I Shall 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 desperate attempt to go on Ashley Wilkes from marrying his cousin, and witnessed her destruction of a harmless vase: "Has the war started?" Topped a few seconds afterward, 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 cleaved, reduced to clawing expressionless potatoes with her fingers from the basis, begins to stand up:

  "As God is my witness, every bit God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'grand going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry once more. No, nor whatever of my folk. If I have to prevarication, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest clothes ever seen in the Due south, despite existence 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 similar the late defunction at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier correct between the eyes. No 1 invades Tara when Scarlett is there.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is holding a sword she can barely elevator, sees the dead Yankee and says, "You killed him!... I'm glad you killed him."
  • So Scarlett and Melanie, two "frail flowers" raised in the most gentle of environments (at least until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee'due south belongings, and then keep to cover up the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the body) by themselves, without even letting anyone in the family know what had happened. Melanie even effortlessly comes upwards with a plausible lie when Scarlett's father and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The first time we run into Rhett in the moving-picture show. He doesn't do anything but crack his Clark Gable smile while looking up at Scarlett yet he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they attempt to have Wade'southward sword in the volume.
• Melly running back to Tara to assistance Scarlett put out the burn down started by the Yankees. Even Scarlett has to acknowledge that Melly is e'er there when you need her.
• Mammy ever so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna be eighteen inches adverse."
• Awesome Music: There's a reason Max Steiner's score is number 2 on the list of AFI's 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. Peculiarly awesome is how well Melly plays along.
  • This leads to a funny fleck a little later when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hibernate 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 club to get the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full support.
• "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Now that'due south a line worth waiting four hours for.
  • A scrap of context: afterwards years upon years of having her own fashion and essentially stepping on people, Scarlett finally gets told off. The line is Rhett cementing that, no affair 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 N accept a fully equipped Navy and Army along with factories that tin make weapons with a bully sense of calm and dignity.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the South but it'due south a distressing, sad 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 at that place is no way he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was defendant of cowardice.
• The ending. Every bit Scarlett breaks down after saying goodbye to a dying Melanie and failing to end Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father's words about Tara. And simply as she did before, she gathers her force and swears to return to Tara and find a mode to go Rhett back. Afterwards all the tragedy she's been through in the past year, Scarlett refuses to be brought down by it.

  Scarlett: Tomorrow is some other solar day!

• Melanie (this shy, intellectual woman who anybody thinks is completely spineless) stands up against her ain family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta'southward almost influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern civilization). If anyone just Melanie had washed and so, they would have been made just as much an outcast as Scarlett; but equally things become, Melanie's unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature civil state of war in the town. Her speech is about 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 state of affairs he's in he manages to be in a fabulous mood, cheer the physician on when he rants about the yankees ("Give them hell, doctor!") and fifty-fifty shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she's in.
• Big Sam rescuing Scarlett from two men that are trying to rape her. Go along in mind, at first he doesn't even know it'due south his quondam owner (who he does nonetheless hold some affection for) calling for help. All he hears is a adult female in distress and immediately jumps into activity, not caring if she's blackness or white. He takes out of of the men with 1 dial and throws the other into the creek afterward a struggle. In the volume, he even offers to get back and beat them upwardly 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, Erstwhile Miss Fontaine'due south 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 option it!'" mimicked Grandma and aptitude a satiric glance on Scarlett. "What's wrong with your own pretty paws, Miss, and those of your sisters?"

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

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