Favorite Scenes from movies

[Jeff]

Lots of choices for me from Wings of Desire. These two scenes are among my favourites: The angel and the dying man; the angel and the old man

The frog fall in Magnolia. I don't see it online, but the film's Fortean prelude on coincidence comes close.

[MASONIC PLOT]

"Have you ever watched a snail walk along the edge of a razor?"

[yathrib]

Also a fan of LOTR, but I'll be one of the few to choose a comedy: The scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where Brian is sent on a mission to paint anti-Roman graffiti and is caught by a Roman soldier who (forcefully) corrects his Latin grammar and makes him paint "Romans go Home" a zillion times.

[greencrow0]

Favourite scenes and lines from movies:

1) Dances with Wolves...when the Kevin Costner US soldier character tells his Indian friend that the white men who will be coming to America...and to his land....are 'as numerous as the stars';

2) The Night Train Sleeping Coach scene from 'Some Like it Hot' when a frustrated Tony Curtis, disguised as a member of an 'all girl' band, takes the lower bunk with Marilyn Monroe in the upper;

3) The scene from Gone With the Wind where Scarlett shakes her fist at the sky and vows 'I'll never go hungry again!'

4) The scene from Zorba the Greek when Zorba's prostitute girlfriend is dying in her bed and the old women of the village, who are all dressed in black...come into her room and start looting it, thinking she has died, when she suddenly sits up, alive--scattering them like crows.

5) The scene in 'Being There' where Peter Sellers, as the developmentally disabled guardener who is befriended by a powerful and wealthy Washington couple, is lying in bed watching 'Mr. Rogers.... and Shirley MacLean as the rich man's wife...tries to seduce him.

[biaothanatoi]

For me it will always be the climactic scene in Alien 2 when the queen attacks the little girl that Ripley has spent the entire movie protecting, and Ripley dons a giant robotic suit to the immortal line:

Get away from her you BITCH!



Close second is the scene in V for Vendetta, as Natalie Portman's character is reading the final lines of the note left by a woman rounded up and killed in medical experiments because she was gay. I've seen the movie many times, but I've never failed to cry when it comes to these lines:

"I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you. "

[Forgetting2]

At this particular moment - Bill Murray to his soon to be ex girlfriend:

"You can't leave! All the plants will die."

Stripes

[orz]

Pretty much every scene in Brazil.

INTERVIEWER
Deputy minister, what do you believe
is behind this recent increase in
terrorist bombings?

HELPMANN
Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless
minority of people seems to have
forgotten certain good old fashioned
virtues. They just can't stand seeing
the other fellow win. If these people
would just play the game, instead of
standing on the touch line heckling -

INTERVIEWER
In fact, killing people -

HELPMANN
- In fact, killing people - they'd
get a lot more out of life.

[Telexx]

MP - great quotes from Fightclub (a firm favorite of mine).

Favorite scene of all time (and one relevant to here) would have to be the scene in THEY LIVE where 'Nada' puts on the dark glasses on for the first time.

SLEEP. OBEY. REPRODUCE. THIS IS YOUR GOD.

Resonant with my very soul.

Beyond that, there are some funny quotes in the film:

Nada: You see, I take these glasses off, she looks like a regular person, doesn't she? Put 'em back on... [puts them back on] ...formaldehyde-face!

Street Preacher: Outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us, perched on top of us, from birth to death, are our owners! Our owners! They have us. They control us! They are our masters! Wake up! They're all about you! All around you!

Politician: The feeling is definitely there. It's a new morning in America... fresh, vital. The old cynasism is gone. We have faith in our leaders. We're optimistic as to what becomes of it all. It really boils down to our ability to accept. We don't need pessimism. There are no limits.

Nada: Ha, it figures it would be something like this...

Alltime classic moments from a pretty dodgy film - just goes to show.

Thanks,

Telexx

[judasdisney]

(1) final shot in Cutter's Way

(2) "Have you ever heard of ... Rolo Tomassi?" James Cromwell asks Guy Pearce in a bone-chilling fuckup from L.A. Confidential

(3) "The more I began to read about him, the more I began to admire him... He could've gone for General, but he went for himself instead... Kurtz was turning from a target into a goal..." - Apocalypse Now

(4) Oswald speaks from the witness stand, from beyond the grave: The deleted scene on Oliver Stone's JFK DVD. I can't even bear to watch the scene. Beware: To watch the scene is to be complicit in a human's eternal damnation.

(5) "Tell everybody -- tell the world -- this is a coup. He did not resign. This is a coup!" Cabinet ministers, holed-up inside a White House under siege: Live from the April 2002 Venezuela coup in "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," the greatest roller-coaster thriller ever made.

[Gouda]

Thousands. All of the above in some way, and I share a particularly affinity with a certain few of the choices mentioned.

Three others offhand:

1.) Much of the Twin Peaks series, but since I have been revisiting the episodes at you tube recently, this stands out in recent memory:

Season Two, Episode 5, when Donna and Maddy try to pinch Laura's diary from the reclusive orchid cultivator, Harold. He catches them and in a mad fit rakes a garden trowel across his cheek after taunting the two frightened ladies with the following provocative question which I find disturbingly...dunno...revealing somehow.

