Daily Dialogue — August 27, 2010

“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 O’Hara (Vivian Leigh), Gone with the Wind (1939), screenplay by Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is characters talking out loud to themselves, suggested by Greg Colburn.

Trivia: When Victor Fleming came on board in February 1939, he rejected the script. Production was shut down for 17 days while it was rewritten by Ben Hecht. Hecht used Sidney Howard’s original script (which he felt was superb) as the basis for his rewrite.