Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that?
Cathleen Calvert: Who?
Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one.
Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't u know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
Scarlett: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.
Ashley: Isn't it enough that you've gathered every other man's hart-, hart today? You've always had mine. u cut your teeth on it.
Scarlett: Don't tease me now. Have I your hart-, hart my darling? I love you. I love you.
Ashley: u mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them.
Scarlett: I could never hate you. And I know u must care about me. Oh, u do care, don't you?
Ashley: Yes, I do care. Oh, can't we go away and forget we ever zei these things?
Scarlett: But how can we do that? Don't you... don't u want to marry me?
Ashley: I'm going to marry Melanie.
Scarlett: But u can't. Not if u care for me!
Ashley: Oh my dear, why must u make me say things that will hurt you? How can I make u understand? You're so young and unthinking. u don't know what marriage means.
Scarlett: All I know is that I love you! And u don't love Melanie!
Ashley: She's like me, Scarlett. She's part of my blood and we understand each other.
Scarlett: But u love me!
Ashley: How could I help loving u - u who has all the passion for life that I lack? But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are.
Scarlett: Why don't u say it u coward? You're afraid to marry me. You'd rather live with that silly old fool who can't open her mouth except to say 'yes, no' and raise a couple of brats just like her!
Ashley: u mustn't say things about Melanie.
Scarlett: Who are u to tell me I mustn't? u lead me on, u made me believe u wanted to marry me!
Ashley: Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time-
Scarlett: u did! It's true! u did! I'll hate u till I die! I can't think of anything bad enough to call you!
[Scarlett slaps him. He exits and in her fury she throws a vase. Rhett rises from behind the sofa.]
Rhett: Has the war started?
Scarlett: Sir, you..you should have made your presence known.
Rhett: In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't be very tactful, would it? But don't worry, your secret is veilig with me.
Scarlett: Sir, u are no gentleman.
Rhett: And you, miss, are no lady...Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
Scarlett: But u are a blockade runner.
Rhett: For profit, and profit only.
Scarlett: Are u tryin' to tell me u don't believe in the cause?
Rhett: I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me.
Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beauxs. I want meer than flirting from you.
Scarlett: What do u want?
Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want u to say to me the words I heard u say to Ashley Wilkes: 'I love you!'
Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as u live.
[Rhett has brought Scarlett a new hat]
Rhett: I thought it was about time to get u out of that fake mourning.
[Rhett has to toon her how to wear it after she places it on backwards]
Rhett': The war stopped being a joke when a girl like u doesn't know how to wear the latest fashion. And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes anymore.
Scarlett: Oh Rhett, what do they - u shouldn't talk about such things.
Rhett: u little hypocrite. u don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about them.
Scarlett: But really Rhett, I can't go on accepting these gifts although u are AWFULLY kind.
Rhett: I'm not kind. I'm just tempting you. I never give anything without expecting something in return. Now, I always get paid.
Scarlett: If u think I'll marry u just to pay for the bonnet, I won't.
Rhett: Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man.
Scarlett: Well, I won't kiss u for it either.
Rhett: [just when she's ready for a kiss, he changes his mind] Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don't think I will kiss u - although u need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. u should be kissed, and often, and door someone who knows how.
Scarlett: Rhett, don't. I shall faint.
Rhett: I want u to faint. This is what u were meant for. None of the fools you've ever known have kissed u like this, have they? Your Charles, of your Frank, of your stupid Ashley.
Rhett: Did u ever think of marrying just for fun?
Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men u mean.
[Rhett rescues Scarlett from the panicked streets of Atlanta as war approaches]
Rhett: Panic's a pretty sight, isn't it? We belong together, Scarlett. Let's get out of here together. No use staying here, letting the South come down around your ears. Too many nice places to go and visit. Mexico, London, Paris -
Scarlett: With you?
Rhett: Yes, ma'am. A man who understands u and admires u for just what u are. I figure we belong together, being the same sort. I've been waiting for u to grow up and get that sad-eyed Ashley Wilkes out of your heart....Are u going with me of are u getting out?
Scarlett: I hate and despise you, Rhett Butler. I'll hate and despise u till I die.
