Gone with the Wind. Victor Fleming, 1939.
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Edition screened: Warner ‘Four-Disc Collector’s Edition’ DVD set, released 2004. English language. Runtime approximately 232 minutes.
Summary: The last rooster in Atlanta is jovially menaced by a crotchety old domestic with a hatchet. No killing is depicted …
… but then, in one of cinema’s most thought provoking, unique, and witty gestures, Fleming cuts from the rooster in the barnyard to the remnants of a baked carcass on a serving plate. Can you even grasp the magnitude of such conceptual design? Setting aside the seventy or so other well-known films both earlier and later that do exactly the same thing, this moment of directorial prowess is evidence enough that they don’t make ’em like that anymore. Oh, Jim Naysayer, GWTW truly is every sensitive soul’s favorite film, setting a standard of visual poetry that makes the angel sweep.
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