I Shall Never Be Hungry Again

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

• 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 afterwards, 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 dead potatoes with her fingers from the ground, begins to stand:

  "As God is my witness, equally God is my witness, they're non 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 whatever of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or impale. Every bit God is my witness, I'll never be hungry over again!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest apparel ever seen in the Due south, despite existence a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has money to buy food. The fabric of the clothes looks very much like the late curtains at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier right between the eyes. No 1 invades Tara when Scarlett is there.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is property a sword she can barely lift, sees the dead Yankee and says, "You lot killed him!... I'm glad you killed him."
  • Then Scarlett and Melanie, two "frail flowers" raised in the virtually gentle of environments (at to the lowest degree until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee's belongings, then proceed to cover upwardly 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 up with a plausible lie when Scarlett's father and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The beginning time we see Rhett in the pic. He doesn't do annihilation only crack his Clark Gable smile while looking upwardly at Scarlett yet he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they try to take Wade'southward sword in the book.
• Melly running back to Tara to assistance Scarlett put out the burn started by the Yankees. Fifty-fifty Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always there when you need her.
• Mammy ever so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna exist eighteen inches agin."
• Crawly Music: There'southward a reason Max Steiner'south score is number 2 on the list of AFI'south top 25 moving picture 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 bit a little later when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hide the gentlemen in Belle Watling's "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 guild 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 requite a damn." At present that's a line worth waiting four hours for.
  • A chip of context: subsequently 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 affair what she tries, Scarlett cannot win this 1.
• "All we got is Cotton wool, Slaves, and Airs!" 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 North have a fully equipped Navy and Army along with factories that tin can make weapons with a peachy sense of at-home and dignity.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the Southward but it's a sad, 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 way he'd win in a fight with Rhett when the latter was accused of cowardice.
• The ending. As Scarlett breaks down after saying farewell to a dying Melanie and failing to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father'southward words most Tara. And just equally she did before, she gathers her forcefulness and swears to return to Tara and find a manner to become Rhett back. After all the tragedy she'due south been through in the past year, Scarlett refuses to exist brought down by it.

  Scarlett: Tomorrow is some other twenty-four hours!

• Melanie (this shy, intellectual woman who everyone thinks is completely spineless) stands up confronting her ain family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta's most influential women (and, past extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone simply Melanie had done so, they would have been fabricated simply equally much an outcast as Scarlett; but as things go, Melanie'south unyielding defence force of her friend sparks a miniature civil war in the town. Her speech is almost enough to make the reader believe that Scarlett is a practiced 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 virtually the yankees ("Give them hell, doctor!") and even shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she'southward in.
• Big Sam rescuing Scarlett from two men that are trying to rape her. Keep in mind, at showtime he doesn't even know it'due south his former owner (who he does nevertheless concord some affection 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 after a struggle. In the book, he fifty-fifty offers to go back and beat out them up worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, usually a common 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, Old Miss Fontaine's response when Scarlett tells her most of Tara'southward cotton wool has been burned and the field slaves have gone.

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

• This picture is the highest-grossing-moving picture of all fourth dimension adjusted for inflation.

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