Most powerful scene from a movie or TV show?

Prodgey

SPOILERS FOR THE WIRE BELOW:

I watched The Wire recently and the scene where Stringer visits D after he takes the years really stood out. Really moving and sort of haunting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrSy9r0-lMg

Have you any scenes from movies or TV shows that have really stuck with you?

NegativeCreep

The scene where Dumbo sits on his mothers trunk when she's in prison and cries those huge tears. Lord jaysis.

mutley18

PhoenixParker

First twenty minutes of UP.

December2012

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The scene where Dumbo sits on his mothers trunk when she's in prison and cries those huge tears. Lord jaysis.

The worst bit is when he has to leave and their trunks slowly stop touching each other.

r3nu4l

PhoenixParker wrote: »

First twenty minutes of UP.

I agree. That was totally unexpected and brilliantly done.

PinkFly

The girl with the red coat in Schlinders List

razorblunt

Futurama .... Dog ....."if it takes forever, I will wait for you".


Horrific

arybvtcw0eolkf

The gas chamber scene from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas..

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

Tore the heart out of me, I could barely watch the screen.

Vito Corleone

The ending of the movie "Kids".

R P McMurphy

Towards the end of season 2 of rescue me was an episode featuring Dennis Leary his wife and son. Just the look on Dennis Leary's face when the incident happened

PinkFly

The last 10minutes of Brave and the ending of Toy Story 3

Bawled at both in the cinema much to the embarrassment of my son ;-)

RikkFlair

Platoon, Willem Dafoe....Barbers Adagio for Strings

biko

When Dr Steiner dies in The Mentalist.

PinkFly

Snowman gets me every time...why are kids movies so sad?

whiskeyman

Shawshank.
Lots of scenes in that.

DjFlin

Wreck-It Ralph:

"You really are a bad guy"


Gets me every time.

Davei141

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgK5HKj3P4

I've always loved this scene.

DundalkDuffman

The opening episode of the Shield was one that springs to ming. Very much a case of WTF!
edit! The brothers in arms on West Wing wasn't bad either!

Fox_In_Socks

When MacGyver kills Murdoch, or does he..?

When MacGyver kills Murdoch again, or does he..?

When MacGyver kills Murdoch once more, or does he..?

When MacGyver kills Murdoch once again, or does he..?

When MacGyver kills Murdoch another time, or does he..?

When MacGyver kills Murdoch another time again, or does he..?

The Backwards Man

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

extended

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwWp6vnAF50

Shelflife

The scene in crash , where the father gives his daughter his "jacket of protection " as she is scared at night.

Later when he returns home and is confronted by a gunman she jumps in front of the bullet as she is still wearing his jacket.

Heart was all over the place for that one.

sinjin_smythe

Thought of this one. Strange for a comedy but its up there

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

Shelflife

The scene in crash , where the father gives his daughter his "jacket of protection " as she is scared at night.

Later when he returns home and is confronted by a gunman she jumps in front of the bullet as she is still wearing his jacket.

Heart was all over the place for that one.

http://youtu.be/L-iyxIincCI

Femme_Fatale

weedhead wrote: »

Thought of this one. Strange for a comedy but its up there

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

Sad scenes from comedies are particularly moving. I guess because they're so unexpected.

Ihatecuddles

Empire of the Sun makes my boyfriend weep like a small child.

when he says he cant remember what his parents look like, I can hear him try to stifle his sobs

There's a good few moving parts to that movie!

Gmol

The end of season 4 of breaking bad in the nursing home is brilliant.

welchy

From Band of Brothers, finding the concentration camp.

judge_dredd

oppening scene of the godfather for me

dearg lady

Royal tenenbaums, 'needle in the hay' haunting and beautiful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyBB7y8fDU

FunLover18

Toy Story 3, the furnace, all hold hands...

alchemist33

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Sad scenes from comedies are particularly moving. I guess because they're so unexpected.

Which leads me to...


The final scene of Blackadder Goes Forth.

Archeron

One of the scenes from Stigmata where Patricia Arquette wakes up after a possession and she is crying. She says "why am I so sad, I feel like my heart is breaking" and she conveys it so well that you can't but feel it too, though there is no logical reason for being sad.
Always one I remember.

MJ23

Bull McCabe in the priests house in The Field. Telling the the story of the day his mother died.
Superb.

Ihatecuddles

The end of Ladder 49.

when he tries so hard to break through the wall, thinking that he can escape on the other side...only to find it's surrounded by smoke. His face when he sees the flames on the other side of the window. He tells the captain to tell him wife and kids he loves them. Then Shine your light by Robbie Robertson plays, I cry like a baby and I'm pretty much made of stone!

Shine Your Light is a great song btw

Ihatecuddles

Oh and The Royle Family.

Barbara brushing nannas hair
Denis in labour in the bathroom and Jim comes up to her
Nanna dying

I f*cking love that show.

Vito Corleone

When Homer's Mom had to go back into hiding.

SlinkyKittin

Davei141 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgK5HKj3P4

I've always loved this scene.

Was just about to post this - brilliant acting, fantastic

Dyr

final blackadder scene, they took the full scene off youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM

Call me Al

Sophies Choice, where she has to choose which of her two children to keep with her and which to give away in the German ww2 death camp. Torturous scene brilliantly acted by Meryl Streep.

FunLover18

goalscoringhero

Dead Poets' Society - Oh Captain My Captain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdXhWS7lLvs

dirkmeister

6353 Juan Tabo,
Apartment 6






....Yeah

Daqster

American History X (Edward Norton): "Put your fcuking mouth on the curb. That's it. Now say goodnight."

rockatansky

George Orwells Animal Farm

Even though its a cartoon, the scene where Boxer the horse is being taken away in the Death Wagon and the screams from Benjamin as he chases after it will stay with me forever.

Firefox11

The ending in Heat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMru9bMnKw0

Sciprio

Lord of war intro

(Great shot though that kid never saw it coming! :P

And omaha beach from saving private ryan.

enda1

Basically the whole second half of Requiem for a Dream is gut wrenching and horrific creating a sense of emptiness and despair.

December2012

weedhead wrote: »

Thought of this one. Strange for a comedy but its up there

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

That's a great scene. Very raw and honest.

G_R

Another west wing clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs

Such a good show! Wish I could watch it for the first time again.

And also...

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

GottaGetGatt

Well up there in my top Movies,most underrated movie of 2011
WARNING: Dont watch if you havent seen it.