6. Gone With the Wind (1939)

AFI's 100 Greatest Movies:
6. Gone With the Wind (1939)

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[frankmoreno22]

this is my absolute favorite movie of all time.there are SOME good movies now but they just don't make them this good anymore.

[SgtPeppers196714]

i've always thought The Godfather was the greatest movie ever made, but I have no problems with anybody calling this number one.

[burrowsshreds]

@LukeLovesRose Either that or Blanche DuBois.

[burrowsshreds]

@FreedInsanity I think Gone With the Wind was probably the second truly great film, right after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was released two years earlier.

I myself would have put Gone With the Wind in the top five, and taken Titanic off the list. Titanic isn't a bad film, but it doesn't belong on a list that includes A Streetcar Named Desire, Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, and Star Wars.

[09tranm]

@dutchesschelsy54 Here's what you say if a girl is raving about how great Twilight is or how Hot Edward or Jacob is. "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."

[09tranm]

Gone with the wind > Casablanca. Because Casablanca is a total chick flick and it's somehow boring yet this movie is more than twice as long than Casablanca but more exciting. Now Gone with the Wind isn't the best movie ever in my opinion I do have some complaints. However, it's still a great/awesome movie.

[FreedInsanity]

@LukeLovesRose Including a film that was, at the time, only one year old was mighty accepting of the AFI, especially when you consider how many films were likely overlooked in order to include James Cameron's quasi-epic.

As for why Gone with the Wind ranks much higher, consider the fact that many consider it the first truly great film ever made, and not simply great for its time.

[LukeLovesRose]

No. 6 for Gone With The Wind and No. 83 for Titanic is outrageous, you pretentious film snobs!

[LukeLovesRose]

@musicman9982007

LOL. Yes, everyone who has seen this film gets pissed at Scarlett at least once. But, no one can take their eyes off her. No one can be any less than amazed by her charm, beauty, audacity, and fire. She is a pain in the ass, a bitch, a slut, but she is still a great symbol of strength that no character in film history has ever been able to touch.

[LukeLovesRose]

Piss on Raging Bull and The Godfather. This movie is still gorgeous and amazing after 70 fucking years. That's more amazing than any wife-abusive boxer or gangster family.

And Vivien Leigh's Scarlett is possibly the greatest character in film history. And IMO, she gave the greatest performance by an actress in film history as Scarlett.

[temps45]

@dutchesschelsy54

you should realize there have always been stupid child/adolescent actors that take advantage of young angst. for every good one, at least comparatively to their contemporaries, (mickey rooney or shirley temple) there were others who were so really bad that history has forgotten.