Best scene in cinematic history

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I'm talking dialogue, performance, atmosphere, tension.

Fuck scenery.

I posit that the Hopper / Walken scene in True Romance is in fact the best scene in cinematic history.

I won't post a link because, if you haven't seen it, I thoroughly recommend you watch the film.

Thoughts?


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Too many, too many.

Speaking of walken, both Russian roulette scenes in the deer hunter are awesome, as are so many other scenes in it.

The ending to the thing is a favourite scene of mine - lets just sit here for a while and see what happens...

The ending of scarface, umpteen scenes in apocalypse now and once upon a time in America.

The title sequence of the Warriors.

The end of the long good Friday.

I could go on. And later on, I will.
 
egb_hibs said:
Too many, too many.

Speaking of walken, both Russian roulette scenes in the deer hunter are awesome, as are so many other scenes in it.

The ending to the thing is a favourite scene of mine - lets just sit here for a while and see what happens...

The ending of scarface, umpteen scenes in apocalypse now and once upon a time in America.

The title sequence of the Warriors.

The end of the long good Friday.

I could go on. And later on, I will.
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OK, not that there're any rules. But, pick one (scene).

And it better be the one I chose. As that's the correct answer.

I suspected a Deerhunter response though, the second roulette scene. Fucked up.


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Brainwrong said:
I'm talking dialogue, performance, atmosphere, tension.

Fuck scenery.

I posit that the Hopper / Walken scene in True Romance is in fact the best scene in cinematic history.

I won't post a link because, if you haven't seen it, I thoroughly recommend you watch the film.

Thoughts?


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Just watched it again and never noticed James Gandolfino in the background before.

So many great scenes that I couldn't pick a favourite but right now i'd go for 'the kid's got um' scene in The Cincinnati Kid.
 
Westside Green said:
Just watched it again and never noticed James Gandolfino in the background before.

So many great scenes that I couldn't pick a favourite but right now i'd go for 'the kid's got um' scene in The Cincinnati Kid.
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Watch the whole film, Gandolfini has a more prominent role than that ;)


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This is one of my favourites

[video=youtube;NoAzpa1x7jU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU[/video]
 
Brainwrong said:
I'm talking dialogue, performance, atmosphere, tension.

Fuck scenery.

I posit that the Hopper / Walken scene in True Romance is in fact the best scene in cinematic history.

I won't post a link because, if you haven't seen it, I thoroughly recommend you watch the film.

Thoughts?


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Posit.

I think I know whose blog you've been reading.
 
So many great movie scenes it's really impossible to pick just one...however I'm going to put forward a personal favourite and it's the "Maria Callas" scene in Philadelphia. Anyone who has seen the movie will know which scene I am talking about. Probably the most powerfull piece of acting I have ever seen from any actor.
 
Have a swatch at johnjamessite.

Immensely entertaining, but he posits more regularly than a horse shites.

I posit that I could never actually....... Fcukin hell. I did!,,,
 
The chestburst in Alien. The build-up, the tension and the final payoff are perfect. Its the first scene I ever remember giving me that wide-eyed, gasping, wow factor. I reckon its the scene that got me hooked on cinema ever since.
 
A favorite of mine, from The Last Picture Show;


[video=youtube;GgZx_vQcgHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZx_vQcgHo[/video]

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Two Headed Boy said:
The chestburst in Alien. The build-up, the tension and the final payoff are perfect. Its the first scene I ever remember giving me that wide-eyed, gasping, wow factor. I reckon its the scene that got me hooked on cinema ever since.
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Similar effect in Jaws, when Hooper was investigating a hole in the hull of the boat and the head popped into view. I darned near $hit myself.
 
The big shootout finale in The Good The Bad and The Ugly where the camera flicks between the eyes of Lee VanCleef, Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood as the music builds.
 
BurbankHibee said:
A favorite of mine, from The Last Picture Show;


[video=youtube;GgZx_vQcgHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZx_vQcgHo[/video]

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Similar effect in Jaws, when Hooper was investigating a hole in the hull of the boat and the head popped into view. I darned near $hit myself.
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I did too. I'd read the Benchley book and I think it was just a great white's tooth that featured at that point rather than a fcukin head!
 
Here goes:

- the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis goes on the rampage
- from 2001 A Space Odyssey where the bone thrown in the air by the apes transforms into a space station
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Clowns to the left of me scene in reservoir dogs takes some beating for pure drama.
 
The scene in the Godfather where they decide whether to go with Sonny or Michael's version of revenge is incredible. Not so much for raw emotion, but for the way the plot and characters are advanced, and for how that's accomplished and how the actors interact. If you watch it repeatedly you keep on picking up new things - obviously the end shot where M is replacing his dad, but also the way the characters move in the frame, the contrasts in who dominates who physically and mentally as it goes on, it's so clever.

There's that other great scene where Michael talks to his dad and you sense the passing of power over to him, where they mainly talk about Michael's kid - "Four years old and already reading the funny papers!" Somewhere you can find the original of this by Coppola and the final draft which was worked on by Robert Towne (reputedly at $125k/week) side by side, and it's amazing what the extra layer of nuance and subtext does to it.
 
HenryLB said:
The scene in the Godfather where they decide whether to go with Sonny or Michael's version of revenge is incredible. Not so much for raw emotion, but for the way the plot and characters are advanced, and for how that's accomplished and how the actors interact. If you watch it repeatedly you keep on picking up new things - obviously the end shot where M is replacing his dad, but also the way the characters move in the frame, the contrasts in who dominates who physically and mentally as it goes on, it's so clever.

