Top 3 classic film moments

[brum]

Inspired by a brief PM exchange with charliecharlie, I've thought about the hundreds of classic film moments there could be, and come up with these three for starters:

1. The Rippling puddle in Jurassic Park

2. The opening sequence to The Sound of Music

3. 'Top of the World, Ma!' - Jimmy Cagney in White Heat

[red devil]

In no particular order...

1. The opening sequence to Trainspotting.

2. Cary Grant getting chased by a plane through a cornfield in North by Northwest.

3. When Marlon Brando whips out the marge in Last Tango In Paris.

[jimmy two times]

1.When the alien comes out of the guy's stomach in Alien.

2.When Russell Crowe reveals his identity to the emperor in the coliseum in Gladiator

3. When Tommy asks Henry why he thinks he's so funny in the Bamboo lounge in Goodfellas.

[charliecharlie]

1. title sequence of Casino Royal

2. opening sequence of Sexy Beast

3. the beginning of a film of family picnic when my Dad cracked a raw egg on his head (which I had hidden among the box of hard boiled eggs)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_itxeexAFd4U/SLFbJ4p9-yI/AAAAAAAADzs/jtXfFq7MTOw/s400/StTrins2.jpg

[HonaloochieB]

Withnail & I "Monty you terrible c@nt".

The closing shot of The Long Good Friday, Harold Shand realising what's been going on.

This from It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO5gKgjzsFw

[????]

1)Al Pacino sitting by the lake

2) Colonel Kurtz in the semidark

3)T'm Spartacus

[SimonM]

3. When Marlon Brando whips out the marge in Last Tango In Paris.

It's butter not marge and, typical bloke, he gets Maria Schneider to fetch it for him first.. >:D<

1. Omar Sharif's first appearance in "Laurence of Arabia"

2. The opening scene of "Betty Blue"

3. The closing montage of "The Godfather"

[SeanMacGabhann]

The montage at the end of Requiem for a Dream where the full horror of everyones' fall became grimly apparant

The scene in Before Sunset when Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke first see each other after 9 years

The final scene in Merry Chrstmas Mr Lawrence with Tom Conti and Beat Takeshi

[sanity girl]

1. Goodfellas when Ray Liotta starts being followed by the helicopter, and is trying to simultaneously cook ragu for his family, drop guns off and cut drugs.

2. Any scene selected at random from Withnail & I

3. Make em laugh from Singing in the Rain

[matthew123]

3 of my favourites

1) Scarface final scene - Al Pacino 'say hello to my little friend'

2) In another Sergio Leone movie, Once upon a time in America, Robert De'Niro standing at a NY train station reflecting on life as he flashes from a young man into an old man to the tune of Yesterday.

3) Opening scene in Once Upon a Time in the West, when Charles Bronson steps off the train and plays his Harmonica before the shootout

[SimonM]

Oh and how could I forget Jenny Agutter's first sight of her father near the end of "The Railway Children"!

[wee quinnie]

Paul Newman eating all those eggs in Cool Hand Luke.

Always makes me shift around a bit, that.

[Narnia]

Schlinders List - Liam Neeson observing from a hill on the back of a horse the Jews being moved by the Nazi's. The scene is in black and white as most the movie is apart from the little girl he sees wearing a pink coat. He would see her again later.

Cinema Paradiso - The return after 30 years for the funeral. Don't ask me the actors name.

Saving Private Ryan - The beach landing

[davy watts]

shower scene in Psycho

jack nicholson bursting through door with axe in Shining exclaiming 'here's johnny'

car chase in The French connection (always preferred this to the one in bullit)

[PeckhamRose]

Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei practicing their arguing and getting turned on by it in My Cousin Vinny

The end of It's A Wonderful Life

[Santerme]

In the Heat of the Night, Sidney Poitier slaps Endicott then walks out to the car with Rod Steiger, he rants about pulling Endicott of the hill and Steiger looks at him and says, 'boy, oh boy you are just like the rest of us'

Charlton Heston finding the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes

Next one is a toss up between Robert Donat's, Mr Chips final flashback of the children he had taught

Or

Ronald Coleman regaining his memory and recognising Greer Garson as his wife in the final scene of Random Harvest

[bignumber5]

The last 2 and a half minutes of the Usual Suspects

Andy Dufrene standing in the rain as a free man in The Shawshank Redemption

The skiing off a mountain then union jack parachute moment in The Spy Who Loved Me

[dulwichmum]

The closing scene from the film Imitation of Life, where the daughter charges through the street at her mother's funeral and pulls the back of the funeral car open, to weep on her mother's coffin, OHMYGOD!

My mother adores that scene.

She tells me that there is a message in it for me, never leave it too late to apologise to your mother...

 

[brum]

Loads above I really like....thanks for the reminders...Charlton Heston slamming his fists into the sand in Planet of the Apes....Gladiator....and Betty Blue.. ooh la la!!

Never seen Imitation of Life DM, but a worthy clip indeed. Get phoning your mum now (unless you've already done it!)

[Peckwich]

Santerme Wrote:

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> Charlton Heston finding the Statue of Liberty in

> Planet of the Apes

I concur with this pick. I did not guess the twist at all and my jaw dropped when it was revealed. Funny thing is, I watched it as a child but didn't remember anything about it when I saw it again many years later.

Also some other favourites:

The cemetary scene from start to finish in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

A head sprouting legs in John Carpenter's The Thing.

The ending scene of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Donald Sutherland.

[HonaloochieB]

Peckwich Wrote:

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> Santerme Wrote:

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>

> > Charlton Heston finding the Statue of Liberty

> in

> > Planet of the Apes

>

> I concur with this pick. I did not guess the twist

> at all and my jaw dropped when it was revealed.

> Funny thing is, I watched it as a child but didn't

> remember anything about it when I saw it again

> many years later.

>

> Also some other favourites:

>

> The cemetary scene from start to finish in The

> Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

>

> A head sprouting legs in John Carpenter's The

> Thing.

>

> The ending scene of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

> with Donald Sutherland.

Ooh of course, and the scene where the 'electric heart starty irons' are applied to an infected crew members chest and the chest opens to reveal a gaping toothed maw and bites the medics hands off. A film that can still put the willies up me.

[GSJ57]

Here's some chick flick ones:

Rick and Ilsa at the airport - Casablanca - classic

Butch and Sundance coming out of their hiding place at the end of the movie - sob!

Meryl Streep and Robert Redford flying over Africa - Out of Africa - beautiful.

[Annasfield]

I hate having to list favourites, but this is way up there:

[brum]

No worries AF - this isn't really a 'favourites list' thread anyway, because there's just too many to list. Just classic moments that come to mind - like yours.... great to see it again!

[SimonM]

John Hurt in "Alien"....