《乱世佳人》改编自美国女作家Margaret Michel的长篇小说Gone With The Wind，影片堪称美国电影史上的一部经典作品，在1939年第12届奥斯卡中囊括最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳女主角、最佳女配角、最佳改编剧本奖等8项大奖而首创纪录。

　　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 Tare, plantations don't mean anything when...

　　Mr.O'Hara: Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'hara that Tara...that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land's the only thing in he world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.

　　Scalett: Oh, Pa. 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.

　　奥哈拉先生：你嫁给谁又有什么关系呢？只要他是南方人，并且和你合得来。等我死了，我会把塔拉庄园留给你的。

　　斯佳丽：我不要塔拉庄园。农场又没什么用……

　　奥哈拉先生：凯蒂·斯佳丽·奥哈拉，你是说，塔拉……这片土地对你没什么用处？知道吗？土地是世界上惟一值得劳作、值得战斗、值得为它而死的东西，因为它是惟一永存的。

　　斯佳丽：哦，爸爸，你说话的样子像个爱尔兰人。

　　奥哈拉先生：作为一名爱尔兰人，我很自豪。难道你忘记了，姑娘，你也有一半是爱尔兰血统。对于那些身体中即使只流着一滴爱尔兰血液的人来说，他们居住的土地就是他们的母亲。喏，就在那儿，那儿。现在你只是个孩子，你将来会明白这种对土地的热爱的。只要你是爱尔兰人，你就无法逃避这种爱。