[lit-ideas] Re: Singing Down the Plumbing
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 06:36:24 EDT
I haven't thought of "Reds" in years. I only remember loving it. I should
give it another look. Bet it's available on e-bay <g>.
Julie Kruegr
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> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I have
> spent some of the time watching, "Gone With the Wind." Emily gets
> extra credit in her history class if she watches this--a unit on the
> Civil War--and, since I've never seen the thing, I agreed to watch with
> her.
>
> Why on earth would anybody watch it? We're only part the way through
> and it's time for her to go to dance, so we've interrupted. If the
> world forgot how to make electricity, thus preventing me from watching
> the rest before I die...I don't think I'd feel the loss. At least not
> re. the film.
>
> I can't wait for, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a..."
>
I read it the first time when I was 14. I thought it was the best book
that I ever read. I read it again at 16 and loved it just as much. Then I
saw the movie that same year at 16 and I hated it, I thought it horrible.
Clark Gable is *not* Rhett Butler, and Vivian Leigh is *not* Scarlett
O'Hara. The movie isn't even a shadow of the book, as I remember it
anyway. I don't know what reaction I'd have today if I read it. I think
it's pretty historically accurate.
When I saw the movie Reds, it was Gone With the Wind all over again. I
loved it. It touched me like no other. I vowed never to see it again
because I don't want to wonder what I saw in it the first time. But, it's
been long enough that maybe I can watch it again. Unfortunately, Netflix
doesn't have it. Maybe the library has it.
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
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