Great Film Scenes

[avedwards]

Those two are good too! I love the Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes movies. I wish they had made more of them.

It's a shame that Rathbone grew tired of the role. Nigel Bruce would have been prepared to do more films. At least we have fourteen though, plus a number or surviving radio broadcasts.

 

[Rocketblast]

Maybe because I've already been raving about Clint Eastwood on another thread today, but the first thing that sprang to mind is the scene in Bridges of Madison County where Meryl Streep's character is in the van with her husband and she has her hand on the door handle...

In fact, here it is on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaMST_hNUVQ
Such a brilliant film, and not my usual type of flick either.
Gets me every time - and I do watch it EVERY time it's on TV. I also particularly like the scene where they're making dinner and he leans over her to get something - the sexual tension is tangible, they're both such good actors.:eusa_clap

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Trading Places
The scene where con artist Eddie Murphy, posing as a disabled Vietnam veteran, is arrested for panhandling. When the cops lift the supposedly legless Eddie Murphy off the ground his legs slowly descend like landing gear on an airplane.

Used Cars
Electronic experts Michael McKean and David Landers (Lenny & Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley) jam President Jimmy Carter's speech and insert a live commercial for Kurt Russell's used car lot.

 

[AntonAAK]

For me the most tense and exciting scene in any movie is the restaurant scene in The Godfather where Michael shoots Sollozzo and McClusky. The build up is just incredible and even though I must have seen it 20 times I still always find myself shouting 'Drop the gun. Drop the gun' as he is on his way out.

Apparently it was only Coppolla who wanted Al Pacino to play Michael. The studio wanted a big name and they didn't like the rushes. Pacino was on the verge of being replaced.

Once they saw this scene they shut up for good.

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[Leutnant]

Well, "we'll always have Paris..."

 

[Pok 9'er]

One of the best scenes I've ever saw was the final sword fight in Rob Roy.
The contrast between swords and style.
The physical difficulty of such a fight.
The best aspect of the scene was the desperate move Neeson used to win.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Apparently it was only Coppolla who wanted Al Pacino to play Michael. The studio wanted a big name and they didn't like the rushes. Pacino was on the verge of being replaced.

Would you believe Robert Redford was considered for the role of Michael Corleone???

 

[Chas]

Or Ronald Reagan for Rick in Casablanca? I prefer not to think about things like that. I like RR, but for that part, no, thanks.

Some of my favorite scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SV9w8fBGvk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLDeLqYypw8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25hKSfdWPw&feature=related

 

[Tiller]

One of the most moving things I have witnessed on film was between John Wayne and Lauren Bacall, in The Shootist. The scene has Wayne and Bacall about to eat breakfast one morning. Simple enough right? But for some reason it has always touched me. After getting into an argument with eachother overer Wayne's characters life, the scene ends along these lines. (Book's is Wayne, Roger's is Bacall).

Roger's: Oh, no. You're some godlike creature of infinite knowledge, aren't you?
Books: I'm a dying man scared of the dark.
Rogers: Damn you! Damn you for the pain you've brought into this house.

Maybe it's because a legend who's shadow still exist in Hollywood today is saying it, maybe it's because it shows that even men who were legends in their time (in regards to Wayne's character) are still just men, but it hits me everytime Wayne says it.

Another great quote from that movie is when Book's basically explains his philosophy on life.

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.

 

[kiltie]

Rear Window: Jimmy Stewart helplessly watching Grace Kelly when Thorwald unexpectedly returns.

 

[Wire9Vintage]

oooh, yeah... Rear Window!

I'll vote for the scene in Giant when James Dean makes tea for Elizabeth Taylor. I just love it for its simplicity and insight into Jet.

And, of course, Steve McQueen's motorcycle scene in The Great Escape. As many times as I've seen it, I know what happens in the end. But I still get a thrill and want him so badly to make it past that last fence.

 

[Spitfire]

Must be this one from CATCH 22 - hillarious!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCZeORmxw4

 

[AntonAAK]

Would you believe Robert Redford was considered for the role of Michael Corleone???

That would have been so wrong...

The DVD extras show several of the screen tests, including De Niro reading for Michael and Sonny.

 

[Navin323i]

2 movies come to mind for me at the moment...

"JohnQ" - Towards the end of the movie Denzel Washington has a scene where he states, "I will not bury my son! He will bury me". I had such a strong emotional connection to this movie given my own heart condition and what my own parents had to go thru all the years I've been alive with the heart condition I was born with.

"Fatal Attraction" - The scene where everyone thinks Glenn Close is dead since she's submerged underwater in the bathtub, but she all of a sudden gets up screaming with a knife in her hand... I remember everyone in the whole movie theater screaming during this scene, which by the way, let me say how embarrassed I was during this movie... my parents being conservative parents of India-origin decide to take me and my little brother when we were little kids to see this movie... they figured, "Oh, Michael Douglas is in this movie... this must be a good family movie to go see"... lol

First gratuitous make out/sex scene comes... hear my mom telling my younger brother and complaining to my dad as well how me and my younger brother are too young to watch this and she tells my brother how good I am that I'm asleep with my eyes closed and that he should do the same... what she didn't know was that I had my eye that was on her side closed while my other eye wide open to watch the movie.... ahh, the memories of my youth.

 

[Rocketblast]

Rear Window: Jimmy Stewart helplessly watching Grace Kelly when Thorwald unexpectedly returns.

Great film, great scene. I love Jimmy Stewart sooooo much

 

[Rocketblast]

2 movies come to mind for me at the moment...

"JohnQ" - Towards the end of the movie Denzel Washington has a scene where he states, "I will not bury my son! He will bury me". I had such a strong emotional connection to this movie given my own heart condition and what my own parents had to go thru all the years I've been alive with the heart condition I was born with.

"Fatal Attraction" - The scene where everyone thinks Glenn Close is dead since she's submerged underwater in the bathtub, but she all of a sudden gets up screaming with a knife in her hand... I remember everyone in the whole movie theater screaming during this scene, which by the way, let me say how embarrassed I was during this movie... my parents being conservative parents of India-origin decide to take me and my little brother when we were little kids to see this movie... they figured, "Oh, Michael Douglas is in this movie... this must be a good family movie to go see"... lol

First gratuitous make out/sex scene comes... hear my mom telling my younger brother and complaining to my dad as well how me and my younger brother are too young to watch this and she tells my brother how good I am that I'm asleep with my eyes closed and that he should do the same... what she didn't know was that I had my eye that was on her side closed while my other eye wide open to watch the movie.... ahh, the memories of my youth.

John Q is such a tearjerker. If I'd been watching that on my own I would've given in and had a good blub. Your mother should indeed have tried to protect you from Fatal Attraction, with that heart condition of yours!

 

[Cool1]

The Third Man

One of the great scenes: Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in the giant merry go round above a bombed out Vienna:

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.