Gone With The Wind

I've been a bad, bad film buff - I've never seen GWTW all the way through. I've seen bits and pieces here and there and, of course, I know all the famous lines. But I've never gotten around to seeing it in it's entirety - until tonight.

And I'm about to be a bad, bad film buff again - I do not get the appeal. At all. It's long and drawn out and boring. Scarlett is a self-centered bitch; Rhett is an abusive rapist; Ashley is a wimp; Melanie is halfway decent... but Vivien Leigh has incredible eyes.

It reminds me of Wuthering Heights which I absolutely detested. I tried, from the time I was 12 to read that stupid thing and never managed it until I was 17 and HAD to read it for school. I plowed through the horrid thing, detesting it at every page turn. I wrote an essay about how much I detested it. Of course, it was one of my teacher's favourite books of all time. *grin*. I feel the same way about Jane Eyre. I have yet to get through it and I've been trying for 20 years.

It's the whole... strong man's man who keeps his whiny woman in line. And she has to play all these stupid "girl" games - "Oh poor helpless me!! Save me! Fix it! Save me you big strong man, you!"

Maybe that was the depiction of the time... but it still sucks.