Favourite scene or segment? *NO LISTING OR EXCESS EMBEDDING*

Fishooks12

Not sure if there is a thread for this already but feel free to merge if their is

Some of my favourite scenes:

Blue Valentine futuristic hotel room scene: Williams and Gosling in what is the most powerful and emotional scene in a brilliant film

Final scene in high fidelity: When Cusack puts on those headphones and the chorus of I Believe kicks in it gets me every time

Animal Kingdom:

scene where the cousin(can't recall name) drugs and kills Josh's girlfriend

shocking piece of cinema

Clockwork Orange: Milk Bar scene

Donnie Darko: Cinema scene where

Frank shows Donnie the portal

Good Will Hunting:

When Will finally breaks down in tears in Seans office

MOD NOTE: Going to leave this thread open, but if it turns into just a wall of youtube clips ye have only yourselves to blame!

Hard to pick just one scene but few come closes to matching the opening of Once Upon A Time in the West. Anyone with even a passing interest in cinema should be familiar with the scene.

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

dermiek

De Niro in Taxi Driver, the scene in front if the mirror " you talking to me? " springs to mind.
Supposed to have been mostly improvised, AFAIK .

Too many more to mention, but my all time Fave is probably Jack Nicholson giving the Indian a chewing gum, waiting for electro shock treatment in One flew over the cuckoos nest.

Corkfeen

I've got an unhealthy obsession with Oldboy and there's tons of scene I could choose from it. But I guess my choice would be the octopus eating, it's great watching a persons reaction as they really have no idea what's about to happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzJEGqek3TQ

Quite recently, one of my favourite scenes has been the elevator scene from Drive - before the gruesome event at the end.

It was just superbly well shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syjF8GUSBmY

I've said this numerous times - but one that sticks out for me ALWAYS and just shouts for an oscar, which it was robbed of, is the Red Dress monologue from Requiem for a Dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0W-L1KKPg

There was just so much emotion and genuine heartache. I'm always reminded of the story on IMDB, in which the camera started to move and, upon questioning Aronofsky discovered that the camera man had started to cry.

The opening of Serenity was equally fantastic, just for the technicalities of it and I have a thing for steadycam shots like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1IMM5XOwaM

While shaky cam may not be everyone's cup of tea, this scene from Children of Men was just so visceral

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

Melion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzOqyAn76o

Even more amazing considering he did it all himself with no wires or CGI

EddyC15

Joe Pesci's "Funny how?" scene in Goodfellas. It just shows what kind of a nutcase the guy is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ff46b58Hk

Is that the scene that was completely and utterly improvised?

EddyC15

Deleted User wrote: »

Is that the scene that was completely and utterly improvised?

Yeah, IMDB says it was anyway.

"The "You think I'm funny?" scene was based on a story that Joe Pesci acted out for Martin Scorsese. While working in a restaurant as a young man, Pesci once told a mobster that he was funny and the mobster became very angry. Scorsese allowed Pesci and Ray Liotta to improvise the scene. He did not tell the other actors in the scene what would happen because he wanted their genuine surprised reactions."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/trivia

Otis Driftwood

I love the house of blue leaves scene in Kill Bill.This is the uncut one,much better than the theatrical release.Absolutely preposterous of course but brilliantly shot.

Cobbe354

It just has to be the end of the Last of the Mohicans.

Always brings a tear to my eye. Breathtaking however!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tiKM4fxY1U

johnny_ultimate

Folks, we all know how to use youtube. If you're unwilling to explain your choice in some sort of detail (a sentence will do), then don't post.

It's corny as hell, but the Tiny Dancer bit in Almost Famous is actually perfectly realised. For a scene to go from unbearable tension to joyful forgiveness with barely a word uttered is some feat.

I find it hard to imagine anyone couldn't be sucker punched by the whisper at the end of Lost in Translation. But many people aren't and think the film is a piece of ****, so what do I know? One of cinema's most heartbreaking, romantic farewells.

