tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post8937333079491569749..comments2024-01-21T11:18:54.087-05:00Comments on Lost in the Movies: The Favorites - Gone With the Wind (#74)Joel Bockohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-59471652410183471702016-01-02T02:36:32.081-05:002016-01-02T02:36:32.081-05:00Menzies' unique role in the production does no...Menzies' unique role in the production does not mean he should be attributed as director. I do wish I had thought to mention him in the capsule (which is a brief overview of why the film is among my subjective favorites, not by any means a thorough historical overview) but it slipped my mind unfortunately. This is despite having read about his work with Selznick, something you are not the first to bring to my attention. He certainly deserves praise for the film's design and perhaps I'll retroactively edit the piece to reflect that.<br /><br />In the future please refrain from condescending and inaccurate assumptions about my engagement with film history. Thanks.Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7610074516299275060.post-83316973342741405512016-01-01T22:22:24.543-05:002016-01-01T22:22:24.543-05:00Concerning your essay on Gone with the Wind: while...<br />Concerning your essay on Gone with the Wind: while it is not a film that I hold in high esteem, I believe there is one particular quality in which the film makers distinguished themselves and that is in the visual quality of the film, its production design and photography; which makes it particularly ironic that you should fail to mention in your essay the man most responsible for that aspect of the work. Not only was William Cameron Menzies the art director and production designer, he was the person Selznick designated as having the last word in every visual aspect of the film, including the photography and the use of technicolor. He also directed the sequence known as the Burning of Atlanta. I realize that you were merely following the IMDB in listing Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood as the film's three directors, but as you learn more about film history you may also learn to question this very useful but fallible resource and not take everything that is placed there as fact.dale wittighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05683277150630182757noreply@blogger.com