# Favorite scene in movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917 "2014-05-21T13:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/81 "2014-05-29T23:52:39Z")
> [@danhanegan](#): > > Hard to pick just one. You never have to limit yourself to just one! Some great scenes added. I’ll post a few more: **American Beauty** , when Lester Burham is sitting in “Brad’s” office while Brad reads his job description, then blackmails him for a years salary and benefits. **A Christmas Story** , this movie is one great scene after another, but if I had to pick just one, I’ll go with the “major award”! Leg-lamp scene. **The Warriors** - the clicking bottles “warriors, come out to play” **A League of Their Own** , when Hanks wakes up on the bus, and after he get’s his bearings he looks at the chaperone and says “by the way, I loved you in the Wizard of Oz.” **The Incredibles** - two that i cannot pick from… The first, when Bob is stuck in traffic, pulls into his driveway, slips on the skateboard, keeps his balance by grabbing into the car and then denting the car, then can’t close the door so he slams it, breaking the door window… He loses it, and picks the car up over his head, and there is that little kid on the big wheel staring at him with the popping bubble of bubble gum. I love that scene. Also, when Bob grabs his boss by the throat and throws him through all of those office walls, and when you see him say “uh, oh”. **Toy Story** - When Buzz has his helmet opened for the first time and he goes into a fit of choking for air. **No Country For Old Men** - when Carson and Anton are in the Hotel room, and Carson says “do you have any idea how crazy you are?” Anton - “You mean the nature of this conversation?” Carson - “I mean the nature of you.” I have more… ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/82 "2014-05-30T07:14:12Z")
The dialogue between Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More has got to be one of the awesome dialogues in movie history. Vincent and Mia’s twist dance Rob Roy and Archibald’s sword duel Various fight scenes in “Last of the Mojicans” “I want you to find this Nancy Boy Elliot Ness: I want him dead! I want his entire family dead!” The subject of Virgil Tibbs’ weekly salary The start and end of “Midnight Cowboy” The dueling banjos Ascot Gavotte Reading Ripley’s mind at the queen’s nest during “Aliens II”: “Well, since I’m already here…” RATATATATATATATATATAT!!! Reading the queen’s mind: “Fucking humans, no honor whatsoever!” Anthony Hopkins’ wordless acceptance of the chocolate in “A Bridge Too Far.” The first interview in “Frost - Nixon” Animal and Shapiro’s dance in “Stalag 17” The girl being pulled off the bed in “Paranormal Activity 1” Waltz in “Beauty and the Beast” The oh-so-British description of an alien in “Aliens III”: “…a creature that spits out acid… it kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant.” * * * That’s all I can remember for now. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/83 "2014-05-30T11:21:58Z")
[I’m funny, how?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWINtUCshxY) [Saving Private Ryan beach landing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82RTzi5Vt7w) [Chopsticks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yu62StlsMY) [Hot stuff employment line](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4wuH9pSSRo) [“I may show up at Harry’s Bar”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXiVJSVQb9w) [Big Chris loses the plot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQcI2GqBFD0) ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/84 "2014-05-31T04:20:56Z")
Right now, mine’s this: Spoiler for the latest X-Men! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNWVxTAsHD4) ---
**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:** [June 2, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/85 "2014-06-02T23:09:37Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > All great choices so far - I don’t disagree with any of them. > > My choice : The USS Indianapolis scene in Jaws. Robert Shaw delivering that absolutely chilling account of waiting for his turn in the water while the sharks were picking off his friends one by one…“I’ll never put on a life jacket again…” > > That scene could be watched without the rest of the movie and still be just as riveting. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I should hang my head in shame for not thinking Indianapolis Speech. > > Yes. I like how Quint’s attitude, etc., changes after he’s played out his bag of tricks and asks Hooper what can he do with his goodies. Hooper posits injecting strychnine into the shark, and Quint says, That little needle through his thick skin? with no snark at all. > > If anybody on Jaws deserved an Oscar, it was screenwriter Carl Gottlieb. Turning out a half dozen script pages on the fly every night for filming the next day. Sometimes the best stuff is done by the seat of your pants. We should have a thread for Best Monologues, since that appears to be what many favorites are. And in this case, Robert Shaw and Howard sackler (?) wrote that. > [@JustinC](#): > > [Chopsticks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yu62StlsMY) I knew instantly what you referred to, which surprised me. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/86 "2014-06-03T01:08:22Z")
That would be the concert scene in **O Brother Where Art Thou?** Over the course of four songs: The Klan leader is cast down because he unwisely pit his popularity against that of a hot musical act. The governor hitches a ride on the musicians’ popularity and then rises above them by virtue of real --rather than potential-- political power. A mountain of legal problems is swept away. The hero gets a job and reclaims his wife. Vernon T. Waldrip is laid low without a word being said. ## The music is all good, and the featured song is one of the finest musical numbers in movie history. **Princess Bride** : The sword fight between Inigo and the Man in Black. The joy of meeting a kindred soul (in the course of killing the person.) * * * **Once Upon a Time in the West** kept me fascinated for three hours. I remember being sucked in by the [opening scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tt83itYA8) of three bad men waiting for a train to arrive. Twelve minutes – 98% free of human voice – and almost every moment a little different than what you expect. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/87 "2014-06-03T02:16:16Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > In _Stalag 17_, Sefton realizes who the real traitor is, then smokes a cigar. “Ach, so!” That one’s good, but I like it better when the other prisoners are beating the snot out of Peter Graves, and that one guy, who’s pretty much been catatonic, smiles. He knew it was Graves, but was incapable of telling anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/88 "2014-06-03T04:27:16Z")
_Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_: Wonka: “You get _nothing._ You _lose_. Good _day_, sir!” “So shines a good deed in a weary world.” _Jurassic Park_: The scene where the T-Rex first appears, beginning to end. Scared the crap out of me (in the best sort of way) the first time i saw it. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/89 "2014-06-03T05:14:40Z")
I don’t think it qualifies as a single scene, but the last few minutes of Back to the Future II are some of the most brilliant moments in cinematic history. From the moment that Marty sees the Delorean zapped away in the thunderstorm to the post office guy showing up in the storm, to Marty running back to the 1955 Doc and exclaiming “You did send me back to the future, but I’m back FROM the future!” I could watch that scene over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/90 "2014-06-12T02:09:56Z")
Rocky Round 14 Apollo Creed knocks Rocky to the mat and raises his fists in victory on the way to the neutral corner. He turns around to see Rocky get to his feet at the count of 9 and beckons to Creed: “c’mon…c’mon” Creed slumps in dejection (aw, _man…_) cause he gotta take some more beating from the Stallion. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/25NmudB2fqg/hqdefault.jpg "Rocky 1 best scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25NmudB2fqg) ---
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[A Matter of Life and Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSruSe_m8OI) - Peter Carter “meets” June. “You’re life and I’m leaving you” Never fails to bring a lump to my throat. [A Canterbury Tale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSruSe_m8OI) - Culpepper’s lecture (You probably have to be from Kent to get this one). ---
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My favorite is from [The Return of the Pink Panther](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgj-4Qddwc). It’s at the 3:20 mark:) ---
**Author:** ![MostlyUseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/93 "2014-06-18T17:21:29Z")
George C Scott directing traffic in Patton Saving Private Ryan when the Captain explains the flow of complaining and of course the beach scene. The Black Knight in Monty Pythons Holy Grail The Universe song at the end of the Meaning of Life EVERY ONE of R Lee Ermey’s rants in Full Metal Jacket and at the end when they sing the Mickey Mouse club song Apollo 13 waiting to see if the heat shield holds When the Germans ask for the English to surrender and the Englishman responds that he can’t take their surrender. When Gregory Peck walks out of the courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird The George Strait song at the end of Pure Country The County fair dance scene in Doc Hollywood When the Guard take John Coffee to heal the wardens wife in Green Mile The escape rain scene in Shawshank Redemption ---
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When sonar hot shot Jonesy NAILZ it in _The Hunt for Red October_. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y7g6dKncO-I/hqdefault.jpg "Hunt for Red October - Jonsey Reports") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7g6dKncO-I) ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/95 "2014-06-18T18:30:12Z")
Don’t judge me before you’ve seen it! The opening scene of **Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift** is pretty great. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/96 "2014-06-19T19:41:29Z")
The burning of the mill and the speared woman handing off her baby to Toshiro Mifune in _The Seven Samurai_. ---
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I’ve commented on a couple other films. There are so many _ **good** _ scenes in movies. But it’s hard to top the wedding/hanging scene in _The African Queen_. How many movies have a scene in which the captain marries a couple, then says “I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.” Of course there’s a happy ending though!😃 ---
**Author:** ![StayseaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@StayseaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StayseaDee)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/98 "2014-06-19T20:40:16Z")
The scene on the bus in Almost Famous where everyone sings Tiny Dancer. Favorite movie and favorite scene of all time. ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917/99 "2014-06-19T20:51:31Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Which scenes in movies stand out as your favorites? > > Sometimes, a scene stands alone and could be removed from the movie completely without missing it much. Other times, a scene is vital to the overall plot line, but still stands out for whatever reason. > > I’ll give some examples of what I am looking for. > > The music writing discussion scene in Sling Blade - When the band is sitting in the house after their little jam session, and Morris is explaining how he and Terrance write words and music. Odd, Sling Blade is one of my favorite movies of all time (no hype), and Billy Bob Thornton’s performance is as good as I’ve ever seen (I can never “FIND” him on the screen he plays the character so well). Yet, I can’t remember the “band” scene for the life of me. ---
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> [@polar\_bear](#): > > Dennis Hopper + Christopher Walken in True Romance. Great Scene!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scene-in-movie/688917.md?page=6)