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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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 Posted - 03/15/2010 : 21:28:28
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Philip French, film critic of the Observer newspaper, selects his greatest movie scenes ever here, as do a number of other movie makers.
Discuss, and post your alternatives.
I'm considering mine, and will post later. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 08:53:06
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Off hand, the scene in Gone With the Wind where Rhett Butler tells Scarlett that "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" pops immediately to mind.
Then there's the opening sequence of The Philadelphia Story when Cary Grant pushes Katharine Hepburn through the doorway by putting his hand over her face.
I also adore the dream sequence in Father of the Bride when the floor turns to rubber.
Another favorite would be the opening dance scene in All That Jazz when each of the dancers does a turn and the faces change with each turn - all the noses were lined up - amazing editing piece.
There are more, but these are the first ones I thought of.
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Larry 
"Larry's time / sat merrily"
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 14:56:14
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I won't tell you the scene of the first one that comes to mind, but the punch line is:
"I'll have what she's having"
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 03/16/2010 : 17:14:12
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Originally posted by Larry
I won't tell you the scene of the first one that comes to mind, but the punch line is:
"I'll have what she's having"
As famously said by Estelle Reiner. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 01:00:38
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| When they first see the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 22:31:16
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There's an enormous list of essential scenes - but here's some that I couldn't be without:
Roy and Deckard's rooftop confrontation at the conclusion of "Blade Runner"
The camera circling the deranged Aguirre and the monkeys at the end of "Aguirre: The Wrath of God".
Alien Queen vs Powerloader.
Darth Vader with something important to say at the end of "The Empire Strikes Back"
Ash vs his own hand in "Evil Dead II"
No, they're Spartacus!
Alec Baldwin coming to the office to sort out the men from the boys in "Glengarry Glen Ross".
The predator taking his mask off.
The last words of Jack Vincennes in "L.A. Confidential"
The heartbreaking opening duologue between pilot David Niven and radio operator Kim Hunter in "A Matter of Life and Death".
The Baptism sequence at the end of "The Godfather"
Clarice Starling and Dr Lector meeting for the first time.
He and She sing and play together for the first time in a Dublin music shop in "Once".
The London Underground sequence in "An American Werewolf in London"
The diner sequence in "Heat"
Quint's USS Indianapolis speech in "Jaws"
John Merrick goes to sleep in "The Elephant Man"
The Man with No Name orders coffins in "A Fistful of Dollars"
Finding out who Keyser Soze really is.
Cloris Leachman getting fed up of apologising in "The Last Picture Show".
Archie sprints to the conclusion of "Gallipoli"
Who's holding who's hand in "The Haunting"?
Harry's dismantled apartment at the end of "The Conversation".
Nick and Michael play Russian Roulette in a cage in Vietnam in "The Deer Hunter"
Uncle Monty attempts burglary in "Withnail and I"
HAL deciding not to open the pod bay doors.
The true nature of Ash revealed in "Alien".
Cruise and DeMornay on the subway in "Risky Business"
The literally heart stopping moment at the end of "Les Diaboliques"
Waiting at the bus stop in the rain in "My Neighbour Totoro"
Room 237 at the Overlook Hotel.
ED-209 malfunctions in "Robocop"
The answer-phone sequence in "Swingers"
Norris' detached head attempting to escape in "The Thing"
Oskar breaking down at the end of "Schindler's List"
The pre-credits sequence of "Up" - a man's whole life in fast forward.
Plainview reluctantly joining the church in "There Will Be Blood" and accidentally revealing some inner truth.
The roadside diner massacre in "Near Dark"
Travis Bickle's bloody rescue attempt at the end of "Taxi Driver"
Arthur vs The Black Knight in Monty Python's "Holy Grail" |
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Falken 
"Intestinal Fourtitude."
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 22:57:58
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This scene from They Live
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Beanmimo
"August review site"
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 23:34:30
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I'm sure there are more, but here are some moments when:
The cattle on fire stampeding by in Mars Attacks!
Dumbo's mom cuddling him with her trunk through the bars of her cage.
Mickey getting flooded as the naughty Sorceror's Apprentice in Fantasia.
The stewardess walking in a weightless circle delivering drinks on the shuttle in 2001 A Space Odyssey
The sexiest couple's sex scenes in Ai no Corrida [In The Realm of the Senses]
The ballerina's suicide in The Red Shoes
Jean-Pierre Leaud freeze-framed against the sea at the end of The 400 Blows
The poignant-est scene ever in One-Eyed Jacks, all in Spanish, when Pina Pelicer tells her mother Katy Jurado that she's pregnant with Brando's baby
King Kong on top of the Empire State Building in the 1933 version
Hepburn realizing she actually loves Bogart in The African Queen
The magnificent single camera opening of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil - never equalled
And, speaking of openings - Sergio Leone's almost wordless opening of Once Upon A Time In America
The moment we see the enormity of the threat in the sky in Independence Day
When the spaceship and Truffaut duet in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
When Groucho orders yet another hard boiled egg in a tiny cabin filling up with passengers and crew in Monkey Business
Jay Gatsby throwing his hand-tailored shirts around the room in a tripple-dissolve as the camera circles him and Daisy in ecstasy in The Great Gatsby 1974
WC Fields repeatedly entering the cabin during a blizzard, declaiming "'tain't a fit night out for man nor beast" in The Fatal Glass of Beer
The first shot of Brigitte Helm as the robot queen in Lang's Metropolis
The house falling around Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr.
