Favorite single scene in a movie

[Chef2]

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was on tonight……the entire scene from the time they get home from eating Mexican food til the time they load him into the ambulance was just unreal.
I loved the dog. She had just finished tearing two people into pieces and then she goes and scratches on the bedroom door cause she wants to lay down.

 

[WriteThinking]

The counseling breakthrough scene near the end of "Ordinary People" has always stuck with me. Judd Hirsch's quiet assurance and Timothy Hutton's desperate, sudden realization that perhaps he hadn't done anything for which to truly blame himself struck a chord with me, and tied up the story well.

The final scene of "Dead Poets Society" was pretty great, too.

 

[da man]

Casablanca. La Marseillaise.



If that's not No. 1 I'll have to think hard about what else could be.

 

[Songbird]

"A" movie or ever?

Riffing on the Bad News Bears Field from earlier today ...

 

[User 150927]

When Red (Morgan Freeman) narrates Andy's journey through the sewage tube and he comes out in the creek triumphant with his arms raised.

 

[Driftwood]

Apollo 13: when Hanks says "the ship is secure."
Braveheart: "saying goodbye in their own way, playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes."
The Right Stuff: too many to say.

 

[DanOregon]

I didn't realize Mamet wrote this scene specifically for the movie because they really wanted Baldwin in the movie, (he was going to play Ricky Roma - but when Al Pacino who wanted to do it from the jump had his schedule freed up....)

Don't know how many Oscars and nominations are involved with this cast, but I know Lemmon won twice and Arkin and Spacey one apiece. And then you have Pacino (1) , Harris and Baldwin

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West: "No, you brought two too many." Charles Bronson's most badass scene, which is really saying something.

 

[garrow]

 

[Regan MacNeil]

When Kay tells Michael about the abortion.

 

[Driftwood]

When Kay tells Michael about the abortion.

I like Michael asking Kay "who's being naïve" in part one.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I mean, honestly, from the opening scene at Connie’s wedding to Michael staring into the distance in his garden is 6 hours of perfection.

 

[playthrough]

Good Will Hunting when Robin Williams' character finally breaks Matt Damon's. "It's not your fault."

When the kid questions Murdock in the cockpit in Airplane. "Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes."

 

[Songbird]

The moment Ben Stiller turns around to put Ethan Hawke in his place as a man is the moment he became a movie star.

That's another way of saying the director nailed a moment of moments.

lol I just looked to see who the director of Reality Bites was: Ben Stiller

 

[da man]

Apollo 13: when Hanks says "the ship is secure."
Braveheart: "saying goodbye in their own way, playing outlawed tunes on outlawed pipes."
The Right Stuff: too many to say.

****in’ A, Bubba.

 

[da man]

When the kid questions Murdock in the cockpit in Airplane. "Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes."

YES!!!!

You’re supposed to hear that in Marv Albert’s voice.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

The final scene in the 1949 British film "The Third Man," where Joseph Cotten watches his unrequited love ignore him as she walks past ... amid the falling leaves ... and zither music. Achingly beautiful.

 

[Slacker]

This one's always in the running ...



EDIT TO ADD: The content is offensive, but the acting and the tension of the scene are riveting.

 

[Tighthead]

The Copa scene from Goodfellas - no cuts.

 

[Octave]