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Your favorite movie moments?
Self | 11/9/01 | Interious

Posted on 11/09/2001 11:57:55 AM PST by Interious

[I'm posting this under Culture/Society since this category includes the Arts.]

What are your favorite movie moments? Why do I ask? I've been thinking a lot about the psychology of ideology lately: What makes the Rightist and Leftist mind tick? My movie moment query is inspired by a similar thread on DemocraticUnderground.com. Interesting reading, to see what lefties select. Star Wars is popular scene fave source, as is The Matrix.

I thought it would be interesting to see what my fellow rightists select, and then compare data (Also just for fun).

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My favorites:

1) "The Best Years of Our Lives":
Wilma has just put Homer to bed after lovingly, for the first time, helping him with his primitive prosthetic arms. She leaves the room, and we see Homer lying in bed with tears streaming down the sides of his face. Incredibly moving, the entire scene.

2)"BraveHeart":
Wallace's determined proclamation just before his beheading--"FREEEDOM!", followed by the triumphant swelling of the beautifully appropriate score. Amazing.

3)"October Sky": 2 scenes--
A) Homer is about to launch his final rocket. He thanks those in the crowd who made it possible. His Dad unexpectedly shows up. Homer's Dad, after having been given the honors of turning the launch switch, places his hand on Homer's shoulder as they watch the rocket gloriously ascend. At this moment, it becomes clear that the movie is not about a bunch of boys making rockets, but is a tale about the relationship between a Father and Son.
B) End of film. Actual home movie clips of Homer, his family and friends are shown. The final clip is of the actual, young Homer Hickum. Killed me.

4) "Ben Hur":
Final scene. Juddah sees his mother and sister Tearsa at the top of the stairs, cleansed of their leprosy. He approaches, and takes them into his arms. Deeply moving.

There are others which, of course, I can't think of at the moment. Yours?


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To: Interious
missing in action...braddock(norris) stumbles into the court where they are declaring that there are NO POW's in vietnam, ..with POW's on his arm.
201 posted on 11/09/2001 1:13:19 PM PST by SCARED
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To: kissthis
"It could be carried by an African swallow"

"An african swallow may be, but not a european swallow, that's my point."

202 posted on 11/09/2001 1:13:38 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: Interious
Just about every other scene in From Here to Eternity - Burt Lancaster leaping up to face a knife wielding Ernest Borgnine, arming himself with a smashed beer bottle in one hand & beckoning with the other - "OK Fatso, if it's killing ya want..."
203 posted on 11/09/2001 1:14:06 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Congressman Billybob
My favorite scene -- in the caegory of sexiest scene in which no one takes their clothes off -- is in The Fabulous Baker Boys. Michelle Pfeiffer is Suzy Diamond, in that red dress, on the grand piano in the hotel ballroom, singing "Makin' Whoopie." It doesn't get any better than this.

Sure it does. Lili von Schtupp (Madeline Kahn) singing "I'm Tired."

205 posted on 11/09/2001 1:14:53 PM PST by Erasmus
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To: Junior
Good Morning, Vietnam!
===================================

"Does Three Up and Three Down, mean anything to you...?

"....End Of An Inning?"

206 posted on 11/09/2001 1:15:13 PM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: Chemist_Geek
Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue
207 posted on 11/09/2001 1:15:38 PM PST by GoreIsLove
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To: kissthis
LOL

I don't care! Would you go get your master and ask him if he would like to join me in my court at Camelot?
208 posted on 11/09/2001 1:15:50 PM PST by Lilly
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To: Interious
I have many favorites but truly believe that Office Space should be declared a national treasure and be required viewing for all high school seniors!
209 posted on 11/09/2001 1:17:06 PM PST by 100%FEDUP
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To: Interious
"Breaker Morant" ... where Edward Woodward gives a great speech about a soldier's duty.
210 posted on 11/09/2001 1:18:16 PM PST by fnord
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To: cardinal4
It's count the money.

That's Count de Monet.

211 posted on 11/09/2001 1:18:18 PM PST by hobblemaster
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To: Interious
All the ones people have mentioned from Braveheart and the Patriot.

And someone may have mentioned this one from Gladiator:

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius: commander of the armies of the North, general of the Felix legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius.  Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

And the end:

Lucilla:  Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once...make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honour him.

I like the final scene in Blade Runner too:

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tannhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die.

And finally, any scene in Caddyshack with Rodney Dangerfield.

212 posted on 11/09/2001 1:18:29 PM PST by machman
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To: stands2reason
LOL
re: post 189

If we built this large wooden badger...
213 posted on 11/09/2001 1:18:45 PM PST by Lilly
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To: Lilly
Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers - by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society!
214 posted on 11/09/2001 1:18:53 PM PST by kissthis
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To: Springman
How 'bout,"Ev'ry sperm is sacred; Every sperm is great: If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate!"
215 posted on 11/09/2001 1:18:57 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: stands2reason
LOL

re: post 197
Bridgekeeper: What? I don't know that. ((((boing)))
216 posted on 11/09/2001 1:20:50 PM PST by Lilly
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To: hobblemaster
Mel Brooks to the guy who played Leavitt in Barney Miller;"The little fag gets it!"
217 posted on 11/09/2001 1:20:57 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: Lilly
On second thought, let's not ride to Camelot. 'Tis a silly place.
218 posted on 11/09/2001 1:22:21 PM PST by Chemist_Geek
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To: Interious
The final scene in the original Ocean's Eleven when they realize that the wife is going to have her husband cremated is classic. I really hope they don't butcher it in the re-release.

True Romance: Christopher Walken shooting Dennis Hopper after the "Moors" story, and then sayin something to the effect of "I haven't shot anyone in 12 years."

"Asses of Fire" from South Park.

219 posted on 11/09/2001 1:22:54 PM PST by GoreIsLove
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To: stands2reason
"The number counted shall be three and the number of the counting shall be three,"Brother Maynard and the Holy Hand grenade.
220 posted on 11/09/2001 1:23:26 PM PST by cardinal4
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