{"id":131786,"date":"2016-10-13T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/movie-review-gone-with-the-wind-1939.html"},"modified":"2016-10-13T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T04:39:31","slug":"movie-review-gone-with-the-wind-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/movie-review-gone-with-the-wind-1939.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Gone with the Wind&quot; (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve watched this before, but as something fresh for my daughter during Father\/Daughter Movie Week, I was struck (especially in her commentary) about how difficult it is to follow along a story about an unlikable protagonist and all the mistakes she makes in her life.<\/p>\n<p>Full review: <a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/gone-with-the-wind\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/gone-with-the-wind\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3.5 stars out of 5 &#8212; plenty of spectacle, good acting, but essentially a morality play about not being a manipulative egomaniac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6341175491070372177\/6341175491883467234'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-IRvlGfpFFhQ\/WABhg0wggeI\/AAAAAAAEJDU\/hLBee_qMG_I2U-lrpKjlBUPjj3bApqw-QCJoC\/gone_with_the_wind_ver4%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/61Mhpp2arvs'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve watched this before, but as something fresh for my daughter during Father\/Daughter Movie Week, I was struck (especially in her commentary) about how difficult it is to follow along a story about an unlikable protagonist and all the mistakes she makes in her life. Full review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/gone-with-the-wind\/ 3.5 stars out of 5 &#8212; plenty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/movie-review-gone-with-the-wind-1939.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;Gone with the Wind&quot; (1939)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/gone_with_the_wind_ver45B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135132,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/father-daughter-movie-week-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":131786,"position":0},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 10:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie was out of town on business this week, which should have meant lots of movies for +Kay Hill and myself. 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