Favourite scenes from movies

[Mr. Bergstrom]

There's so many so I'll just list a few of my favourites.

The Shawshank Redemption; the moment that rocks rips through that poster and they realise that Andy's escaped. Morgan Freeman's face is priceless!

Catch Me If You Can, where Di' Caprio's character discovers that his dad has died. He has to deal with it whilst under arrest on a plane heading back to America. He escapes when the plane hits the runway. Such a sad, desperate scene.

The Simpsons Movie, where the glass dome is being lowered towards the ground and that man can't decide whether he's going to stay in Springfield or not, in the end he ends up being flattened. Classic Simpsons moment!

[Yog]

Gladiator: "Death comes for us all, all a man can do is smile back."

Shawshank Redemption: "Hope is a good thing—maybe the best of things—and no good thing ever dies."

I think a lot of times I remember a scene by what is said ...

The Usual Suspects: The very end when Kaiser Souse is walking out of the building. Slowly he ragains the use of his arm and his gimp-leg, he lights up a cigarette, and like that, he's gone.

[Mr. Bergstrom]

Yea I love the ending to The Usual Suspects, when the cup of coffee falls to the ground. I think it would have been even better if I knew there wasn't going to be a twist. All the way through that film I was trying to work the twist out, still loved it though!

I feel stupid because I didn't see The Sixth Sense twist coming haha :outcold:

[foundandlost1]

What a kewl idea for a thread! (Those are great scenes already mentioned)

So many, from Patch Adams...

The Angel of Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4DVCjiPts

When "Patch" fixes the old, supposedly insane professor's coffee cup, and finally figures out the answer to "how many fingers do you see?"

"Patch", first institutionalized, helps his roommate shoot the imaginary squirrels so he can go to the bathroom...

From The Green Mile (also uncharacteristically a Stephen King flick - Like Shawshank) - when that one malicious fop of a guard finally gets his come-upance... and when "Tom Coffee" cures Tom Hanks' character's malady you-know-where...

From "Crazy People", Dudley Moore's character has a nervous breakdown, and comes up with completely HONEST ad campaigns (such as "Jaguar - for men who like hand jobs from beautiful women they hardly know")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ArDB7AJAI

...And from "A Fish Called Wanda" - John Cleese's character speaking Russian, with his underwear on his head, when in walk the owners of the cottage.

Michael Palin's character, the animal lover (and once in disguise as a Rastafarian), keeps accidentally killing the old lady's dogs - instead of her!

But most especially - when Michael Palin's character is trying desperately to spit out the name c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-a-ca-ca-ca-ca-caaa-ca-ca-thcart airport!!!!!! :D

[Mr. Blocks]

I'll go with the Shawshank Redemption, where the old guy hangs himself due to him having been in prison so long that he became dependant on the institution that he had known for so long.

I thought the imagine was quite a powerful one, where one man was taken from him life and placed in a prison for 30 years (or so). And upon leaving he found he couldn't live, he had nothing. And with that he killed himself.

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I will list just that one for the moment.

[Funkadelichika]

One of my favorite scenes is also from the Shawshank Redemption. When they are taring the roof and Andy gets the men beer then doesn't drink any and just watches the other men drink.

[Mr. Blocks]

One of my favorite scenes is also from the Shawshank Redemption. When they are taring the roof and Andy gets the men beer then doesn't drink any and just watches the other men drink.

Yes! That is also a great scene.

Another scene I liked from a different film titled "Sweet November".

A guy falls in love with a women, and she also begins to love him but she's hiding a secret that she hasn't long left to live.

At the end of the film she says she has to leave him since she can't bear to die around him, she wants him to remember her as she was at the moment.

So they both go for a walk, then she blindfolds him and tells him to keep it on for (however long it was). Then once he takes the blindfold off she's gone. And he's left all alone having know he just long the love of his life.

I found it to be quite powerful, in how life can be both cruel and wonderful.

[Musical-Mind]

well my personal favorite scene was in Memoirs of a Geisha where Gio[i think i spelt it wrong D:] walks down this runway in the kabuki theater with an umbrella and these high shoes. she holds out her hand to catch fake snowflakes that are falling down and then she runs backwards out the shoes and starts to thrash around in this beautiful dance, drops her umbrella and is coated in the snow whilst slowly looking up into the lights and does another sequence and falls on the runway dramatically looking forlorn and i thought it was beautiful.

another favorite was in King Arthur when Arthur and the Knights were fighting of a group of men over an ice covered lake. that battle scene was just epic to me. :D heh, that's just me.

[sedated]

In the movie 'The Beach' as the character Richard first ventures onto the hidden shore line, especially enchanting with the song 'Moby - Porcelain' played in the background. Truly spectacular!

'American Beauty' has possibly my favourite scene of all time, featuring a home video of a plastic bag blowing in the wind. I love the quote that the guy reads:

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. "

Sends a shiver down my spine whenever I hear it