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The Greatest single SCENE (not necessarily the entire performance) in modern (post-70)

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films by a male actor? The one, I mean, that most spoke to YOU.
My nomination: the scene in Last Tango when Marlon speaks to his wife as she lies dead upon the bed. (And the second just might be earlier on when he speaks to his fling about his adolescence upon the farm).

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Not post-1970 but.... - bubbahotep 15:54:50 10/18/02 (0)
My three favorite scenes are the opening shots of Touch of Evil and The Hill and the scene with Jack Elam and the fly in the awesome Once Upon a Time in the West.
Re: The Greatest single SCENE (not necessarily the entire performance) in modern (post-70) - caa 21:59:13 10/16/02 (0)
this would be Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco. In several scenes, you could feel a lingering sadness of an old wise guy who slowly realizes his gradually descending status.
Life of Bryan...3 scenes....(Comedic/ artistic).... - Mrs. Piggy 17:31:44 10/16/02 (5)
1. Only the true messiah would deny he is the messiah...OK...I'm the messiah.
Look, Look he IS the messiah.
2. We are the peoples front of Judea, and we would like to know what has Rome given us (besides roads, aquaducts, law and order, education....)
3. Always look on the bright side of life...la...la
la...la..la..la...la...la
mp
- The single funniest line in Life Of Brian... - gware 19:51:35 10/16/02 (4)
  is a source of considerable embarassment to me as I was the ONLY person that laughed in a full theatre (I still cringe at that memory, but I still laugh)
  The Crowd scene at the Sermon on the Mount, (and they can't quite hear)
  "The Greek will Inherit the Earth, oh I don't like the sound of that"
  No, THE MEEK, THE MEEK!!
  "OH I'M GLAD THEY'RE GETTING SOMETHING, THEY HAVE SUCH A HELLUVA TIME"
  Tee hee hee....
  Eric
  Tokyo
  - And what about haggling...you mean your not going to haggle?:o)-nt - Mrs. Piggy 20:05:23 10/16/02 (3)
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    - Re: And what about haggling...you mean your not going to haggle?:o)-nt - gware 21:29:41 10/16/02 (2)
      I have a friend from London who can rattle those lines off and do all the accents as well, after a few ales we are in hysterics without even having to watch the film!
      George Harrison underwrote this "Handmade Films" production, which did rather well at the box office
      Unfortunately, later "Handmade Films" underwritten by him did not do nearly as well, especially the brilliant "Withnail and I" (Richard E Grant) which only became a hit (on video) some ten years after it's release
      This was one of the reasons for the unfortunate financial downward spiral and storm of litigation that dogged George Harrisons last days
      Damned shame, because we would never have had those great films without him; he really deserved better IMHO
      Eric
      Tokyo
      - Withnail and I nails the early 70s better than any - tinear 18:45:54 10/17/02 (1)
        
        In Reply to: Re: And what about haggling...you mean your not going to haggle?:o)-nt posted by gware on October 16, 2002 at 21:29:41:
        
        film. Geez, the dope dealer with the huge spliff is HILARIOUS.
        
        Ralph Brown and the Camberwell Carrot... - gware 16:19:01 10/18/02 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Withnail and I nails the early 70s better than any posted by tinear on October 17, 2002 at 18:45:54:
        
