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films: Pick one scene or image that you feel represents cinematic genious!

Schindler's List
Scene: While some officer guy was trying to justify killing the man with one arm to Oscar Schindler, a shot of the man lying in the snow with blood flowing from his head, onto the snow while the camera slowly pans down to follow it. The expression on his face, the way he was going on about being feeling like he was an important part of the factory, while the solders where laughing at him, the way the blood looked on the snow, the beautiful black and white and the way the officer was talking about him, like he was worthless all got to me.
Magnolia
Scene: It's been a while but I remember the scene where Julianne Moore was at the pharmacy trying to get the medication for her husband, and the clerk guy got all suspicious and went to talk to the manager. She then has this huge breakdown. I remember the raw emotion and feeling she got across in that scene being very powerful.
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Two PTA ones....
Boogie Nights: When PTA films Dirk up-close when they are selling the drugs to that outlandish hollywood figure...he has the camera on his face for a good minute while playing Jesse's Girl..I don't know I just love it...
Magnolia: The scene where all the diff. characters sing verses of Aimee Mann's "Save Me"..also, Frank's (Tom Cruise) interaction with the interviewer
 
You guys are all totally right
Quentin Tarantino's opening to Pulp Fiction gets my vote every time though.
Holy shit, he drops you off in this little coffee shop, a nice couple is chit chatting, next thing you realize... something isn't quite right... they're talking about knocking over liquor stores... they're talking about knocking over a coffee shop... holy shit, they're going to hold up this coffee shop...
"Everbody be cool, this is a robbery!"
"Any of you fuckin pricks move, I'll shoot every motherfucking last one of ya"
DAMN that was hot! You knew to buckle up and get ready for that ride from that second foreward.
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Film: Paris, Texas
Director: Wim Wenders
Scene: Towards the end when the main character confronts his estranged wife stripping inside a "viewing booth" at a porn house. A haunting reunion after having disappeared years ago, apparently leaving her out of the blue.
Travis and his ex-wife engage in an emotional discussion in this porn booth that is one of the most powerful and affecting exchanges of dialouge in all of film. The pain and sadness of the world is channeled through those two people on to film. It's absolutley amazing...
This film is truly groundbreaking cinema, if you've grown with films like Requiem or Fight Club you might find it mind-numbingly slow paced. But in it's patience is it's virtue, and is what makes it a million times more emotionally impacting to the viewer, should they give it the chance...
 
When bruce Willis and the other dude were arguing in the hall or their marks over whether a foot massage constituted sex. In the movie Pulp fiction.
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Movie - American Beauty
Scene - Kevin Spacey's slow, slow smile as he realises he is fine, just fine, and the camera's achingly slow turn around him to reveal the gun pointed at the back of his head.
Impact - I smiled slowly, ever so slowly along with Lester in that scene, and as soon as the gun went off I began to sob.
Movie - Baraka
Scene - The initial shot of the monkey sitting in the steam pool.
Impact - I have never been so fascinated by the simple actions of an animal. Dragged my girlfriend to the zoo the next week, where I spent fifteen minutes watching and being watched by a orangutan.
Movie - Labyrinth
Scene - Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) chasing her baby brother through an M. C. Escher-esque maze, all the while being stalked by a crooning, evil Jareth (David Bowie).
Impact - I saw this for the first time on the big screen. Yeah, back in 1987. Blew my mind then and every time since. Chase scene through an Esher drawing! With David Bowie singing! Genius!
 
I'm going on about Amelie alot today...
Movie: Amelie
Scene(s): Amelie is looking at the clouds, they are formed in the shape of animals and she is photographing them. The other is where she is holding the thermometer to the chest of the little monster thing and shakes her head sadly, imitating her father.
Impact:Just reminded me of being a kid and of seeing wonderful things in the mundane.
 
What Movie?: 12 Angry Men
What Scene?: Juror #8 sticks the knife in the table
What Director/Actor (depending on who you feel made the most impact): Henry Fonda directed by Sidney Lumet
What did it do for you?: Gives me goosebumps every single time
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Originally posted by PottedMeat:
When bruce Willis and the other dude were arguing in the hall or their marks over whether a foot massage constituted sex. In the movie Pulp fiction.
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That was Samuel L Jackson & John Travolta. sorry just couldn't let that slide!
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Film: Requiem For A Dream
Scene: Flipping between sex scene/electroshock scene/prison work scene
Director/Actor: Aronofsky with Leto, Wayens, and Bursten
What did it do for you? Scared the shit out of me to the point that I cried, and couldn't speak to my girlfriend for about 15 minutes because I realized that this could happen to any of us, and I myself may have narrowly escaped ending up this way. In fact watching this movie cut my drug use significantly, and I started eating normally again.
 
