I just watched Diggstown again the other night. I love that movie. (BTW, in the book, Gabe gets to ‘doink’ Wolf’s sister) Anyway, when Gabe gets out of jail, and gets into the drivers seat of the Mercedes, and the woman gets in the passenger side. The prison guard says something like “What a stud, he didn’t get a kiss or nothing.” Then you see her head go down out of sight like she’s giving him a ‘knobber’. Funny stuff.
So that’s what this mundane pointless thread is about. We could (and did, several times over) fill bunches of pages on movie quotes just from The Princess Bride alone. What are your favorite movie scenes, not dialog.
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“You tryin’ to tell me Jesus Christ can’t hit a curve ball?” - Eddie Harris(Major League)
One of my faves, not funny though, is from The Last of The Mohicans. Oooh whne the girl jumps of the cliff to die with the man she loves, wow, what a scene!
Caddyshack The pool syncronized swimming Animal House Beluschi on ladder outside of Sorority window Fast Times at Ridgemont High Stoners falling out of smoke filled van before school Vision QuestMatthew Modine’s character jumping rope before big match with Shoot(sp?) Spinal Tap Midgets dancing next to 2 feet tall replica of Stonehendge Clerks When Jay is dancing outside the store, and then Silent Bob joins in Goodfellas Tracking shot behind Henry Hill and girlfriend thru back entrance of restaurant Saturday Night Fever Travolta strutting to “Staying Alive” at the begining Reservoir Dogs Closing scene where everyone is pointing guns at each other From Dusk Till Dawn Selma Hayeck’s snake dance Boogie Nights The scene where they sell the guy fake coke, he’s playing Jessie’s Girl and 99 Luftballoons in the background, and there’s some Chinese kid lighting firecrackers
Angels with Dirty Faces – you know the scene I’m talking about. Actually, it’s kind of cheap sentimentalism, but it still gets me.
52 Pick-Up – Roy Schneider confronts his blackmailer with a stack of pay-off money and starts smacking the shit out of him with it.
Casablanca – there were a lot of good scenes in this film, but the final scene set an example that most movies couldn’t even aspire to.
The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers – the final showdown between Kirk Douglas and Martha Ivers. Damn. And the sense of relief when Van Heflin can walk away from it all.
I love the scene in Top Secret when they’re in the book store with the old man. The enitre scene is shown in reverse. Really neat how they pulled that one off.
Oh, and I love just about every scene in Amazon Women On The Moon.
Terms of Endearment: the scene where the mother (Debra Winger) says good-bye to her children and then the grandmother (Shirley McLaine) realizes her daughter has just died. What can I say, I’m sentimental!
Modern Times: when Charles Chaplin is skating in the deserted department store, and almost skates off the edge.
The Third Man: The entrance of Harry Lime (Orson Welles), with the cat meowing, the big shoes, and then the shot of Hary Lime’s face.
The final shot of the 400 Blows, when the young boy is caught in the frame, halfway between heaven and earth, having seen the sea for the first time.
In Akira Kurosawa’s Ran, when a japanese princess seduces one of the princes by running a knife across his throat.
Pulp Fiction, the whole sequence when John Travolta’s character is at the drug dealer’s house (Eric Stoltz) and they want to give Uma Thurman a shot of (cortisone?) in the heart. You keep on thinking “she’s going to come to now”, but she doesn’t and they actually give her the shot.
Donald O’Connor’s athletic dance in “Singing in the Rain.”
I’m sure there are many more, but I can’t think of any right now!
“Good Will Hunting” - The scene in the Harvard bar
“Goldfinger” - The Opening scene
“Psycho” - Shower scene
Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them. - Isaac Jaffee (new quote)
PunditLisa: In MY world, Leo would’ve dumped Kate (or whatever her name was) off the chest and let her drwon. I’m sorry, but that would have been funny as hell! Either that, or maybe some sharks could have played with his corpse as he sank.
Reservoir Dogs, Vampires, and a few other movies: the slow motion scene where all the good guys walk towards the camera side by side.
Vampires: When the vampire lord showed up at the motel.
Terminator 2: The opening sequence, when the steel skull appeared through the flames. Also, when the T1000 spiked the kid’s step dad.
Duck Soup: The ‘Mirror’ scene. Saving Private Ryan: The invasion of Normandy. Yellow Submarine: The Beatles meet Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. (A favorite mostly for having seen the scene for the first time two weeks ago) Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear meets Buzz Lightyear. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: As the plane hurls towards what seems like inescapable doom, the camera pans over the assembled on-lookers, and the staunch, stern, ever-ready firefighters look very familiar… The Godfather: The baptism/vengeance montage. A Night At The Opera: The entire movie. To list specific scenes (“The party of the first part…” “And two hard-boiled eggs!” “And my alarm clock is set for 8.”) would be pointless.
A lot of good ones already mentioned (especially the one in Boogie Nights), but one of my all-time faves is from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when all the gold tickets have been found and Charlie buys a candy bar anyway, for old-time’s sake and as he leaves the store there’s a big hubbub around the news stand: one of the tickets is a counterfeit! Charlie gasps and turns away to slooooooowly peel back the wrapper and you see the smallest piece of gold. So suspenseful and exciting! Oh yeah – The rest of the movie has a few amazing scenes, too, haha.
