Most memorable Snow Scene in a Film...

Tomohawk

Seeing as its snowing a bit this week in Ireland here are some classic snow scenes that have been committed to celluloid film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgxAkocAPmg

Stanley Kubricks "The Shining" (1980) made extensive use of fake snow, real fake snow not your CGI fake snow in it's hedge maze sequence at the end of the film. The blue tint in the picture makes it look even colder...

"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) had it's opening exterior snow scenes filmed on location in Norway. So lots of real snow there and very impressive those scenes are too...

For me this has to be the best though, the german made war drama "Stalingrad" (1993) You can't beat the old russian winter for a bit of snow!! I imagine making films in these conditions is very demanding on actors, crew and equipment...

Bjorn Bored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWrXTn5Www


cant leave this out,up there with best soundtrak too.

rednik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNcn8kw9Co

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqF9yPSoywQ

Two from the past.

Galvasean

I very much liked the cold atmosphere created in John Carpenter's The Thing. No matter where I am, how much I'm wearing or how high the heating is turned up I always feel cold watching that film. The afct that practically everything in the film is at least partially covered in ice shows great attention to detail.

allanb49

Die Hard 2 - Yippie Kay A mf

Tomohawk

Nice one Bjorn Bored. Doctor Zhivago is just full of snow, two memorable scenes are when Zhivago marches throught the blizzard at night along the train tracks and then follows the telegraph poles to oblivion.

And also when he and his family escape to the country and they enter the frozen Dacha for the first time -great stuff!

candy-gal1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuBq1xA1jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Du9fy0TuA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6bzyDOD1A

SVG

That scene in Fargo where Steve Buscemi buries the money is what comes to mind straight away. I couldn't find it on youtube though but here are the snowtastic opening credits.

I'd forgotten how great the music was!

bnt

Fargo has many great snow scenes - even the one in which Jerry Lundegaard (Macy) is trying to scrape the ice from his car windscreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McfrgMN8EM

If you want a film full of gorgeous snowy scenes, however, I have to recommend Doctor Zhivago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWrXTn5Www

chin_grin

All of Cliffhanger.

Goldstein

30 Days of Night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvFDOs4Km4U

Also, The Pass of Caradhras scene in LOTR Fellowship.

But yes, the first one I thought of was "The Thing"

Tomohawk

There's a good blizzard scene at the start of "Misery" (1990) where James Caan drives his car off the road and into a ravine only to be found later by one of the locals.....

Gerty

I was getting off at the train station tonight and it was completely deserted. As was the car park. For some reason it reminded me of 'let the right one in'. Although there is no scene in a train station as far as i remember.

It's more a deserted place covered in snow that reminds me really.
If i walked past any young girls who were lying on the ground tonight, i'd let them die.

DazMarz

Galvasean wrote: »

I very much liked the cold atmosphere created in John Carpenter's The Thing. No matter where I am, how much I'm wearing or how high the heating is turned up I always feel cold watching that film. The afct that practically everything in the film is at least partially covered in ice shows great attention to detail.

First film that sprang to my mind!!!

As you've mentioned, anytime you watch that film, the cold permeates all. Not just the physical feeling of coldness, but the chill of isolation, terror and lonliness. Brilliant film.

Not a film, but one of the greatest ever captured scenes involving snow were in The Sopranos, in the episode ''Pine Barrens''. Even for non-fans of the show or anyone who has not watched the series before, this episode is a must-see. Not to spoil too much, but the basic premise of the main plotline involves two mobsters (Paulie and Chris) going to collect a debt on behalf of another mobster. The pair succeed in (almost) killing the person they're collecting off, and have to drag the body out to the eponymous Pine Barrens (forests in southern New Jersey) for burial. Soon lost in the frozen and snow-covered forests, the hilarity ensues as the two city slickers try to match their wits with nature... I cannot recommend this episode more strongly to anyone to watch. It is also directed by Steve Buscemi, so there is even more of a link to Fargo than meets the eye!

Also, the ice scenes in the Bond flick Die Another Day were pretty decent, but were mostly all style and no substance... but hey, it had invisible cars and Halle Berry in it, so why complain too much?

The Sparrow

Can't believe nobody has posted It's a Wonderful Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNXtjGY_Us

Kess73

Seeing as the first four films that sprang to mind have been mentioned already, I will throw in Peter Jackson's King Kong. The scene with Kong and Ann skating on the frozen lake.

bonerm

Tomohawk wrote: »

"Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) had it's opening exterior snow scenes filmed on location in Norway. So lots of real snow there and very impressive those scenes are too...

