As God as My Witness I Will Never Go Hungry Again

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

• Rhett Butler, revealing to Scarlett that he has eavesdropped on her entire 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 lot, 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 ground, begins to stand up:

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

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest dress e'er seen in the Southward, despite existence a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has money to buy food. 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 at that place.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is holding a sword she can barely lift, sees the dead Yankee and says, "Yous killed him!... I'1000 glad yous killed him."
  • And so Scarlett and Melanie, 2 "delicate flowers" raised in the virtually gentle of environments (at to the lowest degree until the state of war started), calmly search through the expressionless Yankee's belongings, and then proceed to cover up the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the torso) by themselves, without even letting anyone in the family know what had happened. Melanie even effortlessly comes up with a plausible lie when Scarlett's male parent and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The first time we see Rhett in the moving-picture show. He doesn't practise anything but cleft his Clark Gable smile while looking upwards at Scarlett all the same he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they try to take Wade'due south sword in the book.
• Melly running back to Tara to help Scarlett put out the fire started by the Yankees. Fifty-fifty Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always in that location when yous need her.
• Mammy ever so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna be xviii inches adverse."
• Awesome Music: There'southward a reason Max Steiner's score is number 2 on the list of AFI'southward meridian 25 picture scores ever.
• The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks up to make the Yankees recollect the gentlemen of Atlanta were not involved in the Shantytown raid. Particularly awesome is how well Melly plays forth.
  • This leads to a funny bit 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 social club 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 coin for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her total support.
• "Bluntly, my dear, I don't requite a damn." Now that'due south a line worth waiting four hours for.
  • A fleck of context: after 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 matter what she tries, Scarlett cannot win this one.
• "All we got is Cotton, Slaves, and Airs!" spoken language. Rhett manages to debunk the inflated fantasies of a roomful of Southern Gentlemen who are convinced they volition defeat the Yankees past pointing out that the North have a fully equipped Navy and Ground forces along with factories that tin make weapons with a great sense of calm and nobility.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the Due south only information technology'due south a distressing, sad matter if things aren't even attempted to exist resolved peacefully while warding off any criticisms of his more hot-blooded peers and gently telling Charles that there is no style he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was defendant of cowardice.
• The ending. As Scarlett breaks down afterwards maxim goodbye to a dying Melanie and declining to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her begetter's words about Tara. And just as she did before, she gathers her force 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 downward by it.

  Scarlett: Tomorrow is some other day!

• Melanie (this shy, intellectual woman who everyone thinks is completely spineless) stands up against her own family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta's about influential women (and, past extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern civilization). If anyone but Melanie had done so, they would accept been made only equally much an outcast as Scarlett; only as things go, Melanie'south unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature civil state of war in the boondocks. Her speech is most enough to make the reader believe that Scarlett is a skillful 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 exist in a fabled mood, cheer the doctor on when he rants about the yankees ("Requite them hell, physician!") 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. Keep in heed, at showtime he doesn't even know it's his quondam owner (who he does still agree some amore for) calling for help. All he hears is a woman in distress and immediately jumps into action, not caring if she's black or white. He takes out of of the men with one punch and throws the other into the creek later a struggle. In the book, he even offers to go 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 cheers him profusely.
• From the novel, Quondam Miss Fontaine's response when Scarlett tells her nigh of Tara's cotton has been burned and the field slaves accept gone.

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

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

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