Rhett: [amused] Oh no u won't, Scarlett. Not that long.
[Rhett has just arrived at the house in a carriage to rescue Scarlett]
Scarlett: Rhett, thank goodness you're here!
Rhett: Good evening! Nice whether we're having. Prissy tells me you're planning on-
Scarlett: IF u MAKE ANY JOKES NOW, I'LL KILL YOU!
Rhett: What collateral are u offering?
Scarlett: My ear bobs.
Rhett: Not interested.
Scarlett: Mortgage on Tara.
Rhett: What would I do with a farm?
Scarlett: Oh, u wouldn't lose. I'd pay u back on volgende year's cotton.
Rhett: Not good enough. Have u nothing better?
Scarlett: u once zei u loved me. If u still love me Rhett...
Rhett: u haven't forgotten. I'm not a marrying man.
Scarlett: No, I haven't forgotten.
Rhett: You're not worth $300. You'll never mean anything but misery to any man.
Scarlett: [After agreeing to marry Rhett] Money does help and of course I am fond of you...If I zei I was madly in love with you, you'd know I was lying. u always zei we had a lot in common...
Rhett: You're right, my dear. I'm not in love with u any meer than u are with me. Heaven help the man who ever really loves you.
Ashley: Yes, we've traveled a long road since the old days, haven't we, Scarlett?...the golden warmth and security of those days.
Scarlett: Don't look back Ashley, don't look back. It'll drag at your hart-, hart until u can't do anything but look back.
Rhett: Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes! - Mr. Wilkes who can't be mentally faithful to his wife - and won't be unfaithful to her technically. Why doesn't he make up his mind?
Scarlett: Rhett, you-
[Rhett places his hands on either side of Scarlett's face]
Rhett: Observe my hands, my dear. I could tear u to pieces with them, and I'd do it if it'd take Ashley out of your mind forever. But it wouldn't. So I'll remove him from your mind forever this way. I'll put my hands so - one on each side of your head - and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut, and that'll block him out.
Scarlett: I'm not cornered. You'll never corner me Rhett Butler of frighten me. You've lived in dirt so long u can't understand anything else and you're jealous of something u can't understand.
Rhett: Jealous, am I? Yes, I suppose I am - even though I know you've been faithful to me all along. How do I know? Because I know Ashley Wilkes and his honorable breed. They're gentlemen! That's meer than I can say for u of for me. We're not gentlemen, and we have no honor, have we? It's not that easy Scarlett. You've turned me out while u chased Ashley Wilkes, while u dreamed of Ashley Wilkes. This is one night you're not turning me out.
[Rhett suddenly and fiercely kisses her, and then carries her protesting up a long flight of stairs to the bedroom, two steps at a time.]
[Scarlett is pregnant again]
Rhett: Indeed. And who is the happy father?"
Scarlett: u know it's yours. I don't want it any meer than u do. No woman would want a child of a cad like you...I wish for anybody's child but yours.
Rhett: Cheer up, maybe you'll have an accident.
[Scarlett tries to strike him, but misses and falls down the stairs]
Ashley: [about a dying Melanie] I can't live without her. I can't. Everything I ever had is going with her...She's the only dream I ever had that didn't die in the face of reality.
Scarlett: Ashley, u should have told me years geleden that u loved her and not me, and not left me dangling with your talk of honor. But u had to wait till now, now when Melly's dying. To toon me that I could never be any meer to u than, than this Watling woman is to Rhett ..And I've loved something that doesn't really exist. Somehow, I don't care. Somehow, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter one bit.
Rhett: It seems we've been at kruis purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett: My darling, you're such a child. u think that door saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known u to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are u going?
Rhett: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do u know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett: That's your misfortune.
[Rhett turns to walk down the stairs]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett!
[Scarlett watches Rhett walk to the door]
Scarlett: Rhett!
[runs down the stairs after Rhett]
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett! Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if u go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Cathleen Calvert: Who?
Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one.
Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't u know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
Scarlett: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.
Ashley: Isn't it enough that you've gathered every other man's hart-, hart today? You've always had mine. u cut your teeth on it.
