Film Paper

Film 2700 Research Assignment

Part I:

Title of Film: Gone with the Wind

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Release Date: 1939

Director(s): Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood

Quote 1:

“Through stunning design, costume and peopling, his film has skillfully and absorbingly recreated Miss Mitchell’s mural of the south in that bitter decade when secession, civil war and reconstruction ripped wide the graceful fabric of the plantation age and confronted the men and women who had adorned it with the stern alternative of meeting the new era or dying with the old.”

Citation 1:

Nugent, Frank. “The Screen in Review: David Selznick’s ‘Gone with the Wind’ Has Its Long- Awaited Premiere at Astor and Capitol, Recalling Civil War and Plantation Days of South- Seen as treating Book With Great Fidelity.” Rev. of Gone With the Wind, dir. George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Sam Wood. New York Times 20 December 1939, p31 late ed.: E1. Print.

Quote 2:

“Fleming has caught a series of memorable views of plantation life and scenes, and builds a strong case for a civilization of chivalry. Comes the debacle and the characters are catapulted into new conditions, strange and hateful surroundings.”

“Task of holding audience attention for nearly three and three-quarter hours is a challenge to ingenuity and resourcefulness. That Fleming succeeds so well may be attributed to the manner in which he has highlighted his principals in every scene, regardless of the spectacular elements.”

Citation 2:

Flinn, John C. “Gone with the Wind.” Rev. of Gone with the Wind, dir. George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Sam Wood. Variety 20 December 1939, p14 late ed.: E1.Print.

I was first introduced to Gone with the wind, by my high school history teacher. I remember we had reached a section in our course which began discussing the civil war, and it was at that moment that he informed us about this particular movie. He could not stop praising the movie, which he said was one of his favorite movies. I...