        Agreed, captures the 70's like a butterfly in a jar. The producers were so keen to get Ralph Brown for that role they held up the production of "Withnail" to accomodate his schedule; thank God they did, no-one could've done it better or been more funny!
        He is the bartender in "The Crying Game"
        Paul McGann and Ralph Brown are also in Alien 3, a very odd bit of casting IMHO
        Amazing just how few people have heard of, or seen, this great film
        Eric
        Tokyo
The last scene in the Quiet Earth ..... - Mrs. Piggy 17:25:17 10/16/02 (3)
the title says it all.
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- Awesome shot - Love the expression on Bruno Lawrence's face <NT> - Rich S. 07:31:30 10/18/02 (0)
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- ???? Huh! ??? - Dave 16:21:16 10/17/02 (1)
  I've got a copy of this on laserdisc but I've never bothered to watch it..... guess I'll have to check it out!
  - This is a clever little sleeper of a film.... - Mrs. Piggy 16:44:10 10/17/02 (0)
    really takes sci fi and makes it meaningful and different.
    mp
It's a five-way tie........... - danj 20:57:53 10/15/02 (5)
1. Robert De Niro as Travis Bickel in "Taxi Driver" practicing tough talk in the mirror. "You talkin' to me?"
2. Robert Duval in "Apocalypse Now" proclaiming "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
3. Al Pacino in the end of "The Godfather II", sitting alone, after having his brother killed. No words, just the face. Once again he'd defended the "family honor." Finally realizing he'd lost everything dear to him - his family, his friends, his humanity.
4. Robert Mitchum in "War and Rememberance", in the lifeboat after his ship is sunk. Again,no words, just marvelous acting using just facial expression and body posture. Also from the same mini-series, John Geilgud (sp?) as the old professor who maintained his dignity through the horrors of the holocost.
5. Jack Nicholson giving the what-for to a bitch of a waitress.
- Godfather I.... - Mrs. Piggy 17:54:54 10/16/02 (4)
  Michael: Come on. Don't be afraid, Carlo. Come on, you think I'd make my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son, Carlo...You're out of the Family business, that's your punishment. You're finished. I'm putting you on a plane to Vegas...I want you to stay there, understand? Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry. Now, who approached you? Tattaglia or Barzini?
  Carlo: It was Barzini.
  Michael: Good.
  Clemenza is ordered to murder Carlo in a brutal and painful manner - strangling him from behind while inside a car bound for the airport. Carlo valiantly kicks a hole through the car windshield as he tries to break free while being choked to death.
  The ending scene of the film is justifiably famous. As the house is vacated and furnishings are moved by packers to their new home in Nevada, Connie hysterically accuses Michael of being responsible for her treacherous husband's death. She calls Michael a "lousy, cold-hearted bastard." Kay, Michael's non-Italian wife, asks whether Connie's accusation is true about the order to kill their brother-in-law. Denying responsibility, Kay is patronizingly lied to about his business:
  
  Kay: Michael, is it true?
  Michael: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.
  Kay: Is it true?
  Michael: Don't ask me about my business...
  Kay: No.
  Michael (slamming his hand on the desk): Enough. All right. This one time, this one time I'll let you ask me about my affairs.
  Kay (whispering): Is it true? Is it?
  Michael (quietly, shaking his head): No.
  Kay (sighing relief): (Michael kisses and hugs her.) I guess we both need a drink, huh?
  She leaves his study to fix a drink, shaky but smiling. At the same time, family henchmen Rocco Lampone, Clemenza and Al Neri (known as Michael's 'Luca Brasi') enter Michael's study, telling him of the successful assassinations of his enemies and betrayers, and paying tribute. Kay stares at them in the study - Clemenza embraces Michael, shaking and kissing his hand, clearly anointing him as the new Don Corleone of the Family: "Don Corleone." Rocco is the second one to kiss his ring hand. [The Godfather, Part II (1974) begins with this shot.] Michael has emerged as the new Godfather in his father's image, an image he once sought to escape.
  
  Good stuff
  mp
  - Re: Godfather I.... - bubbahotep 16:11:01 10/18/02 (3)
    Bought the DVD set when it came out and did an all-nighter. What a joy. Do you know who Sophia Coppola replaced at the last minute in Godfather III? Her ludicrous performance is one of the all-time worst.
    Paul Benedict's turn as the Godfather-fixated film studies teacher in The Freshman is hilarious. An underrated film IMO.
    - I didn't finish Godfather III...... - Mrs. Piggy 17:46:58 10/18/02 (2)
      I warned someone in an earlier post--it's like godfather meets beverly hills 90210--nic cages performance is pretty pukey too in that doomed fiasco. I was too embarassed to finish it. I think you are right about the freshman.
      mp
      - Cage is a Coppola but did you mean Andy Garcia? (nt) - bubbahotep 21:18:39 10/18/02 (1)
        
