Mine would have to be the Denis Hopper / Christopher Walken scene from True Romance
Spoilers about the scene and movie ahead.
The acting and music are superb. The reasoning behind the scene is excellent. Hopper knowing he’s going to be tortured into telling the whereabouts of his son decides to go out with a bang. He asks for a cigarette (he gave them up but now it doesn’t matter) and gives the famous spawned by niggers speech. I love this scene and would like to nominate it for best ever.
The intro to American History X. It was so real that I still get goosebumps on my head just thinking about it. :eek:
“Best” only because the acting was superb and it was just so realistic. Other than that, it was one of the most disgusting and vile segments ever recorded on film.
I thought I was the only one who liked that Tiny Dancer scene.
One of my favorites:
Goodfellas: when they start to play “Sunshine of your love” while De Niro is at the bar contemplating killing someone. His facial expressions and the way he drags his cigarette is great. It’s the basis for De Niro impressions all captured in one moment.
Another one just came to me. The montage at the end of One Day in September with Deep Purple’s Child in Time in the background is a truly stunning piece of cinema.
Oh and DeNiro dragging on that smoke is fantastic.
Ever seen The Count of Monte Cristo? It is quite good, with many awesome scenes.
My favorite part is a spoiler, so here goes:
My favorite is when the Count of MC is in that bath area talking to the Chief Prosecutor of Paris, and gets him to confess all this stuff, and the guards take him away. Ah, vengeance.
The scene from the end of Cinderella, when the glass slipper’s broken and everybody’s all pissed except for the evil stepmother, and Cinderella says, “But your excellency, I have the other glass slipper!”
The scene in the air traffic control tower, in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as the pilot of a cargo flight describes a UFO encounter over the radio. Brings chills just thinking about it, and it’s all done with spoken words.
If you haven’t seen The Third Man, major spoiler here:
When Anna’s cat jumps through the flowers on her windowsill, then the camera tracks the cat’s path through the flowers, down into the street below, to reveal the cat snuggling up to Harry Lime’s leg. Brilliant!!
Also the opening scene in Citizen Kane, showing Xanadu from different angles and locations, but the light from Kane’s bedroom window is always in the same place on the screen.
In the original B&W Miracle on 34th Street when Kris Kringle communicated to the little Dutch war orphan girl. The look on the little girl’s face makes my eyes water each time I see it.
The death prayer spoken near the end of the 13th Warrior, as hordes of barbarous warriors swarm towards the Northmen and Antonio never fails to stir some deeply buried, noble, warrior sentiment inside me.
