Ironing films: Gone With The Wind

This is one of my all time favourite films, and a classic ironing film. It's a long one,  but if you skip the hours of introduction and intermission scores it's not so unreasonable. For those who don't know, Gone With The Wind is " an American classic in which a manipulative woman, and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction." That's according to IMDb. But it's more than that, the love story between Scarlet and Rhett is turbulent at best, but so are all the best loves in my eyes; the ones that leave you breathless. This particular ironing film also touches on something very close to my heart and that's love for your home, in our heroin Scarlet O'Hara's case home is a plantation called Tara. Much like myself (and most of my close group of girl friends from home), when something goes wrong she knows home is where she needs to be.

Scarlett:    "Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day." 

 Gerald O'Hara (Scarlet's Dad): "Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."

Scarlet can be a bit of hard work at times, for the most part of the film she is painfully selfish, desperately inappropriate and cruel to a man who loves her. 

Having said that, she is completely fabulous and fierce (yes, the word fabulous was necessary and you have permission to say it like a camp hair dresser). Take her dresses for instance...

And lines like this... 

Scarlett: "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's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." 

Scarlett: "Great balls of fire. Don't bother me any more, and don't call me sugar."

A good friend of mine who knew me scarily well bought me the film Gone With The Wind for my birthday last year. I'm completely ashamed of myself in that I got so excited to see it I didn't even wait for him to watch it! If you haven't seen it, do, and if you don't like it, please don't tell me. Because you're wrong. 

I could honestly quote the whole film by the time I'm finished but I'll try restrain myself, here are some of my favourites from Rhett Butler (her turbulent man). Maybe, just maybe, I see a little of myself in Scarlett sometimes, so I can't help but love her inspite of her flaws

Rhett:  "With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."

Rhett: "No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."

Rhett Butler: "You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail."

Scarlett:            "Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?"  

Rhett:                "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."