as God Is My Witness Ill Never Be Hungry Again

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

• Rhett Butler, revealing to Scarlett that he has eavesdropped on her unabridged desperate attempt 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 gentleman, 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 expressionless potatoes with her fingers from the basis, begins to stand up upwards:

  "As God is my witness, equally God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'thou going to live through this and when information technology's all over, I'll never exist hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to prevarication, steal, cheat or impale. As God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry once again!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest apparel ever seen in the South, despite beingness a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has money to buy nutrient. The fabric of the dress looks very much like the late curtains at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier right between the optics. No one invades Tara when Scarlett is there.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is property a sword she tin can barely lift, sees the dead Yankee and says, "You killed him!... I'k glad y'all killed him."
  • And then Scarlett and Melanie, two "frail flowers" raised in the near gentle of environments (at least until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee'southward belongings, then proceed to cover up the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the body) past themselves, without fifty-fifty letting anyone in the family know what had happened. Melanie even effortlessly comes upwards with a plausible prevarication when Scarlett's father and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The first time we meet Rhett in the movie. He doesn't do anything but scissure his Clark Gable smiling while looking up at Scarlett withal he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they try to take Wade's sword in the book.
• Melly running back to Tara to help Scarlett put out the fire started by the Yankees. Even Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always there when yous demand her.
• Mammy ever so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna exist eighteen inches adverse."
• Crawly Music: There's a reason Max Steiner'due south score is number 2 on the list of AFI'due south top 25 film scores always.
• The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks up to make 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 chip a trivial later when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hide the gentlemen in Belle Watling's "sporting business firm", and Melanie huffily refuses to believe information technology.
• Will Benteen skillfully removing the "eulogies from the neighbors" part of Gerald's funeral in gild to protect Suellen from their neighbors' wrath.
• Mammy revealing she understands that Scarlett plans on stealing Frank Kennedy from Suellen in order to get the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full back up.
• "Frankly, my dear, I don't requite a damn." Now that's a line worth waiting four hours for.
  • A scrap 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 ane.
• "All we got is Cotton fiber, Slaves, and Arrogance!" speech. Rhett manages to deflate the inflated fantasies of a roomful of Southern Gentlemen who are convinced they volition defeat the Yankees by pointing out that the North have a fully equipped Navy and Ground forces along with factories that tin can make weapons with a great sense of calm and dignity.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the South but it's a deplorable, sad thing if things aren't fifty-fifty attempted to exist resolved peacefully while warding off any criticisms of his more hot-blooded peers and gently telling Charles that in that location is no way he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was accused of cowardice.
• The catastrophe. As Scarlett breaks down later on proverb cheerio to a dying Melanie and failing to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her male parent'southward words near Tara. And just as she did before, she gathers her strength and swears to return to Tara and detect a way to get Rhett back. After all the tragedy she's been through in the past twelvemonth, Scarlett refuses to be brought down by it.

  Scarlett: Tomorrow is another mean solar day!

• Melanie (this shy, intellectual adult female who everyone thinks is completely spineless) stands up against her own family unit to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta'southward most influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone but Melanie had done so, they would have been made just as much an outcast as Scarlett; only as things go, Melanie's unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature ceremonious war in the town. Her speech is nearly 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 state of affairs he's in he manages to exist in a fabulous mood, cheer the physician on when he rants about the yankees ("Give them hell, medico!") and even shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she's in.
• Large Sam rescuing Scarlett from two men that are trying to rape her. Keep in mind, at starting time he doesn't fifty-fifty know it'south his former owner (who he does still hold some affection for) calling for assist. All he hears is a woman in distress and immediately jumps into action, non caring if she's black or white. He takes out of of the men with one punch and throws the other into the creek after a struggle. In the volume, he fifty-fifty offers to get dorsum and vanquish them upward worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, usually a cold-hearted bowwow 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, Onetime Miss Fontaine's response when Scarlett tells her most of Tara's cotton wool has been burned and the field slaves have gone.

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

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

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