# You're Making a Collection of Your Favorite Movie Scenes-List Five You Would Include

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[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]  
The television scene in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

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Oh yes, and the scene where Will Sampson tears the sink off the wall.

Anyone else making a list? I haven’t seen a lot of the movies mentioned here.

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[QUOTE=tdn]  
A stupid, boring movie that I couldn’t care less about. The final scene of which had my jaw on the floor. :eek:  
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I show that movie to everyone I can, and I am stunned every time. I’m stunned thinking about it now.

Oh, and the scene of all the kisses in **Cinema Paradiso**.

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[QUOTE=tdn]

**Jesus Christ Superstar 2000** – Gethsemene. This guy could be on American Idol, and Simon might not even say he was terrible.

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I’d go with the Simon Zealot scene in the video. That guy could sing.

The country bar scene in “Blues Brothers.” Rolling, rolling, rolling.

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[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]  
I’d go with the Simon Zealot scene in the video. That guy could sing.  
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Agreed. In fact, that was an A cast all around. Judas had a kind of funny voice, but I liked it. Another great scene was the Superstar scene at the end. Bloody Jesus carrying the cross in a setting like a game show, with sexy angel backup singers. Weird, man, weird!

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I’ve got lots. First that spring to mind:

“Zorba, teach me to dance” (just got chills again!) - _Zorba the Greek_

The ‘Shall We Dance’ scene with Yul Brenner in _The King and I_ (yes, there is a theme here)

Pretty much all of _Brother Sun, Sister Moon_, but I love the song and scenery ‘On This Lovely Day’ - tied with the “We are so concerned with original sin, that we sometimes forget about original innocence” scene.

There are tons of films that have had impressive, poignant, meaningful scenes which I’ve also liked a lot, but my favourites are the ones that leave me feeling thrilled and joyful.

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1. Opening crawl/Chase and capture of the Tantive IV in **Star Wars**.

2. Master swordsman Kyuzo confronts a challenger in **Seven Samurai**.

3. A chestbusting **Alien** unexpectedly arrives during dinner.

4. Trinity is chased by agents in **The Matrix**.

Not a movie but a good scene nonetheless:

1. **From the Earth to the Moon** : The crew of Apollo 8 sees the first ever [Earthrise](http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/GPN-2001-000009.jpg) over the Moon.

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Some of my favorites have already been mentioned:

- The chariot race in _Ben-Hur_. The best 15 minutes ever put on film, IMHO.
- Fuck the odds, let’s kick some ass. Also known as “Upon St. Crispian’s Day” from _Henry V_.
- “Superman” from _The Iron Giant_. Damn, what a scene.
- Mozart does in a stretch in _The Shawshank Redemption_. Beautiful.

Okay, here’s my list of scenes that haven’t been mentioned (at last refresh, anyway):

- The last five minutes of _The Dark Crystal_.
- The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm from _The Fellowship of the Ring_.
- The charge of the Rohirrem from _The Return of the King_.
- The aftermath of the final battle in _Master and Commander_.
- The long-awaited fight scene in _The Quiet Man_.
- A game of questions in _Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead_, as well as…okay, the whole damned movie.
- “Puh ah da Riiiiiitz” from _Young Frankenstein_.
- “And now, a word from our sponsor” in _Flushed Away_.
- “Gee, Officer Krupke” from _West Side Story_.
- Opening night from _A Midwinter’s Tale_.
- “Dear Mr. Adams” from _1776_.

I’d better quit while I’m ahead.

