What's your favourite film scene?

James2016 · 05-07-2015 5:35pm

Totally agree with the bank heist in heat also the cafe seen with Pacino and de Niro is superb. So many good scenes in that film.

Jimbob1977 · 05-07-2015 5:50pm

Four candidates stand out. Apologies if people haven't seen them.

1. Not strictly a scene.... but the opening to Star Wars.

Twentieth Century Fox intro

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away"

Then the screen goes black for five seconds and then..... BAM!

2. The start of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in Budapest.

You can cut the tension with a knife.

Mark Strong's character knows that there's something wrong.

The waiter is nervous and sweating. An old lady looks out of an upstairs window and retreats immediately. The Hungarian defector continues to smile as if nothing is amiss. A train rumbles by. Mark Strong makes his excuses and stands up.

3. Last of the Mohicans.

When Daniel Day Lewis and his Mohican friends try to save the English girl from her Huron captors.

The Fiddle Song is haunting in the background. The English girl jumps off the rocks rather than be a Huron slave. And then the epic battle between the Last of the Mohicans and the chief Huron.

4. The opening to Inglorious Basterds.

In the French farmhouse, when Shoshanna and her family are under the floorboards and the Nazi Landa knows it.

He carries out his interrogation of the French farmer in both French and English and the tension mounts.

When he switches to English, he knows that the Jewish family don't speak English. He pretends that everything is calm & polite... and then comes the onslaught.

tunguska · 05-07-2015 10:58pm

I know the film as a whole wasn't a classic, but the Kaneda solar panels scene from Sunshine is amazing..........and I can't post the clip because youtube seem to have removed it. Here's the audio though

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjY3NO4qoYc