"Are you looking for secrets? Is that what all this is about? Well, maybe I can help you! Do you know what the ultimate secret is? Do you want to know? Laura did. The secret of knowing who killed you."

2.) The ending of About Schmidt when Jack Nicholson's character returns from his trip, picks up the mail, sits down and reads the letter from his "sponsor" child in Africa, which breaks him down. I think his performance in AS tops most everything else he has done.

3) Godfather Part II.

FBI MAN #2

Jesus.

CUT TO: The boat. FREDO is fishing.

FREDO

Hail Mary -- full of grace -- the lord is with thee -- blessed art thou amongst women -- and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary -- MOTHER of God -- pray for us sinners --

[MICHAEL is looking out at them. A guns hot rings out. MICHAEL puts his head down. NERI stands up in the boat. MICHAEL sits down in the boat house]

DISSOLVE TO: 1941 the Corleone family is sitting at the table in the kitchen.

[Joe Hillshoist]

There's a few. Most of Brazil, They Live has some moments "This is your God" for one.

Peter Jackson's old stuff. meet the feebles has some classics, as does bad taste. Usually for the special effects from the local buthcher shop.

Meet the feebles. The way the guy that runs the theatre eyes one of the young new girls when looking for a new porn star is a bit menacing, for a muppet movie.

and

One thug bastard is telling his mate," .. and then after i cut his throat I fucked him up the arse so it would be the last thing he ever felt," and what happens next is brilliant.

The scene where john Travolta accidently shoots the guy in the car in Pulp fiction.

The fragmentation scene in "Falling Down"

Nick Cave in Ghosts of the civil dead, screaming out to the guy in the cage (ran out of cells in the prison) next to him, whose name I have forgotten, "Hey (insert name) whats big and ugly and eats 12 year olds."

"Ha Ha You"

There's a scene in the first "hills have eyes" the original, and the first of the series.

Where one guy is out in the dark screaming at the hills.

Oh and heaps of Hitchcock and Kubrick stuff.

[thrulookingglass]

Oliver Stone's Nixon, the director's cut has such an excellent scene where the embattled President gets bullied by DCI Richard Helms at Langley. The scene is utterly surreal with Sam Waterston rendering a brilliant performance in a diminutive role. Unfortunately I cannot describe it in its full intensity. The scene ends with Dick Helms primming his orchids, reciting Yeats "The Second Coming". If you haven't seen this film, it is worth it just for this scene alone. There are other scenes in this movie as well, Nixons inauguration features a backdrop of a massive airstrike in SE Asia, a scene where Nixon and cabinet ride on the Deleware just after Kent State and cannot eat his steak due to the blood leaking out. Ollie, you've fallen so far

Then, of course there's the cheesy Brando vehicle "The Wild One"
Mildred: What're you rebelling against, Johnny?
Johnny: Whaddya got?

[sunny]

The scene in the Misfits where Gay and Roslyn are in the truck, heading into town. Monroes face is lit, incandescent:

Gay: You're a real beautiful woman. It's almost kind of an honor sittin' next to ya'. That's my true feelin's Roslyn.

Gable says the line with such pathos, such yearning, you believe he may really mean what he is saying. And she is! Incredibly, almost heartbreakingly beautiful, she makes you feel the tragedy of her life as Monroe, and you want her not to meet her eventual fate and live to do more work like this.

[HMKGrey]

- Star Wars. First movie. Ben and Vader battle with light sabres. Luke calls out. Ben sacrifices himself. Luke screams "No!" and the main theme swells fit to make your heart burst. Probably the defining moment of that first film and much of its appeal.

- Roy's (Rutger Hauer) final speech in BLADERUNNER "...Attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion..."

- The end scenes of GODSPELLwhere they sing 'God is Love/ Day By Day'. I saw it when I was about ten and it really opened my eyes as someone who'd been brought up Baptist. It made me realize that their idea (societies)of God was bunk.

- The end of LOVE ACTUALLY where Colin Firth goes in to the restaurant to ask the girl to marry him. Yes, it's classic movie manipulation with swelling strings etc, but it's also fantastically well done and sits in the midst of a last 20 minutes of ensemble reconcilliations/separations etc. that I find soppily irresistable.

- SHAUN OF THE DEAD when the pub owner appears and the juke box plays QUeen's "Don't Stop Me Now" as they try to kill him with pool cues. It's just very, very clever.

- SHAUN OF THE DEAD when they're in the garden arguing about what records to throw at the zombies. [/list]

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

"I wanted to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world, now. This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead."

Funny, that's just what happened in Baghdad when the US invaded. It's culture was trashed.

This thread is like a bucket of squirrels to my cultural psy-ops-sniffing nose.
Task overload. lol.

Consider the catch-phrases or tag-lines you remember from these movies.
"Life is like a box of chocolates." "You can't handle the truth!" "Show me the money!"
"May the force be with you." "Party on, Garth!" "I want to believe."

What behavior is sanctioned in these movies?
Who are the solvers and who are the problematic.?
How are things solved?
Who can you trust?
How are real events mirrored and distorted?

Hope you all saw the guide to movie cliches I put in the Data Dump forum--
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=10002