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Lots of good ones already, so I’ll cheat and repeat them instead of using them for my own:

[QUOTE=CalMeacham]  
5.) When the plane lifts off at the end of **the Flight of the Phoenix** (the otiginal Jimmy Stewart/Richard Attenborough version, of course)  
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[QUOTE=AuntiePam]  
John Wayne’s arrival at the ranch house at the beginning of The Searchers – they’re all together, everything’s fine, but everything’s about to change  
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[QUOTE=VCO3]  
2. The very end of **Even Dwarfs Started Small** with the laughing.  
. . . . .  
5. The milk scene in **Visitor Q**.  
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[QUOTE=Push You Down]  
4. “Shine on, shine on harvest moon” song and dance number from Laurel and Hardy’s The Flying Deuces.  
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[QUOTE=Autumn Almanac]  
_The Searchers_: Martha lovingly handles Ethan’s coat as the Rev. Clayton looks on  
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To which I’d add:

1. The church scene in _Sullivan’s Travels_: all the way from the beginning, when the poor black congregation opens its doors to the prisoners, to Sullivan’s revelation as he watches the most miserable wretches in the world finding a moment’s escape in laughter.

2. Near the end of _Ugetsu_, when Genjurô comes home to what seems to be an empty house, turns slowly, and discovers his wife kneeling before a blazing fire.

3. When Charles Laughton, an Englishman, is the only person in the American saloon who knows the Gettysburg Address in _Ruggles of Red Gap._

4. When Irene Dunne pretends to be Cary Grant’s trashy sister in _The Awful Truth._ (Now THAT’S a hard movie to choose a favorite scene from.)

5. The final courtroom scene in\* Judge Priest\*, when Will Rogers signals to Stepin Fetchit to begin playing “Dixie,” to accompany his final argument to the all-Confederate-veteran jury.  
. . . and man, a million others . . .

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. . . when Gene Tierney lets Darryl Hickman drown in _Leave her to Heaven_ . . .

. . . the children floating down the river in _Night of the Hunter_, as the evil preacher’s shadow follows them, singing, through the night . . .

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1. In _Moonstruck_, when Nicholas Cage suddenly stands up, throws the kitchen table aside, then cooly and calmly smoothes down his hair before grabbing Cher and carrying her to the bedroom - and her reaction, of course.

2. In _Cinema Paradiso_, the scene where the protagonist is lying back, smoking a cigarette and cursing the summer because his girlfriend will not return until the fall, and suddenly the rain falls gently on his face, and she’s there, and kisses him.

3. Also from _Cinema Paradiso_, the scene at the end when he watches the reel that the old man left for him and it is all the passionate kisses and moments of the films that he was forced to censor out - it brings tears to my eyes.

4. _Aliens_. “Get away from her, you BITCH!”

5. _Gone With the Wind_ “As god is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!” That scene kills me because it is where Scarlett falls - she has lost her innocence and resolves to do whatever it takes to survive and suffers for it ever after.

and to cheat:  
6. _12 Monkeys_ - basically every scene in the insane asylum with Brad Pitt.

1. _Delicatessen_ - the infamous scene where the entire apartment building is moving in time to the rhythm of a couple making love.

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[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone]  
Spoilers, of course  
#2 The scene in \*\*Breakfast at Tiffany’s \*\* where Audrey Hepburn’s boyfriend confronts the old man who has been stalking her and tells him “I don’t care if you are her father, you aren’t going to take her back to the farm” and the old man says “I’m not her father. I’m her husband.”  
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I think you are mistaken. I’m 100% sure this scene does not exist.

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To add some not mentioned

The “36 blowjobs” conversation in **Clerks**

The metal detector scene (among others) in **Spinal Tap**

Maybe it’s just me, but the song _Easy To Be Hard_ from **Hair** always sends chills up my spine.

I thought about the game of questions, too, but would have to go with a montage of the scenes in **Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead** where scientific epiphanies are denied.

There has to be a scene from **Almost Famous** , but I can’t decide which one.

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Oh, forgot one. In _Last of the Mohicans_, in the first battle, when Nathaniel spots Mogwa (sp?) aiming his rifle at one of the Munro girls, brings up his own gun in one smooth motion, never taking his eyes off his target. Mogwa sees this and immediately swings around, aims at Nathaniel and fires; Nathaniel drops to one knee to avoid the bullet and waits just a moment for the smoke to clear so he can get a good shot - and Mogwa has disappeared. Just great gunplay - two experienced fighters, both doing everything just right. You know that Mogwa is seriously dangerous after that scene.

