Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

[dx23]

Just so we're clear, there is only one Blu-ray release and it's the big, expensive orgy of featurettes, right?

The same with Wizard of Oz. Casablanca was the same situation, but Warner recently announced that they are releasing a single disc Blu-ray. I imagine that in 2010, will get individual, single disc releases of these films on BD.

[perkizitore]

I am glad that in the UK they don't release those ridiculous boxsets.
Buy the UK ones for 25$ each

[atcolomb]

Just so we're clear, there is only one Blu-ray release and it's the big, expensive orgy of featurettes, right?

The same with Wizard of Oz. Casablanca was the same situation, but Warner recently announced that they are releasing a single disc Blu-ray. I imagine that in 2010, will get individual, single disc releases of these films on BD.

Buy the UK ones for 25$ each

...But the extras...are they in PAL system?....i saw it too at Amazon.UK

[perkizitore]

...But the extras...are they in PAL system?....i saw it too at Amazon.UK

Probably, if the DVDs are simply duplicates of the previous UK SD edition.

[SuperBlu]

Anyone who already own the GWTW 4-disc SD and Oz 3-disc SD and are still going to buy the blu-rays for both?

Yes on both counts for me. Even the blu-rays will have most of the extras that I already have, the new extras on the blu-rays are dangling just enough of a carrot to tempt me into buying the films all over again.

[Matt]

In addition to the Wizard of Oz Target exclusive Blu-ray I mentioned yesterday, Target will also have a Blu-ray exclusive of GWTW.

[Will Barks]

DVDbeaver review

[scotty2]

It's too bad Warners isn't interested in providing extra material that places GWTW in the context of the Lost Cause ideology of Civil War memory. This film has perpetuated an interpretation of the Civil War and Reconstruction that would provide fascinating material for a documentary. A film that declares its fidelity to history ought to be fair game for a discussion of its view of the war, its causes, and why both sections of the country could agree on the losing side's interpretation. 15 hours of stuff and no discussion of this, as far as I can tell.

[movielocke]

DVDbeaver review

they really should provide a comparison from that famous crane shot of the hospital that ends on the confederate flag. You really would see a huge difference in detail in that, which SD doesn't resolve nearly as well. That was the shot that made me gasp when I saw it in 35mm

The color looks superb in the new version, particularly telling is the final comparison of mammy.

[Matt]

So, still no details on any stripped-down Target/Walmart exclusive Blu-rays of this title?

[Napier]

So, still no details on any stripped-down Target/Walmart exclusive Blu-rays of this title?

I pre-ordered the "Mega Collector Set" for 50% off or so. About $40. Not too bad in my opinion.

[perkizitore]

The UK version is pretty cheap, wait a few months it will come down to 10£.
I think in the new year, a GWTW non-boxset edition will emerge, if it follows the same pattern with Casablanca.

[dx23]

So, still no details on any stripped-down Target/Walmart exclusive Blu-rays of this title?

Only 1 disc with the Commentary. No more extras whatsoever. Not really worth the $30 Target is asking for it. Still, you can get it fro $12.99 next Friday.

[unclehulot]

So, still no details on any stripped-down Target/Walmart exclusive Blu-rays of this title?

Only 1 disc with the Commentary. No more extras whatsoever. Not really worth the $30 Target is asking for it. Still, you can get it fro $12.99 next Friday.

Are there any NEW extras besides the tv movie on the Blu that were not included in the 4 dvd version from a few years ago?

[Gregor Samsa]

So, still no details on any stripped-down Target/Walmart exclusive Blu-rays of this title?

Only 1 disc with the Commentary. No more extras whatsoever. Not really worth the $30 Target is asking for it. Still, you can get it fro $12.99 next Friday.

Are there any NEW extras besides the tv movie on the Blu that were not included in the 4 dvd version from a few years ago?

There's also a documentary on movies from 1939, one on GWTW's legacy, and the 6-hour MGM: When The Lion Roars.

[dx23]

The 3 disc Scarlet edition of the Blu-ray is coming April 13.

[Nasir007]

This film is tainted for ever. We will never see this film the same way again.

But there is one way to save the picture so to say - or to recast it - that is as something it has always been and the way I first perceived it - a character study of Scarlett.

Meaning the history and representation and the point of view of the movie will never not be problematic or offensive, but if we can derive a lens through which to view the picture so that it is tolerable - it will be this lens.

I say this only to share this marvelous piece I came across.

I think this piece articulates something that I have rarely seen expressed as well.

Beyond all the epic trappings of the film and what have you - in the movie we have certainly the most titanic, most monstrous, most all-consuming lead character we have ever seen in movies almost. Scarlett is bigger than Daniel Planview or Lawrence or the Corleones. She is the simply the biggest movie character the movies have ever spit out and that can be a point of entry for wary audiences who still want a way into this supremely problematic picture.

[HinkyDinkyTruesmith]

The film was "tainted" the day it premiered.

[Red Screamer]

I've heard Molly Haskell's book on the film is an an-depth, ambivalent reconsideration of many aspects of the film and cultural phenomenon (even earning praise from Olivia de Havilland), but I haven't gotten around to it yet myself.

[Nasir007]

The film was "tainted" the day it premiered.

Arguably the day it was greenlit.

[Big Ben]

I think it's particularity bad when you consider that former slaves and Civil War veterans were still alive when the film was made and that the film essentially spends four hours attempting to get you to sympathize with people who owned the aforementioned slaves as property. Gone With the Wind is important from a cultural standpoint (As an example of shit that would never be touched now) but the film itself is not in any way shape or form morally redeemable in my eyes.

[Michael Kerpan]

GWTW's appealingly glossy romanticism made its propagation of the Lost Cause myth far more harmful than the in-your-face Birth of a Nation (which was, of course, also immensely damaging).