Your favorite moments in film.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Exactly what it says on the tin. I wanna know what you guys consider to be your favorite moments in film. It can be dramatic, comedic, quiet, maybe ever just something that happens in the background that not everyone sees at first.

My personal favorite is an easy one to pic.

It's this scene from the WWII-era classic Casablanca...

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Just so you can get an idea for why I love this scene so much:

At this point in the film, Victor Lazlo (the one played by Paul Heinreid) is trying to buy these letters from Rick (that's Humphrey Bogart's character) so that he can escape Rick's ex-girlfriend Ilsa (played by Ingrid Bergman). Suddenly, a group of nazis, led by Major Strasser (played by Conrad Veidt) begin belting out a german song in the middle of the crowd of refugees and rebels. Lazlo then orders the house band to play "La Marseillaise". Rick nods his approval.

What happens next is just one of those magic moments that could only happen during this era of Hollywood. All of the french patrons in the room jump up to their feet and join in. The character Yvonne (played by Madeleine LeBeau), sings with passion as tears pour down her eyes. Eventually, they manage to drown out the Nazis and shame them into silence.

What makes this scene so great isn't just what happens on screen, but the facts behind it. All of those extras who played french patrons were real french refugees. Madeleine LeBeau herself had fled Paris with her husband (who was Jewish) mere days before the blitzkrieg had hit the city.

Those tears in her eyes? They were real. She wasn't crying because the script called for it. She was homesick. Her cries of "Viva la France! Viva la Democratie!" were a completely spur of the moment thing.

And to top it all off? All of those nazis (including Conrad Veidt) were played by German jews who had fled the country.

[Zoroaster]

This is a tough one for me. Probably the part in Les Miserables when Enjolras and the Friends of the ABC start singing along with the crowd.

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This is dope.

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[Thirsty Crow]

Pretty much the entire movie

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EDIT: though this isn't the most powerful scene from it, but seemingly I can't find the one. The whole thing is such a scene when taken together.

EDIT: perhaps this one (definitely this one among the many across different films)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngqkI8VuZ8

[BITW434]

The scene from Reds, at the time of the October Revolution, where The Internationale is playing in the background is pretty cool
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And also, from probably one of my favourite films of all time, Come and See, towards the end where the boy shoots at the puddle with Hitler's portrait...

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(would link directly but I have an insufficient post count) :mad:

[Os Cangaceiros]

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[Viktor89]

When the young gestapo recruit in Vichy France, Lucien, shoots the german police who is escorting his girlfriend and her grandmother to deportation, as they are jews, and then escapes with them. In Lacombe Lucien by Louis Malle.

[Futility Personified]

damn, detachment was a good film. only seen it once thus far, but it is recent to my catalogue, and doesn't need a reshowing so close after it cuts to be the bone. My faves are the nam films, but i'll cut between Apocalypse Nows brief scene with Kurtz, his mundane discussion with his assassin, undercut by so much tension, and the bit from FMJ where they talk about why they want to go to war. So much rubbish, so many lies, it just makes the futility of their 'sacrifice' so much worse.

[Art Vandelay]

It's hard for me to really pick a favorite, I'd have to think alot more about it than I have, in order to create an accurate list, but a few that come to mind...

- The scene in the usual suspects where kevin spacey's character's limp straightens out as he walks down the sidewalk, while all the details of the film fall into place.

- the 'over the line' scene from the big lebowski...priceless...

- rounders where john malkovich's character has his tell found out..ie: the scene with the oreo cookies.

- in wolf of wall street where there is the slow motion qualuude scene.

- the scenes in kingpin where woody harrelson and bill murray's comeovers are ridiculous while they're bowling near the end of the film.

- the part in factotum when matt dillon pulls away with the gas pump still in the car and rips it off the wall, only for his boss to track him down to a bar to find him - or the scene where he wrestles a midget on the job.

- the scene near the end of barfly where rourke continually yells out 'ma fireennddsss...'

[Redistribute the Rep]

Toy story has a lot of good moments

[Lily Briscoe]

The chicken dinner scene in Eraserhead. Tried to find a clip on youtube, but the only one I saw (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hyB4Vx-TavQ) leaves out the dialogue, which is the main part.


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Not a huge fan of La Haine, but I always thought 'Grunwalski' was the best scene:sOHp_UV77zY

[Os Cangaceiros]

I love that movie. There are multiple memorable scenes in it...I also like the scene where they go to that cokehead's apartment in a more affluent area of Paris

[#FF0000]

The coin toss scene from No Country For Old Men is pretty great.

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[GiantMonkeyMan]

This is dope.

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I've unfortunately never sat down and watched all of The Working Class Goes to Heaven but I've seen that scene a few times, tis good. For some reason it always reminds me a little of a scene from Flame in the Streets, even though the contexts are very different:

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When thinking of great scenes/moments, I instantly think of the brilliantly choreographed long takes in Children of Men, also the sequence with Ecstasy of Gold playing in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and I always love that moment in Ferris Bueller's Day Off where he just up and joins the parade. One of my favourite moments in film, mainly because I'm a total softy, is in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It's tragic, beautiful and sad with brilliant accompanying music; when they're walking along the platform and it's timed so perfectly that the instant he gets on the train he starts drifting away from her... it's just great cinema.

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(about six minutes into this video but it's better with some context)

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^For some reason I'm reminded of Lara's Theme in Doctor Zhivago. Probably the greatest soundtrack.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I really liked the opening credits for "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (the 2011 one). I watched it on Blu Ray on a pretty big screen and thought, damn, this looks good

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Unfortunately I thought the credits were the best thing about GWTDT, ha.

[Ele'ill]

there are some good scenes in children of men