What is the Most Famous Movie Scene?

[c.d.]

Hi Maria,

I am sooooo disappointed in you. Not liking "Casablanca?" How is that even possible? Selected as the second greatest movie of all time by the American Film Institute.

c.d.

[mariab]

I'm soooo sorry, C.D.! Maybe I should try it once again. In fact, what I don't get is how it was selected as the second greatest movie of all time by the American Film Institute. (Was their first greatest selected movie Citizen Cane? Which, unbelievable, I still haven't watched in its entirety.)
And I really like oldies. The women, All about Eve, everything by Hitchcock. I even like Aimez-vous Brahms? {Do you like Brahms?} with Ingrid Bergman.

[c.d.]

Yes, Maria. Please try it again. "Here's looking at you, kid."

c.d.

[mariab]

Even without having seen Casablanca, everyone can quote "Play it again, Sam“ and “I think this might be the beginning of a wonderful friendship“.
Still, I have my doubts about this movie. Possibly because the love story is already over before the film begins?

[c.d.]

Even without having seen Casablanca, everyone can quote "Play it again, Sam“ and “I think this might be the beginning of a wonderful friendship“.
Still, I have my doubts about this movie. Possibly because the love story is already over before the film begins?

Hi Maria,

Not to nitpick but as every true "Casablanca" fan knows the line is actually "Play it, Sam" and it is "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

The love story is indeed over when the film begins but they get a second chance -- "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

And of course "As Time Goes By". What an absolutely great romantic song.

c.d.

[mariab]

C.D., you're a true Casablanca fan. Now I know what to give you for Xmas (but I assume that you already have the DVD and the motion picture music score). By the by, I think there's a Woody Allen parody of Casablanca called Play it again, Sam, but I've never seen it.

[c.d.]

Yes, Maria as you have probably guessed by now "Casablanca" is my all time favorite movie and I have probably seen it at least twenty times. I have the movie on tape and also have "As Time Goes By" in my music library. It never gets old for me. The Woody Allen movie is pretty funny. Woody plays his usual nerdy self and gets advice from Bogart in his attempt to seduce Diane Keaton. The actor playing Bogart does a very good imitation. There is one great line where Woody and Diane Keaton are sitting on the couch and Bogart (whom only Woody can see) is giving him step by step instructions.

Bogart: Now move closer to her.
Woody: How close?
Bogart: The length of your lips.

And of course it all ends with a parody of the famous airport scene.

c.d.

[mariab]

C.D.,
interesting. The “problem“ with Woody Allen is, the entirety if his films are either a homage or a parody or a rip off of something else. But once one accepts this fact/flaw/genre characteristic, they're rather clever.
I don't have just one favorite movie, like you, but just too many, at least 20 or 30. Maybe someone should start a thread about favorite movies?!

[Robert]

For those who don't like Casablanca there is a mathematicians' version, which contains the line "Here's looking at Euclid."

[sleekviper]

The transformation of the robot into the beautiful Maria in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".

[mariab]

Sleekviper wrote:
The transformation of the robot into the beautiful Maria
For a second there I thought you were referring to me. He he he, I apologize, but I couldn't resist...

[Tom_Wescott]

Wow, how'd we miss it?

I just thought of an extremely famous scene that I'm surprised we haven't thought of yet...Abbott & Costello's 'Who's On First' scene. What a classic.

Interestingly enough, The woman who spoke the first line in the first talkie horror movie ever (Carla Laemmle) is still alive. The movie was Dracula. She was also a chorus dancer in Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera in the 20's. Not only is she still alive, but she just published a couple of books. Her father owned Universal Studios back then and her brother produced the original Universal horror movies. It's remarkable to me that someone who acted alongside Chaney and Lugosi is still with us.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Robert]

Now Voyager - "Why should we ask for the moon when we have the stars?" Never seen it, but it is famous.


I love the scene in For A Few Dollars More when Lee Van Cleef strikes his match on Klaus Kinski's face and calmly lights his pipe while staring straight at him - the beadiest stare in motion pictures.

[The Good Michael]

Back to Play it Again, Sam: This was a good movie, and perhaps the most memorable line in it was kind of a dream sequence with Woody Allen imagining he'd just had sex with a woman and after lighting a cigarette, and in a Bogie voice says, "Sorry I had to slap you around, but you got hysterical when I said, "No more."

It's because of my love for Casablanca that this line is my most memorable one.

Mike

[The Good Michael]

For those who don't like Casablanca there is a mathematicians' version, which contains the line "Here's looking at Euclid."

Robert, I expected better from you... actually, I didn't.

Mike