There's that other great scene where Michael talks to his dad and you sense the passing of power over to him, where they mainly talk about Michael's kid - "Four years old and already reading the funny papers!" Somewhere you can find the original of this by Coppola and the final draft which was worked on by Robert Towne (reputedly at $125k/week) side by side, and it's amazing what the extra layer of nuance and subtext does to it.
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I'm sure I've said this before - but I was startled when, years ago, I listened to an abridged version of the godfather on audio book. It tracked the movie almost scene for scene and yet is what would be considered an airport novel where the movie is generally considered one of the finest achievements of popular cinema.

I think it was the first time that it struck me how simple films were - not that that's a bad thing but they're really geared to short story levels of complexity when compared with literature; contrast Stephen Kings blockbusters routinely failing to translate where his short stories have made very successful - and pretty long (!) - movies, most notably shawshank.

I think it's only with the arrival of more sophisticated tv that we're really seeing anything matching novels (not that it's completely new to our era, the George smiley adaptions with Alec Guinness spring to mind)
 
egb_hibs said:
I'm sure I've said this before - but I was startled when, years ago, I listened to an abridged version of the godfather on audio book. It tracked the movie almost scene for scene and yet is what would be considered an airport novel where the movie is generally considered one of the finest achievements of popular cinema.

I think it was the first time that it struck me how simple films were - not that that's a bad thing but they're really geared to short story levels of complexity when compared with literature; contrast Stephen Kings blockbusters routinely failing to translate where his short stories have made very successful - and pretty long (!) - movies, most notably shawshank.

I think it's only with the arrival of more sophisticated tv that we're really seeing anything matching novels (not that it's completely new to our era, the George smiley adaptions with Alec Guinness spring to mind)
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Yeah, simple duration (I mean 'story world' duration in the text, not pages) is often an issue. Most novels are just too long to make up into films.

But film narrative is also usually more propulsive and simpler, while novels can be recursive, go off on tangents etc. The internal conflicts that you can 'see' in film are in part created by narrative drive, while a book can just say "EGB felt happy as he poured catfood into the bowl. He thought about the holiday he was about to go on, and smiled as he recalled Rangers' hapless defeat at the hands of Hibs last night."

In a film that would be a bloke grinning while he fed his cat.

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I should say also that simplicity can be profound. I personally find the scene where Michael reassures his dad very moving, because it's about the transfer of power but also (in the final version, which is why they pay Towne the big bucks) touches on the notion of power in the world, and the difficulty of father-son relationships, and ageing and so on. And it's all done naturalistically and on the kind of subtextual level that we all actually interact on.
 
I agree with [MENTION=1429]Brainwrong[/MENTION]
Quality scene, making the outcome happen for his reasons and the story he spoke of and reaction he wanted was immense....
 
Close the thread.


[video=youtube;v3cayRMnVb8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3cayRMnVb8[/video]
 
Stu said:
Close the thread.


[video=youtube;v3cayRMnVb8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3cayRMnVb8[/video]
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Beat me to it ya...

I've always been rather partial to this too

[video=youtube;tgj3nZWtOfA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgj3nZWtOfA[/video]
 
[MENTION=13747]Bofahibee[/MENTION]; the Holy Grail has so many fantastic scenes. 'Only a flesh wound' is my own favourite. I once literally fell off the couch pishing myself at that one. I'd had a few beers, but still...
 
egb_hibs said:
[MENTION=13747]Bofahibee[/MENTION]; the Holy Grail has so many fantastic scenes. 'Only a flesh wound' is my own favourite. I once literally fell off the couch pishing myself at that one. I'd had a few beers, but still...
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I used to have a copy of the original script, complete with deletions/additions etc. Some of the editing had me crying with laughter.

Comedy gold.
 
Sir Shrink said:
I used to have a copy of the original script, complete with deletions/additions etc. Some of the editing had me crying with laughter.

Comedy gold.
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It's not exactly a claim to fame but the rabbit belonged to my sister's mate.
 
Bofahibee said:
It's not exactly a claim to fame but the rabbit belonged to my sister's mate.
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FUCK OFF!!!!!!


That is ABSOLUTELY a claim to fame!




Got a picture?
Not the rabbit, and if you are going to get precious, not your sister either.
Her mate will suffice.

Perhaps in a pose with said rabbit - thus allowing 'looks like hare from a distance' puns.
 
Sir Shrink said:
$#@! OFF!!!!!!


That is ABSOLUTELY a claim to fame!




Got a picture?
Not the rabbit, and if you are going to get precious, not your sister either.
Her mate will suffice.

Perhaps in a pose with said rabbit - thus allowing 'looks like hare from a distance' puns.
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I'm sure I'll have one in that shoebox I keep under the bed with all my other special memorabilia.




Or maybe not...

Anyway, truth be told I never said two words to said friend of my sister but fancied her like mad from a distance - she was an Edinburgh punk and I had a thing about girls with black kohl eyeliner... Siouxsie Sioux, Gaye Advert, Pauline Murray, the girl who worked in the wee cafe off the grassmarket...

Perhaps I should start a new thread?




Sent by telepathy.
 
Dub said:
This is one of my favourites

[video=youtube;NoAzpa1x7jU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU[/video]
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Its Roy's Birthday today

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