One of my favorite scenes from any movie is the scene where Alice commits suicide by throwing herself off a cliff in Last of the Mohicans. Everything about it is perfect: the beautiful score, the close-up of Alice’s face, and Magua’s single moment of compassion as he attempts to stop her. There’s no dialogue, but you can see all of Alice’s fear and confusion melt away as the path before her becomes clear.
The whole end of that movie, starting with their capture and the British officer’s torture/death, and ending with the credits, was just amazing in every way.
This.
Followed closely by the three-way duel at the end of* The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly*
Tombstone has a couple of classic lines that I use every now and then.
Just before the shoot out at the OK Corral after Wyatt tells Doc ‘You don’t have to mix up in this’ to which Doc replies
‘That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me.’
After the shoot out with Curly Bill when Jack Johnson states that he has lots of friends and Doc replies
‘I don’t’
And my friends modified a quote from Tombstone where Wyatt takes over a gambling station.
Original quote; ‘Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens.’
Friends modified it to; ‘Smoke this skin wagon and see what happens.’
I like my friends.
From A Man For All Seasons, the scene between More (Paul Scofield) and Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles). Brilliant writing and acting.
My favorite from Blue Velvet is the “love letter” scene. (NSFW)
It’s the Indiana Jones scene where he kills the guy with a gun instead of fighting him. FYI.
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My favorite from Blue Velvet is the “love letter” scene. (NSFW)
[/QUOTE]Nonono. The best scene is the visit to Ben’s. Here’s to Ben!
Be polite!
He’s one suave fucker.
Hard to pick just one.
The scene in The Abyss when Lindsey has drowned and Bud is frantically trying to resuscitate her.
The scene in The Man in the Iron Mask, when Athos is angered by D’Artagnan, and tells him “When next we meet, one of us will DIE !”
The scene in Kelly’s Heroes when Kelly and friends walk up to the tiger tank to make a deal with the commander. “Maybe the guy’s a Republican…”
The fight between Kong and the tyrannosaurs in the Peter Jackson version of King Kong.
The opening scene of “Sexual Chronicles of a French Family” … a total shocker, in a fun way.
The giant robots invade New York in “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.”
The opening space battle scene of “Attack of the Clones.”
Are you sure you don’t mean “Revenge of the Sith?”
Did he have to pay to enter the contest?
“Hey, Dad, you wanna have a catch?”
They way the music swells. And that hand shake.
The taking of Pelham 123 - Mr. Blue asks Garber if they still have the death penalty in NY.
2001, a Space Odyssey - I’m Sorry Dave…
Cannonball Run - [In the outtakes] These Bleeds?
Back to the Future - Marty gets blown away by the huge speaker.
Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence executes the man who saved his life.
LA Confidential - Have you a valediction, boyo?
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles - You’re fucked!
A Fish Called Wanda - Ken steamrolls Otto.
For sheer silliness: Bruce Campbell’s medieval prosthetic hand, complete with mechanical sound effects.
Yes. This is what I was going to post. I like how Hooper’s attitude, demeanor, and opinion of Quint are instantly rearranged the moment he hears the word “Indianapolis.”
Nitpick: the man hadn’t saved Lawrence’s life–Lawrence had saved his (and thereby shown that “nothing is Written.”)
(Great list, btw.)