Guard: What the hell are you doing?
Lone Starr: The Vulcan neck pinch?
Guard: No, no, no, stupid, you've got it much too high. It's down here where the shoulder meets the neck.
[Lone Starr changes hand position]
Lone Starr: Like this?
Guard: Yeah!
[Guard falls to the ground]
Lone Starr: Thanks!
From an Autralian movie: "Proof"
Staring Hugo Weaving (HW) and Russell Crowe.
HW plays a blind guy and after crashing a car into a cop car, he's being examined by a nurse:
Nurse: "You've been blind all your life."
HW: "I know."
Nurse: "What were you doing driving a car?"
HW: "I forgot."
Originally posted by Bloodstalker Sorry, all my most memorable movie scenes are visual
But most of those movies have some dialog in them
As for me, my favourite movie scene is on top of the mountain in Life of Brian...
Brian: I'm not the messiah.
Follower: I say you are, lord, and I should know... I've followed a few.
Followers: Hail messiah!
Brian: I'm not the messiah, would you please listen. I'm not the messiah, do you understand? Honestly!
Follower: Only the true messiah denies his divinity.
Brian: What? Well what sort of chance does that give me? All right, I AM the messiah.
Followers: He IS! He IS the messiah!
Brian: Now **** off!
Follower: How shall we **** off oh lord?
Brian: Oh just go away. Leave me alone.
There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't. I think I think, therefore I might be.
After just dispatching a mob of assassins Indy stares with weary disbelief as the crowd parts and a large Arab swordsman begins brandishing his blade. Rather than fight him hand-to-hand, Indy pulls out his pistol and casually shoots the guy before going about his business.
Best.... Scene... EVER!
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Originally posted by Bloodstalker Sorry, all my most memorable movie scenes are visual
Here's one of my favourite movie scenes (from Andrew Blake's Hidden Obsessions):
A struggling author (played by Janine Lindemulder) is trying to write . . . um, exciting . . . stories while sitting by her pool. The visualisation of her story entails two lovers (played by Janine and the equally lovely Julia Ann) starts off with each wearing bathing suits and playing with a giant . . . er, toy . . . made out of ice. Much pleasure ensues.
Here's another of my favourite movie scenes (the greatest wedding scene of all time) from Joe vs. the Volcano:
Joe (Tom Hanks): Chief, we want to get married.
The chief looks disgusted; he just wants Joe to jump into the volcano and save his island of Waponis-Wu. He points at Patrica.
Chief (Abe Vigoda): Do you want to marry him?
Patricia (Meg Ryan): Yes.
Chief (pointing a Joe): Do you want to marry her?
Joe: Yeah.
Chief: Fine, you're married.
I wanted my wedding to be that fast and painless, but alas, we had to have family members singing and a homily.
Jesus saves! And takes half damage!
If brute force doesn't work, you're not using enough.
(Groucho approaches Chico) Now, in arranging these lots, of course, we use blueprints. You know what a blueprint is, eh?
Chico: It's oysters.
Hammer: How is it you never got double pneumonia?
Chico: I go 'round by myself.
Hammer: (thinks) You know what a lot is?
Chico: Yeah, itsa too much.
Hammer: I don't mean a whole lot, just a little lot with nothing on it.
Chico: Any time you gotta too much, you gotta whole lot. Look, I explain it to you...sometimes you no got enough, it's too much, you gotta whole lot. Sometimes you got a little bit. You no think it's enough, somebody else maybe thinks itsa too much, itsa whole lot too. Now, itsa whole lot, itsa too much, itsa too much, itsa whole lot...same thing.
Hammer: The next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you, will ya?
Chico: Alright, maybe...
Hammer: (interrupts) Come over here, Rand McNally, and I'll explain this thing to you. Now look, this is a map and diagram of the whole Cocoanut section. This whole area is within a radius of approximately, eh, three-quarters of a mile. (pause) Radius...is there a remote possibility that you know what radius means?
Chico: Itsa WJZ.
Hammer: Well, I walked right into that one...it's gonna be a cinch explaining the rest of this thing to you, I can see that.
Chico: I catch on quick.
Hammer: That's a rodeo, you're thinking of. (pause) Look Einstein, here's Cocoanut Manor. No matter what you say, this is Cocoanut Manor. Here's Cocoanut Manor, here's Cocoanut Heights -- that's the swamp, and, eh, right over here where the road forks, that's Cocoanut Junction.
Chico: Where you got Cocoanut Custard?
Hammer: Why, that's on one of the forks...you probably eat with your knife, so you won't have to worry about that. Now, eh, here is the main road leading out of Cocoanut Manor...that's the road I wish you were on. Now, over here on this site we're gonna build an eye and ear hospital. This is gonna be a site for sore eyes. You understand?
