Gone With the Wind - Tara's Theme (Max Steiner)

[illusionstateofmind]

great!

[irish9boy]

the music is so evocative it sweeps you back to tara

[spot5]

@HenryConway..."something novels are incapable of having." What an absolutely ridiculous statement for many, many reasons that I just don't have room here to elaborate on. So I'll just settle for highlighting the sheer foolishness of that statement.

[HenryConway007]

@spot5 Oh really? Then name me ONE novel that has great cinematography, a great film score, and great acting.

[fromthesidelines]

There were at least two directors involved with the film before Victor Fleming completed it, 'pookerville' (it was THAT much of a turbulent production for everyone concerned): George Cukor and Sam Wood directed earlier portions of the picture before Fleming was chosen {he was a close friend of Clark Gable's}.

[geneve2008]

Un très beau film, mais qui doit beaucoup à son indicatif musical.

[pookerville]

Hey, George Cukor didn't direct Gone With The Wind; it was Victor Fleming!

[bluegibby7]

Personally i don't give a damn , I'll think about it to morrow, after all to morrow is another day. Sheer poetry

[bluegibby7]

I must have seen it about five times ,read the book three times ,pt

[CashOnTheNail1955]

VHS Making Of A Legend sadly-worn; recommend DVD should LoveFilm add-to-catalog [it's on imdb dot com].

[cymbali]

Opinions are like a holes . everything about the movie and its timing is great !!!!

[phantomcrawford]

@ basilhenriques

The title of the song is actually "Main Title" they later changed it to "Tara's Theme" but that name isn't used very often. I have sheet music where the title is "Tara's Theme" but the soundtrck I posess titles it as "Main Theme". Tara is indeed like a character. It is one of the most important. The song was never called "Tara Theme" it would have been incorrct to write it that way. Just becase it is not a person that does not mean the posessive s cannot be used.

[JERICE56]

without doubts the best music video of all time

[BibleJoker2Face]

does anyone have the  COMPLETE Overture, Ent'Acte & Exit Music in mp3 format?

[FabianaFortyFive45]

who can forget this wonderful movie ? Who can forget this beautiful music ? Each time I listen to this music, it makes me quiver of pleasure...A masterpiece of art, it's great !!!! Thanks for this video !

[CashOnTheNail1955]

@FabianaFortyFive45 Popular-vote; Jimmie Fiddler 1937-broadcast gave Betty Davis, Catherine Hepburn, Miriam Hopkins, Margaret Sullivan, Joan Crawford & Barbara Stanwyck; 121 in-all, 32 made screen-tests. Clark Gable the publics-choice for Rhett.

Is there a 21st-century Sidney Howard out-there to write a 'treatment', William Cameron Menzies to-produce storyboard, Jock Whitney to find 'investors' for a brand-new 'family-movie'. I have most-of the-movie online & in-my-head.

[bwalls0103]

My Favorite movie!!!!!!! The most beautiful music !!!!!!

[daltonagre]

Gone with the wind remains the best movie ever did. I live in Brazil.

[alexalex3131]

Special note: Most of these old films - big ones and small - and also many new ones - are freely available at your local library on DVDs. In fact the big city libraries usualy have thousands available for free take out. Just slip it into your laptop's side pocket and you can watch the film in hi def and without interruption.

[basilhenriques]

Such a beautiful tune with such an emotional interpretation. Unfortunately I was born after that, It MUST have been the era of REAL music.

[daltonagre]

Gone With the Wind remains the best movie ever did. I live in Brazil.

[WimGrundy]

I wonder...can you still stand on the southern . . .California spot of TARA?

[pattigeeful]

Ah, but what a soap opera!!

[LLJtbone]

@HenryConway007 Also, they just don't make movies like this any more, it's a by gone era of film making. The music is so fitting for such a great movie.

[HenryConway007]

@LLJtbone The film’s problem is that the source material bogs it down. The novel isn’t even as good as a typical episode of “All My Children” and the film does little to rise above it. Sometimes, a great film can come from a crappy novel—think “The Godfather”, but that’s because Francis Ford Coppola smartly removed some of the novel’s silliness—such as the girl with the deformed pussy.

[LLJtbone]

@HenryConway007 I have seen every Godfather movie and had know idea about the "deformed pussy" part! I am more into the music than anything else. The music is sweeping and grand. You're right though about a novel that might not have been so great made into a great movie. I mean GWTW is one of those movies because of it's grandness. I prefer Ben Hur or somethingn like the Ten Commandments, those were some great movies.