On a purely technical level, I was wowed by the tracking shot in Week End. Godard is a pretentious little so-and-so at the best of times, but this was him really making the most out of a camera in a playful, satirical way.

The scene where Bibi Andersson recounts a certain beach encounter in Persona is powerful stuff. There's nothing shown, but it's charged with a surprising (for the time) eroticism. That the American's censored it always provides a bit of a giggle. Bergman is a master, and Nykvist lights it stunningly (easily the best lit film you'll ever see!). Andersson's performance is pitch perfect - school girl innocence alongside a strong confidence. She then goes on to have her whole personality cruelly dismantled. Oh well.

I find myself frequently rewatching the 'Komm, Susser Todd' sequence from End of Evangelion a lot recently. Easily the most visually dazzling, psychologically complex action sequence I've ever seen. Sat in a daze first time I watched it - as characters 'return to nothing', there's emotion few other animators or indeed film-makers have been willing to explore. The music choice is simply transcendent. The 'berserk' sequence and ending from Evangelion 2.0 are equally hypnotic.

Mickeroo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It's corny as hell, but the Tiny Dancer bit in Almost Famous is actually perfectly realised. For a scene to go from unbearable tension to joyful forgiveness with barely a word uttered is some feat.

Thats a great scene in fairness but I think the one on the plane where they all think they're going to die edges it by a whisker, the timing is pure gold.

One of my favourites is the scene in the Royal Tenenbaums where Margo meets Richie at the bus to the sound of Nico's These Days in the background. It's just a really affective scene, they barely say anything to eachother but you feel like a thousand words are exchanged and the song adds the perfect air of meloncholy to it. There's quite a few scenes in that film I could put forward actually.

The very end of Fight Club would also be an all time favourite,
when Jack tells Marla he thinks he's going to be ok he really means it and then the pixies kick in and the bombs start to go off. Pure class.

krudler

this scene from Close Encounters still gets me every time, the mothership sequence, starts about a minute in, that first wide shot of the ship behind the devils tower is still stunning looking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCBgSRNjk0

bnt

I have a soft spot for scenes at the end of films that somehow, even indirectly, sum up the idea or feeling that creators intended. That's not to say that I demand or expect it, or that a film is the worse for not having such a scene. It can go horribly wrong if done badly or unnecessarily, I think, so a good one is all the more special.

There's this scene in Fargo, which sums up the clash of cultures between the local people and the crimes that were committed. (Contains spoilers - but you have seen Fargo, right?)

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

Another is the famously enigmatic ending of Lost In Translation, with Bill Murray saying something to Scarlett Johansson, something that we don't hear. You can find videos with enhanced audio, explaining exactly what was said, but I've never looked at one. It's better this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bd2RE0OjyE

Mickeroo

bnt wrote: »

Another is the famously enigmatic ending of Lost In Translation, with Bill Murray saying something to Scarlett Johansson, something that we don't hear. You can find videos with enhanced audio, explaining exactly what was said, but I've never looked at one. It's better this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bd2RE0OjyE

Really?? I'm at two minds to whether look it up now :eek:

Fishooks12

bnt wrote: »

I have a soft spot for scenes at the end of films that somehow, even indirectly, sum up the idea or feeling that creators intended. That's not to say that I demand or expect it, or that a film is the worse for not having such a scene. It can go horribly wrong if done badly or unnecessarily, I think, so a good one is all the more special.

There's this scene in Fargo, which sums up the clash of cultures between the local people and the crimes that were committed. (Contains spoilers - but you have seen Fargo, right?)

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

God I love that scene

So perfect in the context of the film and ties everything together wonderfully

Great choice

johnny_ultimate

Mickeroo wrote: »

Really?? I'm at two minds to whether look it up now :eek:

Don't. It's pretty much impossible to make out, and most are just conjecture (and not particularly interesting). It's kind of missing the point trying to figure it out anyway!

e_e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSUr2svzkRI

Yeah this made me tear up. People are surprised when I say this is the best in the trilogy, it's just so cathartic.

SVG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMHuOrwYsc

This just makes me happy. I especially love the little axe dance towards the end.