Southern Comfort: Gone With the Wind at the Paramount

In a summer dominated by films about robots, super heroes, and teenage wizards, doesn’t a classic movie sound nice? Sort of a palate cleanser for your moviegoing mind. Well, get ready for one of the classic-est movies of all time—this Saturday night, you can catch Gone With the Wind at...well, where else but the historic Paramount Theatre.

Mega-producer David O. Selznick’s 1939 award-winning drama set in the Deep South during the Civil War turned stars Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable into two of the biggest stars of their day, and won ten Academy Awards—a record that held for twenty years (till those Ben Hur jerks had to go and ruin everything).

If you’ve seen this movie, you know why it’s considered a classic and if you haven’t seen it…well, for godsakes, don’t tell anyone! Get yourself a ticket, find yourself a comfortable seat (it is 237 minutes long, after all), cause it’s high time you did something about your damn ignorance. And don’t even think about leaving early, or you’ll miss the most famous line in cinema history.

Get there early too, because there will be some pre-film activities including…are you ready for this?...a friggin’ cannon demonstration. Yeah. A cannon. A real one, with no CGI involved. Let’s see G.I. Joe beat THAT.