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!
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.