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Plot
Part1
On the eve of the American Civil War in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara lives at Tara, her family's cotton plantation in Georgia, with her parents and two sisters. Scarlett learns that Ashley Wilkes−whom she secretly loves−is to be married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and the engagement is to be announced the next day at a barbecue at Ashley's home, the nearby plantation Twelve Oaks.

At the Twelve Oaks party, Scarlett secretly declares her feelings to Ashley, but he rebuffs her by responding that he and Melanie are more compatible. Scarlett is incensed when she discovers another guest, Rhett Butler, has overheard their conversation; a smitten Rhett promises Scarlett he will keep her secret. The barbecue is disrupted by the declaration of war and the men rush to enlist. As Scarlett watches Ashley kiss Melanie goodbye, Melanie's younger brother Charles proposes to her. Although she does not love him, Scarlett consents and they are married before he leaves to fight.Scarlett is widowed when Charles dies from a bout of pneumonia and measles while serving in the Confederate Army. Scarlett's mother sends her to the Hamilton home in Atlanta to cheer her up, although the O'Haras' outspoken housemaid Mammy tells Scarlett she knows she is going there only to wait for Ashley's return. Scarlett, who should not attend a party while in mourning, attends a charity bazaar in Atlanta with Melanie where she runs into Rhett again, now a blockade runner for the Confederacy. Celebrating a Confederate victory and to raise money for the Confederate war effort, gentlemen are invited to bid for ladies to dance with them. Rhett makes an inordinately large bid for Scarlett and, to the disapproval of the guests, she agrees to dance with him.

The tide of war turns against the Confederacy after the Battle of Gettysburg in which many of the men of Scarlett's town are killed. Scarlett makes another unsuccessful appeal to Ashley while he is visiting on Christmas furlough, although they do share a private and passionate kiss in the parlor on Christmas Day, just before he returns to war.

Eight months later, as the city is besieged by the Union Army in the Atlanta Campaign, Scarlett and her young house servant Prissy must deliver Melanie's baby without medical assistance after she goes into premature labor. Afterwards, Scarlett calls upon Rhett to take her home to Tara with Melanie, her baby, and Prissy; he collects them in a horse and wagon, but once out of the city chooses to go off to fight, leaving Scarlett and the group to make their own way back to Tara. Upon her return home, Scarlett finds Tara deserted, except for her father, her sisters, and two former slaves: Mammy and Pork. Scarlett learns that her mother has just died of typhoid fever and her father has become incompetent. With Tara pillaged by Union troops and the fields untended, Scarlett vows she will do anything for the survival of her family and herself.

Part2
As the O'Haras work in the cotton fields, Scarlett's father is killed after he is thrown from his horse in an attempt to chase away a scalawag from his land. With the defeat of the Confederacy Ashley also returns, but finds he is of little help at Tara. When Scarlett begs him to run away with her, he confesses his desire for her and kisses her passionately, but says he cannot leave Melanie. Unable to pay the taxes on Tara implemented by Reconstructionists, Scarlett dupes her younger sister Suellen's fiancé, the middle-aged and wealthy mill owner Frank Kennedy, into marrying her, by saying Suellen got tired of waiting and married another beau.

Frank, Ashley, Rhett and several other accomplices make a night raid on a shanty town after Scarlett is attacked while driving through it alone, resulting in Frank's death. With Frank's funeral barely over, Rhett proposes to Scarlett and she accepts. They have a daughter whom Rhett names Bonnie Blue, but Scarlett, still pining for Ashley and chagrined at the perceived ruin of her figure, lets Rhett know that she wants no more children and that they will no longer share a bed.

One day at Frank's mill, Scarlett and Ashley are seen embracing by Ashley's sister, India, and harboring an intense dislike of Scarlett she eagerly spreads rumors. Later that evening, Rhett, having heard the rumors, forces Scarlett to attend a birthday party for Ashley; incapable of believing anything bad of her beloved sister-in-law, Melanie stands by Scarlett's side so that all know that she believes the gossip to be false. After returning home from the party, Scarlett finds Rhett downstairs drunk, and they argue about Ashley. Rhett kisses Scarlett against her will, stating his intent to have sex with her that night, and carries the struggling Scarlett to the bedroom. The next day, Rhett apologizes for his behavior and offers Scarlett a divorce, which she rejects, saying that it would be a disgrace. When Rhett returns from an extended trip to London Scarlett informs him that she is pregnant, but an argument ensues which results in her falling down a flight of stairs and suffering a miscarriage. As she is recovering, tragedy strikes when Bonnie dies while attempting to jump a fence with her pony.

