Gone with the Wind (1939) - Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara meet each other for the first time (HD)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner. It follows her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes, who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton, and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler. The leading roles are played by Vivien Leigh (Scarlett), Clark Gable (Rhett), Leslie Howard (Ashley), and Olivia de Havilland (Melanie) --Wikipedia

[sadieyoung]

Ashley never once said he loves her nor wants her. Sexual attraction is very different from love. Scarlet built up this idea of Ashley in her head that she loved but in reality she didn’t love the real Ashley took her long enough to realize it

[casualobserver]

Excellent scene! One of the VERY few times Scarlett did not have the advantage.

[rosysulla]

Ashley and Melanie live in the dreamlike blindspot of southern chivalric fantasy and honor. They know what Scarlett is and admire it bc she embodies what makes their ideals both great and small. They can forgive it and see the beauty she represents in spite of their culture and are too polite to pull the rug from her.

Rhett and Scarlett are the opposite. They live in a hypocritical performative world and have an angry blindspot for the ideals behind it. This inclides a blindspot for seeing the ideal and honor in each other. They act in gritty truth and see things for what they are whereas Ashley and Melanie observe and lament what things were. Mel and Ashley see the beauty in each other. Rhett and Scarlett see another hypocrite, so its naturally confounding that they fall in love and perform their roles in ernest.

Its so telling that Mel was the only woman Rhett truly admired for being representive of all the ideals he essentially laughed at, and that Scarlett similarly loved Ashley. She was too young to realize she loved an ideal at all. Doubly telling that Scarlett secretly resented Melanie and Rhett resented Ashley, perceiving them as lacking what they had, but in truth being what they lacked in themselves.

The great irony of course is that Rhett and Scarlett are the same in the way that Ashley and Melanie are the same. Rhett and Scarlett also embody a greater truth and dignity that allowed them to survive and succeed. This was what Melanie and Ashley probably admired most, that Scarlett and Rhett had in them a kind of grudging integrity that perpetually saved them from dishonor.

Fascinating quad dynamic lol

I mean Im not even touching how despite their personalities being vastly different. Rhett and Ashley are the single ones to speak openly against the war. Also, i believe that the single scene they interact in, Rhett is entrusted by Melanie to save Ashley who was defending Scarlett's honor.

Imagine these four getting drunk together lol

[classics]

He’s apparently set on marrying Melanie yet explicitly tells Scarlett “you’ve always had my heart” and “how could I help loving you, ” only aggravating her feelings for him … what a truly horrid man.

[Aurora-qndx]

He ruined scarlet..he shouldnt of led her on for years and years..she would had loved Rhett sooner if her obsession with Ashley wouldve been stopped by him telling her the truth..only after melanie dies and rhet is tierd of her he tells her the truth.

[rolltide]

Scarlett was nothing but pure misery for any man. Ashley was lucky.

[collistooth]

But let's not question why Ashley has Chamberlain 's accent....

[zplhpbm]

Ashley is the the hypocrite of the story words blablabla

[juniorlsdmusic]

Ashley was a true gentleman when in today's time he could've married Mel and keep Scarlett as the side chic