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Most powerful scenes in Films
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the scene in Wall Street where larry wildman & gekko are haggling over the price of Annacott Steel. A brilliant display of controlled aggression from stamp:
I could break you, mate, in two pieces over my knees, you know it, I know it; I could buy you six times ever; I could dump the stock just to burn your arse. But I happen to want the company and I want your block of shares. I'm announcing a tender offer at 65 tomorrow, and I'm expecting your commitment. |
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yeah stamp is a great actor. another fantastic scene in that film is where gekko makes his famous greed is good speech.
also forgot to mention the searchers where john wayne scalps the indian chief.[:p] |
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Some powerful endings
The Exorcist - where the priest jumps out of the window when possessed Million Dollar Baby - Clint giving Hilary Swank a fatal injection before walking off into the darkness Cuckoos Nest - chief suffocating Jack with the pillow and then smashing his way to freedom |
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When the Siamese cat fought off the Grizzly in Disney's "The Incredible Journey" while the labrador and bull mastiff just watched, for me.
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Not a film, but an episode of tales of the unexpected (The Flypaper) - The ending stayed with me for months.
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also jaws "were going to need a bigger boat" is a shocking ommision, or nicholson "you can't handle the truth" courtroom scene from a few good men.
also the fugitive where tommy lee jones tracks down the harrison ford character and he jumps off the waterfall. or rambo first blood where he escapes from the the police station. empire strikes back "luke i am your father scene." or same film, where princess leia, turns to hans solo played by harrison ford, and says "I love you" and ford ad libs the reply " I know" bullit chase scene. watership down final scene. also the elephant man, almost every scene is dramatic and powerful but if you don't shed a tear at the end your'e not human. also by lynch, blue velvet and the scene where he sing's roy orbison's brilliant "in dreams" i'm so good at this I really should be a film critic  |
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Pacino going mental in the courtroom in ...And Justice For All.
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Not a film, but an episode of tales of the unexpected (The Flypaper) - The ending stayed with me for months.
great shout, I've still got a recording of that, the most sinister and disturbing episode ever made imo |
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The last half hour of Goodfellas as it all starts to unravel is a masterclass in building tension. But the sheer claustrophobia of the scene where DeNiro meets up with Lorraine Bracco for a drop off and then tells her to go a few doors down and take a nice dress. The tension as she tries to decide what to do as DeNiro is giving her that smile, you're willing her to keep walking, you just know she shouldn't go through that door. Thankfully she has been infected by enough of her husband, Liottas, paranoia to eventually give it a swerve. I'm clammy thinking about it.
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When they peed on The Dude's rug, it really tied the room together. He was traumatised by the incident.
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Cuckoos Nest - chief suffocating Jack with the pillow and then smashing his way to freedom
wins every time |
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Planet of the Apes, the end, riding along the beach...
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Just noticed Little Fish is on Film4 tonight 22:45
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the french connection when he's chasing the train in his car always looks good, also the second film where he's running along the harbour then shoots charnier at the end.
helicopter scene in apocolypse now. american werewolf in london transformation scene. final scene at the end of blade runner where the rutdger hauer cyborg dies. lord of the rings balrog vs gandalf fight scene. final scene of the good the bad the ugly. american gangster where the denzel washington character shoots fellow gangster in the street. godfather part 1 italian resturant scene. spartucus i'm spartucus! scene. |
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lost highway - lynch ... mystery man scene is pretty damn fine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQwwM3dgedY |
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I find the last scene of Schindler's List very moving, where he drops the ring that has been gifted to him and has to be helped to his car.
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shawshank redemption when red and andy are reunited at the end!
startrek 2 wrath of khan - when spock dies saving the ship |
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Mr Badger's suggestion of the Wall Street Gecko/Wildman one is quite excellent.
Any number of scenes from that film are awesome, and Gecko's speech to the Teldar paper meeting is quite superb. "Greed...is good" Another Wall Street classis is when Gecko is on his massive mobile phone to Bud Fox, whilst walking along the beach. "I'm going to make you rich Bud Fox". In fact....I'm off to watch it again. |
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Josiah Gordon "Doc" Scurlock: Billy! Let's finish the game.
Young Guns 2 |
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I am not much of a film buff, but the blo0died hand from out of the grave gives me the creeps every time despite knowing it coming.
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In Carrie.
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The Sixth Sense when it turns out Bruce Willis was dead
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Also every time I see Von Ryan's Express I'm gutted when Sinatra doesn't reach the train.
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Firing Squad scene in 'The Victors' its in the snow to the background
sound of Have yourself a merry little christmas. there is also a firing squad scene in Paths of Glory which is probably Kirk Douglas's finest performance. |
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Sica - Firing Squad scenes......
The one in Breaker Morant will live with me forever. |
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It's a wonderful life when that bloke was going to kill himself and he wished he'd never been born and then a trainee angel came to save his life by making him see how it affected those around him had he never been born.
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get me a drink........ Some things are even too good for Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNXtjGY_Us |
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https://youtu.be/WbliHNs4q14?t=212 For me. |
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The scene at the end of The Mist, where he shoots his son, the two old folk and the woman
Only for the mist to clear a few moments later and the military drive past, with the woman and her kids on the back of a wagon, the same woman no one would help at the start Great ending |
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Also Pulp Fiction apartment scene
'But Marsellus Wallace don't like to be f****d by any except Mrs Wallace' |
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The Italian job,
Where the Italian gangster bulldozes two E-Type Jaguars and an Aston Martin DB4 makes me cry every time The greatest and most powerful scene in cinematic history though in my opinion is when they sing La Marseillaise in Casablanca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM One of the reasons I have since found out after watching it is that many of the extra's in this film were French Refugee's who had escaped the Nazi's after the fall of France and they were not acting! Their true feelings were caught in time on film, truly beautiful. |
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Jaws kid on the air baed eaten alive, the blood fountain, the oscar winning music playing and the resulting brody reaction camera zoom...
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Ted 2 - the sperm bank mishap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6BpmtBLkk |
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the rebirth of spinal tap
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The opening sequence in Up.
There`s a scene in the middle of The Bridge of Terabithia that hits you like a sledgehammer. It`s an otherwise fairly mundane kids movie but I won`t give it away. |
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The 1st 15 mins of Inglorius Bastards when The Jewhunter is sat drinking milk whilst the children are hiding under the floorboards , the tension and suspence on the farmers face whilst he is interagated is unreal
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The denouement to Manon Des Sources when Cesar, who's nephew had just killed hiimself in shame, is told that the hunchback whom he drove to death by his greed, was the son he had always wanted, and that Manon was therefore his grandaughter.
The denouement to The Great Escape where the escapees, having being rounded up by the SS and the Gestapo, are told to get out of the lorries and stretch their legs. Big X, Richard Attenborough and Gordon Jackson are reminiscing, when they hear the sounds of the machine guns loading, and it dawns on them that they are about to be shot. |
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Sorry to spoil the ending of Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources but you were never going to watch it.
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The "NELL" Scene ,in the series The Haunting of Hill house , I was speechless at the end of the episode ..
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Series well worth a watch , if you Like Ghost Movies etc 9/10
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