飘 Gone with the Wind Movie Script

Mr. O'HARA No, nor will he. I have it in strictest confidence from John Wilkes this afternoon, Ashley is going to marry Miss Melanie. It'll be announced tomorrow night at the ball.

SCARLETT:

I don't believe it!

Mr. O'HARA Here, here what are you after? Scarlett! What are you about? Have you been making a spectacle of yourself running about after a man who's not in love with you?

When you might have any of the bucks in the county?

SCARLETT:

I haven't been running after him, it's...it's just a surprise that's all.

Mr. O'HARA Now, don't be jerking your chin at me. If Ashley wanted to marry you, it would be with misgivings, I'd say yes. I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be happy with him.

SCARLETT:

I would, I would.

Mr. O'HARA What difference does it make whom you marry? So long as he's a Southerner and thinks like you.

And when I'm gone, I leave Tara to you.

SCARLETT:

I don't want Tara, plantations don't mean anything when... Mr. O'HARA Do you mean to toll me Katie Scarlett O'Hara that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for. Worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts.

SCARLETT:

Oh, Paw, you talk like an Irishman.

Mr. O'HARA It's proud I am that I'm Irish. And don't you be forgetting, Missy, that you're half-Irish too. And to anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them, why the land they live on is like their mother. Oh, but there, there, now, you're just a child. It'll come to you, this love of the land. There's no getting away from it if you're Irish.

(Next day, the O'Haras drive to Twelve Oaks for the barbeque there.) Mr. O'HARA Well, John Wilkes. It's a grand day you'll be having for the barbecue.

JOHN WILKES:

So it seems, Gerald. Why isn't Mrs. O'Hara with you?

Mr. O'HARA She's after settling accounts with the overseer, but she'll be along for the ball tonight.

INDIA:

Welcome to Twelve Oaks, Mr. O'Hara.

Mr. O'HARA Thank you kindly, India. Your daughter is getting prettier everyday, John.

JOHN WILKES:

Oh, India, here are the O'Hara girls, we must greet them.

INDIA:

Can't stand that Scarlett. If you'd see the way she throws herself at Ashley.

JOHN WILKES:

Now, now, that's your brother's business. You must remember your duties as hostess. Good morning, girls!

You look lovely. Good morning, Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

India Wilkes. What a lovely dress. I just can't take my eyes off it.

(Scarlett enters the hall with her family.) MAN1 Good morning, Miss Scarlett.

SCARLETT:

Morning.

MAN2 Look mighty fine this morning, Miss Scarlett.