# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/81 "2014-02-25T03:30:55Z")
Which part are you asking? The Herman’s Hermits song? “Something Good.” ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/82 "2014-02-25T03:40:30Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Which part are you asking? The Herman’s Hermits song? “Something Good.” Surely, that was the background music of Frank’s first date with Jane. I don’t recall it **ever** being played during the ball game, and I saw the movie when it first came out in 1988. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/83 "2014-02-25T03:44:54Z")
I could have sworn it was the same song. I was mystified with subsequent cd’s. I’m pretty sure a fragment was played in the last scene with OJ Simpson, or maybe I’m confusing the last scene with the one in baseball. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/84 "2014-02-25T03:56:51Z")
The song is “I Love LA” by Randy Newman: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x-S-eeInJVk/hqdefault.jpg "Naked Gun - Baseball ( good quality,longer )") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-S-eeInJVk) The marching band plays “Louie, Louie”: I think Herman's Hermits may have been played again over the closing credits. In fact, I'm almost sure of it. Here’s the first date: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XTSjhm2t8ms/maxresdefault.jpg "The Naked Gun Peter Noone HD (I'm Into Something Good)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTSjhm2t8ms) ---
**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:** [February 25, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/85 "2014-02-25T04:26:10Z")
The fashion show in True Stories. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/86 "2014-02-25T13:07:13Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > The fashion show in True Stories. I have the version of _Dream Operator_ from that on my iPod. Too bad an official soundtrack was never released without the background sounds. My all time favorite scene is in _Altered States_ when the skeptic in the group Mason melts down over the “simian” x-ray and starts reciting his resume. As a former college prof., I’ve actually seen professors go into this mode in real life. “Mason: I’m gonna show these to someone who can read them right, ‘cause you’re reading them wrong, that’s all there is to it. Because no one is gonna tell me you de-differentiated your goddamn genetic structure for four goddamn hours and then reconstituted! I’m a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I’m an attending physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital! I’m a contributing editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology and a I am a fellow and vice-president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists and president of the Journal Club! And I’m not going to listen to any more of your kabbalistic, quantum, friggin’ dumb limbo mumbo jumbo! I’m gonna show these to a radiologist!” ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/87 "2014-02-25T14:48:16Z")
> [@llcoolbj77](#): > > 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. 🙂 And I was the one struggling not to shout “Run Forrest run”. In “The General” Buster Keaton on the drive rod The cannon scene The trestle collapse ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/88 "2014-02-25T17:06:39Z")
If we can add TV series to the mix, I just got finished watching all 3 released ‘seasons’ of the Young Indiana Jones series. I had a blast trying to figure out the exact date and location of a lot of the scenes by the rough age and situations of stuff … and had to absolutely laugh as Indy and Remi were trying to catch a train up to Lake Victoria and ended up on the coastline of British East Africa. They wandered into a camp of [old geezers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_%28Frontiersmen%29_Battalion,_Royal_Fusiliers) lead by [Frederick Selous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Selous) - the inspiration for [Alan Quartermain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Quatermain). > [@](#): > > [ul] > [li] **Indy** : So how’d you all end up in the same unit? **Donald** : All us “creaky old geezers?” When war broke out, nobody would have us. So we formed out own. **Selous** : Sad thing about growing old, my boy. The world thinks your used up, no good to anybody. Terrible waste, really. Spend your life gaining wisdom and experience and then nobody wants it. **Indy** : Yeah, that’s great, but we’re talking about blowing up a train. **Donald** : True, we’re not as fast as we used to be, and the bones DO creak from time to time. **Selous** : But age and treachery will always triumph over youth and speed. _(as he successfully steals Indy’s cooking food from him)_ [/li][/ul] The series is a fun watch - though I had trouble watching a couple of segments in a couple episodes, one in particular where they were sending mounted infantry to Beersheba and deliberately shorting the poor animals on feed and especially water. I know that no animals were actually harmed, but it still bothers me. Though it is still funny how Indy ends up meeting all these famous people and accidentally getting stuck in famous/notorious situations like breaking into the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna or running away in Russia with Tolstoy. It is a fairly interesting and fun way to sneak some history in on kids though - there are actually study guides for the series. I think it would actually be an interesting way to get some history instead of the fairly boring stuff I remember getting pushed at me back in the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/89 "2014-02-26T13:35:32Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > The fashion show in True Stories. One of my favorite movies and John Goodman’s [People Like Us](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9a1JQi7G3k&list=PL5D204A799383BDC8&index=3) is one of my favorite scenes - and songs. ---
