it common knowledge and have be say before represent no one can ever play scarlett and rhett like vivien leigh and clark gable . joanne whalley kilmer ( no longer kilmer have be divorce from ex hubby val kilmer ) play her own scarlett and although this be a sequel and not a re make ( god forbid . ) she still can not rise to the occasion ( i. e. her voice sound evil on several occasion and she get brown eye [ scarlett in both novel have green eye and even vivien leigh eye be green ] and her vocal power be not up to the job either . scarlett be a southern belle while therefore she have an incredible talent for flirt ( a she do in scarlett the novel and gwtw and of course ) and to be a great flirt like scarlett be and you would most likely need a high pitched voice and like vivien leigh . i suppose i be compare kilmer to leigh a bit too much but when someone possess a role so masterfully a leigh do with scarlett you simply can not help but to criticize any new prospective scarletts . timothy dalton should have have no accent whatsoever and due to the fact that both margaret mitchell rhett and gable in the film have none . his acting have never be truly noteworthy ( except and maybe his portrayal of the evil and connive king phillip of france in the lion in winter ) and he give very little ( if any ) freshness or vitality to his rhett . standouts in the cast be most notably tina kellagher ( a bear actress with plenty of authenticity in her deliverance ) a the tragic victim mary boyle . and then of course there sean bean a the cold and calculating and not to mention and almost demonically evil lord fenton and mary nemesis and scarlett eventual violator . one thing i could not forgive the writer for be the fact that scarlett be rap in this movie ( a fact that never occur in the novel while lord fenton be cold and of ill repute among the irish in the book but he nowhere near as heartless a his screen counterpart . another omission from the novel but readded for the film be the character of belle watling and play most horribly by ann margret in a cameo role and which we all could have live without and see a how the book be such a run away bestseller without require any assistance from ms. watling . for a film by itself and scarlett be a very good one but not quite in that lofty of a place in term of be go with the wind sequel . another actress be highly necessary for scarlett as well a rhett .