Not ‘favorite movies’, necessarily (although I suspect favorite scenes will often be scenes from movies you really really liked).
My list:
Jaws: crew comparing scars and singing ‘show me the way to go home’
Lincoln: could have gone with several scenes, but gotta go with ‘I don’t hold with equality in all things’ scene.
Good Will Hunting: Toss-up between the ‘regurgitating Gordon Wood’ bar scene and the ‘missed Game Six of the World Series to have a drink with my future wife’ scene.
A Few Good Men: ‘You can’t handle the truth’ - d’oh.
Pulp Fiction: ‘Can I try your hamburger’ interrogation scene
Amadeus: The scene where Salieri sees Mozart’s ‘first and only drafts’ that show no signs of any corrections; that Mozart was ‘writing down music already completed in his head’.
Reservoir Dogs - tipping scene.
And probably a bunch more I’m forgetting, but that should get everyone going!
The part of the Battle of New York in The Avengers where the camera swoops across to show each of the heroes kicking ass and taking names. That felt like a double panel of a comic book brought to life.
Burt Lancaster. It was Burt Lancaster in The Train, not Burt Reynolds. And yeah, that was a great scene. Not as good as when the locomotive crashes into the caboose, but still great.
City Lights – the final scene Singin’ in the Rain – Gene Kelly dancing the title song. Duck Soup – Courtroom scene The Coconuts – “Why a duck?” A Night at the Opera – “The Party of the first part.” Horse Feathers – “Swordfish” The Conversation – the final shot
Jaws - Quint’s monologue of the sinking of the Indianapolis
Casablanca - Singing La Marseillaise over the Germans
True Grit - “Fill your hands, you sonofabitch!”
Five Easy Pieces - Jack Nicholson ordering a chicken salad sandwich
Some Like It Hot - * “Nobody’s perfect.”*
The Sting - The poker game on the train
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - The fishing trip
Apocalypse Now - “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
The Guns of Navarone - Gregory Peck exploding at David Niven… “You got me in the mood to use this thing, and by God, if you don’t think of something, I’ll use it on you!”
Good Will Hunting - The bar scene… “Is that your thing, you come into a bar, read some obscure passage and then pretend - you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend?”
Blondie demanding that the ruffians apologize to his mule in Fistful of Dollars.
Tuco’s bathtime scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Tuco and Blondie blowing up the bridge, and the dying captain’s reaction, in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
