What is your favourite scene in a Movie?

[Traitorfish]

I've always thought that the poppy field was a homage to "In Flanders Fields", the famous WWI poem.

Sort of; the poem popularised the concept, but poppies are very common symbol of remembrance for the casualties of the First World War in the Commonwealth. The image, to a British viewer, has innate connotations of this, rather than acting as a concious reference.

 

[LightSpectra]

The ending to Once.

Anybody who didn't bawl their bloody eyes out at the ending to Once has no soul.

 

[duckduckswan]

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[Dudemeister]

The ending to Once.

Anybody who didn't bawl their bloody eyes out at the ending to Once has no soul.

what's once?

 

[Olav]

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[nishant1911]

the last scene of "the fountain" is phenomenal.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

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[Quintillus]

The scene from V for Vendetta where V kills all the soldiers with his knives

Same. I've watched that scene many more times than the rest of the film, which I've watched in its entirity no fewer than eight times.

 

[Lord Baal]

I just rewatched Shawshank last night. I really enjoy the escape scene with Morgan Freeman's voiceover. Though maybe not as much as the opera scene.

 

[sophie]

The ending of Psycho, definitely. Hitchcock is a bloody genius!

 

[Love]

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[Jos Ballenbak]

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How awesome is this???

 

[Kullervo]

The confrontation between Noodles and Max at the end of 'Once Upon a Time in America'. For about ten minutes, there's barely any action, and the characters barely say a word. But at the same time, the sheer tension of the moment, all the little half-glances, they all just make the moment probably the most intense and... brilliant of any movie I've seen.

The shootout at the Central Station in 'Untouchables'. That scene on the staircase is practically legendary, and so it should be. Brilliant cinematography.

The torture and beheading, and subsequent epilogue from 'Braveheart'. If you're not moved by that scene, you're a statue and cannot be reading this in any case.

The ending to the 'Truman Show' was just stunning. Jim Carrey and Ed Harris will not get better than that movie.

Lastly, and from this list least, the destruction of the Russian battalion from 'Turkish Gambit' (It's a Russian movie). It very well may be the best blend of skilled camera work and CGI effects I've seen in a Russian movie, and maybe of any film.

 

[Dachs]

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Last minute.

One of the saddest things I've ever heard was Darling saying, "Thank God, we lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917."

 

[Skwink]

When Rocky knocks out Drago.

 

[NKVD]

for Action
Matrix. Neo realises he is the one. Destroys Agent Smith.


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for a laugh
Le dinner de cons. Mr.Brochan tell Francois Pignon to phone Juste Leblanc .


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[Kan' Sharuminar]

Not really a movie, but the ending to the last episode "Blackadder Goes Forth", where Laurie, Atkinson, et al go over the top and everything goes slow-mo and changes into a field of poppies is very chilling.

Good call.

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

R.I.P. Paul Newman.


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[Bast]

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[Ziggy Stardust]

This scene has to be in this thread. Apologies if already posted.

"There was a firefight!" \o/


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edit: And another one.


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