What is the Most Famous Movie Scene?

[Abby Normal]

-George Bailey running down snowy mainstreet yelling hello to everyone in Its a Wonderful life
-Darth Vader virtual choking scene in Star Wars
-"Rosebud" Citizen Kane
-"I think we need a bigger boat" scene in Jaws
-"no place like home" /tapping ruby slippers in Wizard of Oz.
-"Adrianne!!" scene Rocky
-Lawn chair through the glass front door-Body Heat
-Any scene in Animal House

also:
Chariot scene-Ben Hur
Travolta disco dance scene-Saturday night fever
"you lookin at me" mirror scene from taxi driver
russian roulette scene from the deer hunter
Flying bikes-ET
"smells like victory" scene Apocalypse Now
HAL lip reading the astronauts in 2001:
mexican standoff scene at the end of the good the bad and the ugly
mad as hell scene-Network
rolling on the beach-from here to eternity

And the iconic scene to end all iconic scenes.....drumroll......
The ruins of the statue of liberty-Planet of the Apes

[Robert]

I remember the Trollenberg Terror. Radioactive monster rips people's heads off.

Fiend Without A Face is good too - brains with spinal columns attached leap on people's backs and suck their brains out, to horrible sucking noise.

[lynn cates]

that explains it

Hello Robert. Good heavens! Sucks their brains out? So that explains what has happened to my students!

Cheers.
LC

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Lynn. I don't 'remember' these films, per se, because I was nowhere close to being born. But having grown up with monster mags, I'm extremely familiar with Hammer...Terrence Fisher is the man. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing rule! You should get the new issue of Famous Monsters. Has tons on Hammer.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Robert]

And here is one of your students in this clip, Lynn, around 1.30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmXXU2oISQ

[Robert]

Yes, the Hammer stuff was great. Another good company was Amicus, who used to specialise in films containing several tales with a framing story added.

[sleekviper]

The scene where the count is in the distance, then next right in the doorway looking evil. "Nosferatu" was very well made for the time, and that scene of just his shadow going up the staircase is still creepy. I can just see sitting in a movie theater, thinking that the little old man in the next seat will probably have a heart attack at any moment, and he just laughs because it was him creeping through the streets 30 years prior as Jack the Ripper.

[Stephen Thomas]

Any scene from The Giant Claw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOj0nXpRqX8

[Robert]

Obviously they need a giant cat.

I thought the sound effects in The Haunting were very good.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Sleek. Yes, Nosferatu was great. Dracula was a VERY boring movie, but visually stunning, and of course, Lugosi is great.

Abby hit it spot on. That scene from Taxi Driver is very famous. Love that movie.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[lynn cates]

Cushing & Lee

Hello Tom. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee? Good call! last I heard, Christoper Lee is still at it. He narrated a BBC special on an M R James ghost story--"Number 13."

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Marshall Thompson

Hello Robert. Good grief! That's Marshall Thompson. Let's see. "It! The terror from beyond space" and the American series "Daktari."

Thanks!

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Nosferatu

Hello Viper. Yes, "Nosferatu" is great. It was one of only 2 films to scare me as a child.

So, what was F W Murnau's real name?

Cheers.
LC

[sleekviper]

Hello Tom! Yes, I can not believe that they even gave "Dracula" the green light for production back then with the whole taboo of sex. That was more for show than anything, but they seemed hard pressed to keep movies above board.
Hello Lynn! Wilhelm, but I had to look and see. He was born almost two months after the death of MJK, on a weekend. I know that date from another massacre.

[Steadmund Brand]

Wow.. some great picks here, not sure what I can add.... but to answer your question Lynn his real name was Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe...

now lets see if I can pick a few scenes not listed yet.

The lemonade stand in the Marx Bros Duck Soup.

Chaplin eating his shoe in The Gold Rush (not his best film.. but what a scene)

The Woman in the Radiator in Eraserhead

Anthony Quinn breaking down on the beach at the end of La Strada

oh there are so many good ones.... i could go on and on but wont now.. let's hear some more of everyone elses favorites.