Your most powerful movie scene II

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melnat0182

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Don't know what happened but my previous thread didn't appear.

MoRAB - can you delete please :o

Anyway .. talking with frienRAB I choose Al Pacino in Godfather II when hugging his brother Fredo at his father's funeral he looks up to one of his men. Without saying a word that scene said it all.

Also, the scene in Godfather III where he does a silent scream when his daughter is shot is amazing.

Both Al Pacino and The Godfather films are not at the top of my lists but they just happen to be my favourite scenes.
 
I think the scene that really got me was in Shaft (the Samuel L version) when Peoples was stabbing himself in the chest with the ice pick after his brother was killed.
 
Lisa's "breakdown" in Girl, Interuppted, followed by the scene where she says to Susanna "I'm not really dead." I thought it was all quite poignant.
 
I think the most shocking scene I've ever seen in any film was in The Exorcist when Regan was doing something with a cross shouting 'Let Jesus'...etc. We all know the scene.

I've seen that quite a few times now but the first time I saw it I was like 'What the hell'.
I mean a 12 year old girl violently performing a certain act on herself with a cross while using the most shocking language. Then grabbing her mum's head and telling her to 'lick me'. That has got to be the most shocking scene ever.
 
This has always been one of my favorite powerful scenes from any movie.

From Michael Mann's Thief, with James Caan. Robert Prosky plays mob boss Leo, who loner thief Caan goes into business with, but things do not go according to plan...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ve3LQjLSc

Prosky was generally known for playing kindly, geneal old men roles for most of his career, but here he delivers a devastating speech that lets Caan's character know exactly where he stanRAB...electrifying.
 
This one from The Warriors, the scene where gang leader Cyrus delivers a speech to the assembled gangs of New Yorks various borough's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8sxF6rbh0A

And this is the reason why the movie was so controversial - not for the violence as is often thought, because it was hardly graphic, very sporadic and deliberately stylised.

No...the concept of this speech, the notion that if all the gangs did actually get together they would indeed outnumber the police and could take over, is what scared the establishment.
 
For me its one of these (SPOILERS GALORE!!!) :

John Coffey's death scene in The Green Mile (never fails to choke me up).

The end of The Shawshank Redemption (the feeling of elation is incredible).

The first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan.

The bit in Schindler's List where Schindler says "if i'd just sold my car i could have got ten more".

Spock's death and funeral in Star Trek II.
 
I can't really think of an all time scene off hand, but in the last week or so of Xmas DVD viewing, the Harry/Scorpio/'football' stadium scene from Dirty Harry stanRAB out the most. The final drawback/fade out just leaves it all to the imagination...
 
The Russian Roulette scenes in "the Deer Hunter", in particular:

- when Steven (John Savage) pulls the trigger and the gun slips as he does so, sending the bullet into the roof. The look in his eyes and the reaction from Michael (Robert de Niro), biting his lip and tears in his eyes
- when Michael urges Nick (Christopher Walken) to shoot himself with just one empty chamber available, and the gun goes "click".
 
The scene in In The Heat of the Night where Rod Steiger asks Sidney Poitier what kind of job he does to earn the amount of money in his wallet and Poitier replies "I'm A POLICE OFFICER!"

The final scene from Paths of Glory, one of the best anti-war films ever made.

The massacre of the family at the start of Once Upon a Time in the West - especially when you discover it was Henry Fonda who did it.
 
My mind is a bit blank for this one, I keep thinking of scenes and realising they're tv shows!

One that has stayed with me is in 21 Grams when Naomi Watts' character receives the news about the accident and breaks down, and then we see the camera focussing on her sister in the background trying to fight back tears.
 
The end of Switchblade when the Billy Bob Thornton character reaches over and calmly whacks the drunk nasty guy with a meat cleaver. ( why ? takes too long to explain, see the film )


Yikes, I was not expecting that.
 
Is it The Grifters where Anjelica Huston accidentally kills her son at the end of the film.?
Powerful and shocking.

The bit where Denzel Washington get whipped in Glory, a masterclass in acting by facial expressions alone.
 
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