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There have been some excellent ones listed, but here’s my pick:

[ul]  
[li]The opening sequence to _Blade Runner_, going from the darkened, polluted exterior of Los Angeles, A.D. 2019, through the Tyrell Building, and into the eye of Holden. (The killing of Zora and the dead of Roy Batty are also runner ups.)[/li][li]The opening sequence to _Raiders of the Lost Ark_, which just edges out the shooting of the Cairo swordsman and the fight for the truck. (“Truck? What truck?”)[/li][li]The Mexican Standoff scene in Mapache’s compound in _The Wild Bunch_, edging out blowing the bridge and the opening shootout in the town.[/li][li]The “Lisa in Thorwald’s Apartment” scene in _Rear Window_. [/li][li]The final interrogation scene in _Brazil_.[/li][/ul]

Some also-rans[ul]  
[li]Welles’ entry in _The Third Man_ (just over the chase through the sewers, the ferris wheel, and the depressing final shot.)[/li][li]The extended single shot opening sequence in _Touch of Evil_.[/li][li]The post-bank heist shootout scene in _Heat_.[/li][li]The final scene in _Roman Holiday_[/li][li]Alec Baldwin’s monologue in _Glengarry Glen Ross_[/li][li]The fight between Bond and Oddjob in the vault at Ft. Knox in _Goldfinger_.[/li][li]The “machete fight down the stairs” sequence in _Casino Royale_, along with the post-credit freerunning sequence.[/li][li]The opening shot of the accounting floor in _The Apartment_.[/li][li]The pentultimate chase scene in _Some Like It Hot_, culimating in escape via boat.[/li][li]The Nice car interception in _Ronin_.[/li][li]The Copacabana Club kitchen entrance, and the virtuoso “finding dead bodies all over New Jersey” sequence in _Goodfellas_, the latter set to the strains of Derek Allman’s extended coda on _Layla_.[/li][li]The bookending “I couda been a condender” speech in _Raging Bull_.[/li][li]Dave Bowman’s entry and his lobotomy of HAL in _2001: A Space Odyssey_[/li][li]The Sermon on Temple Mount, “Romans go home” grammar lesson, and “You are all individuals” from _Monty Python’s The Life of Brian_[/li][/ul]

Stranger

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Some of mine :

The Balrog scenes in FOTR. From it scaring off the goblins, it’s pursuit of the Fellowship, and of course Gandalf at the bridge. “You cannot pass !”

The final gunfight in _Unforgiven_, where Clint kills everyone.

Smaug’s boasting speech in _The Hobbit_; "I am strong, _strong_, STRONG ! My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”

The scene in _Dark Crystal_, where the girl gelfling catches the male, and he says “Wings ?! I don’t have wings ?!”, and she replies in perfect female-superior tones, “Of course not; you’re a _boy_.”

The “Get away from her you _bitch_ !” scene in _Aliens_.

The “Welcome to Earth !” \< punch \> scene in _Independence Day_.

The scene in _The War of the Worlds_ ( classic version ), when the Martians rise out of the pit and open fire.

Saruman’s speech to the Uruk-Hai; “You do not know pain you do not know fear . . . _you shall taste Man-flesh ! !_”

From _Ruthless People_, the fake torture phone call with the sizzling tofu; “They _made_ me say that !”

