Setting the bar so high it remains unparalleled, even to this day. Even the title of the book, The Wind Done Gone, owes a debt to Margaret Mitchells civil war epic Gone with the Wind.

While the leading man and the supporting cast are outstanding, you walk away from this with only one person holding and controlling your thoughts, just like the character she plays, just as she does through the whole of the picture - the incredible and sublimely talented, the beautiful and vivacious, the tempestuous hurricane of a tornado that is Vivien Leigh. And it is more toxic because the poison is concealed within a powerfuleven feminist story told in deathlessly lyrical prose. That something a bit special is a timeless story set during some of the darkest times in American history but it isn't the setting that makes this special, it's the story, the story of a cruel, selfish and manipulative opportunist performing her craft to perfection, it's the story portrayed through one of the greatest cinematic performances the world of movies has ever seen. The Wind Done Gone Alice Randall 3.13 2,121 ratings334 reviews In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. When a film is consistently recognised through the wisdom of the crowd, over so many years, as being great and epic and, for the duration of that film to run close to four hours - it really does suggest something a bit special.

The wind done gone