Speaking of Airplane, how about the “kissing in the sand” scene in From Here To Eternity?
According to their commentary and trivia track they did that scene BEFORE Here to Eternity.
That being said…who the hell as seen From Here to Eternity other than that scene?
I think the “You’re out of order!” scene is pretty famous, but that the movie And Justice For All is not as widely known.
Question: we see it parodied all the time, the scene of a drunkard at the bar asking for another drunk only to be told “you’ve had enough” and he replied with “I’ll tell you when I’ve had enough!”
Is this something specific being parodied or is it just a common trope?
Lots of people know quotes from the Al Pacino freakout scenes in And Justice for All and Dog Day Afternoon (“I’m out of order, you’re out of order…”) but those remain pretty obscure movies. (ETA - PSXer just beat me to it)
People also think that every zombie movie was about “Brains!!!” but only one movie had that going on, Return of the Living Dead
WOW. I didn’t know that. And I’ve seen Shane, although it was a very long time ago.
Just thought of another one: “I’m mad as Hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”
I saw it recently for the first time … and was rather surprised that it wasn’t really a romance at all. (It has as much similarity to On the Waterfront as to any romance).
I think Jimmy Cagney’s “Made it, ma! Top of the world!” counts, although it’s not a super famous scene. Still, the number of people who’ve seen White Heat is fairly small.
I don’t know anyone who’s watched Soylent Green all the way through, but a lot of people know what it’s made of. (At least as many know probably only know it from this SNL sketch).
Maybe you saw Shaft. DeNiro is a bad mother-
Claudette Colbert sticks out a shapely leg while hitchhiking in It Happened One Night.
I never even thought that was the funniest scene in the movie.
You shut your mouth!
Some Charlie Chaplin: the end speech from The Great Dictator, the dancing rolls from The Gold Rush, and the automated food tray or the gibberish dance from Modern Times.
The opening speech from Patton with George C. Scott in front of the giant American flag.
I have. Hell, I’ve seen the vast majority of the films in this thread.
A scene that I’ve watched dozens of times w/o having seen the original movie is Mel Gibson rousing up the troops in Braveheart.
Same here.
i’ve never seen any of those scenes
Marlon Brando could’ve been a contender in On the Waterfront.
I imagine a lot of people know that scene from De Niro quoting it in Raging Bull.
The Worst Commercial Ever Shot sequence in Putney Swope where the actor sings:
I have a malignancy in my prostate
But when you’re in my arms, it’s benign
I guess you need to have a flexible definition of “famous scene”. :dubious:
Actually, the only scene I ever see from “The Great Dictator” is the one where Chaplin is toying with the globe, as if it were a baloon. The movie itself is almost never broadcast on TV, but that one scene is shown constantly in Chaplin retrospectives.
Dude, I totally thought you meant “Christopher Lloyd” and I was like, Hey, everyone has seen Back to the Future!
Guess I haven’t seen this Harold Lloyd movie…
Speaking of Shane, a lot more people have seen that “Shane,come back” scene than have seen the movie.
Also the Jack Palance “Pick up that gun” scene.