Chico: Thatsa fine.
Hammer: Now, right over here...this is the residential section.
Chico: Oh, people live there, eh?
Hammer: No, that's the stockyard. Now, all along here, this is the river front. And all along the river...all along the river, those are all levies.
Chico: That's the Jewish neighborhood?
Hammer: (pause) Well, we'll Passover that...You're a peach, boy. Now, here is a little peninsula, and, eh, here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
Chico: Why a duck?
Hammer: I'm alright, how are you? I say, here is a little peninsula, and here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland.
Chico: Alright, why a duck?
Hammer: (pause) I'm not playing "Ask Me Another," I say that's a viaduct.
Chico: Alright! Why a duck? Why that...why a duck? Why a no chicken?
Hammer: Well, I don't know why a no chicken; I'm a stranger here myself. All I know is that it's a viaduct. You try to cross over there a chicken and you'll find out why a duck.
Chico: When I go someplace I just...
Hammer: (interrupts) It's...It's deep water, that's why a duck. It's deep water.
Chico: That's why a duck...
Hammer: Look...look, suppose you were out horseback riding and you came to that stream and you wanted to ford over...You couldn't make it, it's too deep!
Chico: Well, why do you want with a Ford if you gotta horse?
Hammer: Well, I'm sorry the matter ever came up. All I know is that it's a viaduct.
Chico: Now look, alright, I catch ona why a horse, why a chicken, why a this, why a that...I no catch ona why a duck.
Hammer: I was only fooling...I was only fooling. They're gonna build a tunnel there in the morning. Now is that clear to you?
Chico: Yes, everything excepta why a duck.
Hammer: Well, that's fine...then we can go ahead with this thing. Now look...I'm gonna take you down and show you our cemetery. I've got a waiting list of fifty people down at that cemetery just dying to get in it, but I like you.
Chico: Yeah, you're my friend.
Hammer: I like you, and I'm gonna shove you in ahead of all of 'em.
Chico: I know you like me.
Hammer: I'm gonna see that you get a steady position.
Chico: Atsa good.
Hammer: And if I can arrange it, it'll be horizontal...Now, remember, when the auction starts, if somebody says a hundred dollars?
Chico: I say two hundred.
Hammer: That's grand. Now if somebody says two hundred?
Chico: I say three hundred.
Hammer: That's great! Now, you know how to get down there?
Chico: No, I'm a stranger...
Hammer: (interrupting) Now look...now look, you go down there, down that narrow path there...until you come to the...that little jungle there, you see it? Where those thatched palms are...and there's a little clearing there...a little clearing with a wire fence around it. You see that wire fence there?
Chico: Alright...why a fence?
Hammer: Oh no! We're not gonna go all through that again!
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
There are so many to choose from. I'll go with one from "Cross of Iron".
James Mason as the German Colonel emerges from his bunker and halts the rout of his troops. With a handful of men, he begins a futile counterattack against the overwhelming Russian advance:
"Stop! Now... advance with me!"
Meanwhile James Coburn's grizzled Sergeant promises to show the arrogant Prussian Captain (Maximillian Schell) "where the Iron Crosses grow..."
Brilliant.
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Originally posted by Kayless After just dispatching a mob of assassins Indy stares with weary disbelief as the crowd parts and a large Arab swordsman begins brandishing his blade. Rather than fight him hand-to-hand, Indy pulls out his pistol and casually shoots the guy before going about his business.
Best.... Scene... EVER!
LMAO that's one of my fave too. The swordsman looks like those goofy goon from Hong Kong movie Anyway IIRC the scene was from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" <EDIT> damn typo
From "Evolution" :
Nurse : I'll go get the lubricant
Doctor : There's no time !
The Black dude (still in agony) : There's always time for lubricant !
Originally posted by Kayless After just dispatching a mob of assassins Indy stares with weary disbelief as the crowd parts and a large Arab swordsman begins brandishing his blade. Rather than fight him hand-to-hand, Indy pulls out his pistol and casually shoots the guy before going about his business.
Best.... Scene... EVER!
Heh...one of the greatest scenes. Supposedly Harrison was sick that day and was supposed to actually fight the guy, but pulled out the .45 instead and shot him...and they kept it.
I think it's in the 1950 classic La Ronde that a character played by Jean-Louis Barrault meets up with an old friend. The friend proceeds to make a nearly endless stream of observations as they walk slowly down a street, to each of which Barrault never replies, but finds a different facial expression. Finally, the friend turns to Barrault and exclaims, "You haven't changed a bit! You're still the wittiest person I've ever known!"
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
Originally posted by KidD01 LMAO that's one of my fave too. The swordsman looks like those goofy goon from Hong Kong movie Anyway IIRC the scene was from "Raiders to the Lost Ark"
Yep, the scene was from Raiders. So many great memories of that flick.
