Fantastic/Beautiful moments in Cinema - The PH Compendium
Discussion
So many great lines and moments: You know what you are?!?! A son of a thousand fathers, all b
ds like you or If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talk
But. The ending:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Magnificent.
ds like you or If you're going to shoot, shoot. Don't talkBut. The ending:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Magnificent.
I've refrained from posting on this thread as I couldn't choose a single moment. Basically the whole of Whale Rider, but I'll nominate the moment that the chief is handed back his whale tooth, thrown into the sea as a test for the young men, and asks "Who got it?" His wife's response is fairly short.
Dark Knight: When the Joker is hanging out of the stolen cop car, weaving around Gotham and that cello string scrape incessant over it all.
Perfectly sums up the Joker and has so much atmosphere.
A redeeming moment from the Star Wars prequels: Ep 1, when the hanger bay doors open to reveal Darth Maul [John Williams score kicks in] , the hood comes back, double lightsaber is fired up and the two Jedi have an anxious glance towards each other. Proof that some hint of the Force is still with George Lucas.
Perfectly sums up the Joker and has so much atmosphere.
A redeeming moment from the Star Wars prequels: Ep 1, when the hanger bay doors open to reveal Darth Maul [John Williams score kicks in] , the hood comes back, double lightsaber is fired up and the two Jedi have an anxious glance towards each other. Proof that some hint of the Force is still with George Lucas.
cal216610 said:
For me i think it has to be one of the very first films i watched start to finish without any interuptions.
I was about 6 or 7 and it just seemed to go on and on and i was fully captivated by it.
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Then at the top of the hill
The Centurion(John Wayne): Truly, this man was the son of God.
I had a little tear back then.
Edit -Film title - The greatest story ever told.
This is often commented by film buffs as one of the more laughable castings of the silver screen!I was about 6 or 7 and it just seemed to go on and on and i was fully captivated by it.
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Then at the top of the hill
The Centurion(John Wayne): Truly, this man was the son of God.
I had a little tear back then.
Edit -Film title - The greatest story ever told.
Edited by cal216610 on Monday 24th October 10:32
There are many poignant moments in the Elephant Man, but when he decides to go to sleep like the small boy in the picture, knowing he will asphyxiate...
Right, I'm swinging back in here with a controversial one....
John Hannah said:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
awful film, beautiful moment, still brings a tear.Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
The_Doc said:
Right, I'm swinging back in here with a controversial one....
John Hannah said:
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
awful film, beautiful moment, still brings a tear.Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
The_Doc said:
awful film, beautiful moment, still brings a tear.
A truly typical British Farce indeed, but definately a highlightCasino Royal
Probably not to everyone's taste but there was a great scene in Casino Royal when Bond is being tortured in the chair. For anyone who's not watched it, he is naked and tied to a chair with no seat base. The baddie swings a sack full of something towards his balls and will only stop in return for some information. Bond refuses and asks him if he wouldn't mind doing him a favour, as he has a little itch down there.
The next 5 seconds are brilliant, as the baddie doesn't appreciate the humour and whacks him full pelt. Bond screams in agony "No! No! Please......to the left a bit". Even angrier, he takes another swing much harder while Bond screams again "YES! YES! RIGHT THERE!" Looks weird written down, but I remember watching it and thinking 'what a cool fker'.
I had the same reaction in Skyfall, where Bond jumps from carriage to carriage on a moving train just after being shot. The old carriage breaks away behind him, and he just about makes the jump. Bloody with a hole in his chest, the first thing he does when he lands is adjust his cuffs and carries on moving. Sums up the character greatly.
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Layer Cake
Another Daniel Craig film. The final sentence uttered by his character mainly, and what happened next. I hadn't realised till the end of the film that his name was never said throughout the duration of the film, and I had not even thought about it or questioned it until that point. Also he gets shot and presumably dies, throwing two fingers up to the Hollywood ending.
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Buried
The last scene. I didn't rate the film too highly, but the ending is highly memorable. For anyone who's not seen, he's kidnapped by terrorists and trapped in a coffin buried in the ground (no flashbacks, no other actors etc, the whole film is inside this small wooden box). The terrorists leave him with a phone so that he can call the US for ransom. In the end the coffin is starting to fill with sand, and help is finally on the way. With a few seconds to spare before the coffin is filled completely, you hear them on the other end of the phone ripping it open and then... oh crap. Turns out that rescue team had gotten bad intel and gone to the wrong coffin. Not only that, it was the coffin of the man they claimed to have saved 6 months earlier in whilst reassuring this guy that he would be ok - confirming that there was never any chance that he would be saved. It was the realisation that you had watched the past 90 minutes expecting him to break out somehow, instead you watch him die alone. Memorable because, much like Layer Cake, it wasn't a typical Hollywood ending.
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Rocky Balboa
Two great moments in this film for me, but both longer than 5 seconds.
