Favorite single scene in a movie

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was on tonight……the entire scene from the time they get home from eating Mexican food til the time they load him into the ambulance was just unreal.
I loved the dog. She had just finished tearing two people into pieces and then she goes and scratches on the bedroom door cause she wants to lay down.

 

The counseling breakthrough scene near the end of "Ordinary People" has always stuck with me. Judd Hirsch's quiet assurance and Timothy Hutton's desperate, sudden realization that perhaps he hadn't done anything for which to truly blame himself struck a chord with me, and tied up the story well.

The final scene of "Dead Poets Society" was pretty great, too.

 

Casablanca. La Marseillaise.

If that's not No. 1 I'll have to think hard about what else could be.

 

"A" movie or ever?

Riffing on the Bad News Bears Field from earlier today ...

 

When Red (Morgan Freeman) narrates Andy's journey through the sewage tube and he comes out in the creek triumphant with his arms raised.

 

Apollo 13: when Hanks says "the ship is secure."
Braveheart: "saying goodbye in their own way, playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes."
The Right Stuff: too many to say.

 

I didn't realize Mamet wrote this scene specifically for the movie because they really wanted Baldwin in the movie, (he was going to play Ricky Roma - but when Al Pacino who wanted to do it from the jump had his schedule freed up....)

Don't know how many Oscars and nominations are involved with this cast, but I know Lemmon won twice and Arkin and Spacey one apiece. And then you have Pacino (1) , Harris and Baldwin

 

The opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West: "No, you brought two too many." Charles Bronson's most badass scene, which is really saying something.

 

When Kay tells Michael about the abortion.

 

I like Michael asking Kay "who's being naïve" in part one.

 

I mean, honestly, from the opening scene at Connie’s wedding to Michael staring into the distance in his garden is 6 hours of perfection.