This morning I finished watching “The Wind Gone With”. No that’s not a typo. Neither my wife nor I had seen “Gone with the Wind“, so we got it via the Big Pond Movies home delivered DVD scheme. The movie is so long (about twice as long as the civil war) that it takes up too DVDs. Big Ponds copy is a single double sided DVD something we had not seen before.

My wife put the DVD in the player, started the movie and I started watching a few minutes later. We watched for about 90 minutes and then paused the film as we prepared something to eat. We were at the stage of the movie where Rhett and Scarlet have a big fight and Rhett goes off to see Belle. It seemed to us as if the movie was starting to wind up but I hadn’t seen any of the civil war. There was also a reference to Rhett being the third husband, but neither of us could figure who the first husband was, or how Scarlet was Mellie’s sister. I knew that there was a big depot fire scene, but that had been during the war and I was wondering how they would work a flashback scene into the story. Then the penny dropped.

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