Entertainment For Lively Minds
Probably the Best Movie bit in the world?
Posted by BigJimBob on 12 January 2011 - 5:35pm.
My nomination would be the Opening sequence of Once Upon A time in The West
It is a complete story on its own.
But sometimes I think it maybe Michelle Pfieffer demonstrating how it IS possible to be grown up and sexy:
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Julie Christie, swinging her bag in Billy Liar
She's like a splash of colour in grimy Bradford.
The playful music and superb direction emphasise her astonishing beauty.
Blade Runner
springs to mind.
The opening couple of minutes...
An exciting text preamble about interesting things like "replicants" and a future Los Angeles: and then Vangelis' fabulous music swelling up over a fire-belching cityscape with space cars flying about. Wa-hey!!! Bring it on!
Yes the start of OUATITW is probably unbeatable
but as endings go it's hard to beat a man riding a bomb like a rodeo steer and the planet turning into a field of mushroom clouds to the sound of Dame Vera singing "We'll meet again"....
Field of Dreams
When Burt Lancaster steps over the line on the baseball pitch to save Kevin Costner's Duaghter's life.
*Sob*
Call me Vince Softy
Don't mess with Clint....
****NSFW****
Neighbourhood Watch, Clint Eastwood style....
Emma Thompson.
Love Actually. When she gets the CD.
Terrible movie, astonishing "bit."
The opening of Wall E and Up
*sobs*
That "Love, Actually" bit.
Absolutely.
The film's dreadful. Just dreadful. And I have a big problem with Emma Thompson who irritates me to a quite extreme degree. But that is one of the finest scenes ever. She plays it to utter perfection. Proper, proper acting. No script. Just acting.
The only other "bit" I can think of like that is the closing scene of The Long Good Friday when Bob Hoskins gives lesser mortals a lesson in acting.
Thirded, except ...
... I don't think it's a dreadful film by a long chalk.
Maybe one of these days I'll try constructing a defence of it, not because I'm a devil's advocate but because I genuinely believe it's good.
One plank of my argument would be that fractured relationship between Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman (I'm sure they have names in the film, but Richard Curtis is no Dickens when it comes to naming characters, though he is neck-to-neck with him in the sentimentality stakes) which continues being fractured, as it would in Real Life, right through to the end: when you bend it, you can't mend it.
If only the whole film was about them...
... it would have been brilliant.
I watched 'Up' on Tuesday evening
for the first time. It's very good. And yes, that bit at the start...genuinely moving.
Any of the dialogue scenes
between McClane and policeman Al in Die Hard.
Probably this-->
Tough choice...
But I like a good spine-chiller, and I think anyone who's seen the Japanese original 'Ring' will know exactly what scene I'm talking about. (Warning: this is arguably quite scary.)
Probably not this -->
Cleo de 5 a 7
The clip here is a bit too short to really show the scene in context, but it is the most gorgeous mood shift ever. Lovely song, too.
Keanu Reeves, a telephone box and Rage Against the Machine
From a more recent standpoint
This is a way to make an entrance...
DEFINITELY NSFW
Goodfellas - The Copacabana Shot
Can't embed but I'm sure everyone knows this one...
Henry and Karen taken through the basement, kitchens and corridors, up to the front of stage at the Copacabana in one Steadicam shot.
Just perfect.
is that the shot which features
Jimmy Two-times?
is that the shot which features
Jimmy Two-times?
Is this the thread which features
ivan Two-times ?
Very dry Mr Ivan
very dry!!