Gone With the Wind God as My Witness I Shall Never Go Hungry Again
As God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry again!
- Rhett Butler, revealing to Scarlett that he has eavesdropped on her unabridged desperate attempt to go along Ashley Wilkes from marrying his cousin, and witnessed her destruction of a harmless vase: "Has the war started?" Topped a few seconds later, when Scarlett tells him he is no admirer, and he responds, "And yous, Miss, are no lady."
- Katie Scarlett O'Hara, a crying, crumpled heap in the dirt, hungry, humiliated, everything she's known broken, reduced to clawing expressionless potatoes with her fingers from the ground, begins to stand up up:
"As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'thousand going to alive through this and when it'south all over, I'll never exist hungry again. No, nor whatsoever of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, crook or impale. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
- Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison house, wearing the finest clothes always seen in the S, despite being a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has coin to buy food. The fabric of the dress looks very much like the late curtains at Tara...
- Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier correct betwixt the eyes. No one invades Tara when Scarlett is there.
- Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is property a sword she can barely lift, sees the dead Yankee and says, "You lot killed him!... I'm glad you killed him."
- And then Scarlett and Melanie, ii "delicate flowers" raised in the most gentle of environments (at least until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee'southward belongings, then continue to comprehend up the show of the murder (including getting rid of the body) by themselves, without even letting anyone in the family know what had happened. Melanie fifty-fifty effortlessly comes up with a plausible lie when Scarlett's father and sisters heard the gunshot.
- The starting time time nosotros see Rhett in the flick. He doesn't do anything merely crevice his Clark Gable smile while looking up at Scarlett yet he looks... awesome.
- Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they try to have Wade's sword in the book.
- Melly running back to Tara to assist Scarlett put out the burn started by the Yankees. Even Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always there when you need her.
- Mammy always and so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "own't never gonna exist 18 inches agin."
- Awesome Music: There's a reason Max Steiner'due south score is number two on the listing of AFI's top 25 film scores e'er.
- The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks up to make the Yankees recollect the gentlemen of Atlanta were not involved in the Shantytown raid. Especially crawly is how well Melly plays along.
- This leads to a funny bit a fiddling after when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hide the gentlemen in Belle Watling's "sporting house", and Melanie huffily refuses to believe it.
- Will Benteen skillfully removing the "eulogies from the neighbors" part of Gerald's funeral in order to protect Suellen from their neighbors' wrath.
- Mammy revealing she understands that Scarlett plans on stealing Frank Kennedy from Suellen in lodge to get the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her total support.
- "Frankly, my honey, I don't give a damn." Now that's a line worth waiting four hours for.
- A flake of context: after years upon years of having her own way and essentially stepping on people, Scarlett finally gets told off. The line is Rhett cementing that, no matter what she tries, Scarlett cannot win this i.
- "All nosotros got is Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance!"
voice communication. Rhett manages to deflate the inflated fantasies of a roomful of Southern Gentlemen who are convinced they will defeat the Yankees by pointing out that the North take a fully equipped Navy and Army along with factories that can make weapons with a swell sense of calm and dignity.- Ashley declares he will fight for the South but information technology'due south a distressing, lamentable thing if things aren't even attempted to exist resolved peacefully while warding off whatever criticisms of his more hot-blooded peers and gently telling Charles that there is no way he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was accused of cowardice.
- The ending. As Scarlett breaks down later saying adieu to a dying Melanie and declining to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her begetter's words nigh Tara. And just every bit she did before, she gathers her strength and swears to return to Tara and find a way to go Rhett back. After all the tragedy she's been through in the by year, Scarlett refuses to be brought down by it.
Scarlett: Tomorrow is another day!
- Melanie (this shy, intellectual woman who everyone thinks is completely spineless) stands up confronting her own family unit to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta'south most influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone just Melanie had done so, they would have been fabricated merely as much an outcast every bit Scarlett; but as things go, Melanie's unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature civil state of war in the town. Her speech communication is virtually enough to brand the reader believe that Scarlett is a good person.
- The soldier Dr. Meade is working on when Scarlett comes to beg him to help Melanie through childbirth. Despite the hellish situation he's in he manages to exist in a fabulous mood, cheer the dr. on when he rants about the yankees ("Requite them hell, dr.!") and even shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she's in.
- Big Sam rescuing Scarlett from ii men that are trying to rape her. Keep in mind, at kickoff he doesn't even know it'due south his former owner (who he does however hold some affection for) calling for assistance. All he hears is a woman in distress and immediately jumps into activity, not caring if she's black or white. He takes out of of the men with 1 dial and throws the other into the creek after a struggle. In the book, he fifty-fifty offers to get back and beat them upwards worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, usually a common cold-hearted bitch towards anyone who helps her since she thinks that means weakness in herself, realizes how lucky she was Sam heard her, and thanks him profusely.
- From the novel, Old Miss Fontaine's response when Scarlett tells her most of Tara's cotton has been burned and the field slaves have gone.
"'Mercy me, all our field hands are gone and there'due south nobody to selection it!'" mimicked Grandma and bent a satiric glance on Scarlett. "What's wrong with your own pretty paws, Miss, and those of your sisters?"
- This film is the highest-grossing-film of all fourth dimension adjusted for aggrandizement.
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