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One for me is the black knight in Holy Grail

"None shall pass!"

Two scenes from Amelie (2001):

Amelie takes the old blind, crippled man in a wheelchair for a manic stroll through the center of their French town, launching into a non-stop monologue of what everybody and thing is doing around them as she passes; the camera swings about wildly to illustrate her field of vision. Taking less than a minute, you quickly realize that she's giving him life: the unstructured, chaotic, wonderful, dirty, joyful mess of humanity and civilization. His expression lights up in an undescribable grin, and the fast-cut editing finishes on a fade to white. It's pretty damn impressive.

The other scene, really a sequence of short scenes, center around Amelie's attempts to get her loving but repressed father (a retired town physician) to get out of his home and rut and see the world. She first kidnaps his garden gnome. Then, he starts getting postcards...the garden gnome posing in front of Angkor Wat; the garden gnome posing in front of the Kremlin; etc. Eventually, it ends up back home, and he gets the idea.

I love the garden gnome journey. I finally saw that film a few weeks ago, and it truly is wonderful.

especially the gnome.

A Donnie Darko moment.
The entire movie, but if I have to pick one then the montage at the end of the characters with the song "Mad World" being played in the background. Amazing scene...

Pulp Fiction
Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face - Vincent
The line says it all really

Not a classic, but a funny movie indeed, scene from 51st state:

Felix De Souza: Gah, whazz that?
Driver: It's Lawrence
Felix De Souza: I can see it's fookin' Lawrence! What 'appened?
Driver: Well you told me to take care of him...
Felix De Souza: Oh ****! I meant to take caaare of him, not to fookin' take caare of him!

But I guess those scenes really have to be seen to be funny, Felix De Souzas' char is really good imho

Nearly forgot this one (especially for u english guys ):

Elmo: What the **** did they do to this fish? Batter it to death?
Felix: Fish and chips, national dish mate.
Elmo: More like a national disaster!

Simpsons do The Flintstones

There's one fo Simpson eps where in the opening Homer sings The Flinstones title song. Very funny especially at the end of the song wher Homer car hit a tree

you'll be thinking of...

'Simpson, Homer Simpson,
He's the greatest guy in history.
From the town of Springfield
He's about to hit a chestnut tree...

D'oh!' *crunch*

classic

Best psychedelic sex scenes -

The sex in 'Midnight Cowboy': the cowboy rolling about on top of the rich mutton-dressed-as-society-lamb, while accidentally pressing the TV remote...genius images of aerobics instructors saying 'push push' and cancan girls and slot machines 'kacching'ing etc flashing over the screen.

The sex in 'Performance': The sharply dressed, handsome, control-freak London gangster is destroyed by drugs, wearing a wig and makeup, and in bed with some combination of morphing men and women, in a kind of theatre of velvet curtains and beads. Anita Pallenburg sums up the whole theme of the movie, stradling the prone man, and with a mirror, reflecting her breasts and face onto him.

The sex at the beginning of 'The Man Who Fell To Earth': A time-split, where two performers playing out a battle between Samurai, in full ornamental armour and swords, shrieking and wailing, are imposed between sex shots, even mocking human reproductive techniques as graceless, compared to an eerily elegant alien shadow-puppet scene later on.

You're wierd.

Ahhh Ahhh. Have we all forgot?


One of the best scenes ever is in Office Space.

The entire time the song "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta" is playing.

Originally posted by fable
Two scenes from Amelie (2001):

I got a kick out of how she predicted the number of people having orgasms at that given moment. I think it was fourteen.

Originally posted by Robnark
you'll be thinking of...

'Simpson, Homer Simpson,
He's the greatest guy in history.
From the town of Springfield
He's about to hit a chestnut tree...

D'oh!' *crunch*

classic

Yep that's it Can't agree more than say classic !

Originally posted by Gwalchmai
I got a kick out of how she predicted the number of people having orgasms at that given moment. I think it was fourteen.

Oh, yes. That was great. Something like--

(Shot of a young teen Amelie from the back on the roof of her house, overlooking her town.) Narrator voiceover: Amelie wondered how many women were making love at that exact moment.

(Almost Eisensteinian sequence of very quick shots showing women in shadow in different positions, moaning during sex with a host of partners) Amelie turns around. Amelie (smilling happily) Fourteen.

The whole film is loaded with this kind of goofy, off-the-wall humor. I found it extremely fresh; and it's nice to see an upbeat comedy, too, one which isn't based on sheer dumbness.

From the South Park movie: "Careful?! Was my mother being careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?!"

Originally posted by Gruntboy
CE, the 2001 jump is one the freakiest things I have seen. The way I saw it, 10,000+ years of human "history" and "development" are worth nothing compared to coming from apes and making it to the stars. Brilliant commentary.

I love that jump too, I think it's an excellent view of the evolution of man.

@Frogus: I don't remember the sex scene in The man who fell to earth, it was many years ago I saw it. I haven't seen the other two movies you mention, but I can't really remember ever having seen a good sex scene. There is a quite good and funny scene in the Mexican road movie "Y tu mamá también" (And your mother too), where the two teenage boys are lying on their backs on a trampoline, masturbating and shouting their sexual fantasies to each other. Very sweet.

I don't wanna spoil the fun about mentioning sex scene or anything related to the 3 letter word stuff. But if yall don't limit them we gonna have X-rated movie scenes all over this thread

@CE....and I always wondered why foreign movies have not been appreciated by a larger component of "mainstream" culture....

Originally posted by Grendel
@CE....and I always wondered why foreign movies have not been appreciated by a larger component of "mainstream" culture....

They're in a foreign language?

@CE - The scene from Performance is not really much about sex, but it is a great scene nevertheless. It is about a sharp ****ney gangster being seduced into the world of sexual liberation, drugs, rock'n'roll and Bohemia, and the strange interfacing between outsiders in other people's worlds (like the Man Who Fell To Earth, by the same director)...The gangster is wearing makeup and a wig, and it ends with a famous shot of his screwy reflection in a mirror being broken...

Originally posted by frogus
They're in a foreign language?

Plus they also often relegated to being shown only at arthouse theatres. Its a big risk to show a foreign flick, knowing full well that so-called stars like Vin Diesel and Keanu Reeves can bring in a bigger profit for the venues. I know I'd pick the likes of City Of God over Johnny English or 2 Fast 2 Furious anyday.

I feel compelled to add a "memorable" sex scene to the thread but I won't

From Almost Famous:
William (the wanna-be journalist kid) and Russell (the rock star) are at a house party in suburbia after the band have a big argument. Russell's getting pretty wasted...

William: Please stop giving him acid!
*cut to William on the phone to the band's manager*
William: How do you tell when it's kicked in?
*cut to Russell standing on the roof*
Russell: I am a golden god!