Favorite movie scene

Ooh, you're right...I forgot the details...Hm, maybe I'm not as much of a geek as I thought.

Oh, well, that's probably a good thing, right?

 

Nicholson's speech in A Few Good Men is right up there. That you have an actor who was in Easy Rider playing a hard-ass general only makes it more so.

The long tracking shots in "Children of Men," "The Longest Day," "Goodfellas," "Boogie Nights"....
Brian DePalma has done a couple of fantastic shots, the staircase scene in Untouchables, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out.

 

I respect guys who don't steal all the time, more, leaving DePalma off my list. The Untouchables staircase scene is a direct lift from 1925's The Battleship Potemkin.

 

A film that didn't get much attention back in 1981 -- Four Friends.

The wedding scene where the father who had molested the daughter as she grew up giving the speech that starts out: "I'm not losing a daughter." The crowd laughs along and says "No!"

Then he gets serious and says "What I'm saying is I refuse to lose my daughter," and he pulls out a gun shoots the bride dead, shoots the groom and then turns the gun on himself.

Later in the movie, the groom has survived and he's back in his home town with old buddies and gets in a bar fight with this huge guy that had tormented him in high school. He gets in the first shot but is eventually sure to be pummelled. So he grabs the guy's shirt and goes into sort of a boxer's clench ... then pukes all over the guy.

 

The first T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park was an amazing thing to watch for the first time. It really made you believe dinosaurs were real [/carleverett].

 

-- The scene in Almost Famous when the whole bus starts singing "Tiny Dancer" is a classic.

-- The Godfather baptism scene is incredible.

-- Christopher Walken in Man on Fire when he says "Creasy's art is killing. He's about to paint his masterpiece"

-- The final pep talk in Friday Night Lights, when Gaines gives a nod to Boobie Miles (with the real Boobie Miles right next to Derek Luke)

-- The scene in Hoosiers when the pastor references David and Goliath.

 

Great scene, great movie. I'll add to that the scene where Hawkeye shoots Heyward at the stakes and when Alice jumps off the mountain ledge.

 

I like the opening sequence to Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man where Mikey Rourke rides from Texas to California. Bon Jovi playing as the soundtrack makes it.

 

Amen to whoever brought up the "Le Marseillaise" scene in Casablanca. Love the shot of designated trollop Yvonne, who had been flirting with the Nazis all night, singing wth tears streaming down her face.

Also in Casablanca there's the scene at the closed-down Rick's, where a drunk and devastated Rick tells Sam to "Play it," and eventually Ilsa shows up.

And don't forget the airport scene, with perhaps the most dramatic pause n movie history: "Major Strasse has been shot ..."

Moving on:

True Grit -- "Fill you hands, you son of a bitch!"

Spartacus -- "I am Spartacus!"

Mr. Roberts -- Ensign Pulver blowing up the laundry with his firecracker. Also, the final scene, when Pulver reads Mr. Roberts' letter and grows a set. "Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard!"

The pie fight in The Great Race.

The football game in M*A*S*H -- "Oh, my God, they shot him!" "Hot Lips, you incredible nincompoop, that's the end of the quarter."

Jimmy Stewart's showdown with Lee Marvin in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.

Enough for now.

 

Goodfellas, the entering the restaurant, "and then he kissed me scene"
Glory -- The night before the 53rd goes into battle and they're all along the fire singing
forest gump -- when forest and jenny hug in the reflecting pool

 

You did it, sir!

I did nothing....except get caught with my britches down.

Great movie with some fun dialogue.

 

Great scenes, but there are plenty from the "Man With No Name" trilogy, like the other barroom scene in the second movie where Clint interrupts the poker game to play a one-off game of his own with the bounty he's chasing. He beats the guy, three aces to three kings.

The guy says, "What was the bet?"

Clint replies, "Your life."

Also love the final scenes, capped by the showdown between Col. Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) and Indio, after which Mortimer graciously tells Clint all the money from all of the bounties belongs to him. It's a nice sentiment considering what an evil bastard Van Cleef plays in the next movie.

Actually, we could have a thread based entirely on favourite scenes from Clint Eastwood movies. I'd nominate the first fight in "Every Which Way But Loose," where he beats the shit out of the guy who complains about Philo taking the peanuts, and pretty much every scene from "Heartbreak Ridge."