Harry Lime’s (Orson Welles) entrance in The Third Man.
Steve Zissou & Co. finally meets the Jaguar Shark in the The Life Aquatic.
The end of The Third Man, where Alida Valli keeps on walking.
Another: I just saw Sea Of Love again the other day, and I’d forgotten about this great throwaway scene: Detective Pacino is undercover at a bar, pretending to be on blind dates to try and get prints from the women that show up b/c he suspects one of them is a murderer. Then this woman sits down: (paraphrasing):
“I get this weird feeling…you’re not who you say you are. There’s something not right about this.”
Pacino: “Oh? Like what?”
“You’ve got Cop’s eyes.”
Pacino: “Cop’s eyes?”
“Yeah. You look at me, I feel like I did something.”
Pacino: “Like what?”
“My ex-husband was a cop. What’d you say you were, a printer? If you’re a printer, I’ve got a dick.”
::walks out::
Not quite right. It’s more, “Fill yore hand, you sonofabitch”.
For my father, the first time that the MGM lion actually roared was a memory that stayed with him forever.
For me it was “the dance of the Oprichniki” in Ivan The Terrible, Part 2
Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 is three hours of serious drama, filmed in black-and-white. Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 starts out as serious drama, filmed in black-and-white. Then, midway through the movie, it switches to color, and Ivan’s secret police launch into a Busby Berkeley- style song-and-dance number. When the song is over, the movie goes back to black-and-white, and returns to serious drama.
Lot a great ones here. Nice thread.
John Book (Harrison Ford) driving away at the end of Witness.
The freezing / flamethrower / blood-test scene in John Carpenter’s The Thing.
And the Red’s soliloquy and bus-ride at the end of Shawshank (I gotta go, I’m tearing up).
Opening day, first showing of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Luke is on Hoth, dying in the snowstorm when we see: Obi-Wan Kenobi. The entire audience cheered for three minutes. I didn’t hear Obi-Wan say anything to Luke until the second time I saw the movie (later that same weekend).
And after I went and checked the scene on YouTube to make sure I got the quote right!:smack:
The opening scene of “The Hunt for Red October”
Now I need to go watch the movie again.
And before that imagine seeing a moving picture for the first time. You might duck when a gunman shoots directly into the camera or panic if you see a fast train coming right at you.
In the documentary “Cinema Europe : The Other Hollywood” one early movie showed a family at a table outside. Many in the audience were amazed at the bushes moving in the wind more than the actors.
In Saving Private Ryan there is a tragic, compelling scene when Mrs. Ryan sees the government cars raising dust in the distance as they head to her farm. She collapses at the sight and we know she must be thinking, “Oh Lord, which one? Which one of my boys has been taken?”
Chestburster in Alien
The aria in the prison yard in Shawshank
The shower scene in Psycho
The final scene of Casablanca
The final scene of Cuckoo’s Nest
Michael Madsen torturing the cop in Reservoir Dogs
The parade scene in Ferris Bueller
And Rounders:
Worm: Hey, you know what cheers me up when I’m feeling shitty?
Mike: What?
Worm: Rolled-up aces over kings.
Mike: Is that right?
Worm: Check-raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off of them.
Mike: Yeah?
Worm: Stacks and towers of checks I can’t even see over. Playing all-night, high-limit Hold’em at the Taj, “where the sand turns to gold.”
Mike: Fuck it, let’s go.
Worm: Don’t tease me.
Mike: Let’s play some fucking cards!
Worm: Yes!
The final scene of* Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid*. I’d seen the Sting first, so I really expected Redford and Newman to make it out alive.
Madame Pepperwinkle mentions a scene from The Savage Is Loose, with mother, father and son sitting around a table. No one speaks, but the camera moves from one set of eyes to another, and you know what each person is thinking and feeling.
These scenes were particularly meaningful to me, at the time I saw them. They might not be universally interesting.
Lord of the Flies, near the end when one of the boys launches a large rock down so that it crushes Piggy. I was about 13 at the time, and it felt like my introduction to evil in the world. I felt the same way, later in the year, when Kennedy was assassinated.
Run Wild, Run Free (a movie that no-one saw in the US, just about). The scene, near the end, when the formerly mute boy speaks to his horse to persuade it to try to get out of the bog, succeeds, and then he turns to his (previously estranged) parents and falls into their arms. I suspect anyone with parent issues would tear up as much as I did.
Roddy
Patton’s Speech.
Funny, another of my favorites is the opening scene: “Hey Kid, how good are you?”
… then the outrageous sharpshooting.
I sometimes watch just the opening scene and nothing else.
Another one that comes to mind is the opening scene of The Hustler when Paul Newman plays drunk then shoots the lights out.
Last scene of Dinner At Eight. Marie Dressler and Jean Harlow.
Jean: I was reading a book the other day!
Marie: (shocked)…reading… a BOOK?
Jean: Yes. A nutty kind of book, about civilization or something…do you know the guy said machinery is going to take over every occupation?
Marie: …oh my dear, that’s something YOU’LL never have to worry about!
So many good quotes and memorable scenes in that oldie! “I should know men, it’s been my life’s work.”
Speaking of The Sting, the poker game on the train is one of my favorite scenes ever. I won’t give it away, but when the shoe drops at around the four-minute point of that clip it gives me chills every time.
I always liked the end of Star Trek IV. The command crew is in the shuttle wondering about what kind of ship they will be assigned and the Enterprise theme starts up as they go over the Excelsior.
Clearly high on the list is Private Pyles’ mental breakdown in Full Metal Jacket.
John Waynes ‘Fill your hands’ is still my personal favorite.