Overrated
i finally caught up with this classic. it's a good looking picture with charming lead performances, but is it a masterpiece? i don't think so.
beside the annoying prissy character (her voice was almost unbearable), i found it disappointing how the key moments seemed so rushed without much "emotional punch", if you know what i mean. like when rhett conviced scarlett to marry him - she said she will never marry again and only a few seconds later she agrees to marry him.
or when the daughter died, we don't even get to see rhett's reaction directly - only indirectly via someone else talking about how rhett suffered from the loss.
stanley kubrick's period drama 'barry lyndon' has a similar plot moment - here, the protagonist's child also dies due to a horse accident, but kubrick manages to make this scene really moving, while in 'gone with the wind' the death of the daughter seems almost like a casual incident.