Scarlett: Don't tease me now. Have I your hart-, hart my darling? I love you. I love you.
Ashley: u mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them.
Scarlett: I could never hate you. And I know u must care about me. Oh, u do care, don't you?
Ashley: Yes, I do care. Oh, can't we go away and forget we ever zei these things?
Scarlett: But how can we do that? Don't you... don't u want to marry me?
Ashley: I'm going to marry Melanie.
Scarlett: But u can't. Not if u care for me!
Ashley: Oh my dear, why must u make me say things that will hurt you? How can I make u understand? You're so young and unthinking. u don't know what marriage means.
Scarlett: All I know is that I love you! And u don't love Melanie!
Ashley: She's like me, Scarlett. She's part of my blood and we understand each other.
Scarlett: But u love me!
Ashley: How could I help loving u - u who has all the passion for life that I lack? But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are.
Scarlett: Why don't u say it u coward? You're afraid to marry me. You'd rather live with that silly old fool who can't open her mouth except to say 'yes, no' and raise a couple of brats just like her!
Ashley: u mustn't say things about Melanie.
Scarlett: Who are u to tell me I mustn't? u lead me on, u made me believe u wanted to marry me!
Ashley: Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time-
Scarlett: u did! It's true! u did! I'll hate u till I die! I can't think of anything bad enough to call you!
[Scarlett slaps him. He exits and in her fury she throws a vase. Rhett rises from behind the sofa.]
Rhett: Has the war started?
Scarlett: Sir, you..you should have made your presence known.
Rhett: In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't be very tactful, would it? But don't worry, your secret is veilig with me.
Scarlett: Sir, u are no gentleman.
Rhett: And you, miss, are no lady...Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
Scarlett: But u are a blockade runner.
Rhett: For profit, and profit only.
Scarlett: Are u tryin' to tell me u don't believe in the cause?
Rhett: I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me.
Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beauxs. I want meer than flirting from you.
Scarlett: What do u want?
Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want u to say to me the words I heard u say to Ashley Wilkes: 'I love you!'
Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as u live.
[Rhett has brought Scarlett a new hat]
Rhett: I thought it was about time to get u out of that fake mourning.
[Rhett has to toon her how to wear it after she places it on backwards]
Rhett': The war stopped being a joke when a girl like u doesn't know how to wear the latest fashion. And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes anymore.
Scarlett: Oh Rhett, what do they - u shouldn't talk about such things.
Rhett: u little hypocrite. u don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about them.
Scarlett: But really Rhett, I can't go on accepting these gifts although u are AWFULLY kind.
Rhett: I'm not kind. I'm just tempting you. I never give anything without expecting something in return. Now, I always get paid.
Scarlett: If u think I'll marry u just to pay for the bonnet, I won't.
Rhett: Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man.
Scarlett: Well, I won't kiss u for it either.
Rhett: [just when she's ready for a kiss, he changes his mind] Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don't think I will kiss u - although u need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. u should be kissed, and often, and door someone who knows how.
Scarlett: Rhett, don't. I shall faint.
Rhett: I want u to faint. This is what u were meant for. None of the fools you've ever known have kissed u like this, have they? Your Charles, of your Frank, of your stupid Ashley.
Rhett: Did u ever think of marrying just for fun?
Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men u mean.
[Rhett rescues Scarlett from the panicked streets of Atlanta as war approaches]
Rhett: Panic's a pretty sight, isn't it? We belong together, Scarlett. Let's get out of here together. No use staying here, letting the South come down around your ears. Too many nice places to go and visit. Mexico, London, Paris -
Scarlett: With you?
Rhett: Yes, ma'am. A man who understands u and admires u for just what u are. I figure we belong together, being the same sort. I've been waiting for u to grow up and get that sad-eyed Ashley Wilkes out of your heart....Are u going with me of are u getting out?
Scarlett: I hate and despise you, Rhett Butler. I'll hate and despise u till I die.
Rhett: [amused] Oh no u won't, Scarlett. Not that long.
