Best Scene in a Movie

[tonywalt]

My favourite scene is Jack Nicholson's Diner Scene in "Five Easy Pieces". This movie could be Nicholson's best, although it was no box office blockbuster. There is another scene with his father which reveals why he became successful. The scene is available on youtube.

What your favourite scene?

[Emil Miller]

This film is so great that it leaves practically everything else, except for a handful of rare examples, as pathetic also rans. I had the privilege of meeting Joseph Cotton briefly at the National Film theatre in London; his performance in this scene reflects the mastery of the greatest film ever made even though the quality of the video extract is far from perfect.

http://youtu.be/P9tfDaYEj2M

[swannbeam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0UPh5FELg

[papayahed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Gb4eZ7Z5yk8

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

All of Pulp Fiction.

[Scheherazade]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Gb4eZ7Z5yk8

Seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32lwKxakec8

Towanda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9Z3MYo2M0


Stuck in the middle with you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjoVt...eature=related

(please do not click if you are faint-hearted)

[stlukesguild]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qqfsQGYus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uBeiNXAo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1OZCHixR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0c4...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yR0wlrq_h4

One of the most unsettling scenes of the film. The highest of human achievements contrasted with the depths of what humanity is capable of.

[tonywalt]

My favourite scene is Jack Nicholson's Diner Scene in "Five Easy Pieces". This movie could be Nicholson's best, although it was no box office blockbuster. There is another scene with his father which reveals why he became successful. The scene is available on youtube.

What your favourite scene?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElNpwX_8YpQ

[Delta40]

Fried Green Tomatoes - the parking space incident.

[tonywalt]

2001 A space odyssey - Final Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXS8P0HksQo

Deer Hunter - Russian Roulette scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPi2AetitZc

The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PxG...eature=related

Annie Hall - opening scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxlfvI17oY

I love that "the key joke about my adult life....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOLypkY8LMc

Sunset Boulevard - I'm ready for my close up

Robert Di Niro- Good Fellas (no words)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmF_P...eature=related

Girl in Red Dress - Schindlers List

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1VL-...feature=relmfu

[stlukesguild]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/859285/

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Those are all really, really good picks. I was expecting more foreign film, subtitles, artsy-fartsy mumbo-jumbo (especially from one in particular ).

Here're two more that come to my mind, both from brilliant films that came out the same year:

No Country for Old Men -- The coin toss scene. Seriously one of the tensest scenes ever.

There Will Be Blood -- The baptism scene. It's just awesome, pure and simple.

[OrphanPip]

I think Fosse choreographed and directed a number of the best scenes from musical films ever made.

From Cabaret:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D7AebhY4qg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxmz3...eature=related

Big Spender from Sweet Charity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG3Vf...feature=fvwrel

And from All That Jazz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VfOh8bli3Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXz6...eature=related

[tonywalt]

Excellent pick. I love that scene, the coin toss. So much tension through superb acting.

Foreign films.

I will pick one from each each side of me -Spanish Father and Italian Mother, plus they are both good films.

Che. Idealista, pero inteligente. A trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqTw2dtVQzw

And Cinema Paridiso (yea I know a bit soppy, but damn good).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6jGz...eature=related

[swannbeam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcsTlE4En_M

Beautiful simplicity.