Best Scenes in Movie History?

[Birdie Num Nums]

Tonight the TV Movie Channel broadcast "The Graduate." That's MY favorite movie of all time.

I once again enjoyed that significant scene midway that connects the first half of the movie to the last half, with Mrs. Robinson and Benjamin in Room 568 trying to converse about... well, about anything... including that Ford!! What great writing, directing, acting, editing!

What other classic movie scenes do you enjoy?

 

[easysurfer]

The gunfight between Shane and Wilson. "You're a Low down yankee liar".. "Prove it!" .

 

[CyclingInvestor]

Good Bad Ugly : 3 way showdown near end
Blazing Saddles : campfire dinner
Tough Guys : bank holdup, encounter with street gang

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

 

[DrRoy]

First radio contact with Apollo 13 after reentry.

 

[Pellice]

The long take that ends "The Third Man" that leaves the Protagonist (Holly Martins) standing stock still, as the Woman (Anna Schmidt) heels right past him in silence and disdain. He lights a cigarette, and the smoke seems to be a punctuation mark to her disappearing silhouette as she walks steadily out of his life. The camera follows her until she vanishes.

 

[candrew]

Saving Private Ryan

The movie's final scene in the Normandy cemetery.

 

[DRC726]

The movie's final scene in the Normandy cemetery.

I was actually going to add the opening scene for Saving Private Ryan when the US troops are landing on the beach at Normandy. Such an epic movie.

 

[rjk514]

Go ahead...Make My Day....

 

[USGrant1962]

For this gang, John Goodman's "the position of FU" speech about FU money in The Gambler.

 

[Dtail]

I was actually going to add the opening scene for Saving Private Ryan when the US troops are landing on the beach at Normandy. Such an epic movie.

+1
I was exhausted after watching that scene.

 

[steelyman]

Alfred Hitchcock directed countless great scenes. “North By Northwest” has one after another with the memorable Mount Rushmore chase at the end. I heard one time the working title was “The Man In Lincoln’s Nose”.

 

[Nemo2]

The Bedford Incident - "Fire One".

 

[Stormy Kromer]

Many great movies mentioned here already.


I'll go with the the horseback shoot out scene near the end of True Grit between Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) and Lucky Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall). Great dialogue between the two before the shooting starts. "Fill your hands...."

 

[anethum]

In recent films, Margot Robbie in The Big Short explaining sub-prime mortgages while drinking champagne in a bubble bath, was pure brilliance.

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[LRDave]

Last scene in Casablanca, from the time the car arrives at the airport.

 

[njhowie]

"I'll Be Back"

 

[Montecfo]

Steak scene from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".

John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin.

https://youtu.be/nI_BKLpSFQg

 

[ckelly78z]

Definitely one of my favorites...

"Look at the bones" !

 

[MRG]

The ending scene of A Boy and His Dog.


https://youtu.be/TPRGiRD1GG0

 

[MuirWannabe]

The bathroom scene with Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

The long take that ends "The Third Man" that leaves the Protagonist (Holly Martins) standing stock still, as the Woman (Anna Schmidt) heels right past him in silence and disdain. He lights a cigarette, and the smoke seems to be a punctuation mark to her disappearing silhouette as she walks steadily out of his life. The camera follows her until she vanishes.

I love that movie. The scene with the drunken balloon vendor is also great, as are so many others.

 

[T-Minus]

Touch of Evil opening scene:

...a no-cut, no editing tricks, work of genius by Orson Wells. Well worth your time, even if the move is a bit...dated.

 

[Rianne]

The ending scene of A Boy and His Dog.


https://youtu.be/TPRGiRD1GG0

Did she taste as good as she looked? Creepy. I have to see that movie.

 

[timbervest]

Jaws - "You're gonna need a bigger boat"