What's your favorite, most psychologial-impressive movie scene??

[Trenchfriend]

Can someone please repair my headline and put the missing c in "psychologial"?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

In Godfather II, the scene in the Havana nightclub where Michael overhears Fredo bragging about his friendship with Johnny Ola, Hyman Roth's right hand man, whom Fredo claims he had never met. Michael becomes physically ill when he realizes that Fredo had betrayed him.

 

[robrinay]

I was most moved (at the age of 15 in 1968 by the final scene in Planet of the Apes 1 when Taylor (Charlotte Heston) and Nova (Linda Harrison) ride around the coast and see the broken Statue of Liberty rising from the sand. Taylor realizes he has returned to a future post apocalyptic Earth where the Apes have supplanted humans. He falls to his knees in despair and condemns humanity for destroying the world.

 

[Trenchfriend]

In Godfather II, the scene in the Havana nightclub where Michael overhears Fredo bragging about his friendship with Johnny Ola, Hyman Roth's right hand man, whom Fredo claims he had never met. Michael becomes physically ill when he realizes that Fredo had betrayed him.

But I think, the whole red line of "The Godfather"-trilogy is, that Michael was just a real lonesome "killer", since his service in WW II.

He wanted to get the family-business legal, but from the bottom of his heart, he was a hard-boiled soldier. He wanted to get away from the family and serve in WW II, but then, he became more hard-boiled than these Mafia-guys.

He never comprehended his own problem. Vito was maybe an old-fashion godfather, but Michael was a killer.

What is a succesfull man, without his family?

 

[scottyrocks]

I was most moved (at the age of 15 in 1968 by the final scene in Planet of the Apes 1 when Taylor (Charlotte Heston) and Nova (Linda Harrison) ride around the coast and see the broken Statue of Liberty rising from the sand. Taylor realizes he has returned to a future post apocalyptic Earth where the Apes have supplanted humans. He falls to his knees in despair and condemns humanity for destroying the world.

I remember being freaked out by that, myself.

 

[green papaya]

I remember being freaked out by that, myself.

it must have really been a shocker for a person that lives in NEW YORK / NYC area

seeing the statue of Liberty at the ending of Planet of the Apes.

 

[scottyrocks]

it must have really been a shocker for a person that lives in NEW YORK / NYC area

seeing the statue of Liberty at the ending of Planet of the Apes.

Yes, I distinctly remember the scene and my reaction to it. A long high shot of the two of them on horseback riding along the beach. Then the first of the crown spikes passes in front of the camera, followed by another. It was right about then that it began to dawn on me what it looked like.

I was wide eyed (8 years old), and by the time they came to the front shot of what was left of the statue (top third) my mouth was hanging open, as well. They held the shot for a few seconds, just enough time to really let it sink in. I was kind of blown away.

 

[Fading Fast]

Yes, I distinctly remember the scene and my reaction to it. A long high shot of the two of them on horseback riding along the beach. Then the first of the crown spikes passes in front of the camera, followed by another. It was right about then that it began to dawn on me what it looked like.

I was wide eyed (8 years old), and by the time they came to the front shot of what was left of the statue (top third) my mouth was hanging open, as well. They held the shot for a few seconds, just enough time to really let it sink in. I was kind of blown away.

I saw it for the first time on TV in the '70s at about the same age as you and this ⇧ was my reaction to. You describe it all very well sir.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Apes" was the first movie I ever saw from a projection booth, at the age of five. I was very upset and unsettled by the lobotomy business, and went up to the booth to watch the rest of it in the company of my uncle, who couldn't see what the big deal was. But I watched the rest of it sitting on a tall stool at one of the viewing ports, and when the "Statue of Liberty" scene came along I was even more unsettled. The thing that bothered me the most was the *angle* of the statue -- it looked like it had been flung in the air and landed in the ground like an enormous Jart. I didn't want to think of what might be capable of doing that.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I was thirteen, and saw it theatrically during the original release. It was indeed a very powerful ending. Planet of the Apes was THE science-fiction movie event of 1968... until 2001 came out a few months later.

YOU MANIACS!

 

[HanauMan]

I have always enjoyed the scene in On Dangerous Ground where Robert Ryan, a cruel and cynical city cop, meets Ida Lupino, who plays a blind woman living in the country. She makes him reflect on his loneliness and bitterness and thru her he regains his humanity. One of the classic Film Noir movies and a long time favorite of mine.

 

[scottyrocks]

Yeah, like, 'What the heck happened to the rest of it?'

 

[Benzadmiral]

I was thirteen, and saw it theatrically during the original release. It was indeed a very powerful ending. Planet of the Apes was THE science-fiction movie event of 1968... until 2001 came out a few months later.

YOU MANIACS!

I was 15, and went to see it before I was much of a science-fiction fan (with the exception of Star Trek and Twilight Zone, of course). If I'd been reading people like Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, and Pohl before, I wouldn't have been as startled by the entire concept, or by the ending.

I still say Charlton Heston was the only actor I ever saw who could send shivers up your spine merely by cursing -- mild epithets though they were ("Get your hands off me, you damned dirty ape!") by today's levels, I guess.

 

[EngProf]

For a different reaction to the Statue of Liberty scene: I had been reading and watching science fiction for about fifteen years by the time the movie came out, so it was more of a mildly positive reaction, not at all shocking or disturbing. A good ending that fits the plot, but not spectacular...

Also, having read all of Arthur C. Clarke's novels and short stories before seeing the movie, the "meaning" of "2001" was obvious...

 

[green papaya]

Yeah, like, 'What the heck happened to the rest of it?'

they filmed this scene at ZUMA beach, Malibu, California, if it was in NY wouldnt the beach be the opposite side since it was supposed to be on the east coast?

looks like the rest of it is probably supposed to be partially buried?

 

[EngProf]

A little more subtle, but moving for me. The Sand Pebbles, when Steve McQueen goes below to inspect the engine and says: "hello engine, I'm Jake Holman!"

I wouldn't have thought of this scene, but I'm glad you did.
As a mechanical engineer who became one as a result of being a hot-rodder since I was 13, I have done exactly what Jake Holman did on more than one occasion.
I have often introduced myself to a new engine or car and gently laid hands on...

I'm surprised that the book author and/or script writer knew to include that.

 

[scottyrocks]

looks like the rest of it is probably supposed to be partially buried?

Certainly, but at 8 years old, it was just, 'What the heck happened to the rest of it,' or some unformed sentence in my mind that contained no real words but meant the same thing.

they filmed this scene at ZUMA beach, Malibu, California, if it was in NY wouldnt the beach be the opposite side since it was supposed to be on the east coast?

Well, yes, after all, they couldn't have possibly shot it from the south!

 

[DesertDan]

The beach landing at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan

And this scene from John Carpenter's The Thing

 

[Stearmen]

This will always be my favorite image from the original Planet Of The Apes. One of the many, behind the scenes stills!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Figures he'd read the "Daily Mail."