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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:01 AM
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Post a youttube of a favorite scene from a film
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:21 AM
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1. that's a powerful scene
and scary as hell.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:22 AM
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2. simply the best scene EVER!!!
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:27 AM
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3. I've..........seen things...........
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:55 AM
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18. Ooh, I can't even watch.
I know what it is.
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:35 AM
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4. One of the only things on earth that can make me cry:
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 01:11 AM
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10. "I dunno...maybe it was Utah."
Great line.
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carly denise pt deux Donating Member (855 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:37 AM
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5. I love this movie
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:40 AM
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6. .
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 12:41 AM
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7. Amusing....
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 01:09 AM
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9. I love that scene!
Gene had to really fight Mel to get it into the film.

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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 01:05 AM
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8. Another one
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 01:12 AM
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11. sweet and enchanting....
The setting, in case you don't recognize it, is Grand Central Station at rush hour. From The Fisher King:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9ifIhCIhg
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:19 AM
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12. "'Fuck you,' THAT'S my name!"
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:22 AM
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13. "We're All Bored"- My Dinner With Andre
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:24 AM
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14. Probably the creepiest scene ever put to celluloid.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:45 AM
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16. "...as a matter of fact, I'm there right now..."
Edited on Sun Mar-11-07 02:48 AM by CanuckAmok
Lucky David Lynch... real-life compounded the weirdness of this scene.

PS Barry Adamson playing in the background... I never noticed that before.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:50 AM
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17. Definitely.
:thumbsup:
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 02:35 AM
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15. As someone who makes films for a living....
Edited on Sun Mar-11-07 02:43 AM by CanuckAmok
the sheer SIZE of this location shoot always floors me. The sheer logistics of shooting like this in a city are staggering; look at some of the long-lens shots looking down the streets...there must have been 200 cops on-duty just to control traffic. Six cameras, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and squibs. Not even considering the cost of A-list actors of the day (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore...), the bill for this day's shooting must have been in the millions.

Even in this age where CGI and digital wizardry can do anything, the sheer scope of this scene hasn't been out-done.

Add Michael Mann's undeniable natural genius for shooting fight sequences (it's what he should do... he should never, ever deal in actor dialogue), and you get this masterpiece of action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r_06mw2N2c

PS the sound mix/editing are just incredible. Listen to it with headphones if you can.
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electricmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 03:30 AM
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21. Love that movie
2nd dvd I ever bought was the special edition one.

On a related note the car chase in Ronin. Almost 8 minutes of automotive mayhem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQa-RSSRrVM
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 03:16 AM
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19. Band of Brothers
Easy company liberates a concentration camp. Loots the nearby town for food.

Webster: "You're not a Nazi? My mistake, you fat fucking prick. How about a human being? You one of those? Are you gonna tell me you never smelled the fucking stench?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4AOGYz5IY

David Webster dropped out of Harvard to join the parachute infantry. With his education and influential family, Webster could have been an officer stateside. But he wanted to be a "grunt", to see and document the war from a foxhole.

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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 03:21 AM
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20. Down By Law | "You scream, I scream . . ."
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 03:51 AM
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22. I could pull scenes from Dr Strangelove all night
This 1-minute snippet of Gen Buck Turgidson will do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic1cWny3uVQ
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:10 AM
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23. a few from "bad lieutenant"
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:11 AM
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24. You want power?
Kenneth Branagh summons up something divine, even as he leads a war of conquest for vanity's sake in Henry V. Here's his St. Crispin's Day speech at Agincourt. Watch for a quick shot of a very, very young Christian Bale as Boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z399i_PksfU

Earlier in the film, Branagh's King Harry confronts three traitors and lets them hang themselves, so to speak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxiVIanbqeg
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:12 AM
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25. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xd_zkMEgkI

So many good scenes from this movie.
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:54 AM
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26. Sorry couldn't find this on You Tube but it is still my favorite scene. Those of you who have seen
it will remember how it made you feel:



After Sally Field stands on her desk to hold up this sign, workers in the factory start shutting off their machines one by one until it is dead quiet. Then the police come in and escort her out. Great scene!
ou feel:

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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:00 AM
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27. Here's a VERY powerful scene. Hope you all remember it!
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:03 AM
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28. "A white wang?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4btjVPF76i0

Long, but it's one of my favorite movies.
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fight4my3sons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:16 AM
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29. I love this one...
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:15 PM
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33. My favourite fictional political speech
From "A Very British Coup"...

The premise: Leftist, steel worker, and labour leader Harry Perkins has been elected to Prime Minister of England on a platform of Democratic Socialism. His first official act is to release his associates from prisons across the UK, where they've been held as political prsoners.

His second act is to order a complete withdral of nuclear weapons from British soil, including the US military bases.

When Britain's books are shown to be in financial ruin, Perkins borrows money from the USSR to pay the debt, thereby severing the ties that bind the UK to the US military industral complex.

The CIA and the establishment attempt to unseat him using sex scandals, threats, and murdering of some of his cabinet.

Perkins is unphased.

The newspapers are an obvious critique of Rupert Murdoch's media monopoly. The Murdoch-character attempts to unseat Perkins by blaiming a nationwide ower workers strike on his governement.

Perkins does not bend.

Finally, in the scene posted here, Perkins is shown bank accont statements connecting him to shady financial dealings with a secret former mistress of his and bribery from the Soviets. They are forgeries, of course, but both Perkins and Sir Percy (the Lord who provides the documents) know that the public will be too easily convinced of the documents' frauldulent nature.

Perkins is told that he has two options; he can resign citing "ill health", or he can be linked to the bank forgeries.

In essence, Perkins' government is being overthrown.

He goes live on all media to read the resignation speech that has been prepared for him.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7v4Cyz0DNs
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:18 AM
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30. This is my favorite scene from a musical which I love.
It's not a love that's shared by a lot of people, so sue me. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVFwI5Jd5g
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fight4my3sons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:31 AM
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31. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 09:39 AM
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32. "PUT THE GLASSES ON!!"
Best fist-fight scene ever, from an unsung classic sci-fi movie.

Rated R, BTW, for violence and language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKFadyJxwg
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:32 PM
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34. Stand back!
Stand waaay the fuck back. Here comes the GREATEST FIGHT SCENE in the history of the World! In the history of the Universe! In all Universes to come!:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FbnJ4dI8bjk
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 07:53 PM
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35. LOL.. nope.. HERE's the best fight scene ever...
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 08:16 PM
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36. Har!
A worthy challenger (are those coconut POCK noises really part of the original film? Hee), but uh-uh. Best Jesus-with-slammin-sideburns bit I've ever seen, though.
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 10:24 PM
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37. lol.. yep yep...the audio's straight from the flick..
good stuff.
:toast:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 01:21 AM
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39. That movie is a true masterpiece.
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:26 AM
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40. Yep.. a modern, no-budget classic..
wish I had seen your previous thread before..
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Babel_17 Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-11-07 10:52 PM
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38. Grosse Pointe Blanke
Pen is mightier than the sword. :)

Easily one of my favorite flicks too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1peY-aiZw



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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:38 AM
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41. From Dr. Strangelove....
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Ryano42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:44 AM
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42. "Hey Ridley...ya got any Beeman's?"
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:54 AM
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43. How's this one?
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Ryano42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 08:58 AM
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44. The Dominoes Fall...
The message...the building music...quick flashing images...I neary jumped out of my seat in the theater!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh7_fhTRbNo
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