Scarlett and Rhett visit Melanie, who has suffered complications arising from a new pregnancy, on her deathbed. As Scarlett consoles Ashley, Rhett returns to their home in Atlanta; realizing that Ashley only ever truly loved Melanie, Scarlett dashes after Rhett to find him preparing to leave for good. She pleads with him, telling him she realizes now that she has loved him all along and that she never really loved Ashley, but Rhett says that with Bonnie's death went any chance of reconciliation. Scarlett begs him to stay but Rhett rebuffs her and walks out the door and into the early morning fog, leaving her weeping on the staircase and vowing to one day win back his love.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)

Cast
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler クラーク・ゲーブル・・・・・A visitor from Charleston
Vivien Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara. ヴィヴィアン・リー・・・・Gerald's daughter
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes レスリー・ハワード
Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton オリヴィア・デ・ハヴィランド・・・Ashley's cousin
Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara. トーマス・ミッチェル・・・・・・Scarlet's father
Barbara O'Neil as Ellen バーバラ・オニール・・・・・・・・O'HaraScarlet's mother
Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes アリシア・レット・・・・・・・・・Ashley's sister.
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy ハティ・マクダニエル・・・・・・・・・House servant
Carroll Nye as Frank Kennedy キャロル・ナイ
Harry Davenport as Doctor Meade .ハリー・ダベンボート 　

Academy Awards
Won
Best Picture
Best Director (Victor Fleming)
Best Actress (Vivien Leigh)
Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best CInematpgraphy, Color
Best Film Editing
Best Art Direction

Nominated
Best Actor (Clark Gable)
Best Visual Effects
Best Music
Best Sound

今日は1939年公開の「風と共に去りぬ」について書こうと思います。主演はクラーク・ゲーブルとヴィヴィアン・リー。監督はヴィクター・フレミングの名前だけがクレジットされていますが、実際はフレミング以外にもジョージ・キューカーやサム・ウッドなど複数の監督の手が入っています。音楽を担当したのはマックス・スタイナーです。上の動画にも使われている「タラのテーマ」がスタイナーの曲の中では知られています。。スタイナーはアカデミー作曲賞に度々ノミネートされ3回受賞していますが、もっとも有名な本作品では受賞できませんでした。

この映画は世界でもっとも成功した映画と言えると思います。当時アメリカの人口は1億5000万人でしたが2億人がこの映画を見たと言われています。相当な数ですね。興行収入もすごいです。1億9867万6459ドルでした。1939年の興行収入は当然「風と共に去りぬ」が1位です。2位の「Jesse James」が946万ドルでした。2位の21倍もの興行収入を得ています。タイタニックやアバターでも2位の3倍程度です。インフレを考えると「風と共に去りぬ」が歴代1位の興行収入を得ていることになります。

原作では黒人に対し差別的な部分があるということで、そういう場面は映画では省かれています。
negroという言葉は出てきませんしdarkyという言葉も数回出てくるだけです。
制作のデヴィッド・O・セルズニックの意向によります。

映画の内容については有名なので日本語では書きません。
有名なセリフやシーンを見ていこうと思います。

映画の中盤、スカーレットがタラに戻る時アトランタが炎上するシーンです。


戦闘後、大量の遺体や傷ついた兵士でいっぱいになっています。


引きとめようとするスカーレット。これからどうしたらいいのというスカーレットに対しての一言。
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.（知らないね、勝手にするがいい）
damnという言葉は非常に罵りの言葉で、この当時は映画で使うべきではない言葉とされていました。しかしプロデューサーのゼルニックは小説のままセリフを使うことを求めました。


この映画の最後、レットがスカーレットの元を去った後いうセリフ。
After all, tomorrow is another day.（結局、明日は別の日なのだから）

この映画は4時間の上映ですが、十分見れる映画だと思います。

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