[HenryConway007]

@LLJtbone It’s in the Mario Puzo novel. Coppola, being the great filmmaker that he was, was wise enough to remove such lurid and pointless material. In other words, a great filmmaker can occasionally improve on a bad novel. It’s just that David O. Selznick wasn’t half the filmmaker that Francis Ford Coppola was.

[betsydog]

@HenryConway007 The novel was in fact one of the great ones of all time, which was why the movie (also a classic) was so hotly anticipated.

[HenryConway007]

@betsydog “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was also highly anticipated, but that’s hardly a great work of literature. The novel “Gone With the Wind” is dumbed down Brontë. The film is probably better, because it has great cinematography, a great film score, and some excellent acting- stuff that novels are incapable of having.

[LLJtbone]

This is such lovely music. Max Steiner is one of those composers that can transport you right to era this movie depicts. That my friends is "epic" story telling.

[bellabecka2You]

What beautiful music composed by Max Steiner. GWTW is such a classic movie and should be seen by everyone. It was some production for this movie to be made during this era. And the stars who starred in it were just that "stars" compared to some of the actors today. This was when it was truly worth every penny to spend at the box office to see!

[nancyfloressantos]

My all-time favorite music.

[globehunter2]

God is found in this music as well as in this film* this is when movie making was based on true talent! not special effects or computer generated images. Spirit

lives forever trend and fade does not): Gone with the wind will always live because

universal energy never DIES.

[globehunter2]

Movie making like this touched the Soul* and reached the depth of all

human emotion. Sadly as a society we have lost allot of these emotions

that contained respect and addressed the human Spirit.

[Spongalicous]

How the **** is this related to Boys Over Flowers, a Korean drama?!

[valerieking2010]

this was and is my favorite movie of all time at twelve i went to a movie house and saw a movie that has always remained in my heart . have it on vidieo and dvd. watch it often now 65 still the one of the best. clark gable and vivian leigh so good or should i say so kool, for their time the greatist. this will be and has as history goes is one of the best movies ever.

[100flyawy]

dont ever compare gone with the wind to titanic,l do love titanic,but seriously both of these movies are both in their own catergories.

[tntbsyht]

dont you mean directed by victor fleming and george cukor did some of the directing but quit

[rbaleksandar]

The film's too girly for my taste but the music is magnificent. :)

[Lavalampoflava]

I really love this music! Steiner was a great composer! Awesomeness!

[b56123]

I would also like to add, that in 1939, Wuthering Heights was released and that is another fantastic film!!!!!! the acting is superb!!!!! However it is always overlooked and never gets mentioned with the greats, which is such a shame!!!!!! However Gone with the Wind is in a class of its own.

[hollbri]

simply the best-what more can i say?

[basilhenriques]

"Tara Theme" is the correct title as per the composer and sheet music. The plantation house was called "Tara".

There is NO person in the film called Tara..

[oldmoviemusic]

@basilhenriques

Yes, I realise that there is no person in the film of the name Tara (although Tara the plantation is most certainly a character). However, over time the title has adopted the extra possessive s. I like it this way, and I'm sorry, but I posted the video. Thank you for your comment though.

[ZeekWolfe1]

@oldmoviemusic Thanks for posting this music. Every time I see GWTW I realize that what proceeded it in the 1920's and 1930's almost sinks into irrelevency. 1939, a stupefying year in the movie business, and this picture was and still is the best of all.

[WWJSBD]

@basilhenriques A location can have the possessive 's too.  How about "New York's best pizza" or something like that? Makes perfect sense.

In any case, this movie has a fantastic soundtrack. Also an excellent example of how film during this era was essentially just theater on a screen.

[basilhenriques]

@WWJSBD How correct. I stand corrected happily. of course the possive 's is intended to indicate that in Tara's Theme, Tara being the plantation's name.

[Aleera16]

Fantastic!!!!

[zooeyhall]

In 1939, in just a few months, there were released some of the greatest movies ever: Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, Of Mice and Men, and of course: Gone With the Wind. Really amazing when you think about it. Could a movie like "Gone With the Wind" be made today? When you consider it, it was a HUGE risk back in 1939. Hollywood just doesn't have the creativity and DARING to do anything worthwhile today. Today's movies are all deriviative and uninspired.

[dacatholicbandorgan]

Not entirely.l

Although you also must consider between Selznick, Fleming and a few others the relationship of the Wizard of Oz and GWTW is immortal.

[CashOnTheNail1955]

@zooeyhall Elizabeth [Ghost-Story, A] remains on-hold; 10yo child-labourers tragically-killed Christmas Eve 1843 walking-home from 'party'. Becoming mortal upon meeting 21st-century descendant they get a second-chance. Photographic-memory wasted in the 19th-century Elizabeth absorbs knowledge like-a-sponge.

