In Reply to: The Greatest single SCENE (not necessarily the entire performance) in modern (post-70) posted by tinear on October 14, 2002 at 06:50:04:
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.
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Follow Ups
- It's a five-way tie........... - danj 20:57:53 10/15/02 (5)
- Godfather I.... - Mrs. Piggy 17:54:54 10/16/02 (4)
- Re: Godfather I.... - bubbahotep 16:11:01 10/18/02 (3)
- I didn't finish Godfather III...... - Mrs. Piggy 17:46:58 10/18/02 (2)
- Cage is a Coppola but did you mean Andy Garcia? (nt) - bubbahotep 21:18:39 10/18/02 (1)
- You are correct, that's who I was thinking of.... - Mrs. Piggy 17:43:11 10/19/02 (0)