- YouTube Al Pacino at his best, “Scent Of a Woman”
[quote]fedorov wrote:
- YouTube Al Pacino at his best, “Scent Of a Woman”[/quote]
Good one.
This speech
and this other one
…its just, so true.
I agree with American History X, just about the whole movie.
jpb
Here are a couple that move me:
In The Bourne Identity, when Bourne is at Marie’s step-bro’s farmhouse and is engaged in cat-and-mouse with the British Treadstone agent (Clive Owen). He and Owen meet face-to-face and Bourne demands to know who Owen is working with. Owen replies, “I work alone, like you.” There’s a sudden connection between the two and they start talking about headaches. Owen then says, “Look a’ this. Look a’ wot they make you give.” and dies.
The scene in The Manchurian Candidate (modern version) where the undercover female agent reaches out to tough Denzel’s shoulder as Denzel sits on the bed, remembering. He says simply, “Don’t. Don’t touch me.” Denzel seems to want so much to be healed and comforted and yet, at that point, he cannot be.
On a lighter note, I love the repartee between Little John and Robin Hood as Little John cooks and Robin Hood pours out his angst over Maid Merian. I’m speaking of the Disney cartoon version 
As others have said, good thread.
Two great movies from the UK;
Don’t know if they’re as famous in the states as they are here.
Here’s a funny scene from
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;
Another great film;
Snatch
Braveheart: when Wallace is betrayed by Robert the Bruce.
[quote]ProRaven wrote:
Blade Runner: the Rutger Hauer speech in the end, when he catches the dove and it flys away as he dies, leaving Harrison Ford to live. Great acting.
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Tears in the rain scene…
The two that come to my mind are:
The funeral scene in Big Fish when the kid (Billy Crudup) finds out that the stories that his father told may not have been lies.
The scene in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer when you find out the Bumble didn’t die in the fall off the cliff.
Apocalypse Now: When Captain Willard is getting his orders the guy who says “terminate with extreme prejudice”. His eyes creep me out every time. The entire movie makes me believe in demons. It also gets funnier each time through (odd paradox that).
A River Runs Through It: The closing speech when Norman as an old man is fishing the Little Black Foot by himself.
The Big Lebowski: Jeff Bridges is smoking a doob in the car while listening to CCR, drops said doob in his lap and puts it out by pouring beer in his lap, then crashes into a dumpster (I think it’s a dumpster).
Spanglish: Sandler’s character comforting his daughter after she hears Sandler fighting with his wife, who’s just disclosed her infidelity. Great movie, great cast, great screenwriting.
American Beauty: “It’s just a couch!! And it’s become more important to you than living…well baby that’s just nuts”…or something like that.
Rear Window…Jeff (Jimmy Stewart’s character) is asleep in his wheelchair and wakes up to see Grace Kelley coming in to kiss him. Forget all of this fitness model bullshit…that’s what a woman should look like.
Groundhog Day: The whole movie…particularly when Phil is talking to Rita while she’s asleep on his bed.
LOTR3
Elrond tells Aragorn about the men in the mountain. Aragorn says that they answer to no one.
Elrond, dramatically revealing Andruil, the Flame of the West: “They will answer to the King of Gondor! Put aside the ranger. Become who you were born to be!”
Apocalypse Now: The scene with Duvall on the beach. The line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning . . . It smells like–victory.”
Lethal Weapon: When General McCallister is torturing Murtaugh, and tells him, “Save it, son. There aren’t any heroes left in the world.”, and then Riggs come crashing through that door.
Rocky 5: I don’t know why, but I love the street fight he has with Tommy Gunn. I feel like I’m throwing those last few uppercuts myself, every time I see it.
Blackhawk Down: That scene where the Delta Sergeant (Hooten?) tells Eversman, “You know what I think? It don’t really matter what I think.” No truer words about being a soldier have ever been said.
Scent of a Woman: Al Pacino’s speech at the boarding school, ending with a table slapping, “Hoo-ahh!” And the scene where he gets the sugar company that his nephew works for wrong, the nephew corrects him and asks, “Why do you always get that wrong, Uncle Frank?”, and Frank says, “Cos it’s not important for me to get it right.”
Super Troopers: Just about any scene. That movie kills me.
And honorable mention goes to:
The Last Boy Scout: “You touch me again, and I’ll kill you.”
The Pursuit of Happyness. It was a really good movie. The ending where he is told that he got the job, then he goes to pick up his son from daycare and give him a big hug… Lump in my throat. It was just so moving.
Almost forgot this one. Bar scene from Knockaround Guys.
Vin explains what it takes to be a “Legitimate Tough Guy”. Yea it is a cheesy movie and cheesy scene, but I have always liked it.
Last samurai when the Emperor askes “tell me how he died”, and Crise says “let me tell you how he lived”.
Gladiator-whole movie, but especially: at the end when he is bleeding to death while fighting, and he is hallucinating about his family.
and-
When his former slave gives him the little figures of his family and he looks at them in his cell.
Lethal Weapon-
Riggs about to commit suicide at the beginning. I couldn’t get that out of my head for awhile.
When Riggs breaks in where murdoch is being held and he takes out the group of bad guys. The effect is what Segal has always tried to do on film(the “invincible, unstopable badass”)but fallen short.
Wyatt Earp-
When the womenfolk ask why they don’t get a say in family matters, and he says (forgive my memory): “Because wives aren’t family. They leave, they die…” . It always struck me as a brutal statement and attitude.
Airplane- whole movie. Classic.
[quote]mapwhap wrote:
And honorable mention goes to:
The Last Boy Scout: “You touch me again, and I’ll kill you.”
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“Play some rap music” always cracks me up.
Gerg and Mapwhap- Kudos on the Lethal Weapon mention. I said the same thing in an earlier post.
And the Last Boy Scout reference was good.
There’s a couple of scenes in “Pursuit of Happyness” that really got to me. The one where Will Smith and his son spend the night in the subway station, and the ending where Smith’s character lands the job he worked so hard for.
This was one of the most inspiring movies I’ve seen in a while.
[quote]Djwlfpack wrote:
There’s a couple of scenes in “Pursuit of Happyness” that really got to me. The one where Will Smith and his son spend the night in the subway station, and the ending where Smith’s character lands the job he worked so hard for.
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I’ve found that there are a lot of scenes that used to not get to me pre having a son, after which they hit me pretty hard. This entire movie is in that category (it came out after my son was born, but I think you get my meaning).
Man on fire…
pretty much the whole movie,but the scene where Denzel is asked by Pita’s mother what he was going to do and he says:
“Kill everyone that profited from her death…”
Couple more:
Unforgiven: When Clint goers back and kills everyone for killing his friend.
Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this… to die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
Will Munny: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess he had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
Speaking of, True Grit, when John Wayne says
To his son: Well, son; since you don’t have any respect for your elders, it’s time somebody taught you some respect for your betters!
to the bad guy:
And now you understand. Anything goes wrong, anything at all… your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault… it won’t matter - I’m gonna blow your head off. No matter what else happens, no matter who gets killed I’m gonna blow your head off.
I miss good cowboy movies. Every Sunday with the old man wathcing them.