The finest scenes in movies

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Two nominations:

  1. the line “I’ll have what she’s having” at Katz’s deli in “When Harry Met Sally”
  1. the bar scene in “Good Will Hunting” where some grad student tries to shame Will’s friend and then Will shows that everything he spouted came from books he’s read rather than being his own thoughts
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This scene from Glory. The first time I saw it, I knew right away Denzel would win an Oscar for it.

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Shirley MacLaine screaming at the nurses to give Debra winger her pain meds. Terms of Endearment

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Arnold in Predator:

Same movie, but Jesse Ventura:

Both former governors, BTW.

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Too many scenes in this one, Four Weddings and a Funeral, but the scene with Mr. Bean playing a bumbling priest trainee at a wedding sticks out to me:

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This is easy. The witch trial in The Holy Grail.

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O captain, my captain, Dead Poets Society.
White Nights dance scene

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Many great ones have been mentioned.

I’ll add the courtroom scenes from My Cousin Vinny. If forced to narrow it down, Marisa Tomei’s voir dire.

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The scene with Jimmy Stewart sitting at Martini’s bar by himself in It’s a Wonderful Life . “I’m not a praying man”

Barbra Streisand touching Robert Redford’s face at the end of The Way We Were.

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Peter Sellers as Clouseau. Take your pick.

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Contrasted with one of my favorite Jimmy Stewart scenes:

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That was a priceless Steinway….

“Not anymore!”

Or

I thought you said your dog does not bite.

“Yes, but that is not my dog”

Or

“Do something about your filthy minki”

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She was awful! SO many extraordinary performances in Amadeus and then that!

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A lot of great ones in this thread.

But this scene, culminating in Vinny’s getting the boys freed made my kids stand up and cheer the first time they saw it. I love this movie.

The chemistry between Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei is amazing. The movie itself is brilliant and funny, and there is not a single role that isn’t played superbly.

And the movie has a lot of legal truths too, to the extent that many law schools show the movie to first-year law students.

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Here’s another of my personal favorites: the last scene from “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. For a brief second, it makes you forget the tragedy that just happened but it forever gives you hope to break out (of whatever):

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Totally agree. You watch the movie thinking it’s the story of Andy and after the movie it feels like it was really the story of Red.

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The final scene of Cinema Paradiso, my favorite movie of all time. If you’ve seen the movie, you know what I’m talking about. Excellent film, and the last scene is so fantastic.

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One of my favorites as well

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Its one of only 4 or 5 movies I will watch repeatedly.

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I saw “Cinema Paradiso” when it first came out. Absolutely wonderful movie and great choice for a perfect scene at the ending!

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