Favorite Movie Scenes

[Ralph Sir Edward]

The stuff that dreams are made of. . .

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I recently received a 2-disc CD (via fund drive at the Seattle listener-supported classical music station) of John Williams conducting Berliner Philharmoniker in a selection of his movie scores. One piece was Marion's Theme, from Raiders of the Lost Ark. And that brought to mind the Nepal bar fight scene, one of my favorite scenes from that movie. (Marion's Theme wasn't used in that scene, however.) Marion was by far my favorite of all of the female leads in the IJ movies, and I enjoyed it when they brought Marion back in Crystal Skull, as well as the storyline of him having a son he didn't know about, who is carrying on in the same fashion.

Karen Allen and Harrison Ford had an on-screen chemistry that was lacking in the second and third movies. I would have liked to see them continue together in the sequels, sort of an archaeologic Nick and Nora. But apparently George Lucas wanted a different love interest in each story.

Anyway, here's a clip of the bar fight scene, as well as a link to Marion's Theme.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

The stuff that dreams are made of. . .

Good choice. That was on my pending list.

 

[artringwald]

Just in case it wasn't already included.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

It's not the years, it's the mileage

 

[vikingsholm]

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

It's not the years, it's the mileage

With Marion's Theme playing in the background.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Network (1976) - "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm not going to take it anymore". Peter Finch, playing newscaster Howard Beale.

It's uncanny how, nearly 50 years later, almost every word of his rant rings true today.

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

 

[artringwald]

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday.

 

[dmbrand]

“Why are you being so nice to me?”……”Because you’re letting me.” The make up scene with Claire and Allison has remained with me, reminding me that one of the most caring/loving acts we women do for each other, is to make someone look and feel beautiful.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

Here's an unpopular one.

 

[Ty1on]

From One Last Thing

"When you are born, you cry and the world is happy. When you die, the world cries and you are happy."

 

[dago]

Karen Allen and Harrison Ford had an on-screen chemistry that was lacking in the second and third movies.



I agree

 

[dago]

With Marion's Theme playing in the background.

Karen Allen was great in Animal House also

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Karen Allen was great in Animal House also

That was how she landed the role in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Karen Allen and Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones 4. Two clips. I wanted a clip of the scene in the truck to go with the first, but the only one I could find was the entire chase sequence. But that sequence is also good in it's own right, so that one by itself is a twofer.

Thanks to whoever prevailed in production to bring Karen Allen back.

 

[vikingsholm]

This cut is not filled with memorable one-liners or a well known classic scene.

It's just an excerpt from an Italian movie that I enjoyed, about a famous Chilean poet.

The movie comes pretty close to being a form of poetry itself. Just putting it out there to recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

 

[artringwald]

Harvey. I agree with Elwood and recommend pleasant.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Robin Hood Men In Tights: The Night Is Young

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Gaslight (1944) - A Wife's Revenge

The key ending scene from the movie that gave us "gaslight" as a verb. In which Ingrid Bergman turns the table on Charles Boyer.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

This may be stretching the limits of good taste here, but... From Blake Edward's movie SOB

 

[dago]

This may be stretching the limits of good taste here, but... From Blake Edward's movie SOB

I never was a fan of Julie Andrews, but I have to admit, I enjoyed that.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986) Spock and Kirk Ride The Bus

I love the dialogue starting at 1:10 in the clip:

S: The use of language has altered since our arrival. It is currently laced with, shall I say, more colorful metaphors. “Double dumb-ass on you.”, and so forth.

K: You mean the profanity?

S: Yes,

K. That’s simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you unless you swear every other word. You’ll find it in all of the literature of the period.

S: For example?

K; Well, the collected works of Jacqueline Susanne. The novels of Harold Robbins.

S: Ahh. The giants.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Bull Durham - What Crash Davis believes (crude language alert):

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

From What A Way To Go