"Gone With The Wind" is memorable for a number of reasons, but the film's closing moments are perhaps one of its most well-known sequences. After all it was one of the first times profanity was used in a major motion picture. For our purposes though...it merely served as a way to further get the point across.
After Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) finally pushes Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) over the edge after nearly four hours of screen time, he finally decides enough is enough and leaves her. When she asks Rhett what will she do and where will she go, he calmly tells her "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn," which to this day is a line every guy has wanted to say to a girl at some point... but knows better.
Nobody short of James Bond could have pulled off that line as smoothly and effortlessly as Clark Gable. Not only did it lead to a satisfying conclusion to the sprawling epic, but it was later named the No. 1 line in motion picture history by the American Film Institute. We can see why.
