Posted on 06/21/2011 8:44:55 AM PDT by Scythian
This scene, when I saw it for the first time as a kid, cut deep, still moves me today:
Death of a Soldier ...
A dying wish given without words, a simple pleasure, the last memory of home, a smoke of tobacco.
What are some of the ones you remember ?
“Give ‘em hell 54th!”
“To my big brother George, the richest man in town.”
When they shoot "two-socks".
That scene always got me. The other scene from that movie that gets me is when the Germans round up all of the children in the camp and load them in to trucks. As the trucks start to drive away with the children crying and screaming for their parents, the mothers who have been lined up in the yard first appear confused and then, finally realizing what is happening, they begin to break formation in a mad rush to the fence to try to save, or say goodbye to, their children.
The scene of the little girl in the red coat always seemed to be contrived, at least until Schindler then sees the red coat again in a pile of bodies.
Oh jeez! This thread is getting to me, for the love of MIke!
"Leap of Faith," the scene at the end where con-man Steve Martin, having witnessed a real act of divine healing, walks out amidst all the people who came to his sermon and sees Americana---people telling stories, reading the Bible, playing checkers, all happy, and he realizes that healing is more than just healing the physical body and that faith is real. That one's a grabber.
Followed by the cut to the boy at the military academy, who has just learned that his father survived, and looks relieved and drained at once.
Earlier in the film, there's a lovely scene where the family and friends are gathered in the one astronaut's living room, watching the fiasco play out on TV. The little toddler son is playing, oblivious to what's going on. The astronaut's wife looks so calm, so serene, as she sits there with her hand resting on her son's shoulder-and then bad news is announced. The wife's face doesn't change at all...but the little boy says, "Mommy, you're hurting me!" because she's dug her nails into his shoulder. Nothing shows on her face of how much this is taking out of her, watching her husband die so far away, AND having to be brave to protect her child that's too young to understand. Beautiful scene, and a refreshing change from the "let it all hang out/tell all" mentality that's been inflicted on us for so long. Stoicism instead of Jerry Springer emotionalisms.
And before that, there's a scene that's one of the funniest, and I'm sure it was unintentional : The camera pans around the kitchen where everyone has gathered.In the background, two little girls are trying to carry a bowl of salad . They drop it, look at it for a half second, and then start scooping the salad up off the floor with their hands, dropping the lettuce back into the bowl, presumably with the idea of setting it out for people to eat!It's just a brief scene in the background, but it cracks me up every time .
The graveside scene from “Steel Magnolias” where all of women are gathered to support M’Lynn. This scene always made me cry, but especially now since my own daughter passed away. M’Lynn’s words could have been my own.
“Remains of the Day” when Emma Thompson is leaving on the train crying and Anthony Hopkins just tips his hat.
Frequency is a good movie. Two thumbs up from Homer.
How about when Spock saved the crew and the exchange between Kirk and Spock.
The Memory Keepers Daughter. When Gretchen Moll met her daughter the last scene in the movie.
I was going to say the scene near the end of “Return of the King” where everyone at Gondor bows to four little Hobbits. It conveyed one of Tolkien’s underlying themes, the smallest and most common at the pinnacle of valor and honor, and for some reason it always affects me more than any scene in any of the three films.
funny I immediately thought of Blazing Saddles as well...LOL.
That’s a good one.
Have to agree on this one. AS for sports movies, When Rudy gets put in on the last two plays and gets the sack and carried out on the shoulders of the team.
That’s a good one too, and the entire Gandalf/Frodo departure scene.
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