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Limiting myself to movies not yet mentioned (darn you, **Stranger on a Train**! I swear vengeance!)  
[ul][li]The revelation scene in _Tootsie_[/li][li]“When I think of the number of years she is going to have to live with the memory of this moment of savagery…I just go **BERSERK**!” from _Billy Jack_[/li][li]The closing scene of _Psycho_[/li][li]War, in _Duck Soup_[/li][li]The entire cartoon _Duck Amuck_, for its perfect depiction of existentialism[/ul][/li]  
Regards,  
Shodan

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The swordfight between Wesley and Inigo in **The Princess Bride**  
The scene where Will Ferrell’s character brings Maggie’s character “Flours” in **Stranger than Fiction**  
The final scene of \*\*Army of Darkness \*\* where Ash kills the Zombie in the store.  
Where the UrUu sing in **The Dark Crystal**  
Kermit the frog singing “Rainbow Connection” in **The Muppet Movie**

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Like most of the later comers to the thread, many of mine have already been mentioned. A few that weren’t:

[ul]The Sister Christian scene from **Boogie Nights**.[/ul]  
[ul]The last scene in **Aguirre: The Wrath of God** , with Kinski on the raft with the monkeys.[/ul]  
[ul]From **Apocalypse Now** , I’ll take Duvall’s last scene as he storms around the beach.[/ul]  
[ul]Because I’m a complete loser, I’ll admit that I still love the final scene in **It’s A Wonderful Life**.[/ul]

> [@](#):
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> There has to be a scene from Almost Famous, but I can’t decide which one.

How about the Tiny Dancer scene?

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Lots of great ones listed already.

1. _True Grit_ when Rooster Cogburn goes one on four with Ned Pepper and his cronies on the canyon floor:

Ned Pepper: What’s your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?  
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which’ll it be?  
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.  
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hands, you son of a bitch.  
2. The pitcher’s mound conference from _“Bull Durham”:_  
Coach: Excuse me, but what the hell’s going on out here?  
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke’s scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man’s here. We need a live… is it a live rooster?  
[Jose nods]  
Crash Davis: . We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose’s glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.  
[to the players]  
Crash Davis: Is that about right?  
[the players nod]  
Crash Davis: We’re dealing with a lot of shit.  
Coach: Okay, well, uh… candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she’s registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let’s get two! Go get 'em.

1. From _Monty Python’s the Life of Brian_ the graffiti scene:

Centurion: What’s this, then? “Romanes eunt domus”? People called Romanes, they go, the house?  
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "  
Centurion: No it doesn’t ! What’s the latin for “Roman”? Come on, come on!  
Brian: Er, “Romanus” !  
Centurion: Vocative plural of “Romanus” is?  
Brian: Er, er, “Romani” !  
Centurion: [Writes “Romani” over Brian’s graffiti] “Eunt”? What is “eunt”? Conjugate the verb, “to go” !  
Brian: Er, “Ire”. Er, “eo”, “is”, “it”, “imus”, “itis”, “eunt”.  
Centurion: So, “eunt” is…?  
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, “they go”.  
Centurion: But, “Romans, go home” is an order. So you must use…?  
[He twists Brian’s ear harshly]  
Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !  
Centurion: Which is…?  
Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, “i” !  
Centurion: How many Romans?  
Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, “ite” !  
Centurion: [Writes “ite”] “Domus”? Nominative? “Go home” is motion towards, isn’t it?  
Brian: Dative !  
[the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]  
Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, “Domum” !  
Centurion: But “Domus” takes the locative, which is…?  
Brian: Er, “Domum” !  
Centurion: [Writes “Domum”] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.  
Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.  
Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it’s not done by sunrise, I’ll cut your balls off.  
4. From _The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad_ the opening scene when Frank Dreben takes on every enemy leader, “America is a paper tiger.”

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-making-a-collection-of-your-favorite-movie-scenes-list-five-you-would-include/394818/60 "2007-03-07T02:28:25Z")

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The scene where Louis finds the charred remains of Claudia, \*\*_Interview with the Vampire_  
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The courtroom summary scene from _ **A Time to Kill** _

The ending of _ **Shrek** _

The bit where Evey is in prison and reading the secret letter in _ **V for Vendetta** _

The music montage from the end of _ **Donnie Darko** _

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