Originally posted by Roga Danar Heh...one of the greatest scenes. Supposedly Harrison was sick that day and was supposed to actually fight the guy, but pulled out the .45 instead and shot him...and they kept it.
Good times.
Yeah, that just makes it even better. I've seen a few still shots of the elaborate fight scene that they were originally going to have. I'm sure it would have looked great, but it wouldn't have been the classic scene we got instead.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
@ Fable:Great Marx Brothers scene! I enjoyed that.
I love pure escapism in films: nothing can beat the bit in "ET" when, whilst being chased by the authorities, the kids suddenly take off in the air on their bikes and fly away! Aww...
And I love emotionally intense moments, like in the "English Patient" when Ralph Fiennes carries Kristin Scott Thomas in the Cave of the Swimmers and she tells him she's always loved him and he bursts in tears.
Any scene from David Byrne's "True Stories," but especially the Culver family dinner scene. My favorite line in that: "Excuse me, Mr. Culver, I have forgotten what these peppers represent - ?"
From "The Matrix," I just will never forget the look on Agent Smith's face when he talks about how Neo takes out the garbage for some old lady in his building. It's just a laugh riot when you know what Smith knows (i.e. the entire world is an illusion). Ha!
From "Lola rennt!" (a great German pop-film), the scene in which Lola screams/wills the roulette ball onto black twenty.
Can't decide which final shoot-out is better: "For a Few Dollars More," or "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly."
Lot's more, of course, but it's hard to describe them here ...
Peace.
There will be no Renaissance without Revolution.
Derision, scorn, and failure to understand do not move us. The future belongs to us ... Weasel for President!!
I actually have two. First one is amore dramtic one from 'Platon' when Elias is running out of the jungle, being chased by numerous NVA, and his platoon is evacing. For those who have seen the movie, you know the part I'm talking about. For those who haven't, go see it!
The second is from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Simply put, the slinky scene.
Another classic: Buster Keaton's The General. Keaton was a generous director/writer/actor: he often gave good moments to other people in his films (unlike Charlie Chaplin).
The General is set during the Civil War. In one particular scene, Keaton sets fire to a bridge across a gorge from the back of locomotive, hoping to stop an advancing Federal army that's approaching, behind him. (As Mel Brooks would say, "Has everybody got that?) The Federal general leading the troops (many of whom are massed on his own heavily laden train) looks out at the smouldering bridge. The caption sign reads, "Go ahead with your men. They can make it across." We then get a distant shot as the train moves forward, getting halfway across the bridge before it all collapses, leaving hundreds of injured and soaked men scrambling out of the river below.
The general just looks at the wreck of his train and his troops. The expression on his face isn't sorrow. It's petulance. As if the bridge had deliberately done that to *him.*
To the Righteous belong the fruits of violent victory. The rest of us will have to settle for warm friends, warm lovers, and a wink from a quietly supportive universe.
We're looking DOWN AT the Joker, whose body lies splayed
and broken on the steps. We DRIFT DOWNWARD, CLOSER,
until his FACE FILLS THE SCREEN, his chilling grin still
intact.
The Joker's expression is almost childlike, as he stares
aimlessly at the stars.
Meanwhile the echo'ing laughter continues..
"Hah Hah Hah Hah..."
Best batman ever...
Jackie Treehorn: People forget the brain is the biggest sex organ.
The Dude: On you maybe.
One of my all time favorite film scenes is the slow motion scene in Clockwork Orange when Alex starts beating up his friends to the tones of Rossini when they are walking at the river. That scences demonstrates his personality so fantastically well, and it is also very very well directed and coreographed.
Another favorite scene (yes I like Kubrick) is from 2001, at the dawn of mankind when the hominoids start using tools and the leader realises he can use the bone to beat others with.He thows the bone into the air and it rotates, just like the monolith did previously. It illustrates the crucial moments in evolution when man got language and when man started to use tools. All to the sound of the genious composer Lygeti. The bone then sort of turns into the spaceship, now to Johann Strauss. Note that this is not signified as an "evolutionary step", the bone and the spaceship are just different tools...
Originally posted by der Moench From "Lola rennt!" (a great German pop-film), the scene in which Lola screams/wills the roulette ball onto black twenty.
Franka Potente is one of my favorite actresses, she is great...I didn't like "Der Krieger und die Kaiserin" as much as "Lola rennt!", but it contains the best romantic scene I've ever seen I usually don't like romantic scenes since they are always so stereotype and boring, but the scene where she has been hit by a truck and is lying under the vehicle severely hurt and that guy comes crawling to her and performs an acute intubation, is a truly romantic scene
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Aegis, great scenes, but Ace and Elias in the same breath?! God-damn you to hell!!
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.
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