Top 10 Greatest Scenes of All-Time

[J.R. Hudson]

LUkeJ started a thread that got me wondering; what is your Top 10 List (In spirit of Callaghan)

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Here are mine

1. Michael tells Fredo 'I know it was you, Fredo.' in The Godfather 2

2. James Bond skis off the cliff into the opening of The Spy Who Loved Me; silence, a parachute and then Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does it better'

3. The Empire Strikes Back - 'Luke, I am your father'

4. Jaws - Roy Schider sees it for the first time and tell Robert Shaw 'You're gonna need a bigger boat'

5. Planet of the Apes - Heston rides down the beach and into the The Statue of Liberty finding his answer

6. Star Wars - You're all clear kid, now let's blow this thing and go home!'

7. Close Encounters - Dreyfuss gets burned and then chases the U.F.O.s along with the troopers till the edge of the freeway

8. Aliens - Hudson and Vasquez count down off the radar as Biehn looks up into the cieling ...

9. The Road Warrior - MAx crashes the rig only to relaize he's been had as sand pours from the tanker

10 Die Hard- John McLane jumps off of the building attached to a firehose as the roof explodes.


http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7954/10ym6.jpg

[donkathon]

I dont have ten- I have 100 billion. But one is

http://www.follow-me-now.de/assets/images/The_Royal_Tenenbaums-3.jpg

John Hudson, why you restart the thread?

[J.R. Hudson]

Sorry

I accidentally axed it "/

[LukeJ]

John, I might have lost a post and I don't want to sound redundant but GREAT LIST. And how you backed it up with pictures was the money and I wish I could do that. But, I still argue that picking a favorite is better than a top ten. Oh, and I love the Tennenbaums feel good ending. PTO, you and me could party together.

[donkathon]

Yes, lets build a dance floor on John's thread. Then, have it open up and have everyone fall in the pool, hence my second submission,

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Images/ScenesFromMovies/ItsAWonderfulLifeSwimmingPoolScene%28soft%29.JPG

[LukeJ]

Right, you gotta love the charleston when properly danced. And Donna Reed, is she the marryin' type or what? I vote for Donna Reed as the girl you'd most list to take home to momma (of all time). Donna did play Mary right?

[J.R. Hudson]

Jeeez LukeJ

I just cannot pick one. It is impossible.

Cinema is my world.

[donkathon]

And let us not forget:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/movieinheriththewind.JPG

When Drummond calls Brady to the stand, questioning him about the Bible. One of my favorites.

[LukeJ]

I gotta nother one. How about the scene in Fiction when Walken talks about carrying the kid's father's watch up his ass for five years? I love that random scene. JH. I'm giving you all the Walken Props in the world. "Babies, let me tell you something. When I'm finished with you here, you'll all be wearing gold plated diapers." -- "What does that mean?" -- "Never question Bruce Dickinson!".

[J.R. Hudson]

Keep em coming

[LukeJ]

I don't even know the movie with bloated Spencer Tracey. I feel dumb.

[LukeJ]

You want them? -- "You're a canteloupe!"
"I haven't killed anyone since 1987."

[donkathon]

I don't even know the movie with bloated Spencer Tracey. I feel dumb.

Inherit the Wind. One of my alltime favorite movies. Gene Kelly is phenomonal.

Another:

http://www.bathfilmfestival.org.uk/images/films/OCT14-BROKEN-FLOWERS.jpg

The ending of Broken Flowers, where Don confronts the young man, and eventually scaring him away, and then ending the movie unresolved.

[J.R. Hudson]

Arent you like 14 ?

(Impressive choices)

[donkathon]

Thank you for the comment on my choices. Note all my choices are from my favorite movies.

I guess I must have failed to mention I hate young people and everything about my generation- Im very "old school", if I may say.

[LukeJ]

I gotta be honest. I hated the fact that Broken Flowers ended unresolved. It made it a forgettable movie. You show me something at the end that ties things together in an original way then I'll remember it. If you don't, then in my opinion, it's just another cop out. Ghost in the Machine.

[donkathon]

You didnt get it, LukeJ? His ex-girlfriend and his neighbor set him up with the letter to have him visit past relationships and realize what could have happened if he had just learned to commit. My take on it, at least.

Another:

http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/50_image/12.jpg

The scene where Juror #? may or may not stab Juror #? out of anger for his decision to disagree with everything that the rest of the jurors have comprimised on.

