Let's post our best scenes of cinema here.
These moments when you feel strange vibrations, tears rising to eyes, blissful smiles, unstoppable laughs, unbearable shivers...
These best secondes of cinema that you will never forget.

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Movie : The Big Lebowski (1998)
Director : Coen Bro.
Time : 5:40
Duration : 2:05
Summary : The titles of the movie. After a short presentation of the Dude and his coming troubles with strangers asking money he doesn't have, music by Bob Dylan arrives on images of bowling plays. Wonderfull traveling and slow motions about hands, balls, fingers and bodies in action. Ends on Steve Buscemi having a high tone scream after an incredible strike.
Video extract / screenshot : http://www.wat.tv/video/the-big-lebowski-bob-dylan-fkxk_ffir_.html

If you can't find the video, you can post a screenshot of the scene, or even a link to a story board or a scene's analysis by a critic, it will be nice too.
I think it would be very pleasant to find your thrills in a shout, right in the movie's page of the site. Please copy/paste your video/summary in it ! (ex : http://whatthemovie.com/movie/the_big_lebowski )

Please post your best thrills !

Movie: 00 Schneider
Director: Helge Schneider
Time: Somewhere at the beginning
Duration: 1:15
Summary: In this completely improvised movie, the retired commissioner 00 Schneider and his sidekick Lt. Koerschgen are on their way to mom's house. With great intentness 00 Schneider tries to solve the problem of getting his car over the curbstone into the parking space while Koerschgen is directing him. Suddenly an old woman comes out and says hello to the commissioner. This leads him to finally speeding up and knock over Koerschgen. (in the next scene he is doing great, like nothing happened to him)

Trivia: The old woman actually lives in that house in real life and wasn't planned to be in the movie. But she forged Helge Schneider (director and leading actor) to have a scene in it. She eventually got two scenes.


The whole movie is just weird and totally awesome, but this scene just got stuck in my head :D

I can't find the scene on Youtube, but what comes to my mind is the wedding scene of Underground from Emir Kusturica, a pure moment of joy, music and craziness.

@Chrisy:

is this it?



Looks awesome. Never seen anything by Emir Kusturica, am definitely going to have to look his stuff up. Any recommendations or should I go straight for underground? I have to say again, this is a great thread, already found 2 movies I want to see and have ordered one!

@ them00ch: :-) I'm sure you'll like it!

lol chrisy that looks hilarious, definitely going to have to get hold of that. Cheers for the recomendations. I really hope more people get involved in this thread, am finding out about some great looking movies.

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I need to add this one, one of my favourite dialogues in any movie ever. Again, not so much an unknown movie, but this scene always gives me chills.

"There are 17 different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away"



Movie: True Romance (1993)
Director: Tony Scott
Duration: 9:52
Summary: The greatest dialogue Tarantino ever wrote IMO, and the way Hopper and Walken bounce off each other here is cinematic gold. I love the way the tension mounts, and the way the piano comes in when Hopper resigns himself to his fate and decides to go out with middle finger raised. Some great lines and great chemistry between the 2 actors. Some people I know think the racial slurs are pretty heavy and uneccesary, and thats typical Tarantino writing :) but it only makes the scene more provocative and increases the tension in my eyes.

Sure the film isnt the greatest (although I do enjoy it), but I can watch this scene over and over again.

"Now, if thats a fact, tell me - am I lieing?"

heh you're welcome. And you should watch the movie if you havent already, its not bad. Just shows that Tony Scott did actually make interesting movies once upon a time. And Gary oldman's performance is pretty awesome too, i didnt even recognise him on my first viewing!

Might want to remove the link so that everyone doesnt automatically get a free solve ;)

First of all: I love this thread! great idea LePaposaure :)

I'll feature a quite new film, I've recently watched twice in a row (which is always a good sign).

Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino from 2008
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/
WTM http://whatthemovie.com/movie/gran_torino

Time : 1:46h
Duration : 3:00m
Summary : I don't want to spoil anything, and I hope you won't youtube for a clip. Watch the movie full-length :) It's the climax of the movie; the turning point; beautiful camera movement & transitions (police light); we see all the main characters again ... and it fades back to the beginning ... all that combined with the beautiful voice of Jamie Cullum singing the most simple refrain ever. Made my cry.