**Author:** ![Molesworth\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Molesworth\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molesworth_2)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/90 "2014-03-01T13:27:56Z")
I have this weird soft spot for “Collateral”. I don’t particularly like Tom Cruise, and I don’t have much time for Jamie Foxx. But I watch that movie at least 3 times per year. They were both just magnificent in that movie. Perfect casting. And I love this way that Vincent says to Max: > [@](#): > > "Paper towels, clean cab, limo company someday. How much you got saved? > > Someday? Someday my dream will come. One night you’ll wake up and you’ll discover it never happened. It’s all turned around on you. It never will. Suddenly you are old. Didn’t happen. And it never will because you were never going to do it anyway." [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/u69DywBfLjA/hqdefault.jpg "Collateral Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69DywBfLjA) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/91 "2014-03-01T14:44:54Z")
_Buffy The Vampire Slayer_ “You threw a _knife_ at my _head._” “And you caught it.” ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/92 "2014-03-01T23:07:54Z")
The almost silent, except for the music and some yells, scene in **The Last of the Mohicans** starting with Uncas’ murder, ending after the epic fight avenging that death. Especially Alice’s suicide. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/93 "2014-03-02T04:39:17Z")
The scenes in Aretha’s soul food restaurant and at Ray’s Music Exchange in **The Blues Brothers**. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/94 "2014-03-02T06:50:32Z")
Some fave scenes: **Body Heat** , where William Hurt is outside the house and Kathleen Turner is inside the house staring at him through a glass wall with a “come and get it” look that should have been scorching the drapes, and he throws a piece of furniture through the glass to get at her. **Dragon Pink** , where the party of heroes stops in a clearing in the woods and Santa jumps on his slave Pink and strips her and ties her up and her response is, “It’s too early!” The opening scene in **Deathstalker,** with the slave girl going from one would-be rapist to another as they fight it out over her, before the battle’s only survivor, the movie’s “hero,” is distracted from molesting her by a priest and she escapes into the forest as they talk. The scene in **Secretary** where Maggie Gyllenhaal goes to Spader’s house and stands outside his exercise room in the rain and explains to him that they need each other. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/95 "2014-03-02T08:19:53Z")
The opening shot of _Fargo_ with the car gradually becoming visible in an all-white screen. _The Third Man_ - The closing shot, in which Anna doesn’t even turn her head. _Spartacus_ - “I am Spartacus!” _The French Connection_ - The chase under the train tracks _The Shawshank Redemption_ - The revelation of the empty cell _2001, A Space Odyssey_ - “Open the pod bay doors, Hal.” _The Good, the Bad and the Ugly_ - The scene with Tuco in the bathtub _True Grit_ (the Coen Brothers remake) - The negotiation over the horses ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/96 "2014-03-03T00:56:58Z")
In _Return of the Dragon_, during the climactic fight between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris, there is a moment when both men pause and look at each other. Neither actor says a word, but the audience knows exactly what both characters are thinking. _Conan the Barbarian_: “Infidel defilers! They shall drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they learn why they fear the night.” In _Born on the Fourth of July_, Kovic accidentally kills a comrade. Later, he seeks out the dead man’s parents, and tells them what happened to their son. As he begins the story, the father (who is a former infantryman himself) immediately recognizes where the story is leading, and offers Kovic a chance to back out. _Gettysburg_: when Longstreet predicts what is going to happen to Pickett’s brigade. _The Mummy Returns_: when Imhotep sees his girlfriend betray him. The actor does not say a word, but the audience knows exactly what the character is feeling. _Zulu_: African war chant versus “Men of Harloch”. Yes, I know that it never happened. But it should have. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841/97 "2014-03-03T01:23:17Z")
I just thought of another one. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the François Truffaut and Bob Balaban characters are traveling around the world to investigate incidents in which the aliens appeared. They’re in a village in India, being led by the village elder (or he might have been the head of an ashram) to the top of a hill while the villagers are chanting the familiar five tones below them. They ask him where they heard the sounds. He asks the same question of his people, in Hindi. There is a close-up shot of all of them simultaneously pointing straight up. Cut to the next scene. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-scenes-from-movies/679841.md?page=4)