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Title: Language ruins it for me
Review: I think "Gone With the Wind" is about 99% of a great movie. I'd love for there to be a few more battle scenes, and perhaps a little less emphasis on the whiny Scarlett, but on the whole, it's alright.What I can't understand was the filmmakers' insistence on turning a nice period piece into an exploitation movie. I'm talking, of course, about the swearing by Clark Gable near the movie's end. Why? What was the point? Were the film's producers so dead set on pushing the envelope that they felt they had to degrade the movie in such a way? Imagine the Munchkins or Glenda from "The Wizard of Oz" saying such a thing. It's unimaginable.I'm aware that new movies have much more foul language than this, but that still doesn't make this any better. This movie could have been a pinnacle of the genre, rather than a shameless exercise in exploitation. I expect more from the classics, and so should you.
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