[J.R. Hudson]

Thank you for the comment on my choices. Note all my choices are from my favorite movies.

I guess I must have failed to mention I hate young people and everything about my generation- Im very "old school", if I may say.

lmao

I was the same way at 14

In fact; I still hate everyone.

(Hmmmmmm)

I'm like the dude in Clerks:

You hate people

I hate people, I love gatherings.

[LukeJ]

Hey, you were the one who said it was unesolved.

[donkathon]

lmao

I was the same way at 14

In fact; I still hate everyone.

(Hmmmmmm)

I'm like the dude in Clerks:

You hate people

I hate people, I love gatherings.
Never saw that one. I kind of hate everyone, not just young people. I just cant stand all that American Eagle clothing and Napoleon Dynamite junk, and their strange love of all modern music. I stick with old folk and rock, because its a known fact the Bob Dylan and the Mamas and Papas make much more sense than any rap song.


Hey, you were the one who said it was unesolved.
I know. My way of twisting it.

[J.R. Hudson]

Yeah

I think I was born late

I think I would have thrived in the 40's as a 20 year old and then into the 70's as a filmmaker ...

I dont know

those eras excite me, 40's, SKIP THIS ONE , 60's and 70's ......

80's are cool in a retro sense but everythging since sucks

[donkathon]

I was born too late as well.

Anyway, my next suggestion. This one is kinda stereotypical, and I dont even like this movie, but,

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2005/06/08/mir300.jpg

The Miracle Worker, where Helen has her breakthrough. I didnt like this movie, let alone scene, but it is one of the most remarkable out there.



Wow- three pages so far, and only from 3 users. That is what I call accomplished in my book. We need the other 271 people online to contribute to this before it sinks.

[donkathon]

How did this bad boy sink so fast? Tell your favorite scenes! Speak, forum-folk!

[CallaghanFilms]

#10

♪♪Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo♪♪
♪♪Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo...♪♪
♪♪I'm singing in the rain♪♪
♪♪Just singing in the rain♪♪
♪♪What a glorious feelin'♪♪
♪♪I'm happy again...♪♪
http://www.movieactors.com/freezes1/singinrain25.jpeg

#9
...You
know it's funny what a young man recollects. 'Cause I
don't remember being born. I don't recall what I got
for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on
my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first
time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide
world...
http://dvdreviews.dvdboard.de/pics/forrest_gump.jpg

#8

Yes, this is Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. It's about five
o'clock in the morning. That's the Homicide Squad -
complete with detectives and newspapermen. A murder
has been reported from one of those great big houses
in the ten thousand block. You'll read about it in the
late editions, I'm sure. You'll get it over your radio
and see it on television because an old-time star is
involved - one of the biggest. But before you hear it
all distorted and blown out of proportion, before
those Hollywood columnists get their hands on it,
maybe you'd like to hear the facts, the whole
truth...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a7/SunsetBoulevardWilliamHolden.jpg/250px-SunsetBoulevardWilliamHolden.jpg

#7

...This is a different
kind of courage, Rocky. The kind that's well, that's
born in heaven. Well, not the courage of heroics or
bravado. The kind that you and I and God know
about...I want you to let them down. You see, you've
been a hero to these kids, and hundreds of others, all
through your life - and now you're gonna be a
glorified hero in death, and I want to prevent that,
Rocky. They've got to despise your memory. They've got
to be ashamed of you...
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/4/4a/AngelswDirtyFaces.jpg

#6
Royal Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word.
William Wallace: FREEEEE-DOMMMMMM!!
http://www.dvdreview.com/fullreviews/Images/Braveheart/Braveheart14.jpg

[CallaghanFilms]

#5
...I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!
http://www.godfatherfilms.com/films_images/mike-fredo-kiss.jpg

#4
A toast...to my big brother, George. The richest man in town.
http://bits.westhost.com/scripts/WonderfulLife/images/wl_100373.jpg

#3
(♪♪John Williams' Perfect Score♪♪)
http://www.mmmcommentaries.com/images/raiders.jpg

#2
...The force will be with you, always.
http://fusionanomaly.net/starwarstheforcewillbewithyoualways.jpg

and (of course)...

