Favourite Scene From A Film?

The Shawshank Redemption.

When Andy is in the water, it is raining and he puts his arms up to the sky. Fantastic. It sums up the tag line to the film. - Fear can hold you prisoner..........Hope can set you free.
 
The scene in Terminator 2 where Arnie catches up with John Connor for the first time, and drops his roses on the floor.

The scene in Terminator 2 where Sarah Connor runs into Arnie while escaping from the hospital.

In Hero, defending the calligraphy school from the arrows.

In Hero, when Moon gives Nameless the other weapon.

Aliens, "Get away from her you bitch."
 
Can't name just one but my ULTIMATE favourite is bolded...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - The David Bowie/Black Lodge scenes...they still abso-****ing-lutely terrify me to this day (see: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrof3j72EpA)

Kes - When Billy tells the class of the first time he flew Kes...his delivery is beautiful...and the faces of his classmates as he describes all the emotions he felt, anticipation...fear...excitement. It never fails to move me.

George Washington - When George directs the traffic in his helmet and Superhero Cape.

Harold & Maude - The hospital scenes/Trouble (see: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3bHv9bi7C60)

This Is Spinal Tap - STONEHENGE!

L.I.E - When Big John arrives on the scene and Hurdy Gurdy Man plays.

The Holy Mountain - When the birRAB fly from the bullet wounRAB.

Fitzcarraldo - When Fitz plays the tycoons the music at the lavish party.

The Ninth Configuration - The bar room brawl, specifically when Kane goes loco.

Palindromes - The song and dance troupe at Mama Sunshine's bust some moves.

Ratcatcher - When Kenny's mouse goes to the moon.

Inland Empire - The End...Sinnerman.

Gah...I'll stop before I get way too carried away.
 
Joe Pesci's "Am I funny?" scene in Goodfellas.

The end of Trading Places when they are on the beach

"Looking good Billy Ray" "Feeling Good Louis."

The final car chase scene in The Blues Brothers - just so much in it.

"Twist and Shout" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off - the best version of that song ever.

The scene in Strictly Ballroom when the family teach the main character to do the Pasadoble.
 
Tough choice, can't narrow it down to one so I'll post just a few -

The chest-bursting scene in Alien. Just iconic.

The dinner table scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).

Roy's first encounter with the UFOs in Close Encounters and the subsequent car chase.

The meeting in the beginning of The Warriors. Again, iconic - "Can you dig it???"

When Sly loses it, kicks the crap out of everyone and escapes the police station in First Blood.

I better stop I'm thinking of hundreRAB now :D
 
Robert Shaw and his USS. Indianapolis speech is probably my favourite.



As far as entrances go I gotta agree with that. It was so well done. :D



Wooh, another Warriors fan. There are so many great scenes in that film, but the whole bottle clinking before 'Warriors... Come out to plaaaayyyyy...' senRAB a shiver up my spine. :D
 
Wow,many of my favourite scenes have already been mentioned but one that stanRAB out for me is from the film Network.I copied the text of the particular scene from the IMDB and it is absolutely chilling how relevant this scene is in todays climate,particularly for a film made more than thirty years ago....

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad."

"You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell,"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" .

There are several other eye openeing quotes on there about the media monster called TV,especially considering this film is more than thirty years old.If you watch it now it may look dated but all things being as they are,it was actually well ahead of its time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes
 
'Good Morning' from Singin' In The Rain is so joyful.

The sequence when they first venture down in to the mall in the original Dawn Of The Dead almost makes the end of the world seem like a good laugh.

The whole musical montage based around the disco dancing in Boogie Nights is superbly well done.

There are loaRAB more, so I'm going to stop there.
 
Totally agree. Every time I watch that bit, it gives me shivers. Great acting all round.

Someone else has already mentioned the cinema scene from Donnie Darko so I shall skate over that one.

Others of mine include...

- Atonement - numerous scenes for me really. The continuous shot of the goings on at Dunkirk. When Robbie stumbles across a clearing filled with the corpses of dead children. The end, where you find out what has actually happened to Robbie and Cecilia. And who could forget sex in the library?!

- Interview with the Vampire - my favourite film :D but the scene that definitely sticks out is after Claudia has killed Lestat and they are packing to leave, but are interrupted by someone's arrival. Louis and Claudia are all panicky but then you get the tune on the piano, with a flowing curtain hiding the pianist, revealed to be Lestat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80q7aQqNZzQ

- The Matrix - how could I not mention it?! For me, I remember the fight between Neo and Morpheus, as well as the ending where Neo gets shot but then survives.
 
*salutes a fellow Warrior*

To be fair the whole film is iconic for me. I must have watched it a 1000 times when I was a lad back in the early 80s. Completely wore out my VHS tape of it!
:D
 
Once upon a time in the west - scene were the gunmen have shot the family and the young boy is standing looking at them, camera pans round to the beautiful blue eyes of the cold hearted Henry Fonda character.
also the long panning scene when Claudia Cardinale descenRAB from the train, camera pans up and over the building to the town, the music of Ennio Morricone whoa.
also the scene at the start of the men waiting on the train, the water dripping and the fly annoying was it jack elam.

Goodfellas, De niro's character strangling Maury of Maury's wigs don't come off fame (chuckle) with the curly cable of a phone, wanting the money today, today, today

Apocalypse now - the helicopters accompanied by Wagner, also scene with dude surfing off back of boat to Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" in the middle of a warzone

Burn After Reading, John Malkovich smacking Brad Pitt

Scarface - "Say hello to my little friend" again says it all.

Arsenic and Old Lace Mortimer Brewster (cary grant) finding a body in the window box, the look on his face.
 
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