but very out of date. Not quite as stomach churning as The Birth of a Nation, mind.
Peter Payne
Fun fact: the "my hands are dirty too" scene from Empire Strikes Back is 100% lifted from the book version of Gone With the Wind.
George, you ol' smoothie.
Peter14
$402,000,000 in 1939 → $7,089,082,014.39 in 2017
http://www.in2013dollars.com/1939-dollars-in-2017?amount=402000000
Well over both Avatar and Marvel Endgame box office combined.
lostrune2
Not all $402 million occurred in 1939 - the movie was re-released several times over the following decades
Instead, they took the # of tickets sold over the decades and adjusted to the average 2018 ticket price:
FizzBit
I always preferred Raintree County(1957) over GWTW for drama Civil War drama film, but granted it was 18 years later.
extanker
Agreed. I think both films are in two completely different leagues though. I think that Gone with the Wind was more simply a film that was made to the standards that were acceptable at the time, while Birth of a Nation was clearly made to promote racism and was controversial even in 1915.
Gone with the Wind can still be watched and appreciated today, keeping in mind the time that it was made, while Birth of a Nation would really only be acceptable to be screened at Klan rallies.
Wolfpack
Gone With The Wind is a romance story set during the Civil War among Southern elites. “Some historians” want to make the story about slavery. The are many movies about slavery - this one wasn’t one of them.
Toasted Heretic
Aye. I watched it again (GWTW) a year or two ago and it is a giant of a film but there are plenty of scenes that make me feel uncomfortable. The cinematography and special effects are top notch for the time.
1939 was an amazing year for film.
Kenneth Blanks Jr
But does Gone With The Wind have RDJ???