#1
Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

http://www.jonssons.org/bin/2005-Casablanca-Bogart-Bergman.jpeg

[spidey]

I love about every scene in this movie.... I love chan wook park classic film, OLDBOY. I mean each scene is different and powerful and you can see what this character is going through and what hell he must endure to get what he wants. beautiful and violent.... love it.


http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tartan/oldboy/choi_min_sik/old11.jpg

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tartan/oldboy/choi_min_sik/old15.jpg

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tartan/oldboy/choi_min_sik/old5.jpg

http://www.dragonsdenuk.com/reviews/oldboy3.jpg

http://www.dragonsdenuk.com/reviews/oldboy4.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/35/113375634_d71e6e285a_o.jpg

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tartan/oldboy/_group_photos/byeong_ok_kim11.jpg

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tartan/oldboy/choi_min_sik/old10.jpg

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/tartan/oldboy/choi_min_sik/old8.jpg

[spidey]

another great korean with a few great scenes...

A Bittersweet Life

http://www.filmbrain.com/photos/uncategorized/a_bittersweet_life.jpg

http://www.pride-of-korea.de/img/dyn/film-bittersweet_05.jpg

http://www.pride-of-korea.de/img/dyn/film-bittersweet_08.jpg

[spidey]

other favs.

Fight Club
http://www.moviefreak.com/dvd/images/fc5.jpg

Se7en
http://www.moviefreak.com/dvd/images/seven6.jpg

Sympathy for Mr. Vengence
http://www.offoffoff.com/film/2003/images/mrvengeance.jpg

Sympathy for Lady Vengence
http://imgnews.naver.com/image/075/2005/08/19/200508191638591.jpg

Battle Royale
http://www.phantasmagoria.nl/assets/images/BattleRoyale5.jpg

and my all time fav

Seven Samurai
http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/3656/1156040666.jpg
Mifune was great.

[-zach-]

I guess I must have failed to mention I hate young people and everything about my generation

This is a little late for this thread, but, I couldn't agree more.

[Gohanto]

The escape from Shawshank Prison.

Barbarian Horde. (Maybe not the perfect scene but still good and that's my favortite piece of score I've ever heard)

Leon. Closing the door with all the police inside.

[Blaine]

The chicken salad sandwich scene from Five Easy Pieces. It's the only thing I like about the movie. In fact, I bought it for that scene alone.

[Bobby wants plain toast, which isn't on the menu]
Bobby: I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.

[volcano]

Ultimate website for greatest scenes:
http://www.filmsite.org/scenes1.html

[MOVIE STUNTS]

I gotta add Twilight Zone the movie "Do you want to see something really scary..."

[LukeJ]

The reason this thread hasn't taken off like off like the macaraena is because people don't want to take the time to do ten. But ask them to do one and they'll type their assses off.

[LukeJ]

Oh, and Spidey. Nice work.

[LukeJ]

Volcano, great site man. Thank you. Oh, and I love your logo. And here I thought that I was the only Leif Garrett fan out there.

[J.R. Hudson]

The reason this thread hasn't taken off like off like the macaraena is because people don't want to take the time to do ten. But ask them to do one and they'll type their assses off.

Is that a fact ?

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/search.php?searchid=325783

Noob !

http://files.myopera.com/Idonotlikebroccoli/albums/3758/thumbs/noob.jpg_thumb.jpg

It's the usual suspects that participae in these threads. We'd rather have the ones who truly love cinema respond.

[volcano]

Oh, and I love your logo. And here I thought that I was the only Leif Garrett fan out there.
Funny, how perception is different...I dont know who Leif Garrett is. My avatar is from an old film that has:
Visconti + Mann + Mahler + Bogarde + Venice...
Just curios who is gonna guess the film I am talkin about...

[LukeJ]

Funny, how perception is different...I dont know who Leif Garrett is. My avatar is from an old film that has:
Visconti + Mann + Mahler + Bogarde + Venice...
Just curios who is gonna guess the film I am talkin about...

I was just kidding about Leif. Although his rendition of "put your head on my shoulder" does kind of get to me.

[LukeJ]

Hey, nobdy loves film more than me. And I love the old top ten lists, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be allowed to change things up from time to time. When we stop evolving, we start to die. Just like what happened to the Macaraena. If somebody would have taken the time to maybe change the moves up a little bit, maybe throw in the cabbage patch somehow, then we'd still be rushing the dance floor everytime it got play.

