The 1939 film made headlines this week when it was removed from HBO Max amid global anti-racism protests, after 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley criticized the film for romanticizing the pro-slave Confederacy and suggested temporarily removing it.
Used VHS copies of the film can be had for around five to 10 bucks. Indeed, used and new DVD and Blu-ray copies of the film have been popping up on eBay in the $60 to $70 range, particularly a special Walmart re-release of the 70th anniversary edition in a new slipcover (which had an in-store price of $5 for the DVD and $7.50 for the Blu-ray). 12 spot.Īll of the copies are not offered directly from Amazon, but from third-party sellers using Amazon’s Marketplace service.
In the wake of HBO Max pulling the film from its streaming service, Gone With the Wind has become the hottest title of the home video aftermarket.īy midday Friday, June 12, Gone With the Wind discs occupied the top four spots of Amazon’s list of best-sellers in the movies and TV category, as well as the No. Note: All our DVDs are new Australian region 4 DVDs made for Australian DVD players.Gone With the Wind ‘Gone With the Wind’ Discs Top Amazon’s Best-Seller List, Fetch Big Prices GONE WITH THE WIND, winner of 10 Academy Awards, stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley.
Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett's first two marriages. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett's passion. Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). This is the 75th anniversary edition of the classic Gone With The Wind starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
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