For those who know and love it, and those who've never seen it: the best scene in movie history.

[Surya Gayatri]

In honor of this remarkable day - Signing of the historic Iran Nuclear Peace Deal on the anniversary of the Révolution Française et la République Française, Bastille Day.

I give you the best EVER rendition of the 'MARSEILLAISE'.

Makes me tear up no matter how many times I watch it. Powerful, beautiful, stunning.

[el_bryanto]

1. That is a great scene -but the best scene in movie history is clearly the ferris wheel scene from

the Third man.

Bryant

[Surya Gayatri]

3. A debattre, comme on dit ! (to be debatted! LOL!)

[panader0]

8. Another good one-the opening scene from Orson Welles' 'A Touch of Evil'

[rainy]

24. Best movie scene of course is Matt Damon

ranting about joining the NSA in Good Will Hunting

[Martin Eden]

45. Hard to pick a greatest scene, but this one from Network is among the most important:

There is no America; there is no democracy.
The world is a business

[Lisa D]

2. That is a great scene.

Love that movie

[Surya Gayatri]

4. I didn't see 'Casablanca' until I was already living in France. That scene just blew me away!

[closeupready]

19. You saw it in a cinema there?

When I was an exchange student there EONS ago, in Paris, I recall they had numerous cinemas throughout the capitol showing old films, some exclusively. Casablanca is definitely a keeper. Got turned on to all kinds of films there - Abbas Kiarostami, for example. Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (at some embassy near the Eiffel Tower, forget which one). Lots of first run French and English films, too, before (IF) they made it stateside.

Where are you from originally, if you don't mind my asking?

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Can't remember if it was in a cinema 'retrospective', which they LOVE here in France,

or if it was on VHS.

[cwydro]

5. Love it!

(sorry no French flag easily available)

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Glad to oblige...

[shenmue]

6. Not "The Cat from Outer Space"?

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Not even close, shenmue! LOL!

[me b zola]

7. Here's another all time great movie scenes:

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Agree, it's truly great, but it doesn't have the heart-stopping quality of the Marseillaise, IMO...

[haikugal]

38. I always cry when I hear that song! Always....

It's stirring..

[Surya Gayatri]

41. IMHO, no other national anthem can match it, except the EU's anthem.

[haikugal]

42. Love it! One of my favorites!

Thanks...

[Surya Gayatri]

43. ...

[DetlefK]

31. How about a movie-scene about the mind-boggling beauty of time?

[asjr]

12. How I love scenes of old movies and this is one of the best.

I also made me think of "Play it again Sam."

[Surya Gayatri]

13. Truly among the most legendary ones...what a classic.

[CBGLuthier]

14. You know hard to argue

I too tear up just a bit especially on the shots of the woman singing so fiercely.

[Surya Gayatri]

15. Historical footnote: I read somewhere that that actress

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was a French political refugee in the States, and that she wasn't crying just an actor's crocodile tears!

[sarge43]

36. Several of the extras were refugees. They weren't acting. n/t

[niyad]

16. k and r

[irisblue]

17. best movie ever

Love, loss, friendship, Nazis getting their asses beat sideways...and all in 1942.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. Who could ask for more!

[sarge43]

35. And Rick's redemption

Nearly perfect film

Vive la France!

[ismnotwasm]

20. Now I have to go watch the whole movie

See what's you've done?

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Everybody should watch this classic once every two years...so I won't even say 'mea culpa!' LOL!

[TeeYiYi]

23. I'm shocked; SHOCKED...

...to find that gambling is going on in here!

Your winnings, sir.

Oh, thank you very much...

TYY

[Surya Gayatri]

26. Who doesn't fall a bit in love with the great Claude Raines when watching this?

[dorkzilla]

25. It IS a great scene from a great movie. The ending scene in Mrs. Miniver...

is also quite moving. It’s one of my favorite movies (propaganda and all). I’m an atheist and the singing at the end moves me to tears every time...

[Surya Gayatri]

27. Very, very powerful. Tears me up, too.

Comment from below the video on YouTube:

"This is a speech that we should learn from in light of threat we face from ISIS. These people have made us all soldiers for freedom of speech, belief and ideas. And we must fight them, "with all that is in us!"

[dorkzilla]

29. I saw that, but I also read through the other comments :(

How they can turn a movie’s ending into an anti-Obama rant is beyond me.

I laughed at the idiot saying white people voted for him so therefore racism doesn’t exist (I’m paraphrasing). I can’t believe how deep the stupid is in those morons.

[Surya Gayatri]

30. I stopped at that first comment, knowing what a cesspool YouTube comments usually are.

The Stoopid is rampant.

[dorkzilla]

32. Hahaha! I should have known better. Its like reading the comments on The Hill LOL!! n/t

[blm]

28. Best scene in any movie was clearly in Galaxy Quest.

; )

[dorkzilla]

34. Actually, it was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

Mike.Dropped.

[blm]

39. Undropped. Didn't see it.

; )

Mondo Video, now………….

[dorkzilla]

46. I was kidding, besides we all know the best film is Monty Python’s Holy Grail

Pee Wee was funny, but Holy Grail is, well, the holy grail of movies!

[Jim Lane]

47. And for best scene, tough choice....

I think that King Arthur's encounter with the black knight ("It's only a flesh wound&quot has been posted on DU several times, in various contexts of people denying reality.

But Dennis the constitutional peasant ("Help, help, I'm being repressed&quot is also a contender.

[dorkzilla]

48. I like the "bring out your dead" scene, right up to the very last line...

"He must be a king.
Why?
He hasn't got shit all over him"

[pinboy3niner]

33. There's also that other classic scene from Casablanca...

"We'll always have parrots."

[dorkzilla]

37. LOL!!!!!

I’ll never see that scene the same way again.

You da funniest, pinboy!

[AlbertCat]

40. No.... THIS is the best scene in movie history!

Apply to your life as needed:

[smirkymonkey]

44. +1000

That scene always makes me cry!

[eridani]

49. Definitely great, but aren't you forgetting--

"You can't fight in here--this is the war room!"

[Surya Gayatri]

50. Doesn't pull at my heart like this brave and tearful version of the Marseillaise, though!

[raven mad]

51. K&R -

and bookmarked so hubby can see and remember it when he wakes up. It's the 15th now; but I never forget the 14th!

[Surya Gayatri]

52. Hope he's a fan, too!