Scarlett (Special Collector's Editon) [VHS] Overview
This soapy but highly watchable television "sequel" to
Gone with the Wind, the most popular Hollywood movie ever made, has nothing to do with memories of a vanished antebellum South. But it does end up in Ireland, where the determined Scarlett O'Hara Butler (played with frosty passion by Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) turns hard times into an opportunity by buying the ancestral home of her family. Before that happens, however, Scarlett fights to win back the estranged Rhett Butler (manfully portrayed by Timothy Dalton), often seen in the company of other women, struggles for control over the homestead Tara, and gets caught in yet another compromising position with poor Ashley Wilkes (Stephen Collins). The troubles never stop (Scarlett's Ireland adventures land her in a heap of trouble from which only Rhett can save her), but this TV miniseries wisely keeps the focus on these captivating characters, their entangled histories, and the collective destiny that refuses to part them. The show also looks good: the location scenes in Ireland are particularly handsome, and there is something unaccountably satisfying about seeing Scarlett and Rhett walking through peaceful green hills. Enjoy.
--Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Scarlett, the film has little to either the book or Gone with the wind of her squeak. The sites have only a superficial similarity. Ashley Wilkes not to appear at any time in Charleston, and he has nothing to do with why Scarlett do after the boating accident. The film portrays Scarlett never be thrown from the house of Rhett Butler's wife illict Rhett reached after word of a meeting between her and Ashley. That has never happened in the book, just theIn contrast, in fact --- Rhett letter imploring them to please leave later admits that not the truth about his feelings, because it is, and leaves his notebook to his mother is that she loves, is angry confrontation pure invention.
The film gives way to Charleston almost completely from the history book. Rhett Ross first divorce while she is Savannah, still leaving America for Ireland with the expectation that it will. The story that comes once in Irelandis completely different. Before Earl Fenton there when it comes to Ballyhara, nor did they appear in the book in four years after their arrival. She returned to America to sell Atlanta real estate here some time after Rhett Their divorce, but that has nothing to do with Suellen, and certainly has nothing to do with growing violence Fenton, as shown in the film. Rhett Ross found out where on the way back to Ireland with a port in Charleston, where they seethe other, him out of the dock from the deck of the boat while the boat moves towards the sea. Rhett is for them to come, but not with his new wife, Ann Hampton hitch. Scarlett has shown considerable success in rapidly progressing up the ranks of the British aristocratic society in Ireland. This is definitely the way to get Rhett back, like Rhett, an aristocratic Anglo itself can not stand the richest men in England and Ireland, fawning over her as she left out. He makes repeated trips to Ireland,ostensibly to buy horses and has her friends to keep her. Mr. Fenton, the richest man in England, takes after his debut in Dublin Castle and dance with the Viceroy (and Rhett), and if he moved the court to Ross, who died after his wife Ann Hampton , is the last straw for Rhett. In the film, the role of Fenton and the character is totally false representation of his movies as a rapist is all wrong. Fenton does not show all the violence against Scarlett (other than a shortMeeting with the horse, which rather amused). It shows the highest aristocratic arrogance that his marriage plans for them as an exercise in horse breeding (and he said it) --- the floor, his aristocratic blood with their quality and characteristics of strains, which he Cat sees in her daughter's heritage and create a mix you need. She knows she can not conceive a child in any case, not more. But certainly not in breach or anyone else in the book, no one kills Fenton, andOf course there is no trial for murder. Rhett Ross runs after learning that they are married Fenton, while Scarlett discovered by Moreland, Rhett friend, the truth about the death of Ann, convinced that he would come for them ...
The film is alternately continued Gone with the wind, not a "base" in the book ... The purpose of the film seems to be to create a role for Sean Bean in a bad different, need to change the story of a badFenton ... Joanne Whatley played Scarlett O'Hara and a great lead story in many ways much more credible than Vivian Leigh (1939), is a bit 'too young for his role ... Whatley shows the tires Scarlett O 'Hara remarkable.
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