Returning-home with raft-of-skills Elizabeth shares her-experiences; her-boss Henry J Fate 'apparently-knows' 21st-century music. No-violence, no car-chases, no-porn... Wonderful.

[boy18inva]

Allthough the movie has certain hokey elements to it (at least by today's standard's), and that its depiction of African-Americans is excrutiatingly stereotyped; nonetheless the movie does have some remarkable scenes. And, of course, Max Steiner's magnificent theme.

[AdArmand]

It IS a cinematic soap opera, as is Titanic.

[oldmoviemusic]

Titanic is most certainly a cinematic soap opera, however GWTW is not at all! I just watched it on the big scrreen for it 70th anniversary release and I was struck by how complex a movie it is. The character of Scarlett represents the idea of the South, her continuous 'love' for Ashley is her clinging to the past, and the whole movie is very complex.

Indeed, it is not a soap opera at all.

[Tanathos474]

@oldmoviemusic I agree. Although, in the book Scarlett is a total anti-heroine, and she's completely aware that she does not feel identified with the "southern belle" image at all. She knows all the way that her "social behaviour" is just a pose.

Margaret Mitchell really depictured one of the most complex characters I've ever read. A great novel, a great movie.

[CashOnTheNail1955]

@Tanathos474 Invalided following horse-riding accident Margaret Mitchell started-writing GWTW 1926. Pansy O' Hara changed through publisher McMillan; can you see contender Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Clara Bow... as Scarlett? Katherine Brown [Eastern Story Editor] appealed to [DOS business-partner] Jock Whitney who paid the US$50,000 for-the-book written-by-an-author nobody had heard-of. KB secured movie-rights July 6 1936; George Cukor first-director.

[burtonrules123]

@AdArmand titanic is a big piece of crapola compared to GWTW.

[hunchbacked]

Whatever, the music is really great.

Max Steiner would make whichever film look great.

[HenryConway007]

"All About Eve" is a terrific film, and not only because of its dialogue. "Gone With the Wind" isnt a bad film because it has lousy dialogue, but because it has a lousy scenario that reeks of a déclassé antebellum "All My Children". The situations and character entanglements are straight out of Soap Opera 101, and while Clark Gable gave a terrific performance, I could never understand what he saw in Scarlett. Hes Clark Gable, after all! He can have any woman he wants!

[oldmoviemusic]

You must not be a fan of the book then! Sure, it may have its melodramatic elements, but I think the overall production comes past that to bring out an excellent movie. Perhaps we can agree to disagree? :)

And indeed, All About Eve is great for MANY reasons.

[HenryConway007]

The book is dumbed-down Charlotte and Emily Brontë. I acknowledged the production values in previous posts, but then I can just re-watch "Lawrence of Arabia", which also has high production values, yet also has an intelligent, literate script. It also feels alot shorter, despite only being 5 minutes shorter in actuality.

[chislehurstbat]

@HenryConway007 Ms Mitchell won a Pulitzer Price for the "dumbed-down" Brontë. Just saying...

[HenryConway007]

@chislehurstbat Pulitzer Prizes are damned near meaningless, just like Academy Awards.

[HenryConway007]

Great music, great cinematography, excellent performances, and a script suitable for a fifth-rate soap opera.

[oldmoviemusic]

I agree on the first three things, but I would have to say that the script is pretty good as well! It might not be the best thing about the movie, but I wouldn't compare it to a soap opera!

[HenryConway007]

The script is the reason the movie fails in the end. It certainly is a fifth-rate soap opera especially in the 2nd half. The 4-hour running time doesnt help much either.

Simply painting gold over something doesnt increase its value. "Gone With the Wind" is painted gold, with great production values, but still a lousy film, although not a terrible one.

[oldmoviemusic]

The movie does not fail in the end! In fact, its ending is still one of the most famous endings on film; this is not because it is crappy, but rather because it is well-done and memorable. This movie is a classic for a reason, not because it is over-rated! Gone With The Wind is a compelling character study of epic proportions, and while it has minute flaws I still cannot see any that are even half as big as the ones you think are there. Oh well, to each his own opinion! :)

[Dionor8]

Thanks for the lovely presentation of Max Steiner's masterpiece. Long before "The Fountainhead" and westerns, he had set a standard of excellence others still strive to match. Many thanks for the main theme from this enduring classic.

[oldmoviemusic]

Yes, Steiner is a great film composer! Thanks for commenting!

[Shabannie]

I used to play this song on the piano when I was younger.  Very beautiful. Thank you for contributing this.

----Ellen