When 'Gone with the Wind' came to Atlanta

Huntington News ^ | December 5, 2009 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

[BigReb555]

December 15, 2009, is the 70th Anniversary of the movie 'Gone with the Wind.'

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[Shyla]

There is another book out there — it is about Rhetts life growing up, war, meeting Scarlett, etc.

Slow read at the beginning.

[Fu-fu2]

Thanks for the tip on “Rhett Butler’s People”...I’ll have to see if I can find it.

[Erasmus]

Thought it would be a wonderful thing to have an entire herd of male admirers!

And one of them was even Superman!

[Erasmus]

“I saw it in the window, and I just had to have it!”

[buschbaby]

Reading all the replies is like reading my own mind. GWTW is very special to me. It's magical and tragic all at the same time.

Scarlett was a twit, but I still love her. Ashley was always too weak for me though I grew to appreciate him. Rhett can still make me sigh.

I always search resale shops and garage sales for hidden copies of GWTW that might be autographed. Anyone lucky enough to own one?

[ktscarlett66]

Oh man, I watched that clip on Youtube a few weeks ago. I laughed til I cried.

“I saw it in the window and just couldn’t resist it” !!

[ktscarlett66]

As much as I love the movie, the book will always remain my first love. If I had to give up one, the movie would go in a heartbeat. The characters are slightly different - I didn’t like the way they portrayed Pork in the movie as the book showed him to be resourceful and although not educated, intelligent. Dilcey, Honey and Will were absent completely, as were Scarlett’s two children Wade and Ella. Uncle Peter was Pitty’s guardian and the one who helped bring the young Melanie and Charles up and was praised by Charles as being smart and ‘owning the family body and soul’.

I realize though, that it was a long movie even cut the way it was and so some things had to be changed. For a movie made from a book it still stayed pretty close to the original.

And Rhett did NOT return Scarlett’s wedding band!

[carton253]

I agree. The book is way better than the movie, but, due to time restraints, some events and people had to go, otherwise it would have been a five hour movie.