Movie Reviews

Gone with the Wind (1939) is one of the greatest classic films that defined American cinema. It films one of the greatest epic of America’s bygone past written by Margaret Mitchell. Directed by Victor Fleming and starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard it is a crowning achievement for producer David O. Selznick. This movie received ten academy awards and was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the Epic genre. It depicts a story about a spoiled girl and her hopeless love for a married man in the midst of a Civil war and its aftermath from a white Southern point of view.

When we talk about music in the movies, we recollect the story of Sound of Music, an old English Movie. Maria, a nun who does not like to follow the restrictive rules is forced to work as governess in Von Trapp household. Von Trapp a retired Austrian Naval officer imposes strict discipline on his seven children which makes them to starve for joy and love. At right situation Maria enters and gives the children happy life through her music.Though Von Trapp is in love with Baroness, a rich lady, he is fascinated with Maria and her music. She too developed a liking but being a nun, unable to handle the situation runs back to her convent. There, the mother convinces and sends her to captains’ home. Baroness, who sensed the affair, calls off her marriage. The captain after marrying Maria, unwilling to work in the navy leaves Austria and set off to Switzerland on foot with Maria and his seven Children.