Michael Caine’s Comfort Watch Is a Very Controversial Historical Drama

Regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time, Michael Caine has a solid number of cult classic movies under his belt, though he’ll have a different movie on his mind when a question about Caine’s forever favorites is brought up again.

Like the actor’s many colleagues that spent several decades watching all kinds of films, Caine as a fan of Hollywood’s old classics which at the time was a pretty controversial matter, despite eventually winning a whopping amount of 10 Academy Awards.

Still, Caine doesn’t seem to mind that, just like he doesn’t mind rewatching a 3-hour-long movie over and over again.

Michael Caine Can Watch ‘Gone with the Wind’ “Time and Time Again Without Tiring of It”

Based on Margaret Mitchell’s iconic historical romance novel of the same name, the movie starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable remains a stunning piece of art more than 80 years since its release, and Michael Caine is one of its most devoted fans.

“This was the first movie in colour to win a ‘Best Picture’ Oscar and, taking inflation into account, it is still the highest-grossing picture ever”, the actor once wrote in his own bool titled “The Elephant to Hollywood” (shared by Far Out Magazine).

After delving a little into Gone with the Wind’s troubled production history, Caine turned to the movie’s different achievement, which became one of the reasons for a major controversy surrounding it.

“This was also the film in which Clark Gable said ‘Damn’. It had, of course, been said in a film before, but it caused controversy because Gone with the Wind was so big… I can watch this movie time and time again without tiring of it. It is a timeless classic”, Caine added.

‘Gone with the Wind’ Is Now More Controversial Than Ever, Despite Being Considered One of the Greatest Movies

• On Rotten Tomatoes, Gone with the Wind holds scores of 90% and 92% from critics and audiences
• On IMDb, the movie is rated 8.2/10

Even though the cult classic movie is still named one of the greatest love stories the cinema has ever witnessed, all behind-the-scenes scandals and controversies can’t even compare to how badly Gone with the Wind aged.

Apart from the fact that the film has its events unfolding in the 1860s and kinds glorifies slavery as well as political myths, the biggest trouble Gone with the Wind has got into is directly connected to the scene that depicts Rhett and Scarlett O’Hara’s wedding night, with the latter sexually abusing his wife.

Despite Gone with the Wind securing its status of a Hollywood icon for centuries, the movie came as a painfully accurate description of that era’s morals which wouldn’t make it to the big screens in the modern times.