It all started here. Then continued here. And here’s my list of favourite movie moments (in no particular order):
[Since I started with the other two lists, the beginning might seem a little copy-catty. And I tried to have no more than one scene per film. And I’ve probably forgotten a billion scenes. Also, first I thought I’d go for 75. Then I was suddenly at 100 and not done yet, so I just stuck with 111 112 113 114. :)]
- Up: the story of Carl and Ellie
- Wall-E: the first 20 minutes
- The Usual Suspects: Verbal Kint leaving the police station
- The Dark Knight: Joker tells of his origins
- Batman Begins: Bruce Wayne drops into a push up
- Fight Club: Explaining the rules
- 25th Hour: Fuck New York
- The Matrix: bending spoons
- Spirited Away: Chihiro and No-Face on the train
- Howl’s Moving Castle: Howl in bird-form talking to Calcifer
- Princess Mononoke: Seeing the Forest Spirit
- Nausicaä in the Valley of the Wind: Nausicaa protecting the little ohm
- Castle in the Sky: the robot with the flower and the birds
- My Neighbor Totoro: Waiting for the bus
- Jurassic Park: the water glass
- E.T.: that bike ride
- Singing in the Rain: dancing through the rain
- There Will Be Blood: Daniel Plainview DRINKS YOUR MILKSHAKE
- Inception: Folding Paris
- The Truman Show: Truman leaves
- What Dreams May Come: seeing the city for the first time
- Brokeback Mountain: The reunion kiss
- Atonement: Briony visiting Cecilia and Robbie
- Pan’s Labyrinth: Ofelia and the Pale Man
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Boromir’s Death
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: The Ents
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: “I can’t carry it for you, …”
- When Harry Met Sally: “I’ll have what she’s having!”
- Casablanca: The Marseillaise
- Edward Scissorhands: Kim dancing in the ice shavings
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Introducing Jack Sparrow
- Man on Wire: Stepping onto that rope
- Life is Beautiful: Roberto entering the hall on his “white steed”
- Once: Broken-Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy
- Hero: The White Sequence
- House of the Flying Daggers: In the woods
- Amélie: The Garden Gnome
- Penelope: Prologue
- The Princess Bride: Inigo Montoya vs. the Dread Pirate Roberts
- The Prestige: The Reveal
- The Lion King: Mufasa’s death
- Aladdin: the genie shows off
- Arielle: The almost kiss
- The Beauty and the Beast: Belle and Beast dance [I’ll stop here now with the Disney movies]
- Big Fish: Ed meets the witch
- Mary and Max: Mary’s wobbling mother
- Rain Man: The escalator
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Harry brings back Cedric
- The Professional: Mathilda, Léon and the plant walking down the street
- Love Me If You Dare: the dream sequence
- The Producers: “back into the closet”
- A Streetcar Named Desire: “STELLAAAA!”
- The Shining: “Here’s Johnny.”
- Little Miss Sunshine: Dwayne realising he can never be a pilot
- In Bruges: Harry chasing Ray
- Lost in Translation: Bob shooting the commercial
- Benny and Joon: the dancing bread
- Dead Poets’ Society: “Oh Captain, my Captain!”
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: The luminescent crabs on the beach
- Four Weddings and a Funeral: Matthew reciting Auden at the funeral
- Memento: “What am I doing? Chasing this guy. No, wait, he’s chasing me!”
- The Machinist: Trevor looking at himself in the mirror
- Equilibrium: the training session
- Wait Until Dark: Susy extinguishing all the lights
- Children of Men: the baby crying
- The Piano: the beach
- Fargo: Gaear uses the wood chipper
- Constantine: the devil kicks everybody’s ass
- Back to the Future: The concert
- Charlie Bartlett: Charlie channeling Ray Charles
- Purple Rivers: the fight
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape: Arnie killing the grasshoppers
- Battle Royal: The girl in the car with the teddy
- Old Boy: The ant
- Trainspotting: The toilet dive
- Moulin Rouge: Roxanne
- City of God: The chicken
- Stand By Me: The boys walking on the train tracks
- Babe: “That’ll do, pig.”
- Titanic: Jack and Rose partying
- Mirrormask: Stepping on the books
- Dirty Dancing: “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
- Billy Elliott: Billy hearing Swan Lake for the first time
- LV: LV’s performance
- The Fall: The Black Bandit’s brother’s burial
- 10 Things I Hate About You: “You’re just too good to be true…”
- Never Been Kissed: at the baseball field
- Pulp Fiction: Jules citing the bible
- Reservoir Dogs: Stuck in the Middle with You
- Kill Bill: Bill talks about Superman
- Forrest Gump: Elvis
- Sweeney Todd: Sweeney Todd arrives in London
- The Fountain: Tomas sitting in the bubble
- Ed Wood: Shooting the cemetery scene
- Dead Man: William Blake lying in the boat
- 300: “Tonight we shall dine in hell!”
- A Beautiful Mind: John realises the truth
- Dogma: God shows up
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Hedwig sings about the origin of love
- Love the Hard Way: Jack writing in his container
- The Last Unicorn: defeats the red bull
- My Beautiful Laundrette: Johnny licks Omar’s neck
- The King Dances: The King dances
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sweet Transvestite
- All About My Mother: Agrado talks about her life
- Sense and Sensibility: Elinor loses her composure
- Emma: Emma realises what an ass she’s been
- Clueless: Cher brings her two teachers together
- Love and Other Disasters: The end in the cinema
- Natural Born Killers: The interview with Mickey
- Coffee and Cigarettes: Segment “Cousins?”
- I’m Not There: when it all comes together
- Casino Royale (the new one): Where Bond comforts Vesper in the shower [which totally sounds like a porn scene but isn’t]
- Happy-Go-Lucky: “En-Ra-Ha, Poppy.”
Um…wow. Yes.
And there are probably a million more. :)
There are…I’ve thought of several dozen since I posted my list, and they keep coming. My brain is on a roll ^^
I keep thinking of more, too. It’s like an addiction. [And imagine what scenes I will have to add after Alien vs Ninja. :P]
@ dead poets society: No one can resist the beauty of this moment.
Love it. I think I’m going to do this list. With 20 scenes as I haven’t seen as many movies.
:)
I’m looking forward to your list.
I’m going to do it too. Probably top 25. Which I’m going to try and do without stealing any of yours – hard as that’s going to be. You’ve got some crackers in there!
But there are so many more! Looking forward to your list as well.
I probably shouldn’t say this, but…
What about a list of favorite literary moments?
Oh, I could definitely do that too! Maybe the week after…
What a wonderful idea. All for it. :)
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