Film: American Beauty
Scene: The repeat of the gunshot from the point of view's of each character while Lester reflected about his life
What it did for me: Helped me realize that we overlook the really important things in life and how we each impact one another.
 
Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Scene: When the ape like man throws the bone that he killed the boar with and it cuts away to a space ship. Its just an incredible leap from the first step patriarchal evolution (the weapon) to the peak of it in 2001 (the space shuttle). In my opinion its one of Kubricks most brilliant moments.
Director: Kubrick
btw, i know exactly what you'r talking about with Dead Man, FunkyAlfonzo. Great flick.
 
MOVIE: Big Night
ACTORS: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub
DIRECTORS: Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott
SCENE: Final Scene - The morning after the two brothers failed in their valient effort to save their restaurant with a lavish feast, Tucci's character (Secundo) prepares a simple breakfast of eggs for himself, his brother, Primo (Shalhoub) and the dishwasher.
Not one word was spoken in the entire scene.
It was a beautiful scene.
I cry every time I see it.
 
^^^We may not agree about Wide Receivers, but that was really a touching scene. Every time I make eggs and toast I think about it.
 
Brainrape – I was going to post that one myself. Couldn’t agree more. A great scene from a truly marvellous film (Paris, Texas).
Ok, here’s one – this movie is real old and hardly ever gets shown anywhere. I saw it on tv when I was a kid and it’s stuck with me forever. Last saw it about 10 years ago as a cinema re-release.
Movie: The Wages of Fear (1953) Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Background: it’s set in South America somewhere. An oil company needs nitroglycerene delivering to a distant oil field in order to avert a fire disaster. The nitro’s highly explosive and the company pays four guys to drive 2 trucks up through some almost impossible terrain. This isn't a buddy movie! These guys are not friends but in fact are brutal desperados who’ll go to any lengths to get the job done and get their pay-off. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the following scene…
[It’s been a long time since I saw this, so this isn’t totally accurate, but it’s close enough]
Scene: One truck has already blown up. The 2 remaining guys have to get their truck through some heavy forrestation, and at one point they come to what looks like a swamp. In fact, it is a deep pool of oil, caused by a broken pipeline. The only way for them is to go through it. They inch the truck forward but half way through it gets stuck. One of them gets out and goes to see if he can unlodge the back wheel. He’s up to his neck in oil, but before he can get out the way, the driver starts the truck up and drives over the guy, forcing him completely under the oil. The camera shows the agony on his face as he goes under, while the truck drives out of the oil pool. The driver stops and goes back for the other guy, who’s still alive, but has a broken leg, plus a lungful of oil. He puts him in the cab and they leave, but the guy dies later on.
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movie:Office Space
Director:Mike Judge
Scene: when michael bolton says "Whats up G" to peter.
How it affected me:it just brought humor to my life and also made me realize... that computer nerds also want to be Snoop.
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Movie: L.A. Confidential (1997)
Director: Curtis Hanson
Scene: Capt. Smith asks Lieutenant Exley about an alleged associate of Seargent Vincennes named "Rollo Tomasi". Scary and engrossing, you feel like your whole world is dialating as Exley finally pieces the whole thing together, yet the director keeps it from going over the top. Good scoring and camerawork in this scene. Great cinematic device as well.
 
well, another bump for me.
this is a great thread, and i'd love to echo quite a few of these (so i will :) - particularly the opening coffee shop scene of pulp fiction, all of the magnolia ones, and lester's discovery of happiness in pulp fictions. all awesome movies, and awesome scenes.
my own though...
movie: mulholland drive
scene: rebecca del rio delivers a harrowing performance, singing orbison's crying in spanish (llorando), in the theatre, as watts and harring look on.
director: david lynch (perfectly directed)
actress: rebecca del rio (it's her scene, though obviously more as a singer than an actress)
what did it do for you: made me realise that a) david lynch is the god of all directors, b) the entire movie could be summed up by the lyrics to this song c) the human voice is a beautiful thing, no matter which language.
 
Movie: The Exorcist
Image: Max von Sydow is driven up to the house in a taxi, gets out and is eclipsed by the beam of light coming from the bedroom out onto the street.
Director: William Friedkin
What it did: Gave an errie but realistic view of good entering the domain of evil. Fucking perfect.
It's a famous scene, but there is no better.
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Good pick. Widely regarded as one of the finest shots in the history of cinema.
Movie: Old Yeller (1957)
Scene: Old Yeller has contracted rabies while defending a family member from a rabid hog. The oldest son, Travis, accepts his responsibility - and shoots his best friend.
Actor: Tommy Kirk
Director: Robert Stevenson
While the rest of the movie is fairly typical Disney, with lots of cutesy animal stuff and little real menace, the sequence leading to the death of Old Yeller is brilliant.
The single gunshot, with all of its finality, strikes me very deeply.
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