Luke Skywalker, after being told to clean the droids, “But I was going to the Toshi station to pick up some power converters.”
Ok, not that one. But refusing Darth Vadar’s hand in ESB and being willing to take the plunge into space rather than join the Dark Side was pretty manly.
Pretty much every moment in the fake trailer for Machete. NSFW (language and boobs).
Atticus Finch.
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
Every second of The Last of the Mohicans.
The hug at 2:00 in this clip.
Tyler Durden.
“Didn’t quite catch that Lou. Still not getting it. OK! OK! I GOT IT! Shit, I lost it.”
" Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted."
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. "
Harold Russell, as Homer Parish, uses his prosthetic hand to slide a wedding ring on the finger of his bride in The Best Years of Our Lives.
Well, maybe I’m weird, but I always thought real manliness was doing the right thing, even if it hurt you. And to my mind, nothing demonstrates that better than Bogart giving up his true love, because it was the right thing to do (Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, probably others).
I don’t remember there being any women estrogening up that scene.
Albert Finney. Danny Boy. Miller’s Crossing
I dunno if it’s THE manliest, but I thought the shot of Daniel Baldwin lighting a cigarette on the charred skull of a vampire he’d just pulled out of it’s lair with a winch so it would catch fire in the sunlight was one of the manlier images on film, in “John Carpenter’s Vampires.” In fact the whole scene where they clear out the infested vampire lair was pretty damn testosterone-filled.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Harmonica has so many great lines.
I also like the bit when he first meets Jason Robards that ends with “..in those men were three bullets.”
Mine was a Casablanca quote. I think you misunderstood the end of Maltese Falcon. Spade hated Briget O’Shaunessy and was lying to her. He didn’t like his partner Miles Archer, but when someone kills a man’s partner he’s supposed to do something about it. He is being cruel to Briget and dumping her.
I do agree that most of the choices here are “badass”, but it is really a matter of opinion.
Glad I read through all of the posts first, because this was the first clip that came to mind. I guess there’s always this one, from The Dirty Dozen. Is it O.K. if I cry?
I don’t believe that Crassus thought there was anything the least bit bad about Antoninus’ ass.
And indeed, in the book, was sleeping with Archer’s wife.
The opening scene in Hard Boiled.
And of course, (I’m shocked no one came up with this yet. Shocked, I say!) “Say hello to my little friend!”
From an obscure Charlie Sheen movie called Beyond the Law:
The Shootist: John Bernard Books trying to educate a young man: “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
And then he walks into the saloon, knowing that he’s dying and determined to take some bad guys with him.
And then there’s Paul Newman and Richard Boone in Hombre:
Grimes: Mister, you’ve got alot of hard bark on you walkin’ down here like this. Now, I owe you. You put two holes in me.
John Russell: Usually enough for most of 'em.
Grimes: Don’t try it again, that Vaquero is more than a fair hand.
Grimes: You got the money?
John Russell: Guess I brought my dirty laundry down by mistake.
Grimes: Let me see it.
John Russell: Look for yourself.
Grimes: [opens bag, pulls out a handful of clothes] Well now, what’ya suppose hell’s gonna look like?
John Russell: We all die, just a question of when.