Your most powerful movie scene II

The bit in the Godfather where Michael meets the cop and the other guy in the cafe. The build up of tension before he shoots them is incredible.

Great performance by Pacino and superbly directed by Copplola
 
Yep, that's mine. The Ennio Morricone music playing as the five gunmen emerge from the scrub bushes in those amazing coats. Then the camera pans up to Franks face and it is HF. Just brilliant.
 
I agree with all that's been posted about the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.

The scene in Blade Runner where Rutger Hauer is holding the dove and saying to Deckard: ""I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. All those moments will be lost in time ..." is very powerful and poetic.
 
I saw OUTITW when I was seven at the cinema but I only ever saw the beginning/half way (used to get taken out if a film was unsuitable, grandparents were cinema inspectors), but I saw the beginning about 3/4 times.

For years the only bit I remembered was the family being massacared, it even became a recurring dream that I have had on and off for about 30 years. It was the unexpectedness, the shot of their feet all lined up, their boots, the table.

I only saw the whole film about five years ago and had no idea it was the same film. So I was totally stunned when my dream started appearing on the screen, it was like watching something you knew really, really well but at the same time it was something that only I should know.

Consequently, it gets my vote because although I spent a childhood watching films in some very, very seedy cinemas throughout southern england, it's the only film that has ever managed to affect me so much that it crossed from being a film into being a memory that's pretty much haunted me since I saw it.

(just goes to underline the importance of film classification)
 
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