@LePaposaure . . I have so much respect for you that you posted a Tenacious D clip . . . :)

Movie: Into the Wild (2007)
Director: Sean Penn
Time: 1:55 (almost the end of the movie)
Duration: 2 min
Summary: My favorite scene of my favorite movie. It is so emotional and it shows the peak of the short, but intense relationship (which happens to be on the peak of a mountain) between these two different characters. The whole day until a second ago, Ron (the old man) just learned from Chris that life has much more to give, if you don't just sit around at home, crying about lost family members. And now he also has some good advice for Chris, who is running away from his family and society in general.

@Deviant
At first I watched the movie only bits and pieces, and thought it was boring and awfull. But when I took the time for it. Man, its such an mindblowing movie. Love the way they burst out in laughing at the end of the scene. It is so unlogical, but at the same time, it feels natural. I love it.

@LePaposaure
Ill definitely read the book :) Never knew it was based on a book

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Movie : Cría cuervos (1976)
Director : Carlos Saura
Duration : 1:50
Summary : Ana imagines flying away.



Movie : Cría cuervos (1976)
Director : Carlos Saura
Duration : 1:22
Summary : Ana listens to the song "Porque Te Vas" from Jeanette. A really beautiful and sad movie that stayed with me for a long time. As did the song.

No argument there! The sliding horse is legendary!!!!!

Movie: Boondock Saints
Director: Troy Duffy
Sequence: I have two, actually. Both the opening, when "The Blood Of Cuchulainn" starts playing, and the speech the Saints hold in the courtroom. Especially the part where they say "Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal" does the trick. The way he pronounces 'rape' always stuck with me.

The opening theme:


The speech:

Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Director: Michel Gondry (Written with Charlie Kaufman)



It's the beginning of movie. What I like about this movie is that when you watch it the second time you see so many great new things, and how Kate plays a bit of a crazy person like Jim Carrey always is in his other movies and Jim Carrey playing such a 'boring' person as Kate is in most of her movies.

After talking about this in IRC yesterday, I realised it needed to be here.

Movie : Manhattan (1979)
Director : Woody Allen
Time : Right at the start
Duration : 3:36
Summary : Possibly the most atmospheric, moody opening to any film, and certainly one of my favourites. As soon as Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue starts playing I get chills up and down my spine. New York has never been photographed so beautifully, you can almost taste the air. I could watch this sequence on a loop and never get tired of it.

Both awesome pspan, I'm annoyed I didn't think of them. That opening riff for The Doors "the end", set to the napalm gives me goosebumps.

Movie: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
It's just the perfect ending for this film. Full of emotions without saying a single word. And the music fits perfect to the pictures.

Darn m00ch, looks like we're on the same page with movies. Loved this scene in the Third Man (#68831 gave it away for me), but I also liked the intro (#60052) ;-)

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Movie : Up (2009) http://whatthemovie.com/movie/up
Director : Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Time : 5:00
Duration : 4:20
Summary : (from IMDb) Carl Fredricksen, a shy and quiet young boy, meets an energetic and outgoing bucktoothed barefooted tomboy named Ellie, discovering they share the same interest in exploration as their hero, the then 24-year-old famed explorer Charles F. Muntz. Ellie expresses her desire to move her clubhouse to Paradise Falls in South America, a promise she makes Carl keep.



This sequence is actually a perfect short-movie in a excellent long one.
I'm not the first viewer who have cried watching this 5 minutes for the first time, and I will not be the last ! It's a pure jewell !

The sequence is composed by 4 different parts :
- the couple settling in the house and building their love (-> 1'00)
- the new that Ellie can't have a baby, the goal of explorations instead (-> 1'50")
- Saving money during years, the time goes by... (-> 3'30)
- Ellie gets ill, Carl becomes widower (-> end)

First thing we have to say is that the whole sequence is silent ! There's only a lovely song ("Married Life" by Michael Giacchino), which gives the rythm of the different mini-sequences, and helps the audience to follow all the actions. The rythm of this waltz is always changing, the lead melody is given by different instruments (winds for happiness and hope, strings and piano for sadness). It gives to the audience another impression that it's really a short movie in the long one, having its own start and end.

The fact that no information is given by sounds or voices gives a particular taste, especially because viewers have to concentrate to follow the meaning of the story. As the scenes are quickly edited and camera is moving often, the sequence is very entertaining.
We can learn so many details about the love of the couple, the respect for what they believe both, and the many decisions they have to do in their life.

The building of the script is an exemple for movie makers !
I love the "tie" gimmick, the responses of mini-scenes (in the green grass watching clouds, the coin's bottle, the balloons and the church...), and I 'm impressed how fast we can focus on one detail, forgetting another (like the book of Ellie, reappearing at the end of the sequence).