# If you could live one movie scene, what would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420 "2012-03-31T23:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/1 "2012-03-31T23:18:50Z")
I would love to run across town alongside Ferris Bueller with The English Beat playing in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/2 "2012-03-31T23:32:49Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > I would love to run across town alongside Ferris Bueller with The English Beat playing in the background. [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1janDYeufo), with me in the Marcel role. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/3 "2012-03-31T23:48:33Z")
The final scene in _Casablanca_, with me in the Humphrey Bogart role: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cfxJCdBFuLk/hqdefault.jpg "Casablanca Final") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxJCdBFuLk) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/4 "2012-03-31T23:56:09Z")
Rooster Cogburn facing down Nasty Ned Pepper in the finest movie ever made, _True Grit_. (Obviously, I mean the original version). ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/5 "2012-04-01T00:48:33Z")
Me being Swan in the fight scene with the Baseball Furies in _The Warriors_. Although Ajax gets the better line (“I’m gonna shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle!”) but Swan doesn’t get busted by the cops. And Swan gets the girl (unlike Ajax). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/6 "2012-04-01T01:04:49Z")
I wouldn’t mind hanging out with Hemingway at that party from **Midnight In Paris**. Or maybe I’d be Roger Moore at the end of **For Your Eyes Only** and go for a nude swim with Carole Bouquet. Yeah, the second one. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/7 "2012-04-01T01:36:45Z")
The fireworks scene in To Catch a Thief, with me in the Cary Grant role: ``` **Frances Stevens** : Even in this light, I can tell where your eyes are looking. ``` [_fireworks_] **Frances Stevens** : Look, John. Hold them. Diamonds… The only thing in the world you can’t resist. Then tell me you don’t know what I’m talking about. [_fireworks_] **Frances Stevens** : Ever had a better offer in your whole life? One with everything? [_fireworks_] **John Robie** : I’ve never had a crazier one. **Frances Stevens** : Just as long as you’re satisfied! [_fireworks_] **John Robie** : You know as well as I do: this necklace is imitation. **Frances Stevens** : Well, I’m not. _[kiss, fade to black]_ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/8 "2012-04-01T02:21:28Z")
[I’d be the guy in the hat.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEuw8F8cpE) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/9 "2012-04-01T02:29:13Z")
I’d like to do the scene with Eowyn saying “_ **I** _ am no man!” Or, if I was a man, I’d like to be Harrison Ford in the Last Crusade, coming to attention before Hitler and getting away with it. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/10 "2012-04-01T02:39:03Z")
[Buffalo Hunt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4f4tmpVR-U) ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/11 "2012-04-01T02:58:59Z")
I’d like to attend Bilbo’s going-away birthday party. There’s probably plenty more (involving some sexual/romantic scene)s but that’s what first came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/12 "2012-04-01T04:52:50Z")
Since my wife will probably stalk me and read this, I’ll go with the James Garner role in the final racing scene in _Grand Prix._ ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/13 "2012-04-01T05:00:00Z")
Do you mean if I was an actor, what scene would I want to play?..or If movies were real life who would I like to be/what scene from that life would I like to live out? For the former…, Zeppo Marx, Night at the Opera, final scene–just to observe the madness. For the latter…, CK Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story, penultimate scene, where CKDH gives her the engagement ring and bracelet, etc, etc. Definition of Paradise Regained. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/14 "2012-04-01T05:03:31Z")
The final scene of High Noon, when Gary Cooper leaves to ungrateful wretches of Hadleyville to a future of fucking Grace Kelly’s brains out. Which is very possible Coop really did, as Grace was infamous as one of the most promiscuous women in Hollywood history. And name me a straight man (or gay woman) who wouldn’t nail Grace Kelly if given a chance. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/15 "2012-04-01T06:44:52Z")
I picture a lot of Dopers getting seriously injured or killed in this thread. I want to be at the Moulin Rouge! to see the [Diamond Dogs, the Can Can and see Satine come down from the ceiling in the swing](http://youtu.be/msFLf9x7s6M). It’s much safer. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/16 "2012-04-01T10:54:50Z")
In an X Wing, heading for the Death Star ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/17 "2012-04-01T12:07:36Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#): > > In an X Wing, heading for the Death Star Why suffer a pale imitation when you could be Guy Gibson in the original? ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/18 "2012-04-01T13:02:08Z")
I would love to meet Marian, the Librarian at the footbridge after spending a summer in River City ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/19 "2012-04-01T13:22:14Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#): > > In an X Wing, heading for the Death Star With my luck, I’d be Porkins. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420/20 "2012-04-01T20:22:24Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > The final scene in _Casablanca_, with me in the Humphrey Bogart role: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxJCdBFuLk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfxJCdBFuLk) Close. Bogie as Bacall asks him if he knows how to whistle. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MheNUWyROv8/hqdefault.jpg "Lauren Bacall Whistle") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-one-movie-scene-what-would-it-be/617420.md?page=2)