brum Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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 Park2. The opening sequence to The Sound of Music3. 'Top of the World, Ma!' - Jimmy Cagney in White Heat Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
red devil Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy two times Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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 Gladiator3. When Tommy asks Henry why he thinks he's so funny in the Bamboo lounge in Goodfellas. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 1. title sequence of Casino Royal2. opening sequence of Sexy Beast3. 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonaloochieB Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 1)Al Pacino sitting by the lake 2) Colonel Kurtz in the semidark3)T'm Spartacus Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonM Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 The montage at the end of Requiem for a Dream where the full horror of everyones' fall became grimly apparantThe scene in Before Sunset when Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke first see each other after 9 yearsThe final scene in Merry Chrstmas Mr Lawrence with Tom Conti and Beat Takeshi Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanity girl Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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 & I3. Make em laugh from Singing in the Rain Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 3 of my favourites1) 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonM Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Oh and how could I forget Jenny Agutter's first sight of her father near the end of "The Railway Children"! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee quinnie Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Paul Newman eating all those eggs in Cool Hand Luke.Always makes me shift around a bit, that. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnia Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
davy watts Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 shower scene in Psychojack 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) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeckhamRose Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei practicing their arguing and getting turned on by it in My Cousin VinnyThe end of It's A Wonderful Life Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santerme Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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 ApesNext one is a toss up between Robert Donat's, Mr Chips final flashback of the children he had taughtOrRonald Coleman regaining his memory and recognising Greer Garson as his wife in the final scene of Random Harvest Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignumber5 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 The last 2 and a half minutes of the Usual SuspectsAndy Dufrene standing in the rain as a free man in The Shawshank RedemptionThe skiing off a mountain then union jack parachute moment in The Spy Who Loved Me Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulwichmum Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 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... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brum Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 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!) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckwich Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Santerme Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Charlton Heston finding the Statue of Liberty in> Planet of the ApesI 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonaloochieB Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Peckwich Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Santerme Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > > 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSJ57 Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Here's some chick flick ones:Rick and Ilsa at the airport - Casablanca - classicButch 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annasfield Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 I hate having to list favourites, but this is way up there: Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
brum Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 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! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonM Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 John Hurt in "Alien".... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/9102-top-3-classic-film-moments/#findComment-275442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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