what are your favorite scenes in movies?

[stroh]

Dead bodys turning up, with Layla playing in the background.

[Dunk]

- The caveman scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

- I agree about the final fight scene in Blade Runner

- The battle at Helm’s Deep in LotR: the Two Towers

- Casablanca has so many great scenes, here are a few of my favourites:

In Rick’s Place, the Dueling National Anthems scene.

In Rick’s Place:
Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

At the airport:
Captain Renault: Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects. Followed soon thereafter by:  Rick: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[MFAWG]

Casablanca does have some great lines.  Most of them are Claude Rains (Renault) who gives an over the top performance that borders on campy, which is what makes Bergman's understated performance devastatingly effective. Of course, the fact that she's devastatingly beautiful adds to it.


Rick: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
Captain Renault: That is my least vulnerable spot.

Rick: Why did you come back? To tell me why you ran out on me at the railway station?
Ilsa: ...Yes.
Rick: Well, you can tell me now. I'm reasonably sober

[tdcoly]

When Josey Wales encounters Ten Bears.

Other than 'Young Frankenstein's' "werewolf?-there wolf", yours is the best.

[Seamus]

When Josey Wales encounters Ten Bears.

Other than 'Young Frankenstein's' "werewolf?-there wolf", yours is the best.

Josey: You be Ten Bears?
Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears.
Josey: (spits tobacco) I'm Josey Wales.
Ten Bears: I have heard. You're the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace.
Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go.
Ten Bears: Then you will die.
Josey: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me, it's living that's hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. With governments you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I've come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That's my word of life.
Ten Bears: And your word of death?
Josey: It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one.
Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.
Josey: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life.
(he takes his knife and cuts his hand. Josey does the same and they grasp each others hand.)
So shall it be.

[BobA]

Dirty Harry sidewalk scene......You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Pick any of a couple of dozen scenes from Blazing Saddles......Candygram for Mongo! Candygram for Mongo!

Omaha Beach landing scene from Saving Private Ryan... and the scene where they are waiting for the Germans while listening to Édith Piaf.

From Bridge on the River Kwai... Colonel Saito's address to the prisoners and Jack Hawkins asking William Holden to return to the camp.