What is the Most Famous Movie Scene?

[c.d.]

I previously posted this in The Interesting Facts thread which I thought was a great thread but which apparently only a few people found interesting.

Anyway, Margaret Mitchell stated that the character of Melanie Wilkes (Ashley's wife played by Olivia DeHaviland) was based on Doc Holliday's first cousin. Holiday of course was the dentist turned gunfighter and a legend of the Old West. It was believed that he had a romantic relationship with his cousin. She decided to become a nun. It was around this time that Doc quit a promising dental career and moved out west to become a gambler.

c.d.

[mariab]

Ernest Dowson was a Ripper suspect? Anything to do with D'Onston?!?
Tumblety still constitutes a legitimate connection to (the events depicted in) Gone with the wind.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Maria. Read my article in the new CE5 when it comes out.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Hi Tom.
I'll read it, but I need to read Examiner 4, a few Ripperologist back issues, and Ripperologist 117 first. And I've got a long French paper on deadline.
Did you get an email I sent you with a spy report mentioning a Schwartz as a Jewish/Polish/Ungarian anarchist orator in 1905?

[Tom_Wescott]

Some people are just a glutton for punishment, I guess.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Tom Wescott wrote:
Some people are just a glutton for punishment, I guess.
If this refers to me, maybe. But this week I haven't worked almost at all, chilling in bed or in front of the DVD player, while my salary's running. (Although in Berlin it's not that much of a salary.) Jealous now? ;-)

[The Good Michael]

Stephens!

Mike

[sleekviper]

Oh man, I have the scene! "White Wilderness". Disney forces lemmings to jump off a cliff, and for ages people think when lemming populations grow to a large size, they will commit mass suicide. Ok, maybe not, but top 20!

[Steadmund Brand]

Hey how about any Terence Hill and Bud Spencer fight scene ( best probably being the gym fight in Watch out We're Mad) silly maybe but once you have seen them you never do forget them......if you don't know who they are, all I can say is it's cartoon like violence.... has to been seen to be understood.. not for everyone though.

[mariab]

The Good Michael wrote:
Stephens!
You can't possibly mean that Alex Stephens was a Ripper suspect?

[kensei]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Butch & Sundance bursting out the door to their freeze frame deaths.

Another Western- The punching out the horse scene in "Blazing Saddles." (Well, more of a moment than a scene I guess- one imitated later by Arnold Schwarzenegger with a camel in "Conan the Barbarian.")

From my youth- The longest scene in "The Breakfast Club" where they all spell out why they're in detention. So much dialog and nothing else for so many minutes.

Also relying on lengthy dialog is pretty much anything by Quentin Tarantino but most noteworthy being the diner scene at the end of "Pulp Fiction." "I'm tryin, Ringo... I'm tryin' reeeeeal hard to be the shepherd."

Greatest Star Wars scene from the best Star Wars movie, the "I am your father" scene from "The Empire Strikes Back."

More sci-fi: William Shatner's greatest moment from the Star Trek movies- "Kaaaaaahn!!!"

Greatest comic book superhero scene- Christian Bale's Batman and Heath Ledger's Joker in the interogation room in "The Dark Knight." The Joker laughing hysterically as he is being brutally beaten makes me absolutely cringe.

Since this is a Jack the Ripper site, how about including my two favorite scenes from the Michael Caine 1988 movie. One, the Ripper coming down the passageway toward Mary Kelly's room while she sings "Sweeeet Violets..." while silhouetted in the window. Makes me shiver every time. And two, Abberline beating the crap out of John Netley in the jail cell. Neither scene is truthful but both are damn good storytelling.

And by the way, someone back a few pages said they thought it was Dreyfuss who said "We're gonna need a bigger boat" in "Jaws." No, it WAS Scheider. Seriously, one of my all time favorite movies, one I can just about recite word for word from memory. And the greatest scene in it doesn't even feature the shark- it is Robert Shaw's USS Indianapolis speech.

[Stephen Thomas]

Brando to Steiger in Waterfront
'I could've been a contender'

Brando in The Godfather
'We'll make him an offer he can't refuse'

(by the way, for those that don't know it, Brando's original surname was Brandeaux so he would have been of French and not Italian extraction).

[mariab]

The last 2 post are famous lines, while we need visual stuff – cinematography!
(Incidentally, I'm back from a wonderful Don Carlos matinee from the N.Y. Met, streamed live at the Sony Center movie theater in Berlin.)

[The Good Michael]

She: Can I do some make up work?

Me: Let's see, you came to one class this semester and it's LANGUAGE class. It's also the day that I must put grades in the system.

She: Well, can you transfer me to another teacher?

Me: No, the other teachers might give in and that would make them enablers.

She: I have a doctor's excuse (handing it to me).

Me: This excuse shows that you had a broken foot and is good for 3 weeks of the 16. Never mind that crutches are not a 21st century contrivance.

She: Well, I worked the other weeks.

Me: I see. Why do you tell me now, on the last day? Why didn't you ask someone to get assignment for you? What did the other professors say?

She: They understood.

Me: I understand too. Goodbye. I can't help you.

She: But, I can write a paper and...

Me: You can take English again. Good day.


Sorry for the interlude

[lynn cates]

microphone

Hello Michael. I say, I'd have been more careful with my language had I know you'd a microphone planted in my class.

Cheers.
LC