The way Mel Gibson's youngest boys look at him in Patriot after he's butchered Tarleton's troops who took his oldest son and killed another.Covered in blood and out of breath, the lads realize kind ol daddy is not just a gentleman farmer in reality. They he must have had a life before their time.
At the end of Shenandoah when pacifist's Jimmy Stewart's family has been brutally decimated by the Civil War in the valley around Winchester VA and his long lost youngest boy hobbles in the church door on crutches as what's left of Stewart's family and the rest of the congregation are singing Rock of Ages.
The Passion of The Christ when Jesus stumbles carrying the cross and it flashes back to Mary watching him as a boy and then back to real time where Jesus tells Mary not to worry..."I make all things new"..the skin tearing scourging was hard to watch too even for me.
When Sousa tells Pacino in Scarface at the beginning of their lovely friendship that he should never ever "eff" him ever. Suddenly the sauve Sousa shows he's more than white linen and Sperrys....the chain saw scene bears mentioning of course.
When the pistoleros in Josey Wales return to the saloon and indicate they just "had to" over the reward and Josey clips them deftly with his pair of Walkers...and then the spit.
When the ex-con recounts running over Jack Nicholson's daughter in the Crossing Guard....teary.
The frozen scene at the Hungarian death camp in Sonnenschein.....anyone who saw that knows what I'm talking about.
and for the girls online....I have heard this one over and over:
when Ralph Fiennes touches Kristen Scott Thomas ever so lightly on the cheek with the back of his hand when their passion is at it's zenith prior to the affair in the English Patient. Women love that.
Westerns are full of good moments since good and bad are often so defined:
Tom Selleck and Alan Rickamn's duel at the end of Quigley...
Unforgiven conclusion in the Saloon.
I'm your Huckleberry moments by Val Kilmer ...as good as it gets.
Anything by the Duke but like many have said...Searchers stands alone.
When Tommy Lee Jones catches the fellow horsewhipping Jones's bastard son in Lonesome Dove.
Best Western for a boy....Shane.
I just bought the HBO movie "The Quick and the Dead" (based on the L'Amour novel) starring Sam Elliot. Sam Elliot befriends this family of 'tenderfoots' who have a gang of outlaws following them. The man and his wife are totally against violence of any kind, but learn that they have to defend themselves if they want to survive. After the leader of the outlaws is killed (by the woman), she and her husband are hugging when the last outlaw, who is wounded, is about to shoot them and is himself shot be Sam Elliot. The man and woman spin out of their embrace with pistol and rifle cocked and ready.
Sam Elliot says, "You've gotten fast. But remember to watch your back."
I love that scene.
"Never said I couldn't use one. Said I never had a use for one."