[Rhett has just arrived at the house in a carriage to rescue Scarlett]
Scarlett: Rhett, thank goodness you're here!
Rhett: Good evening! Nice whether we're having. Prissy tells me you're planning on-
Scarlett: IF u MAKE ANY JOKES NOW, I'LL KILL YOU!
Rhett: What collateral are u offering?
Scarlett: My ear bobs.
Rhett: Not interested.
Scarlett: Mortgage on Tara.
Rhett: What would I do with a farm?
Scarlett: Oh, u wouldn't lose. I'd pay u back on volgende year's cotton.
Rhett: Not good enough. Have u nothing better?
Scarlett: u once zei u loved me. If u still love me Rhett...
Rhett: u haven't forgotten. I'm not a marrying man.
Scarlett: No, I haven't forgotten.
Rhett: You're not worth $300. You'll never mean anything but misery to any man.
Scarlett: [After agreeing to marry Rhett] Money does help and of course I am fond of you...If I zei I was madly in love with you, you'd know I was lying. u always zei we had a lot in common...
Rhett: You're right, my dear. I'm not in love with u any meer than u are with me. Heaven help the man who ever really loves you.
Ashley: Yes, we've traveled a long road since the old days, haven't we, Scarlett?...the golden warmth and security of those days.
Scarlett: Don't look back Ashley, don't look back. It'll drag at your hart-, hart until u can't do anything but look back.
Rhett: Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes! - Mr. Wilkes who can't be mentally faithful to his wife - and won't be unfaithful to her technically. Why doesn't he make up his mind?
Scarlett: Rhett, you-
[Rhett places his hands on either side of Scarlett's face]
Rhett: Observe my hands, my dear. I could tear u to pieces with them, and I'd do it if it'd take Ashley out of your mind forever. But it wouldn't. So I'll remove him from your mind forever this way. I'll put my hands so - one on each side of your head - and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut, and that'll block him out.
Scarlett: I'm not cornered. You'll never corner me Rhett Butler of frighten me. You've lived in dirt so long u can't understand anything else and you're jealous of something u can't understand.
Rhett: Jealous, am I? Yes, I suppose I am - even though I know you've been faithful to me all along. How do I know? Because I know Ashley Wilkes and his honorable breed. They're gentlemen! That's meer than I can say for u of for me. We're not gentlemen, and we have no honor, have we? It's not that easy Scarlett. You've turned me out while u chased Ashley Wilkes, while u dreamed of Ashley Wilkes. This is one night you're not turning me out.
[Rhett suddenly and fiercely kisses her, and then carries her protesting up a long flight of stairs to the bedroom, two steps at a time.]
[Scarlett is pregnant again]
Rhett: Indeed. And who is the happy father?"
Scarlett: u know it's yours. I don't want it any meer than u do. No woman would want a child of a cad like you...I wish for anybody's child but yours.
Rhett: Cheer up, maybe you'll have an accident.
[Scarlett tries to strike him, but misses and falls down the stairs]
Ashley: [about a dying Melanie] I can't live without her. I can't. Everything I ever had is going with her...She's the only dream I ever had that didn't die in the face of reality.
Scarlett: Ashley, u should have told me years geleden that u loved her and not me, and not left me dangling with your talk of honor. But u had to wait till now, now when Melly's dying. To toon me that I could never be any meer to u than, than this Watling woman is to Rhett ..And I've loved something that doesn't really exist. Somehow, I don't care. Somehow, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter one bit.
Rhett: It seems we've been at kruis purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett: My darling, you're such a child. u think that door saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known u to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are u going?
Rhett: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do u know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett: That's your misfortune.
[Rhett turns to walk down the stairs]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett!
[Scarlett watches Rhett walk to the door]
Scarlett: Rhett!
[runs down the stairs after Rhett]
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett! Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if u go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
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1939 Hollywood is abuzz.
Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of Gone with the Wind. The screenplay, u see, just doesn’t work. So,what’s an all-powerful movie mogul to do? Selznick sends for screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz. Locking the doors, pulling the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days, acting out the characters to the screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time. u have never see Scarlett O;Hara quite like this.
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