[ZFarms Productions]

#10

Singin' In the Rain. Singin' In the Rain

#9
Empire Strikes Back-
"No, I am your father"

#8
Angels With Dirty Faces. Where Rocky gets taken to the electric chair

#7
Godfather II.
"I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart"

#6
Braveheart.
"FREEDOM!"

#5
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.
Smith: I guess this is just another lost cause, Mr. Paine. All you people don't know about lost causes. Mr. Paine does. He said once they were the only causes worth fighting for. And he fought for them once, for the only reason any man ever fights for them. Because of just one plain, simple rule: "Love thy neighbor."

And in this world today full of hatred, a man who knows that one rule has a great trust. You know that rule, Mr. Paine. And I loved you for it -- just as my father did. And you know that you fight for the lost causes harder than for any others. Yes, you even die for them -- like a man we both knew, Mr. Paine.

You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked! Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause, even if this room gets filled with lies like these; and the Taylors and all their armies come marching into this place. Somebody will listen to me

#4
It's A Wonderful Life.
A toast...to my big brother, George. The richest man in town.

#3
Raiders of the Lost Ark. The big ball rolling towards Indiana.

#2
Star Wars A New Hope. "The Force Will Be With You. Always"


#1
Casablanca-
Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

[bartoy]

Hate to be a broken record, but no one has brought it up.

I think that the intro segment of Amelie could be one of the best "scenes" of all times although I guess it would be more of a montage.

[Ogrus]

Derek St Holmes telling his manager Ian Smalls who has just given him a test pressing of the new album "smell the glove" (which is completely black)
"This Record Sleeve is so black that if i ask, how much blacker can it be, the answer is none more black"

Every single rock/metal fan - musician knows this scene as the most famous "music film" scene ever!


http://www.cs.rochester.edu/%7Eferguson/spinal-tap/smell-the-glove.gif

[JoshuaNitschke]

In No Particular Order

Schindler's List - "I didn't do enough!"

Moulin Rouge! - El Tango De Roxanne

Lethal Weapon - when Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) has his 9mm in his mouth, contemplating suicide.

Saw - the very last scene. Talk about trippy.

Pulp Fiction - "That was f*ckin' trippy" That whole chapter of the movie was great.

The Matrix - Fight scene with Neo and Smith at the Subway. That western throwback shot is so cool.

The Good The Bad and The Ugly - 3way dual

Reservoir Dogs - "Stuck in the Middle With You."

Not really a scene, but:

Pirates of the Caribbean - Jack's intro.

The Great Escape - I always loved the 4th of July stuff.

"Whoaaaah."
"Whoaaah
"Whoah"

[J.R. Hudson]

OMG

Those are great picks !

Especially PULP FICTION

That whole chapter is just perfect

[JoshuaNitschke]

:dankk2:

I forgot one though.... The Usual Suspects

If you've seen it there is no way you don't know what scene I'm talking about. It might be a long movie, but daaaaamn, that end makes it worth it.

(Am I movie-wise beyond my years or what? ;) jk )

[spidey]

i gave up on singer. one movie and a few bombs shouldnt still make you great...

[The Machinist]

Here are a few of my favs in no particular order:

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156171156.jpg

*The Cowboy meets the Indian*

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156171199.jpg

*I just love everything about this scene.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156171254.jpg


He was exactly like me. A naked sword. He didn't stay in his sheath.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156171566.jpg

I'll never forget the night i watched optimus die.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156171707.jpg

The end of a great chase.

[The Machinist]

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156171907.jpg

Speaking of great chases.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156173300.jpg

Probably my favorite part of every Rocky movie: The Training Montage with the inspirational rock song.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156172277.jpg


Oh that's Cosmo.... He's chinese.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156172884.jpg


He's taken off his shoes and one of his socks and... actually, I think he's crying.

http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/9866/1156173020.jpg

This is probably one of my all time favorite scenes but as you may have been able to garner from some of my choices above I'm a sucker for the Showdown.

[Jeremy Ordan]

I agree with most of the picks here, so pretty much, just a couple of choices:

1. Citizen Kane - Kane & Wife eating breakfast and moving further apart... I know how cheesy it is to pick this film but the imagery is amazing.

2. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - Butch & Co. riding off the cliff into the bullets...