        In Reply to: I didn't finish Godfather III...... posted by Mrs. Piggy on October 18, 2002 at 17:46:58:
        
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        You are correct, that's who I was thinking of.... - Mrs. Piggy 17:43:11 10/19/02 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Cage is a Coppola but did you mean Andy Garcia? (nt) posted by bubbahotep on October 18, 2002 at 21:18:39:
        
        actually, that's a relief!
        mp
The last, long shot in From Dusk 'Til Dawn... - clarkjohnsen 08:18:10 10/15/02 (2)
...for its shockingly redefining, once again, and entirely without words, what this otherwise violent movie is all about.
Anyone else seen it? Pretty rough going, until quite a ways in. Then...
clark
- Just got the deluxe version on DVD......... - Chris Garrett 10:51:25 10/16/02 (1)
  and this movie has everything!
  Love it, seen it many times. That last shot was pretty interesting and was a nice twist, however I'd think that it would have been discovered long before.
  And the boner factor was quite high during Salma's dance, too!
  A Chris Garrett classic to be sure.
  - "I'd think that it would have been discovered long before." - clarkjohnsen 10:48:15 10/17/02 (0)
    Are you saying I'm dense? I'm probably gonna be in FL in November and although I've never wrung anyone's neck, a fella has to get some experience in every department, I think.
    FDTD shifts theme (genre) so many times -- well, at least three -- that I call it... a Genre-fuck Movie. Like it?
    clark
The last scene in Rosetta (nt) - David Mester 21:03:34 10/14/02 (0)
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A Favorite Moment: Last shot from THX1138 (letterboxed) - Rich S. 19:56:37 10/14/02 (0)
I love the moment when THX crawls to the surface, sees the sun and the music swells. Beautiful and serene.
Reminds me of Mrs. Piggy's comment about the individual!
=)
-Best regards,
Rich S.
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.... - Mrs. Piggy 19:26:50 10/14/02 (0)
When Chief kills Mac and escapes the mental institution--so powerful on many levels--but I see it primarily as a tribute to individuality and the worth of the individual.
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- One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Night Mother--OK, this is a movie I didn't particularly love... - Mrs. Piggy 19:18:32 10/14/02 (0)
I thought it was decent though. There is a scene where Sissy Spacek has told her mother, Ann Bancroft, that this world has nothing to offer her and she is going to commit suicide. The evining comes and Sissy is going through a list of instructions to her mother about who to give what etc--and the mother is playing along--until Sissy locks herself in the bedroom with the gun--this sends the mother into panic mode, as she desperately tries to talk her out of it. The heartache and desperation in the mom seems real, as well as the despair Sissy feels losing her prized and adored control.
Another scene--Terms of endearment, when Shirley McClain just loses her daughter to cancer and she cries and explains how she feels decieved because she thought it would be easier, because it would end the suffering.
mp
First, modern to me is post WWII. Post 1970 is for kids. nt - Pjay 17:02:22 10/14/02 (0)
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Re: The Greatest single SCENE (not necessarily the entire performance) in modern (post-70) - Jeff Starrs 08:16:42 10/14/02 (0)
The scene where Jack Nicholson's wheeling his stroke-ridden father on the cliff in Mike Nichol's "Five Easy Pieces" really got me...
maybe i have one - njjohn 07:14:02 10/14/02 (0)
for this kind of thing, i think you really have to do a/b comparisons.
i think i have one. i think it's a kitchen scene in 'henry: portrait of a serial killer, where henry is talking about how he had to watch his mother have sex with men. a serial killer getting personal and revealing his dynamics. it doesn't get better than that.
michael rooker, the actor, seems a master of understatement.
all those apartment scenes in henry, two male low-lifes, and a woman involved with them, are rather brilliant psychological scenes.

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