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On today’s EPIC podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark discuss the 1939 Hollywood classic: GONE WITH THE WIND! On today’s discussion:
- Hattie McDaniel becoming first African American to win an Academy Award
- One of the earliest films to sweep the Oscars
- The ups and down of respect amongst film critics
- How much money has GONE WITH THE WIND made?
- The Billion Dollar Club
- Our hesitation to watch the film our first time
- How Blockbuster didn’t carry anything older than the year 2000
- How David O Selznick got the film made
- #NotMyRhett
- Why Gary Cooper turned down the role of Rhett Butler
- “Selznick’s Follie”
- The revolving door of directors
- The most unlikeable protagonist in history
- Mark can’t keep his potty mouth clean!
- The search for Scarlett O’Hara
- Leslie Howard’s least convincing southern accent
- An appearance by Superman
- The themes of masculinity throughout the film
- No one ends up happy
- How they faked Clark Gable dancing
- How the film got around the Hayes Code
- The best shot in the film
- How the “burning of Atlanta” was filled
- Uncle Billy!
- Scarlett as a feminist icon
- Survival as theme
- The rewriting of history
- A thinly veiled Ku Klux Klan raid
- How Rhett carrying Scarlett up the stairs is NOT the romantic scene many people think it is
- How Scarlett matures yet remains selfish
- “Frankly, my dear…” has more impact in context
- How Hattie McDaniel was not allowed to attend the Atlanta premiere
- Why it took so long for Gone with the Wind to air on television
PLUS REFERENCES TO:
- ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
- KING KONG (1933)
- THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
- IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
- BEN-HUR (1959)
- GETTYSBURG (1993)
- SCARLETT (1994)
- TITANIC (1997)
- THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2001-2003)
- AVATAR (2009)
- WATCHMEN (2009)
- THE ARTIST (2011)
- FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (2015)
- SAN ANDREAS (2015)
- THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015)
- STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015)
