I Will Never Go Hungry Again

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

• Rhett Butler, revealing to Scarlett that he has eavesdropped on her entire drastic attempt to proceed 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 gentleman, and he responds, "And y'all, Miss, are no lady."
• Katie Scarlett O'Hara, a crying, crumpled heap in the clay, hungry, humiliated, everything she's known broken, reduced to clawing dead potatoes with her fingers from the basis, begins to stand:

  "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it'due south all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I accept to lie, steal, cheat or impale. As God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry again!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison house, wearing the finest dress e'er seen in the Due south, despite being a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has money to buy food. The material of the dress looks very much like the late curtains at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier correct between the eyes. No ane invades Tara when Scarlett is there.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is property a sword she can barely elevator, sees the dead Yankee and says, "You killed him!... I'one thousand glad you killed him."
  • And then Scarlett and Melanie, two "delicate flowers" raised in the virtually gentle of environments (at least until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee's belongings, so proceed to comprehend up the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the body) by themselves, without even letting anyone in the family unit know what had happened. Melanie even effortlessly comes upwardly with a plausible lie when Scarlett'southward begetter and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The get-go fourth dimension we see Rhett in the motion picture. He doesn't practice anything just crack his Clark Gable smile while looking up at Scarlett all the same he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off confronting the Yankees when they effort to take Wade's sword in the volume.
• Melly running dorsum to Tara to assistance Scarlett put out the burn down started by the Yankees. Fifty-fifty Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always there when you demand her.
• Mammy ever and so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna be 18 inches agin."
• Awesome Music: There's a reason Max Steiner's score is number 2 on the list of AFI'due south peak 25 picture show scores ever.
• The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks up to brand the Yankees think the gentlemen of Atlanta were not involved in the Shantytown raid. Especially awesome is how well Melly plays along.
  • This leads to a funny bit a little after when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hide the gentlemen in Belle Watling'southward "sporting business firm", 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 club to become the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full support.
• "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Now that's a line worth waiting 4 hours for.
  • A scrap of context: afterward years upon years of having her own manner and essentially stepping on people, Scarlett finally gets told off. The line is Rhett cementing that, no thing what she tries, Scarlett cannot win this one.
• "All nosotros got is Cotton, Slaves, and Arrogance!" 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 Due north have a fully equipped Navy and Army along with factories that can make weapons with a neat sense of at-home and nobility.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the South but it's a distressing, sad thing if things aren't even attempted to be resolved peacefully while warding off any criticisms of his more hot-blooded peers and gently telling Charles that there is no manner he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was accused of cowardice.
• The ending. As Scarlett breaks down after proverb goodbye to a dying Melanie and failing to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father'southward words about Tara. And just every bit she did before, she gathers her force and swears to return to Tara and detect a way to become Rhett back. Subsequently 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 anybody thinks is completely spineless) stands up against her own family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta'south about influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone but Melanie had washed so, they would accept been made simply as much an outcast every bit Scarlett; but as things go, Melanie'due south unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature civil war in the town. Her spoken language is near enough to brand the reader believe that Scarlett is a skilful 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 be in a fabulous mood, cheer the doctor on when he rants well-nigh the yankees ("Give them hell, dr.!") and even shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she'due south in.
• Big Sam rescuing Scarlett from ii men that are trying to rape her. Keep in mind, at first he doesn't even know information technology's his former owner (who he does nevertheless hold some amore for) calling for assist. All he hears is a adult female in distress and immediately jumps into action, not caring if she'southward blackness or white. He takes out of of the men with one punch and throws the other into the creek subsequently a struggle. In the book, he fifty-fifty offers to become back and beat them up worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, usually a 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'southward response when Scarlett tells her virtually of Tara's cotton wool has been burned and the field slaves have gone.

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

• This movie is the highest-grossing-film of all time adapted for inflation.

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