I Will Never Be Hungry Again

Equally God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry over 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 subsequently, when Scarlett tells him he is no admirer, and he responds, "And y'all, 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:

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

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest dress ever seen in the South, despite beingness a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has coin to buy food. The fabric of the apparel looks very much similar the tardily curtains at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier correct between 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 expressionless Yankee and says, "You killed him!... I'm glad you killed him."
  • Then Scarlett and Melanie, ii "delicate flowers" raised in the most gentle of environments (at to the lowest degree until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee'southward holding, and then proceed to cover upwards the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the body) past themselves, without even letting anyone in the family know what had happened. Melanie even effortlessly comes upwardly with a plausible lie when Scarlett's begetter and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The offset fourth dimension we encounter Rhett in the movie. He doesn't do annihilation only crack his Clark Gable smile while looking upwards at Scarlett yet he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they try to accept Wade's sword in the book.
• Melly running back to Tara to help Scarlett put out the burn down started by the Yankees. Fifty-fifty Scarlett has to admit that Melly is e'er in that location when you lot need her.
• Mammy always so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna be xviii inches adverse."
• Awesome Music: There's a reason Max Steiner's score is number 2 on the list of AFI'southward acme 25 film scores ever.
• The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks upwardly to make the Yankees think the gentlemen of Atlanta were non involved in the Shantytown raid. Peculiarly awesome is how well Melly plays along.
  • This leads to a funny bit a piddling after when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hide the gentlemen in Belle Watling'south "sporting house", and Melanie huffily refuses to believe information technology.
• 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 order to get the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full support.
• "Frankly, my beloved, I don't give a damn." Now that'due south a line worth waiting 4 hours for.
  • A scrap of context: after years upon years of having her own style 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 one.
• "All we got is Cotton fiber, Slaves, and Airs!" speech. Rhett manages to debunk 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 Army along with factories that can make weapons with a cracking sense of calm and nobility.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the South just information technology'south a sad, deplorable matter 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 way he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was accused of cowardice.
• The ending. Every bit Scarlett breaks down after proverb farewell to a dying Melanie and failing to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father's words about Tara. And just as she did before, she gathers her strength and swears to return to Tara and find a way to get Rhett back. After all the tragedy she'south been through in the past year, Scarlett refuses to be brought down by it.

  Scarlett: Tomorrow is some other day!

• Melanie (this shy, intellectual woman who everyone thinks is completely spineless) stands upwards against her ain family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta's about influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone only Melanie had done so, they would take been made simply as much an outcast equally Scarlett; but every bit things go, Melanie's unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature civil war in the boondocks. Her oral communication is about enough to make 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'southward in he manages to be in a fabulous mood, cheer the doctor on when he rants about the yankees ("Requite them hell, physician!") and even shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she's in.
• Large Sam rescuing Scarlett from 2 men that are trying to rape her. Go on in mind, at first he doesn't fifty-fifty know it's his former possessor (who he does still concur some amore for) calling for help. All he hears is a woman in distress and immediately jumps into action, non caring if she's blackness 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 back and beat them up worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, commonly a cold-hearted bitch towards anyone who helps her since she thinks that ways weakness in herself, realizes how lucky she was Sam heard her, and cheers him profusely.
• From the novel, Sometime Miss Fontaine's response when Scarlett tells her most of Tara'south cotton has been burned and the field slaves have gone.

  "'Mercy me, all our field hands are gone and in that location's nobody to choice it!'" mimicked Grandma and aptitude a satiric glance on Scarlett. "What'due south wrong with your own pretty paws, Miss, and those of your sisters?"

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

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