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The other day we watched Capote, which was a decent movie. Afterwards, I went to check the IMDB page for the movie (as I do for almost anything I watch), and I stumbled across a thread titled: “5 most memorable scenes in movie history.” I browsed through it for a while and tried to think of the moments I remember the most. I make no claims that these are the “greatest,” but they are all scenes which I will never forget.
The Godfather - The Christening Scene (”Micheal Francis Rizzo, do you renounce Satan?”)
Casablanca - The Ending (”You’re going to get on that plane…”/”Here’s looking at you kid.”)
The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey regains his normal walk as he leaves the police station to disappear forever.
Shawshank Redemption - Andy standing in the rain immediately after he escapes.
To Kill a Mockingbird - “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passing.”
Braveheart - “FREEDOM!”/Speech when everyone wants to leave the battleground.
Raiders of the Last Arc - Running from the stone.
Saving Private Ryan - D-Day Assault
Citizen Kane - Rosebud.
Psycho - The Shower Scene.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - “You said, ’so go.’” (The last memory)
Schindler’s List - Girl in Red Dress Returns/Schindler cries realizing how many more he could have saved.
Fight Club - When he figures out he is Tyler Durden
American History X - The very end in the bathroom.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Moon River
Finding Neverland - When they take Kate Winslet to Neverland.
Big Fish - “In telling the story of my father’s life, it’s impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn’t always make sense and most of it never happened… but that’s what kind of story this is. ”
A River Runs Through It - (After Paul catches the huge trout) “And I knew just as surely, just as clearly, that life is not a work of art, and that the moment could not last. ”
Memento - The way the entire movie was put together.
The Sandlot - Benny Pickle’s the Beast
Blazing Saddles - The Clan March
Lady and the Tramp - The Spaghetti Date
Garden State - Sitting by the fireplace/Screaming into the Abyss
Crash - The little girl runs in front of her dad, thinking she has her “magic vest” on
Star Wars - “Luke, I am your father.”
Good Will Hunting - “Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up. And we go out we have a few drinks and a few laughs, and it’s great. But you know what the best part of my day is? It’s for about ten seconds from when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. Because I think maybe I’ll get up there and I’ll knock on the door and you won’t be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin’. Just left. I don’t know much, but I know that.”
These are just the ones I could think of as I sat here tonight. Just thought I might share them with you all, and inspire you to watch a few more movies over this break. You can leave the ones you think I missed in my comments.
-JD
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I want to put on Gatticas , the scene where jude law sets himself on fire
and forrest gump , of which there alot of moments, the scene where he tells jenny of all the ways he was with her on his journey and how much he really loves her. Donnie Darko, when Donnie dies while laughing at how much better the world is going to be. In Dark City when he finds that the beach doesn’t exist. In the truman show when they try and kill him but he sails on. The good the bad and the ugly during the last show down. Apollo 13 when they get the oxygen converter just in time. BackDraft when they fight the last fire. and my favoirte endings are in farewell to the king, where nolte escapes the ship and is set free once again. In point break when Johnny Utah tries to arrest Patrick Swayzee but he lets him go to surf into the Tsunami. Also in radio flyer, one of my favorites when the boy goes and actually takes flight with his flyer. Thats my contribution to this escapade.
I would say blazing saddles: ‘badges, we dont need no stinking badges’ or ’son, you’re on youre own’
Breakfast at Tiffanys: Eating a pastry in evening wear at like 7am, looking in the windows. soooo sad.
Grosse Point Blank: ‘You cant go home, but you can sure shop there’
Casablanca: ‘Play it again, Sam’
Pulp Fiction: The freaky dance scene with Uma and John
12 Angry Men: The ‘one of a kind’ knife that the main guy bought at a store and shoved into the table
Dr. Strangelove: “YEEEHAAWWW” (hahahahhaha, i love that texan), or anything involving Flouridation :)
as for Citizen Cane: which rosebud scene? :)
North by Northwest: the red plane flyby
American Beauty: the ending :) and the beginning. and any of those scenes involving the rose petals :)
Apocalypse Now: “Imagine a snail crawling on the thin edge of a blade” *shudder* The Flight of the Valkyrie :) “Saigon, Shit, Im still only in Saigon”
Paris When it Sizzles: The masquerade ‘version’
Se7en: “Tell me what’s in the box!”
Leon: The ending with the tree :)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: the killer carniverous rabbbbbbit, or “Its only a model” or Castle Anthrax :) ooh! The coconuts! and “your mother was a whore, and youre father smelled of elderberries! Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!”
Maltese Falcon: The fat man :)
Requiem for a Dream: His arm festering from where he was injecting
Alien: the dude popping outta his tummy :)
Alien Resurrection: The poor cute super alien baby boy getting sucked outta the tiny whole and looking all sad and confused at Sigourney :(
Reservoir Dogs: That song. Omg, i cant hear that song without thinking of Mr. White and the Ear Incident :P
The Shining: “Heeeere’s Johnny” or when she finds out he’s been typing “all work and no play”
The Great Escape: The ending :(
2001: the beginning. or ‘whatre you doing, dave’
blade runner: “if you could only see what your eyes have seen” :)
donnie darko: when the engine hits the bed the final time
fargo: hehehehe the wood chipper! lol
the princess bride: “My name is inigo montoya. you killed my father. prepare to die.” :)
The graduate: The classic ‘mrs. robinson’ scene, but what i always remember is when they forced him into that scuba gear in his pool :( poor boy
butch cassidy: the end :( or ‘raindrops keep falling on my head”
Patton: haha, his flag speech.
Die Hard: “Yippee Kaiyay, motherfuckers.” or when he has to walk on that glass *shudder* ew
8 1/2: when he’s casting for roles that came from his life. Or the school kids learning about the Rubicon
Nosferatu: Damn, any scene where they show him… with his long scary nails. and creepy teeeth. that guy creeped the hell outta me the first time i saw it :(still does too!
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: the creepy scene in the loony bin towards the end. Or just the WEIRD angles for all the buildings in the movie :)
Groundhog Day: building the snowman and having the snowball fight with the kids
12 monkeys: Brad Pitts psycho speech in the psych ward :) Or the end with the Willis seeing of him :P
Arsenic and old lace: The madhouse at the end. :) or rather, at the climax, not the END, end
Witness for the Prosecution: When her ’side’ totally crumbles and the wife actually wins :)
Rosemary’s Baby: the end. Creepy movie. Awesome ending. SO up to interpretation :)
Dr. Zhivago: the old man explaining why he called that young girl in :) like, the snippets where they show him telling the story again :)
All Quiet on the Western Front: The bird :(
ps: that scene in crash. youches. the first time i saw it. it was like… TERRIBLE.
why do the comments show up so small in firefox?
You should fix that, since my eyes are not microscopes.
I’ll fix it later, I’m too tired tonight… but I can still read them fine myself :P.
-shraps
They do show up sign. smaller than the regular text, but i think andy just needs glasses :)
ps. you lie, john! its the 8th already :) slacker
I think it might vary on your text setting, which i stupidly didn’t realize until after i had written the above comment. I had it really really small.
I can’t believe you just abbreviated “significantly.”