# Famous scenes from movies most people haven't seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612 "2011-04-25T02:29:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/1 "2011-04-25T02:29:03Z")
Everyone knows the scene of [Jack Nicholson ordering toast in the diner](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8). Thing is, the vast majority of filmgoers who know the scene have never seen the movie it appeared in: **Five Easy Pieces**. Similarly, the scene where [Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8) and where [he dances with the hat rack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJvGxTKGFHA#t=01m33s), but most people have not seen the movie they were in: **Royal Wedding** \* What other movies are famous for a particular scene or scene, but which are not usually seen in their entirety? \*Trivia alert – Fred’s love interest in the film was Winston Churchill’s daughter IRL\> ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/2 "2011-04-25T02:33:17Z")
The scene on the Odessa Steps in [The Battleship Potemkin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec) is one of the most famous in the history of film, but not one person in a hundred who know that scene have seen the film. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/3 "2011-04-25T02:39:49Z")
The scene from **Casablanca** in which Rick (Bogart) says “Play it again, Sam!” Everyone “knows” this line from the film, many people have “repeated” it in a Bogart-like accent, but actually - Rick doesn’t say it! He says “If you can play it for her, you can play it for me. So play it!” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/4 "2011-04-25T03:07:59Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > The scene on the Odessa Steps in [The Battleship Potemkin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps-v-kZzfec) is one of the most famous in the history of film, but not one person in a hundred who know that scene have seen the film. Yep, that’s what I came in to say. I’d seen that scene either as a clip or referenced (such as in the movie The Untouchables) dozens of times, but I’d never seen the film itself until last month when the Music Box in Chicago showed a new print with a new recording of the original score. It was so great to see on the big screen. The whole movie is good and that’s not even the most tension-filled and exciting sequence, just the easiest to show and reference. Other movies I’ve seen in the past year in the theater that would fit into this category are Metropolis and the 9-hour version of Shoah, both very worth watching in their entirety. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/5 "2011-04-25T03:16:55Z")
[Rosebud](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipboWI9uiE) [You talking to me?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/6 "2011-04-25T03:17:00Z")
I’ll bet most people have seen Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands but don’t know what movie it comes from. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/7 "2011-04-25T03:25:44Z")
Although it’s less true now than when I was a kid, I don’t think a lot of people have see _Freaks_ and yet are familiar with the bit where they go, “One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble gooble-gobble!”. I do think any kind of film buff would have see _Casablanca_, though. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/8 "2011-04-25T03:37:23Z")
How about the scene where they’re running in the surf in _Chariots of Fire_? Or Marlon Brando yelling “Stella!” in _A Streecar Named desire_. > [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > [Rosebud](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipboWI9uiE) > [You talking to me?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E) Again, I’d hate to think of _Citizen Kane_ or _Taxi Driver_ as examples of films that are “not usually seen”. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/9 "2011-04-25T03:43:10Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > [Rosebud](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jipboWI9uiE) People haven’t seen Citizen Kane? I doubt that one. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/10 "2011-04-25T04:18:35Z")
How many people could name “that movie where James Cagney shoves a grapefruit in that dame’s face”? Since the OP mentions one Nicholson film, how about Jack’s “Heeeeres Johnny” scene in “The Shining”? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/11 "2011-04-25T04:37:24Z")
More people alive now have seen **That’s Entertainment** than have seen most of the movies excerpted in it. Beyond that, there’s the chess scene in **The Seventh Seal**. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/12 "2011-04-25T04:52:29Z")
Hitler melting down in _Downfall_. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/13 "2011-04-25T05:01:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > People haven’t seen Citizen Kane? I doubt that one. Do you really? I’d be shocked if people hadn’t seen _Taxi Driver_ because it’s a film by Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest living American filmmakers. He’s still producing films, so his oeuvre is still relevant to today’s movie-goers. Orson Welles, on the other hand, has been dead for more than a quarter of a century, and his last major film was made nearly 40 years ago. \*Citizen Kane \* is a black and white film released in the 1940s. It’s seen by serious film-watchers and people who enjoy watching old classic American films. Those type of people are not in the majority. The whole rosebud thing has been circulating in pop culture for awhile now. It’s such a mainstay that I’d surprised to meet somebody who hadn’t been exposed to it in some way. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/14 "2011-04-25T05:10:06Z")
To contribute, I’ll add Marilyn Monroe’s skirt scene from _The Seven Year Itch_ ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/15 "2011-04-25T05:10:35Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > The scene from **Casablanca** in which Rick (Bogart) says “Play it again, Sam!” > > Everyone “knows” this line from the film, many people have “repeated” it in a Bogart-like accent, but actually - Rick doesn’t say it! He says “If you can play it for her, you can play it for me. So play it!” That’s not really what this thread is about, that’s more for a thread about misquoted movies, even so, I think a lot of people have seen Casablanca. However, I’ll attempt to satisfy both a misquoted movie as well as famous scene from a movie most people haven’t seen. Many people often will misquote The Treasure of The Sierra Madre by saying “Badges, we don’t need no steenkin badges”, [here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ) the real line. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/16 "2011-04-25T05:13:35Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Hitler melting down in _Downfall_. Ooh, good one. Although I have sen it, the OP is correct with me, I have not seen the movies he mentions but I have seen the scenes. From the past I think many have seen either the Picket’s charge or the attempted rape scenes from “The Birth of a nation” (“The Klansman”) 1915. Usually on documentaries that note on the racism from the movie that prevents it from being shown on TV nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/17 "2011-04-25T08:12:05Z")
Another Brando scene. Ask most people what _On the Waterfront_ is about and they’ll say it’s a boxing movie because all they know is [I could have been a contender](http://www.flixster.com/movie/on-the-waterfront-videos/i-could-have-been-a-contender-10957441). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/18 "2011-04-25T08:33:32Z")
Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in drag, in _Some Like it Hot._ The futuristic city in _Metropolis._ "Fasten Your Seatbelts . . . " from _All About Eve._ (I could be wrong about whether “most people” have seen this.) ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/19 "2011-04-25T08:48:16Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Many people often will misquote The Treasure of The Sierra Madre by saying “Badges, we don’t need no steenkin badges”, [here’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqomZQMZQCQ) the real line. That misquote’s used in Blazing Saddles, which a lot of people will have watched. So they’re correctly quoting a misquote! ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612/20 "2011-04-25T09:41:27Z")
Really good call on the Five Easy Pieces, Harold Lloyd and James Cagney films! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-scenes-from-movies-most-people-havent-seen/579612.md?page=2)