In no particular order. Whether it is the ending or a scene in the middle of the film, I think these 5 scenes have had powerful messages delivered to audiences, and critics alike.
5. Schindler's List - Mamatschi
Children being taken away from the camp while singing.
4. Angel with Dirty Faces - Last Request
I have never seen a more powerful scene and the fact that James Cagney was able to perform such a scene is phenomenal and so fucking powerful. An amazing actor.
3. The Eagle and the Hawk - Fredrich March/I've Lost Five
Way too many scenes to name I remember seeing this on TCM and was stunned at the acting of Fredrich March and the violence and subject matter that the film showed in the year 1933. Notable scenes include: when discovers the German ace he shot down is just a kid. His speech after being congratulated is powerful. When Stevens falls out of the aircraft is so powerful, his face explains the horror of it all. Fredrich March makes Cary Grant look like an amateur. Only war movie I have considered to be a Masterpiece.
This isn't a movie scene, but rather a TV show scene. The end moments of The West Wing in seasons 2 and 3 are better than any scene in any movie I've ever seen. I'll look for them on YouTube. (After Season 4 the show changes writers and drops in quality significantly.)
To be honest, these are so well done that seeing them without seeing the rest of the episode is like reading famous passages of Shakespeare without having any idea what the rest of the play is about. I'll do my best to explain the episodes (Including some blatant copies of YouTube comments.), but really... Watch this show it is the best film/show I've ever seen.
Synopsis "Two Cathedrals": The White House is about to release information that Bartlett has kept secret his MS condition during the election. His secretary, Mrs. Landingham, died in a car accident and after attending a funeral, he curses God in Latin.
Right before this scene, he has a vision with Mrs. Landingham and she tells him she doesn't want to know him if he doesn't want to run because he thinks it's too hard or won't win. So he's struggling with whether or not to run for reelection. The ending implicitly shows he will.
Season 2 - "Two Cathedrals"
Synopsis "Posse Commitatus": With the election around the corner President Bartlet goes to a Catholic event charity showing of all the King Henrys. His opponent, Robert Ritchie, was also planning on going, but didn't show in time. It was a political maneuver. All the while Bartlet makes a life-and-death decision about assassinating a foreign diplomat with ties to terrorism.
Part one opens with the murder of a secret service agent who was very close to C.J. Cregg as well as the rest of the staff.
"Sometimes, truth isn't good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded." -Lt. James Gordon
From "The Dark Knight"
Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away. Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them? Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
..... Bruce Wayne: The bandit in Burma, did you catch him? Alfred Pennyworth: Yes. Bruce Wayne: How? Alfred Pennyworth: We burned the forest down.
In Kiki's Delivery Service there's at scene at which a girl witch riding broom is racing towards a little boy dagling by one hand from a rope. It slips out of his hand and as the boy starts plummeting towards the eart the music and all the audio stops. These few seconds in which the boy is falling are completely silent and it really made an impact on me, watching the girl racing there with the sound cut off. Best silence in a movie ever imo.
Jesus. The thread op starts discussing real movies and most of you put up absolute shit, much of which nobody is even going to remember in a couple decades.
one of the most original fighting scenes and better bittersweet endings I've seen in a long while that's what I thought when I saw it first time, still awesome scene today
On April 09 2009 18:47 Mortality wrote: Jesus. The thread op starts discussing real movies and most of you put up absolute shit, much of which nobody is even going to remember in a couple decades.
The forgetting Sarah Marshall scene i posted on page 1....will be remembered by many for generations to come.
My professor tore me a new one the other day cuz i've see and read Streetcar (awesome, and the STELLAAAAAAA scene is def top 5) but never fully saw or read this.
The Children of Men ending is sweet too. That was a really good movie. I gotta read the book. I love dystopian stuff.
Okay well I cant find it on YT but that scene in return of the king where faramir is leading a few hundred troops, as demanded by his father, to osgiliath, which is overrun by orcs.
The whole time Pippin is singing this haunting song while denethor chomps on tomatoes and you watch as the juice oozes down his face and stuff.
idk that was a terrible description but that scene is fucking incredible.
Also, the ending montage in requiem for a dream. That music (Lux Aeterna) is just pure epic.
On April 11 2009 02:00 Ry-Masta-T wrote: Okay well I cant find it on YT but that scene in return of the king where faramir is leading a few hundred troops, as demanded by his father, to osgiliath, which is overrun by orcs.
The whole time Pippin is singing this haunting song while denethor chomps on tomatoes and you watch as the juice oozes down his face and stuff.
idk that was a terrible description but that scene is fucking incredible.
Also, the ending montage in requiem for a dream. That music (Lux Aeterna) is just pure epic.
On April 09 2009 17:56 Pholon wrote: In Kiki's Delivery Service there's at scene at which a girl witch riding broom is racing towards a little boy dagling by one hand from a rope. It slips out of his hand and as the boy starts plummeting towards the eart the music and all the audio stops. These few seconds in which the boy is falling are completely silent and it really made an impact on me, watching the girl racing there with the sound cut off. Best silence in a movie ever imo.
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