According to Wikipedia:
That seems to leave no doubt that it was, indeed, in “widescreen”, whether MGM was “on the skids” or not.
The footnote is to this reference:
Haver, Ronald (1993). David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind . New York: Random House. pp. 84–85.
On DVD, I just watched Doctor Faustus, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
The last five minutes are great. The rest is a long haul in steerage.
Nitpick: you’re conflating 2 characters (and I don’t know why I know this…). Pork worked at Tara. The “last chicken in Atlanta” was chased down by Aunt Pittypat’s Uncle Peter, played by Eddie “Rochester” Anderson.
One of Pork’s few lines of dialog comes right after Scarlett returns to Tara post-war. He says “Who’s going to pick that cotton? We’s house workers.” The same line in the book was “…we’s house [n-words]”. The movie is cringeworthy but it could’ve been worse.
I thought it was a movie. Perhaps because it seemed interminable.
We just took a run at that, but bailed before we finished the first episode.
Because I’d never seen it, and because I’ve been under the weather and have some time to kill, I started up Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy on Max or HBO Max or HBO or whatever it’s called this week.
OMG, what a huge steaming pile. I’ve read the book a couple of times, but it’s been decades. My god, the amount of crap he piled into this story to make it into 3 movies is just ridiculous. I’m about half way through the second one; I virtually guarantee you I won’t finish.
I’m a huge LOTR nerd and love both the books and the movies…and I’ve never seen The Hobbit trilogy and probably never will.
We love them even though they are a step down from LotR.
This is a wise decision.
I enjoy the first one but yes it is drawn out and you can tell he wasn’t working with anywhere near as much original material as the LOTR stuff. The second, I think was ok but I’ve not bothered to see it since it was first released, which probably says it all. And the third… don’t even bother. Poor.
Re: The Hobbit trilogy
We watched these again recently after many years. Quite honestly, I couldn’t stay awake through any of them. Even the dragon didn’t wake me up.
If they edited down to just the parts that were in the book it would probably be a decent movie. It’s hard to think of another project that is as bloated as that trilogy.
There are a bunch of fan edits out there, some intended to cut it down as close to the source material as possible, others intended to just remove some bloat. I haven’t watched any of them, but I will eventually pick one & watch it.
Party on, dude.
GWTW is one of my guilty pleasure movies. I like Scarlett (I like women like Scarlett), enjoy that it got the feel of Atlanta right, own the Blu-Ray box set, and have a $75 GWTW book which contains all sorts of memorabilia from the film, including memos from Selznick to everyone about his vision of the film.
I reviewed my first full viewing of Gone With the Wind earlier in this thread and from what I recall, I thought Scarlett was a right twat. She was the worst person in that movie, if you ask me. Just a user and a leech and feckless emotional abuser. Rhett did the right thing.
To be honest, the Carol Burnett Show parody of GWTW was better and far shorter.
“I saw it in the window and just couldn’t resist!”
I rewatched the first episode (“Arrival”) of the classic Patrick McGoohan series The Prisoner. Probably because I watched it in the summer when it was first broadcast in the US (As a summer replacement. And they brought it back the next year), this feels like the right time to watch it. Wonderfully weird an d inventive, and damned near timeless.