That was gonna be my first choice (especially tonight).

Anyway here's a couple of others that come to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_aAaj4FtRI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGSwf15DJo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yuR_HjCLcw

Tomohawk

Surprised no-one has mentioned this classic scene...




















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IT'S SNOWING!!
"Scarface" (1983)

somuj

How about when the guy with the two broken legs is getting eaten alive by wolves while his girlfriend and best friend try not to look in "Forzen"

swiftblade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXCzC9aJaPU

Band Of Brothers. The whole scene in Bastogne still makes me cold everytime i watch it.

the whole year inn

Inception was pretty good snow scene!!

flybynight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQZfk2_tsKw

The best snowbound movie ever!

bonerm

swiftblade wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXCzC9aJaPU

Band Of Brothers. The whole scene in Bastogne still makes me cold everytime i watch it.

Impressively most (all?) of that was shot on stages rather than location.

Busi_Girl08

Okay, technically it's ice, but the ice scene in Edward Scissorhands was just beautiful.

There is the whole snow element to it aswell

After Edward left the street, it snowed they every year afterwards without fail. Or something

:P

L31mr0d

A long kiss goodnight is shot in the snow. With classic gems like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufBxBTg3ANA

I can't find my favourite scene though with gena davis and samuel l jackson jumping out of an exploding building while she shoots up the ice below before they fall into it (seriously surprised it's not on youtube)

God I love that film

bonerm

Cass

Was playing with the young lad in the snow today, and i remembered his favourite film and then seen this thread so .........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vGYLC87gU

................... doesn't have to be a masterpiece to be memorable.

Gerty

ezridax wrote: »

Was playing with the young lad in the snow today, and i remembered his favourite film and then seen this thread so .........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2vGYLC87gU

................... doesn't have to be a masterpiece to be memorable.

I thought you were a pervert at the start of that post! It's cool, you're just a baby daddy.

Cass

Jaysus yeah. Kinda reads that way.

Well for clarification purposes allow me to elaborate. It my 9 year old son and he was kicking the crap out of me in a snowball fight.

constitutionus

The Sparrow wrote: »

Can't believe nobody has posted It's a Wonderful Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNXtjGY_Us

first thing to hit my mind.

for a film thats got a rep for being smaltzy that scene on the bridge where george was gonna top himself at the beginning was powerful stuff.

fantastic film.

BopNiblets

*scrolls down through thread, I hope no one has posted... DAMN YOU BONERM!*
I wanted to post the Oren Ishii fight.

Now I gotta come up with one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18sdARAVse0

One of the few movie scenes that makes me tear up (skip to 2:10).

sprinkles

Can't find a video clip of it but the end of Die Hard 2, "let it snow".

bonerm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTXtMn_vUDU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ1ZOFNBL68

Zipp101

JohnnyRyan99

No means a classic but a fantastic action sequence at their home near the end!

TherapyBoy

BopNiblets wrote: »

...I wanted to post the Oren Ishii fight.

First scene that came to mind when I saw the thread title I think it's the music that makes it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4lrUR1bdRI

Klingon Hamlet

Star Trek 2009:

Kirk's exile on the surface of Delta Vega:


Star Trek VI:
Kirk and McCoy on prison planet Rura Penthe:


A Simple Plan:
Too many brilliant scenes to pick a favourite...


Superman The Movie:
Clark hurling the crystal, forging the Fortress of Solitude:


The Lord of the Rings pt1:
Passing the mountain Caradhras:


Dumb and Dumber:
Whoops:

L31mr0d

Just thought of one of my favorite films from the 80's, "Better off dead..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlEYRjlVtjg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP9gSfXgir0

JohnMearsheimer

Alive, not a scene but the whole movie, pretty gruesome stuff.

I enjoyed the The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin too. The scenes when they are being stalked by the bear are great but it didn't end too well for the poor bear.

Handsome Bob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeFZXNDz7uA

Awesome, a man who won't betray his beliefs, even if it means his death.

Harrocks

Charles Bronson movie Death hunt.Many scenes from memory the dogs blood splatterd on the snow.The mounties chasing Bronson as he wears what look like tennis rackets on his feet tru the snow.

Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson where he comes across the trappers corpse frozen and finds the rifle.

The call of the wild,I think Charlton Heston gets trapped under the ice as his Sled dog follows along on the surface i remember this been particularily sad.

All great old movies.

cursai

gandalf

Can't believe Dead Snow hasn't been mentioned. Any film that has the phrase "Ein, Zwei, Die" in its advertising is cool with me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxnloAzzNvA