Follow Me and You ll Never Go 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 effort to keep Ashley Wilkes from marrying his cousin, and witnessed her devastation 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 lot, 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 up up:

  "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'southward all over, I'll never be hungry once again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to prevarication, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry once more!"

• Scarlett waltzing delicately into prison, wearing the finest dress ever seen in the Due south, despite being a few years out of fashion, and despite the fact that she barely has coin to purchase food. The material of the apparel looks very much like the late curtains at Tara...
• Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier right between the eyes. No ane 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 y'all killed him."
  • And so Scarlett and Melanie, two "delicate flowers" raised in the well-nigh gentle of environments (at least until the war started), calmly search through the dead Yankee's property, and then continue to cover up the evidence of the murder (including getting rid of the body) past themselves, without even letting anyone in the family unit know what had happened. Melanie fifty-fifty effortlessly comes upwardly with a plausible lie when Scarlett's begetter and sisters heard the gunshot.
• The first time we meet Rhett in the movie. He doesn't do anything but cleft his Clark Gable smiling while looking up at Scarlett however he looks... awesome.
• Scarlett facing off against the Yankees when they effort to take Wade's sword in the book.
• Melly running back to Tara to assist Scarlett put out the fire started by the Yankees. Even Scarlett has to admit that Melly is always there when you need her.
• Mammy ever so delicately pointing out to Scarlett that she "own't never gonna be eighteen inches agin."
• Awesome Music: At that place's a reason Max Steiner'south score is number 2 on the list of AFI's tiptop 25 film scores ever.
• 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 flake a petty later when Rhett admits to Melanie that he did hibernate the gentlemen in Belle Watling'due south "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 go the money for the taxes on Tara - and giving Scarlett her full support.
• "Bluntly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Now that's 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 nosotros got is Cotton wool, Slaves, and Airs!" speech communication. 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 Northward have a fully equipped Navy and Army along with factories that can brand weapons with a cracking sense of calm and dignity.
  • Ashley declares he will fight for the Due south but it's a sad, sad affair 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 downward after proverb adieu to a dying Melanie and declining to stop Rhett from leaving, she remembers her father's words most 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. Subsequently all the tragedy she's been through in the by 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 upwardly against her own family to defend Scarlett, calling out several of Atlanta's nearly influential women (and, past extension, their ostracising, oppressive Southern culture). If anyone but Melanie had washed then, they would have been made just every bit much an outcast as Scarlett; merely as things go, Melanie'due south unyielding defense force of her friend sparks a miniature civil war in the town. Her voice communication is nearly enough to brand the reader believe that Scarlett is a skilful person.
• The soldier Dr. Meade is working on when Scarlett comes to beg him to help Melanie through childbirth. Despite the hellish state of affairs he's in he manages to be in a fabulous mood, cheer the doctor on when he rants virtually the yankees ("Requite them hell, md!") and fifty-fifty shows Scarlett sympathy for the predicament she's in.
• Big Sam rescuing Scarlett from 2 men that are trying to rape her. Go on in heed, at offset he doesn't fifty-fifty know information technology's his former owner (who he does still hold some affection for) calling for help. All he hears is a woman in distress and immediately jumps into activity, not caring if she'due south black or white. He takes out of of the men with 1 punch and throws the other into the creek after a struggle. In the volume, he even offers to go back and beat them up worse if she wants him to. Scarlett, normally 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 thank you him profusely.
• From the novel, Old Miss Fontaine'south response when Scarlett tells her nigh of Tara's cotton wool has been burned and the field slaves take gone.

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

• This film is the highest-grossing-movie of all fourth dimension adjusted for inflation.

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