When Giullietta Massina as the prostitute Cabiria realizes the man she's in love with wants to kill her and has only been after her money in Fellini's Nights of Cabiria
When Terry Jones says, "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" in Life of Brian
When the Brooklyn Dodgers accept Jackie Robinson into the team - the first black major league player [and he played himself in the film - wonderful!]
[I'd better stop or I'll never be able to turn off that projector in my head  ]
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 23:45:37
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
When Terry Jones says, "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" in Life of Brian
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 03/17/2010 : 23:51:28
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Originally posted by demonic
Roy and Deckard's rooftop confrontation at the conclusion of "Blade Runner"
That was No 1 on my list.
Here's just a few from me:
James Bond escaping on skis from the Russians and over the edge of the cliff at the start of The Spy Who Loved Me
Cab Calloway singing "Minnie the Moocher" in The Blues Brothers
The lobby fight in Matrix
The "beans and drums" scene near the start of The House of Flying Daggers.
Edit: I nearly forgot the train chase in Wallace & Grommit in The Wrong Trousers. Possibly the finest claymation scene ever.
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 03/18/2010 : 03:26:06
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quote:
Originally posted by Chris C
quote:
Originally posted by demonic
Roy and Deckard's rooftop confrontation at the conclusion of "Blade Runner"
That was No 1 on my list.
Impeccable taste sir!
Here we go.
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 03/18/2010 : 19:49:28
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Very impressive lists, and, just as impressively, you all haven't spoiled a thing, although you might well have. Good shows!
Haven't seen Philip French's list yet, I wanted to do this first. Among many:
Marital meals -- and boom up at the opera -- in CITIZEN KANE
Visit to the fruit cellar in PSYCHO
Opening drill instruction in FULL METAL JACKET
Checking out something new in 2001
Campfire chow in BLAZING SADDLES
Mifune's exit from THRONE OF BLOOD
First look at Babylon in INTOLERANCE
Mirror monologue in TAXI DRIVER
Sad bus trip in MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Tub surprise in DIABOLIQUE
Egg and dinner table surprises in ALIEN
Courtroom exit in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Atlanta crane shot in GONE WITH THE WIND
Opening shot of TOUCH OF EVIL
Lecter intro in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Terrance & Phillip's song in SOUTH PARK
John Wayne's exit in THE SEARCHERS
First view of battle scene in THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
Opening shot of STAR WARS
I'm with Baffy: I gotta shut the projector down! |
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 03/19/2010 : 16:02:24
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Originally posted by randall
Mifune's exit from THRONE OF BLOOD
Absolutely! |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 03/19/2010 : 16:19:50
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| I have many more and will add later, but the best movie theater experience I ever had was seeing Pulp Fiction on opening weekend when no one had any idea what it was and seeing a filled two-story theater in Chicago lean forward in unison as John Travolta raised the syringe filed with adrenaline. |
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 03/22/2010 : 14:50:03
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Okay, I'll play. Here are just a few of mine.
The reel of all the edits of kisses from Cinema Paradiso.
The little alien escaping the stomach in Alien.
Jack Nicholson orders toast in Five Easy Pieces.
The dropping and and breaking of the snow globe in Citizen Kane.
Charlie Chaplin and the dinner roll dance in Gold Rush.
John Belushi in the cafeteria line in Animal House.
Ben Affleck explaining to Matt Damon why he doesn't want to see him some morning in Good Will Hunting.
Robin Williams telling Matt Damon off in Good Will Hunting.
Matt Damon explaining why he doesn't want a job with the government breaking codes in Good Will Hunting. (THAT WAS A GOOD MOVIE FOR MEMORABLE SPEECHES)
Kate Nelligan getting her son back in Without A Trace.
Jesse's song in Toy Story 2.
Bruce Willis finally figuring out what happened to him in The Sixth Sense.
Dustin Hoffman trying desperatly to get the right answer to "Is it safe?" in Marathon Man.
Dustin Hoffman being seduced in The Graduate.
Clark Gable explaining how to hitchhike and being bettered by Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night.
The little vampire demonstrating what happens when you don't invite a vampire in but she comes in anyway in Let The Right One In.
Kurt Russell testing the blood in The Thing.
The talk about the name "Mr. Pink" in Reservoir Dogs.
Kevin Spacey quitting his job in American Beauty.
Ron Livingston being a gansta in Office Space.
Shirley Temple singing and dancing. (pick a picture)
Judy Garland stepping out of her black and white house and into colorful Munchkin Land in The Wizard of Oz.
Fred Astaire dancing (pick a picture)
Gene Kelly's rain dance in Singing In The Rain.
Doris Day coming back from Chi-cagee and explaining what she saw in song in Calamity Jane.
There's much more. I'll stop for now.
EM :)
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