# Favorite scenes from movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841 "2014-01-27T13:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/41 "2014-01-28T15:51:16Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > 1. Amadeus: The scene where Salieri sees Mozart’s ‘first and only drafts’ that show no signs of any corrections; that Mozart was ‘writing down music already completed in his head’. There’s another scene, in which Salieri is showing the Emperor a march he’s written (and which he’s quite proud of). Mozart comes in, demonstrates that he can play the thing after having only heard it the one time, and then says, “It’s a little simple, isn’t it?” And then he utterly transforms it. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/42 "2014-01-28T16:08:51Z")
Yankee Doodle Dandy–When George M. Cohan meets Eddie Foy. Duck Soup–The mirror scene 1776–When it all comes down to James Wilson’s vote, and John Dickinson’s reaction. The Two Towers–The Battle of Helm’s Deep Spider-Man 2–“Got any more bright ideas?” “A few, yeah!” Singing in the Rain–“Moses Supposes” Beauty and the Beast–(Disney version) The ballroom scene The Princess Bride–“I’m not left-handed either.” The Little Mermaid (Disney)–“There’s just one problem left.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/43 "2014-01-28T16:41:40Z")
When James Cagney tap-dances his way out of the White House in _ **Yankee Doodle Dandy** _. When the WWI vets perform “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning!” in _ **This Is the Army** _. Mrs Robinson tries to seduce Benjamin in _ **The Graduate** _. “What color are their uniforms?” in _ **The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly** _. Tuco buys a pistol in _ **The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly** _. Bond fights Grant in _ **From Russia, with Love** _ and Oddjob in _ **Goldfinger** _. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/44 "2014-01-28T16:50:11Z")
From _ **A Shot in the Dark** _: \*“In both cases, the room was locked from the inside. In both cases, the only two people in the room were Maria Gambrelli and the murder victim. In both cases, Maria Gambrelli was found standing over the murder victim holding the murder weapon in her hand. What is the obvious conclusion?” “Maria Gambrelli is guilty.” “You FOOL! Can’t you see she is PROTECTING someone?”\* ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/45 "2014-01-28T16:56:05Z")
From _ **Patton** _: _“You tell the General that I don’t care to drink with any Russian son of a bitch!”_ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/46 "2014-01-28T16:59:13Z")
Radl’s meeting with Himmler in _ **The Eagle Has Landed** _. Donald Pleasance has always been a greatly underappreciated actor, IMHO. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/47 "2014-01-28T17:09:10Z")
Reidenschneider’s soliloquy in prison about witness testimony at trial and how people’s memories can be manipulated, in **The Man Who Wasn’t There** : “Looking at something changes it. They call it the 'Uncertainty Principle.” Addison Dewitt confronts Eve in her hotel room about her past and blackmails her, in **All About Eve**. The Dude’s highly referential drug dream after Jackie Treehorn slips him a mickey in **The Big Lebowski**. The crooks arguing and bumping each other off one by one in **The Ladykillers** (the Ealing Studios one!). John Wayne’s silhouette framed in the door, and he decides not to go in, at the end of **The Searchers**. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/48 "2014-01-28T17:18:10Z")
Nicolas Cage’s misfiling/alphabet scene in **Vampire’s Kiss** : [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WLrALs-Nq_I/hqdefault.jpg "Vampire's Kiss - Misfiling & the ABC's") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLrALs-Nq_I) ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/49 "2014-01-28T17:27:43Z")
The Shining - “Here’s Johnny” Scene Shawshank - When they warden remove’s Andy’s poster Rear Window - The camera flash scene ---
**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:** [January 28, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/50 "2014-01-28T17:59:57Z")
Everyone has to see this scene in In Bruges. It’s one minute long and brings me joy every time I see it. [“Why don’t you all just put your guns away?” “Don’t be stupid. This is the shootout.”](["In Bruges" - Shootout - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jq8p6Sjjs)) ---
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When Wallace is put to death in **Braveheart** Mike Meyers playing his character’s dad ragging on the kid in **So I Married an Axe Murderer** Al Pacino blowing up at Kevin Spacey in **Glengarry Glen Ross** Jim Carrey running off the jetway in **Dumb and Dumber** ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/52 "2014-01-28T19:23:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Everyone has to see this scene in In Bruges. It’s one minute long and brings me joy every time I see it. > > [“Why don’t you all just put your guns away?” > > “Don’t be stupid. This is the shootout.”]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jq8p6Sjjs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jq8p6Sjjs)) That was a wonderful, beautiful little movie. And yeah, great scene. Two more: JFK - ‘[Back, and to the left](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MLc0udf_74). Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left…’ 13 days: '[This is language!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idfv6a2ampo)" ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/53 "2014-01-28T19:43:57Z")
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it. ---
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The [“amateur night”/coffee cup ambush scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1MkjmbdHUM) in _Ronin_. The [poisoned tea switch scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRHB_S3JAA) in _Confessions of a Dangerous Mind_. The [Mouth of Sauron scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29Ags3s0O0) from the Extended Edition of _Return of the King_. The "[You never go ‘full retard’" scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wVagQ_LVd4) in _Tropic Thunder_. The "[Is this your pen?" scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHNTkVqWpQ) from _Casino_. The "[life’s little Twinkie gauge" scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQf6WMjmao) in _Zombieland_. The [final scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6ikN2O364) in _Inglorious Basterds_. The [opening fight scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgtXrL6cAAs) from _The Rundown_. ---
**Author:** ![llcoolbj77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@llcoolbj77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llcoolbj77)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/55 "2014-01-28T19:56:35Z")
When the Ents go to war in LOTR - The Two Towers. That was my all time favorite part of the book. When I saw it come to life on the big screen, well… I cried… I actually cried. No dialogue, just music, enraged Ents, and 150 nerds in the movie theatre applauding with me. It was epic. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/56 "2014-01-28T19:58:47Z")
The cabinet meeting where they cut out the in the federal budget in 5 minutes in “Dave” to fund a children’s welfare program. [Dave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARAldXlSyA) ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/57 "2014-01-28T21:11:09Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Commercial flight reports a UFO over the radio early in _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ I love scenes like this that are accomplished with no special effects at all. Another example: the original 1951 version of _The Thing_, when they discover the flying saucer hidden under the ice. No SFX at all; they just spread out to find the edges of the buried object, and then they realize that they’re standing in a circle. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/58 "2014-01-28T22:13:47Z")
My favorite scene in _Galaxy Quest_ is the one in which Alexander Dane(as Dr. Lazarus, played by Alan Rickman) recites _ **that line he hates** _ to the dying Thermian Quillek. The love and wonder that shows in Quillek’s face, then he dies. Then Rickman goes postal on the alien who shot him. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/59 "2014-01-28T22:27:20Z")
[Hey, Dad, you wanna have a catch?](http://www.youtube.com./watch?v=b_wnD6jxreu) Also, the helicopter scene in “The Matrix,” slightly beats out the Lobby Scene in the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/60 "2014-01-29T17:38:46Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > My favorite scene in _Galaxy Quest_ is the one in which Alexander Dane(as Dr. Lazarus, played by Alan Rickman) recites _ **that line he hates** _ to the dying Thermian Quillek. The love and wonder that shows in Quillek’s face, then he dies. Then Rickman goes postal on the alien who shot him. _Galaxy Quest_ is the best Star Trek movie ever made. 🙂 (…And _The Incredibles_ is the best Fantastic Four movie ever made.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841.md?page=4)