> [Original Message] > From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 5/4/2006 10:40:22 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Singing Down the Plumbing > > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html