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The Observer - Greatest Movie Scenes

None of the selection really did it for me to be honest.
The slow motion scene of Betsy walking down the street in Taxi Driver is one of my favourites...'They..cannot...touch...her...'

Other favourites;
The park scene in Irreversible at the end sends shivers down my spine.
Robert Duvall taking his cravat off in Apocolypse! Now.
The 'I mean to have you even if it's burglary' scene in Withnail.
I could go on....

Yours?

Fields of the... Once upon a time in the west.

All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

Mark leave that path, don't walk away on emo side of power.

It's Blade Runner. Not me being emo.

Or did you know that and you're kidding? I'm never sure with you.

markfiend wrote:All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

Beautiful.

As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.

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

I come a long way since i believed in anything, AND I COME HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_nSL1Hw1s

(circa 37 secs in that clip)



from Wise blood

ding ding donga dong dong ding dong
dingy dingy son of a gun

The hotel room scene with the vacuum cleaner & the parrot in Return Of The Pink Panther.
Precious little dialogue, but pure genius as he blows himself across the room.

Das Boot - when they're sitting on the bottom listening to the creaks and groans of the ship, wondering whether it will be crushed.

Ice Cold in Alex - Katy is propped up on rocks so they can fix the axle. The rocks start to crack, Anthony Quayle gets underneath the truck and supports it on his back. Slow-motion of the rocks cracking, Quayle taking the strain. Maybe the best 60 seconds in cinema ever.

Harry Lime's speech on the ferris wheel in The Third Man ("Would you really care if one of those dots stopped moving"). Total insight into his character, and the moment that Holly Martins decides to betray his friend.

- the Birth scene from Alien
- the coronation of king Elessar
....

Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze

Ginger wrote:Verbal Kint is Keyser Soze

The scene in the plane with Al Pacino in Scent Of A Woman about women.

Get busy living or get busy dying - Shawshank Redemption

Keep on breathing as you never know what the tide will bring - Cast Away, Tom Hanks

Marlon Brandon's 'knob' of butter scene in Last Tango

markfiend wrote:All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

Still gives me a shiver

1)End of Goodfellahs when My Way comes on.

2) AngelHeart " And yours belongs to me", " I know who I am" still gives me the willies.

3)Most of Taxi Driver

4) Last sword battle dual in Sanjuro

The last scene of The (original) Wicker Man. But then I would say that.

markfiend wrote:All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

Gollum's Cock wrote:4) Last sword battle dual in Sanjuro

Mine!

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:The last scene of The (original) Wicker Man. But then I would say that.

I've just been looking for a pic of that

BTW: Clicky

Opening scene in A Clockwork Orange
The theme to the Warriors where the gangs are heading for the unifying meet.
The scene in Quadrophenia where Jimmy is riding his scooter to The Real Me.
Christ I can go on forever...

Bladerunner - "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long... and you have burned so very very brightly Roy".... "Nothing the God of Biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for"

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:The last scene of The (original) Wicker Man. But then I would say that.

Did you ever find the book?
I seem to remember you were trying to hunt it down.

The mental trippy ending to 2001

markfiend wrote:The mental trippy ending to 2001

tbh the opening scene with the blackness and the strauss/zarathustra screeching is pretty f**ked too

Quiff Boy wrote:

markfiend wrote:The mental trippy ending to 2001

tbh the opening scene with the blackness and the strauss/zarathustra screeching is pretty f**ked too

True.

Crashing the Enterprise-D in Star Trek: Generations comes to mind as a definitive Trek moment.