3. Bonnie & Clyde - When they get gunned down

4. Field of Dreams - "Dad, you wanna have a catch?" perfect lighting perfect acting

5. The Natural - Ball going into the lights and Roy Hobbes rounding the bases

6. Rudy - Rudy running out onto the field at the end

7. 12 Angry Men - just the whole movie, it really is just one scene :)

8. Psycho - Shower Scene... trendy pick I know, but brilliant cutting and shooting.

9. Basic Instinct - The interogation scene... c'mon, you know you LOVE it.

10. Shaun of the Dead - The openning scene where the shot just keeps expanding to include the friends into the conversation.

-Jeremy

[Hairy Lime]

I may have to stop posting on this site. I can't believe we've got this many responses and nobody has mentioned the greatest scene in cinema history ...

"My Daughter. My Sister."

http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/c/chinatown/d.jpg

[Blaine]

Here's a couple more(in addition to the aforementioned Psycho shower scene and the goodbye scene in Casablanca):

Cool Hand Luke when Luke is talking to God
http://www.prisonflicks.com/images/CHLPray.jpg

Luke: Anybody here? Hey, Old Man. You home tonight? Can You spare a minute. It's about time we had a little talk. I know I'm a pretty evil fellow... killed people in the war and got drunk... and chewed up municipal property and the like. I know I got no call to ask for much... but even so, You've got to admit You ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like You got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside, all of them... rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am. Now just where am I supposed to fit in? Old Man, I gotta tell You. I started out pretty strong and fast. But it's beginning to get to me. When does it end? What do You got in mind for me? What do I do now? Right. All right. [Gets on knees, closes eyes and begins to pray] On my knees, asking.
Luke: Yeah, that's what I thought. I guess I'm pretty tough to deal with, huh? A hard case.
Luke: Yeah. I guess I gotta find my own way.
Dragline: Luke?
Luke: [Shakes head and smiles] Is that Your answer, Old Man? I guess You're a hard case, too.

And what about the "What we've got here, is failure to communitcate" scene?


The courtroom scene at the end of ...And Justice for All:

Arthur Kirkland: The one thing that bothered me, the one thing that stayed in my mind and I couldn't get rid of it, that haunted me, was why. Why would she lie? What was her motive for lying? If my client is innocent, she's lying, why? Was it blackmail? No. Was it jealousy? No. Yesterday I found out why. She doesn't have a motive, you know why? Because she's not lying... And ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution is not going to get that man today, no, because I'm gonna get him! my client, the Honorable Henry T. Fleming, should go right to fucking jail!

And the scene from Body Heat, in Ned Racine's office when he should start to realize that everything is unraveling:
INT. RACINE'S OFFICE - DAY
Racine comes into the reception room from the hall. He's
surprised the door is unlocked. He crosses the room and
opens the door to his office.
Matty is sitting in one of the chairs in front of his
desk. She jumps up at the sight of him and moves up to
embrace him.
RACINE
Jesus! Did Beverly see you?
Matty kisses him on the mouth, then shakes her head "no."
MATTY
I waited till I saw her leave. Please
don't be angry with me.
RACINE
Angry? I'm not angry -- How'd you
get in?
MATTY
It didn't lock. Oh. Ned, hold me.
Please just hold me, God, I love
you.
Racine reaches over and locks the door to his office.
MATTY
He left this morning. I had to see
you.
RACINE
(kissing her)
I know.
MATTY
I couldn't call. I'm afraid to call.
I was afraid you wouldn't let me
come.
RACINE
Yes, that's right. You can't call.
Never call. We have to be very
careful now about the phone. The
phone company keeps records.
MATTY
I'm careful. I hated it, Ned. I
hated sitting there with the two of
you. I thought I was going to scream.
RACINE
(distracted,
thinking)
You did good.
(finds his thought)
You've called my apartment from the
house.
MATTY
No, never.
RACINE
No? Those two times --
MATTY
I went to phone booths. I'm afraid
of him, Ned. I'm always afraid.
RACINE
That's good. We have to be careful
about the phones now.
MATTY
Why, Ned, why do you say this now?
RACINE
(in his own thoughts)
We could account for a couple calls.
We've had some contact. That would
make sense.
Matty grasps his face in her hands and looks into his
face.
MATTY
Why, Ned? What's happened?
RACINE
Because we're going to kill him. We
both know that.
Matty's face looks different than we've seen it. There's
a fire burning behind there and the heat it's throwing is
bringing her equal portions of dread and relief. She
stares at him,
RACINE
That's what you want, isn't it? We
knew it was coming. It's the only
way we can get everything we want,
isn't it?
Matty's nod is barely perceptible.
RACINE
The man's gonna die for no reason
but we want him dead. He doesn't deserve it. Let's not
ever say that. We're doing it for
us. And you're going to inherit
half of everything he owns. That's
what the will says, right?
Again, the tiny nod. He pulls her head close, so he
doesn't have to look into her eyes anymore.
RACINE
That's it then. We're gonna kill
him. And I think I know how.
Matty reacts to this.
MATTY
It's real, then?
RACINE
Yeah, it's real all right, and if
we're not careful, it's gonna be the
last real thing we do.



