Movie as God as My Witness Ill Never Be Hungry Again

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry once again!

• Rhett Butler, revealing to Scarlett that he has eavesdropped on her entire desperate try to keep 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 you, 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 dead potatoes with her fingers from the basis, begins to stand up:

  "Equally God is my witness, every bit God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'chiliad going to live through this and when it'due south all over, I'll never exist hungry again. No, nor whatsoever of my folk. If I accept to lie, steal, cheat or kill. Equally God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry again!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison house, wearing the finest dress ever seen in the S, despite beingness a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has money to purchase food. The fabric of the dress looks very much similar the belatedly defunction at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier right betwixt the eyes. No i invades Tara when Scarlett is there.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is holding a sword she tin barely elevator, sees the dead Yankee and says, "Yous killed him!... I'm glad yous killed him."
  • Then Scarlett and Melanie, two "delicate flowers" raised in the most gentle of environments (at least until the state of war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee'due south holding, and so proceed to cover up the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the trunk) by themselves, without fifty-fifty letting anyone in the family know what had happened. Melanie even effortlessly comes up with a plausible lie when Scarlett's father and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The showtime time nosotros run into Rhett in the moving-picture show. He doesn't do anything only scissure his Clark Gable smile while looking up at Scarlett yet he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off confronting the Yankees when they endeavor to have Wade's sword in the volume.
• Melly running back to Tara to aid Scarlett put out the burn started by the Yankees. Even Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always at that place when you need her.
• Mammy ever and then delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna be 18 inches adverse."
• Awesome Music: In that location'south a reason Max Steiner'due south score is number 2 on the list of AFI's top 25 motion picture scores ever.
• The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks up to brand the Yankees retrieve the gentlemen of Atlanta were not involved in the Shantytown raid. Peculiarly awesome is how well Melly plays along.
  • This leads to a funny flake a footling later on when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hide the gentlemen in Belle Watling'south "sporting business firm", and Melanie huffily refuses to believe information technology.
• Will Benteen skillfully removing the "eulogies from the neighbors" part of Gerald'southward funeral in order to protect Suellen from their neighbors' wrath.
• Mammy revealing she understands that Scarlett plans on stealing Frank Kennedy from Suellen in order to become the coin for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full back up.
• "Frankly, my beloved, I don't give a damn." Now that'due south a line worth waiting four hours for.
  • A bit of context: after years upon years of having her ain fashion 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 1.
• "All we got is Cotton, Slaves, and Airs!" speech. 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 Northward have a fully equipped Navy and Army along with factories that tin can make weapons with a great sense of calm and dignity.
  • Ashley declares he volition fight for the Southward but it's a sad, pitiful affair if things aren't even attempted to exist resolved peacefully while warding off whatsoever criticisms of his more hot-blooded peers and gently telling Charles that in that location is no mode he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was accused of cowardice.
• The ending. As Scarlett breaks down later saying bye to a dying Melanie and failing to end Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father's words most Tara. And just as she did before, she gathers her forcefulness and swears to return to Tara and find a way to get 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 adult female who everyone thinks is completely spineless) stands upward against her own family unit to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta'south near influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone but Melanie had done so, they would accept been made just as much an outcast as Scarlett; but as things go, Melanie's unyielding defence force of her friend sparks a miniature civil war in the town. Her speech is most 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 aid Melanie through childbirth. Despite the hellish situation he'southward in he manages to be in a fabulous mood, cheer the doctor on when he rants about the yankees ("Give them hell, doctor!") and even shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she'south in.
• Large Sam rescuing Scarlett from two men that are trying to rape her. Go along in heed, at beginning he doesn't even know it's his former owner (who he does still hold some affection for) calling for help. All he hears is a adult female in distress and immediately jumps into action, not caring if she's black or white. He takes out of of the men with ane punch and throws the other into the creek later on a struggle. In the volume, he even offers to go back and beat them upward 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 thank you him profusely.
• From the novel, Old Miss Fontaine'due south response when Scarlett tells her most of Tara's cotton fiber has been burned and the field slaves have gone.

  "'Mercy me, all our field hands are gone and there'south nobody to selection it!'" mimicked Grandma and bent a satiric glance on Scarlett. "What'due south incorrect with your own pretty paws, Miss, and those of your sisters?"

• This film is the highest-grossing-film of all fourth dimension adjusted for inflation.

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