Great Moments In Films
Posted by Richard Lowe on 10 July 2008 - 5:59pm.
Here are two magnificent specimens:
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Crewcuts and trainers
are out again I hear.
???????
I get the reference, but not the relevance.
Get yourself a copy of…
… So Tough. Then all will become clear.
Lyrics from.....
"You're In A Bad Way" by St. Etienne. Great track.
An obvious one and a personal fave
You Tube eh!
Welling Up?
Are we having some misty eyed moments today Richard ?
Spring, I’m the kind of sap
who gets something in his eye at the sound of Bobby Goldsbro’s Honey (despite knowing full well it’s top-grade corn) so you can imagine what JA’s “daddy . . . my daddy” does. No shame in being a sentimental old Hector.
I can honestly say
that I have never once watched that scene with having to gulp and find an excuse to rub the old eyes. You are not alone!
*sniffles in agreement*
Two from me...
Dont have to watch all 8 minutes...first 10 secs of music gets me every time..."Once upon a time in the west - final scene"
one more? How about a lot of moments wrapped up in about 2 mins from one great film "Amelie" and a superb score (Yann Tiersen! Yes! mentioned him again...new album out this month "Tabarly")
This is quite extraordinary...
from The Night of The Hunter...
You beat me to it!
I was just about to post the same scene. That whole sequence never fails to give me goosebumps.
As my back-up, here's the opening scene of my favourite film, Kiss Me Deadly - also from 1955 - a great attention-grabbing sequence that powerfully evokes a world on the brink of panic and chaos (for more info, see the rest of the film!)
Oh, yeah, and Touch Of Evil
All in one take
Every time I see that Daddy My Daddy clip
It really does push the tears-on-demand-button! Imagine then if you will, the effect some years ago of our daughter playing that part in the local (rather splendid) Am Drams production of The Railway Children and turning to the audience and letting rip with that line. Collapse of stout party into mass of tears I fear.
Let's go for the really obvious shall we....
Obvious how?
What's obvious about it? Are we PREDICTABLE? Is that what you're saying?
What? Are you saying I'm predictable? Predictable how?
Not at all Archie. On the contrary in fact.
I do think it's one of the most famous scenes of recent times though.
Scratch that Archie
I took it too seriously like a clown.
Ahhhh....idiot.
I had him!
Hey, Spider, get over heuh!
You Talkin' to me?
Did someone say we could not have obvious anyhow? Let the obvious flow. C'mon scottie you could be more obvious than that...
You're damn right Commoner.... let's go!
Good use of a great song
Slightly off kilter
In the film "The Parallax View", Warren Beatty, in order to infiltrate the Parallax organisation, has to sit through their test film....which is really very strange and un-American
The greatest ending to any film
The Duke may have been a pig of a man but he filled the screen and with a master like John Ford created certainly the best western ever made and arguably one of the greatest films ever
My daddy...
Has anyone got a hanky?
That does rip right through the veneer of adult stiff-upper-lip...mind you, it does it even when I read the book too.
"Oh! my Daddy, my Daddy!" That scream went like a knife into the heart of every one in the train, and people put their heads out of the windows to see a tall pale man with lips set in a thin close line, and a little girl clinging to him with arms and legs, while his arms went tightly round her."
And now I can't see properly...
Bugsy, you give a little love
Yes, Jenny definately cuts it here too.
But just watched this on Film4 tonight, and realised this must be one of the best feel-good films ever, with a feel-good ending to cap it all. A room full of kids, covered in gunk, singing "You give a little love and it all comes back to you". Magic.
Go Daddy O
One of my favourite films and clips too.