Who Said 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 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 admirer, 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, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it'south all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor whatever of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. Every bit God is my witness, I'll never be hungry once more!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest wearing apparel always 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 like the tardily curtains at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier right between the eyes. No one invades Tara when Scarlett is at that place.
  • Melanie, who has risen from her sickbed and is belongings a sword she tin can barely lift, sees the expressionless Yankee and says, "You killed him!... I'one thousand glad you killed him."
  • Then Scarlett and Melanie, 2 "delicate flowers" raised in the most gentle of environments (at to the lowest degree until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee's property, then proceed to embrace upwardly the prove 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 upwardly with a plausible lie when Scarlett'south father and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The commencement time we see Rhett in the movie. He doesn't do anything but fissure his Clark Gable smiling while looking up at Scarlett yet he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they try to take Wade's sword in the book.
• Melly running dorsum to Tara to assistance Scarlett put out the fire started by the Yankees. Even Scarlett has to admit that Melly is e'er at that place when you lot need her.
• Mammy always so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "ain't never gonna be xviii inches agin."
• Crawly Music: There's a reason Max Steiner's score is number two on the list of AFI's top 25 pic scores ever.
• The impromptu ruse Rhett thinks upward to brand the Yankees think the gentlemen of Atlanta were not involved in the Shantytown raid. Especially crawly is how well Melly plays forth.
  • 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" office 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 lodge to get the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full back up.
• "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Now that'south a line worth waiting four hours for.
  • A scrap of context: after years upon years of having her own way and substantially stepping on people, Scarlett finally gets told off. The line is Rhett cementing that, no thing what she tries, Scarlett cannot win this one.
• "All we 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 North have a fully equipped Navy and Ground forces along with factories that can make weapons with a keen sense of at-home and dignity.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the South just it's a sad, sad thing if things aren't fifty-fifty 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 later saying goodbye to a dying Melanie and failing to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father'south words about Tara. And just equally she did earlier, she gathers her strength and swears to return to Tara and find a way to become Rhett dorsum. After all the tragedy she's been through in the past twelvemonth, 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 up against her own family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta's most influential women (and, by extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern civilization). If anyone but Melanie had done so, they would accept been fabricated merely as much an outcast every bit Scarlett; but as things get, Melanie's unyielding defense of her friend sparks a miniature civil war in the town. Her spoken communication is nigh 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's in he manages to be in a fabulous mood, cheer the doctor on when he rants about the yankees ("Give them hell, md!") 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 first he doesn't even know it'due south his former owner (who he does notwithstanding hold some affection for) calling for assist. 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 dial and throws the other into the creek afterwards a struggle. In the book, he fifty-fifty offers to go back and beat them upward worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, usually a common 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, Erstwhile Miss Fontaine's 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'south nobody to pick it!'" mimicked Grandma and bent 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-film of all time adapted for inflation.

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