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What for you are three of the most memorable scenes from movies?
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In "Arsenic and Old Lace" when the uncle that thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt blows the bugle and leads the charge upstairs.
In "The King of Hearts" when the corporal hears his own army coming and takes off all his clothes and walks into the insane asylum.
In "The Daydreamer" the advertising artist has a dream/hallucination of bouncing on giant cherries.
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(3) In 'Singing in the Rain' during the 'Make 'Em Laugh' number when Donald O'Connor dances and bounces up and off the wall - it's not special effects! He never got as many accolades as Gene Kelly, but I think he was Kelly's dancing equal (or possibly better).
Here's three of mine: 1) There's a scene in Vision Quest, with Mattew Modine, where another character talks about watching Pele kick a goal by flipping upside down in midair and kicking a passed ball; how that moment reaffirms his gratitude and wonder at being part of the human race. In the next scene, Mattew Modine's character is doing solitary exercises in preparation for his upcoming wrestling match with a BIG MONSTER DUDE, and you realize the big monster dude doesn't stand a chance. 2) In Bladerunner , the cyborg played by Rutger Hauer persues and tortures Harrison Ford until Ford is dangling from a rooftop. The cyborg, faced with its own impending death, pulls Ford up to safety. As its programmed death takes hold, the cyborg says "time to die" and releases a dove it had been holding, leaving Ford to contemplate the meaning of this final act of mercy. 3) The scene in AI where the artificial boy is awoken by aliens from its eons-long sleep and allowed to spend a day with its human "mother."
dweller and jkgrandma, interesting choices. I took a course in college in literary and film criticism, and two of the movies you guys mentioned were part of the course, Bladerunner (and the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep") and Young Frankenstein were used for subject matter. The dance scene in Y F is still a vivid memory, the scene in Bladerunner is kind of hazy in my memory (that was twenty years ago)..
I heard about that scene in AI from someone else (I never saw it) so it must have been a powerful scene.
Donald O'Connor outdanced Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain, and I remember that scene with him dancing on the wall very well. Hard to believe Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire are considered better dancers than Donald O'Conner.
I never saw Charade or Vision Quest, but I will have to remember those names if they made that big of an impact on you.
There are so many memorable scenes in films (since that is what the directors were trying to accomplish) that I think this question could go on for a long time without getting repetitious.. The best ones, such as the ones we mentioned, have many memorable scenes, and several people could weigh in with the same movie and different scenes.
profitbob, I've heard you mention Arsenic and Old Lace a couple of times now- that is a classic that I've not seen yet. I'm glad jkgrandma weighed in with Singing in the Rain, because I thought the guy who runs up the wall was Gene Kelly... it's nice to know who the real star of that scene was. My memory of Charade is pretty hazy, too, but I do remember Audrey Hepburn trying to translate from a booth during a U.N. meeting, and losing her train of thought when Cary Grant starts kissing her neck.
I'm eager to see what other movie scenes have really stuck in people's minds...
Arsenic and Old Lace is another Cary Grant classic. We enjoy classic (old) movies; there are lots of good ones to choose from (if you can find them).
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Okay. 1. The scene in Sophie's Choice where Sophie (Meryl Streep) has to decide which one of her children will live and which one will die. 2. There's Something About Mary , when Matt Dillon, who plays a deranged P.I. gives Mary's neighbor's yip dog some pep pills and it attacks Ben Stiller and ends up getting thrown out the wondow. The next scene you see the dog on the top of Mary's car in a full body cast. I laughed so hard I almost wet myself! 3. The final scene in West Side Story , when the Jets and the Sharks and the police all work together to carry Tony's body out of the playground where he had been stabbed. I cry every time I watch that movie.
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