Most Powerful Scenes in a Movie

[SisterMaryFellatio]

Sean and I were talking about this. What scene in a movie has stayed with you?

The scene that you were right there in the movie with the character and will never forget?

Let Him Have It - The Derek Bentley story, the scene is shot in his parents front room as he is going to the gallows and an old fashioned clock is ticking which is all you can hear. I sat in the front room with his parents and sister!!Its a movie I havn't seen for many years but I remember it like it was yesterday.

Silence of the Lambs - The first time Clarice walks down that damp, depressing corridor where Migs is having a wank and at the end of the walk Hannibal sits waiting for her. I walked every step of the way with her, shitting myself too. I could almost smell the damp and feel the oppression.


Whats yours?

[rubato]

"In the heat of the night" several scenes stand out. I would have to watch it again to narrow it down but one scene where "Mr Tibbs (Poitier) is talking with the sheriff (Rod Steiger) in the sheriff's house stands out.

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[@meric@nwom@n]

Great thread idea sister, I just haven't cvome up with anything appropriate yet.

[BoSoxGal]

The scene in Fried Green Tomatoes when Buddy gets his foot caught in the train tracks, the train is bearing down, he's trying to get his boot off to get free and Idgie and Ruth are screaming his name . . . every time I watch that movie, it's a punch in the gut.

[loCAtek]

Well, anytime Hollywierd depicts sailors going down fighting with their ship; it can be any scene from any movie from drama to fantasy. I feel it, and usually cry for them.

[Long Run]

And then there is Will Ferrell in Old School, drunk and naked on stage crawling around for the microphone he dropped after taking it from the band, and then declaring, "We're going streaking!"

Maybe slightly better crafted is the scene where Michael Corleone takes the gun from the bathroom and comes back and executes Sollozzo and the police chief at the restaurant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kTQFyMRSXk

[Gob]

Lovely topic.

There's a scene in "Jaws" when the beach scare has happened, and you look out to sea and see the shark roll.

Christ that stayed in my mind for months.

The opening scene in "Bronson" where he's pacing in his cell like a caged animal.

[Sean]

Casino.

The scene in the desert where they make Joe Pesci watch while they beat his brother almost to death and then bury him alive.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Jaws, the scene with Ben Gardner's boat when Hooper is swimming under water and the corpse drops down to the hole in the boat and Hooper screams. I nearly shite myself the first time, but then who didn't?

[loCAtek]

Pinocchio- on Pleasure Island when the Pinocchio's friend starts turning into a donkey. The boy's horror is so great and so real, that the camera has to turn away and you watch the final transformation through shadows on the wall. Of course, you still hear his terrified cries for "Mama!" as they turn into ass brays...

Just to sure, this wasn't just childhood fears, I went to YouTube and found the scene again; it still gave me chills!

[Big RR]

Two come to mind:

In a 70s horror flick called "The Other", one of a pair of twins has the ability to look into other people's minds, the other is a nasty hellraiser who seeks to have everything blamed on his brother. About 2/3 of the way through the film, the grandmother takes the first boy to the graveyard and makes him look into the mind of a buried corpse--he does it and we learn, as he does, that his twin has been dead several years. It was the only time I ever left the theater before the end of a movie it creeped me out so much (how I didn't see it coming amazes me, but it worked).

The second was in Polanski's "Tess"; Tess is in love with a nice guy who doesn't realize she's "experienced" (really date raped at first (and then an underage participant), but this was the 19th century); she agonizes over it and writes him a note which she slips under his door, telling all. The next meeting he comes and treats her great--a little later she finds the note slipped under the rug and he never saw it. The emotions from fear to elation to great despair in the course of a couple of minutes moved me greatly as well (thanks to the great directing and Nastassia Kinsky's acting at a young age). Again something I knew, but forgot at the time, from the book, but a scene which could be horribly manipulative worked.

[Gob]

Be warned, spooky violent stuff!!

[loCAtek]

That's Esher on the walls;



...interlocking repeation, appears to be the motif of the film.