Favorite movie scenes

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I'll be boring and go with a film that might not be a great classic, but one I tend to watch around this time most years -Battle of Britain

one scene I can't find on YouTube, and it's very brief, when Susannah York's WAAF S/O Harvey is stopped by Station Commander Kenny More about her husband, Colin (Chris' Plummer) being shot down. Goodwin's music helps but the clincher is when after More tells her she can get a posting near her husband (Plummer having spent all film badgering her to do just that), she bluntly asks:
"Is he badly burned?"
More's face says it all. Slight moistness to the eyes, tightening of the jaw (stiff uppers as Leslie Phillips would say) and no words.

But otherwise, this scene earlier (where Plummer's raw recruits give it to the Germans over the North Sea, culminating in Goodwin's theme triumphantly kicking in)



Watching Bridge Too Far the other day there's a couple that have always lingered in the memory. Frost's capture at the bridge (being given chocolate that should've been dropped to him, by Max Schell), the human roadblock, the capture of Nijmegen Bridge (Hardy Kruger's incredulous expression and Addison's music as XXX Corps race over) and Connery's scene with Bogarde at the end. Urquhart in reality probably was close to striking Browning.

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I believe that Belgium actually had the highest number of pilots outside of the Commonwealth and Eastern-Europe in the Battle of Britain. Which is odd considering how tiny we are and how relatively small our air force was. Certainly you would have expected the French to have provided significantly more pilots.

"I went down into the countries, underneath the earth, to the peoples of the past … But you lifted my life from the pit. O Lord, my God"

1982 Horrors are the best lol

Hard to believe this one is 40 yrs old...I watch this at least once per year since I was in my teens

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bitchcraft wrote:

Hard to believe this one is 40 yrs old...I watch this at least once per year since I was in my teens

very fine film and very fine soundtrack.

the music, the zoom out



"Nope, never had a lesson" and "GET DOWN!"



the silhouette, the music and complete badassery. You don't see Eastwood's face as he marches up.

and to mix it up



yes, I'm sure the model work is a little dated and it has Leslie Nielsen (forever etched as Debin) but ever since I saw this film when I was little, it's been up there. The sight of the wave with very little music approaching, a sheer wall of water that bears down and down onto the liner and finally, it overwhelming the ship. The one thing Poseidon had in 2006 going for it, was that it at least showed during the capsize, elsewhere in the ship. In the book there were more survivors than depicted in either film.

Loved this sequence in Dressed to Kill. Saw it months ago for the first time and still talk about it today. A 9min+ sequence with no dialogue yet the suspense crackles. Masterful directing from Brian De Palma.