Finally, the famous lipstick scene from The Postman Always Rings Twice:

Frank's first look at hot-blooded, voluptuous Cora (Lana Turner) [he doesn't know she's the wife of the cafe owner] is prefaced by her lipstick case noisily rolling across the floor of the cafe toward him. The camera tracks back to her nude slim legs in the doorway. Frank looks at all of her - she is provocatively sexy and scantily clad in white shorts, white halter top, and white turban. [She continues to dress in ironically virginal white (except for two scenes) throughout the entire picture, accentuating even further her passionate, white-hot, torrid steaminess.] He sets his eyes on the whitish platinum-blonde woman, bends down and picks up her lipstick, and asks: "You dropped this?" She stands with her hand outstretched, waiting for him to bring it over to her. But he holds onto her possession in the palm of his own hand and then leans back on the counter - she struts over and takes the case out of his hand.

[Brandon Rice]

The courtroom scene in A Few Good Men.

[The Machinist]

I may have to stop posting on this site. I can't believe we've got this many responses and nobody has mentioned the greatest scene in cinema history ...

"My Daughter. My Sister."

http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/c/chinatown/d.jpg

Ohh man. So money. I feel like a cad for not mentioning any polanski but this one in particular.

[LukeJ]

Great Cool hand post. And Chinatown got me thinking. How come nobody talks about Platoon when they're naming the all-time greats? Is it because kind of got sandwiched in between Apocolypse and Full Metal Jacket? Is it because Charley Sheen turned into a joke and tarnished it a little? Because when I think of that movie, I think of great scenes.

"Nothing like a piece of poosy every once in a while....except maybe the Idie 500"

"I sheet on you all."

And I loved the scene where they danced all effed up to The Tracks of my tears.
Platoon. Underrated in my book.

[The Machinist]

I dig Platoon and I own it.

But in the vein of Vietnam War films i just don't think its the best so it kinda does get overshadowed.

However the Berenger - DaFoe contention was money.

[CallaghanFilms]

I dig Platoon and I own it.

But in the vein of Vietnam War films i just don't think its the best so it kinda does get overshadowed.

However the Berenger - DaFoe contention was money.I say We Were Soldiers edged out Apocalypse for that top Vietnam film spot.

[Blaine]

I say We Were Soldiers edged out Apocalypse for that top Vietnam film spot.
That's a tough one. One's based on a true story, the other's a mythological journey. I love them both for different reasons. I still rate Apocalypse higher (just barely).

[MarcusX]

Some more scenes:

Desperado - the beginning, where Buscemi tells the story of the mariachi to the bartender

Léon the professional - when Reno pushes Portman down the shaft, turns around and starts to scream. Then *boooom*

JFK - Costners monologue in the courtroom

Blade runner - Ford hanging down the building

Back to the future - Fox making it back to the 80s

Heat - Showdown at the airport

[The Machinist]

I dunno what it was about We Were Soldiers.

It just didn't do it for me and I couldn't explain to you why.

It had all the elements there. Maybe i was just in the wrong frame of mind when i watched it.

For me its still far and away an Apocalyptic world.

[spidey]

http://www.dvd365.net/gallery/alien/alien05.jpg

one of my all time fav scene

[KingVidiot]

Scarface ('83) - the final showdown, Moroder's score sells it

Blade Runner - "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."
"Tears in the rain."

Scanners - head explosion

Sling Blade - the last scene with the kid by the water

Dawn of the Dead ('78) - the biker mayhem in the mall

The Thing ('82) - the denouement (and the doctor's office transformation)

Hard Boiled - the tea house shootout

An American Werewolf in London - stunning transformation scene

Se7en - 7th deadly sin "become wrath"

Damn, too many to mention...