In keeping with our Books That Make You Say WOW post and because it's summer, Tearfree was preparing a has a new post on memorable movie scenes when she got word that Ingmar Bergman had died. Needless to say, she has a Bergman pick for this Movie Scenes That Make You Say WOWcategory.
Criteria: It doesn't have to be the whole movie, just a scene that stuck in your head although, of course, perhaps it's both the scene and the movie.
Here are Tearfree's big four in no particular order:
1) Cries and Whispers cutting scene. So gloomy, so Bergman. Those sisters, that big house. And the glass mutilation scene. Yikes.
2) Goodfellas Copacabana scene. I thought this movie was violent and overrated the first time I saw it. And the second time around, I still thought it was violent and overrated. But this scene is visually amazing and, added bonus, there's young Dr. Melfi.
3) French Connection pick-up scene. Gene Hackman drives alongside a cyclist. Cut to the scene of her bike in his bedroom. An eye opener about sexual attraction for my teenage self.
4) Last Tango in Paris staggering around drunk scene. Okay, okay, that kind of describes the whole movie, but I'm talking about the scene after Maria Schneider leaves Brando and he staggers drunk through that large, empty room.
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The scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid -- Robert Redford, pistol in hand, ordering Katherine Ross to remove her clothes in a room lit only by candlelight. It is a tense scene -- is the Kid a rapist? -- but when she says "what took you so long to get here?" as they embrace, it morphs into an incredibly erotic and sexy reunion scene between two lovers often separated by long periods of time.
That whole movie, actually, is rife with scenes that have stayed with me my whole life -- when they jump into the river, the final freeze-frame, the bicycle ride with Newman and Katherine Ross to "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head."
And the sobbing in the shrink's office scene in Truly, Madly, Deeply, where Juliet Stevenson does it all in one very long take.
Tearfree, am I correct in my suspicicion that you have a thing for debauched men? Hackman in French Connection and Brando in Last Tango, you don't need to be a shrink to see something going on there.
I just thought of another one -- from my favourite foreign film, The Princess and the Warrior. Franke Potente gets hit by a truck and is choking on her own blood when a fleeing thief hides under the truck, notices her, and performs an emergency tracheotomy. Sounds brutal, but it is a beautiful and heart-stopping scene.
There are so many but I think it's the ferris wheel scene from The Third Man. I copied the quote from Wiki - you can find a good review at imdb.com
Orson Welles to Joseph Cotton:
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
The last scene in Fargo runs it a very close second. Very low key but the words of the sheriff to the murdering thug as she's taking him to jail have stuck with me. I wish I could remember the quote.
Thought of another one this afternoon, though a comical one.
The scene in The Odd Couple when Oscar, played by Walter Matthau, finally loses it and stomps all over the furniture with his shoes on and then wipes the bottoms of his shoes on the curtains, just to drive Felix crazy. Saw the film again recently and howled with laughter at that scene.
And of course the awful scene in Sophie's Choice -- I actually couldn't watch it once I had children.
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