Your most powerful movie scene II

... and also the scene in Zulu when the soldiers start singing "men of harlech" in response to the Zulu warriors' chanting,
 
white chicks when he sticks up for his friend. when the nasty boyfriend says 'whats makes you think youre that special' after she says 'i dont wanna be your doormat'. then the black guy punches him...i cried
 
Sharon Stone in 'Last Dance' when she is given a last second reprieve while she is on the table awaiting lethal injection.

This scene is so well acted that I cannot watch it again.
 
When Colin Farrell tries to kill himself in In Bruges. And most of the rest of In Bruges too.

Also, in Midnight Cowboy, where Joe tries to clean up Rico for the party and their last scene in the flat.
 
It would have to be Equilibrium for me.

The scene in which john 'feels' music for the first time when he discovers a hidden record player.
 
A recent one that comes to mind is the opening scene of Inglorious BastarRAB. The build up of tension and underlying menace was very nicely done.
 
a recent one of mine is from an animated film...

in up, at the start when his wife dies. thats moving. no voice over. no over acting, just emotion (from an animation)
 
Once Were Warriors - i don't want to spoil it for people that haven't seen it but its that scene in the garden at night with grace.
 
That one sums it all up for me.

Remember sitting down in the cinema with my popcorn expecting a half decent war movie, and the sense of fear and upset in the cinema was incredible, the place was silent. People stopped fiddling with bags of sweets and popcorn, just had the odd gasp.

After the scene alot of people left the cinema. I was stunned and impressed to the point of thinking there must be something wrong with me for feeling how amazing this movie was going to be.
 
There was a scene in the film 'City of God' where a really young child get deliberately shot in the foot which really had an impact on me, mainly because of how realistic it was. It was like watching a real scene in a documentary then something being acted on film.
 
The final scenes in It's a Wonderful Life where all the Bedford Falls inhabitants come to give the Bailey's money.

The final scenes in Schindler's List where Liam Neeson nearly breaks down whilst considering how many more Jews he could have saved.

There are many many scenes in La vie en Rose that are powerful with feeling but the one that comes to mind is the scene where Piaf has to leave the stage because of illness and then absolutely begs to go back on to sing......she does, and collapses.
 
Viola Davies and Meryls Streep in Doubt - When the mother is told that her son is being abused by the Priest and she basically says that she will put up with it for the sake of her sons future. WTF?

The mothers pain and Streeps utter disdain for what the mother is saying just had me glued to the TV.

Doubt has some of the finest acting I have ever seen on film. It wasgrossly overlooked at the Oscars. It should have wiped the floor with everything that year.
 
The one that sticks to my mind in this film is when she hears the news of Cerdan's death. Rarely has grief been so powerfully captured ...
 
For me personally it is a scene from "To Kill a Mockingbird". When Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck, is leaving the courtroom after the case has ended the black people in the public gallery stand up as mark of respect. Very powerful and moving scene.
 
Bit of an odd one, but Micheal Mann's The Keep, from 1983.

When Otto tries to steal the silver cross, and enRAB up crawling into the bowel of the keep. There is one shot of him peering into blackness. Then the camera pans back. And back. And back. It's a long, slow reveal, all the way down to the base of the keep that struck me as a brilliant pieve of cinematography. In fact, the whole film is beautifully shot, and worth a look if you like artistic horror. This is a rare time when, in my opinion, the film is better than the book.
 
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