Round 1: Tossup 4
Two answers required. These are the two characters analyzed in the most depth by a Molly Haskell book subtitled for their film “Revisited.” A caricature of one of these two characters says “I saw it in a window, and I just couldn’t resist it” upon being complimented by the other on her attire in a sketch from The Carol Burnett Show. After one of these two characters tries to bite the other, she calls him a “skunk” and tells him, “I’ll be at your hanging.” One of the actors playing these two characters reportedly hated their kiss scenes because of the other’s notoriously (*) bad breath. After one of these two characters throws a piece of china across a room, the other whistles and asks “has the war started?” Quips by one of these two characters to the other include “never in any crisis of your life have I known you to have a handkerchief” and the line “and you, Miss, are no lady.” For 10 points, name these two characters who are the speaker and addressee of the line “frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” ■END■
ANSWER: Scarlett O’Hara AND Rhett Butler [or Scarlett O’Hara AND Rhett Butler; prompt on Starlett O’Hara AND Ratt Butler by asking “which characters are they parodying?”; prompt on the protagonists of Gone With the Wind] (The Haskell book is Frankly, My Dear: “Gone with the Wind” Revisited.)
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