1. The full uncut speech (DVD extra) with Paulie about Adrian dying, and the flashbacks etc. Growing up with the Rocky films, I felt the emotion whilst I was watching and related to all the characters involved, especially Rocky Balboa.
2. The speech Rocky gives to his son who doesn't want him to fight, as he is worried that Rocky will embarrass him and himself due to his age. After laying into his dad for a few minutes:
"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward." Again, growing up watching the Rocky films repeatedly, you felt the emotion and the struggle.
Probably not to everyone's taste but there was a great scene in Casino Royal when Bond is being tortured in the chair. For anyone who's not watched it, he is naked and tied to a chair with no seat base. The baddie swings a sack full of something towards his balls and will only stop in return for some information. Bond refuses and asks him if he wouldn't mind doing him a favour, as he has a little itch down there.
The next 5 seconds are brilliant, as the baddie doesn't appreciate the humour and whacks him full pelt. Bond screams in agony "No! No! Please......to the left a bit". Even angrier, he takes another swing much harder while Bond screams again "YES! YES! RIGHT THERE!" Looks weird written down, but I remember watching it and thinking 'what a cool f
ker'.I had the same reaction in Skyfall, where Bond jumps from carriage to carriage on a moving train just after being shot. The old carriage breaks away behind him, and he just about makes the jump. Bloody with a hole in his chest, the first thing he does when he lands is adjust his cuffs and carries on moving. Sums up the character greatly.
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Layer Cake
Another Daniel Craig film. The final sentence uttered by his character mainly, and what happened next. I hadn't realised till the end of the film that his name was never said throughout the duration of the film, and I had not even thought about it or questioned it until that point. Also he gets shot and presumably dies, throwing two fingers up to the Hollywood ending.
---
Buried
The last scene. I didn't rate the film too highly, but the ending is highly memorable. For anyone who's not seen, he's kidnapped by terrorists and trapped in a coffin buried in the ground (no flashbacks, no other actors etc, the whole film is inside this small wooden box). The terrorists leave him with a phone so that he can call the US for ransom. In the end the coffin is starting to fill with sand, and help is finally on the way. With a few seconds to spare before the coffin is filled completely, you hear them on the other end of the phone ripping it open and then... oh crap. Turns out that rescue team had gotten bad intel and gone to the wrong coffin. Not only that, it was the coffin of the man they claimed to have saved 6 months earlier in whilst reassuring this guy that he would be ok - confirming that there was never any chance that he would be saved. It was the realisation that you had watched the past 90 minutes expecting him to break out somehow, instead you watch him die alone. Memorable because, much like Layer Cake, it wasn't a typical Hollywood ending.
---
Rocky Balboa
Two great moments in this film for me, but both longer than 5 seconds.
1. The full uncut speech (DVD extra) with Paulie about Adrian dying, and the flashbacks etc. Growing up with the Rocky films, I felt the emotion whilst I was watching and related to all the characters involved, especially Rocky Balboa.
2. The speech Rocky gives to his son who doesn't want him to fight, as he is worried that Rocky will embarrass him and himself due to his age. After laying into his dad for a few minutes:
"The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward." Again, growing up watching the Rocky films repeatedly, you felt the emotion and the struggle.
Edited by Ren Esis on Thursday 10th July 15:21
Seven pages and no mention of...
'You're only 'sposed to blow the bleedin' doors off!'
Or
'They're saluting you' from Zulu
Another of my favorites and a bit left field is the Alan Rickman & Tom Selleck gunfight at the end of 'Quigley Down Under' I can't remember the exact line but Tom Selleck to a mortally wounded Alan Rickman...
'I said I didn't hold with them, (talking about revolvers btw) never said I couldn't use one'
'You're only 'sposed to blow the bleedin' doors off!'
Or
'They're saluting you' from Zulu
Another of my favorites and a bit left field is the Alan Rickman & Tom Selleck gunfight at the end of 'Quigley Down Under' I can't remember the exact line but Tom Selleck to a mortally wounded Alan Rickman...
'I said I didn't hold with them, (talking about revolvers btw) never said I couldn't use one'
There's some bloody long 5 seconds in here...
How about 2 1/2 seconds either side of these edits...
or for the more romantic, it's 5 seconds from when Rick says...
"Sam, I thought I never told you to play that....." wham!
But you need a couple more seconds to see Rick's kicked in the guts face.
How about 2 1/2 seconds either side of these edits...
or for the more romantic, it's 5 seconds from when Rick says...
"Sam, I thought I never told you to play that....." wham!
But you need a couple more seconds to see Rick's kicked in the guts face.
Too many movies to choose from:
The Third Man
The reveal of Harry Lime
No Country for Old Men
The coin toss
Bridge on the River Kwai
"Stand fast in the ranks!." & "Madness, Madness"
The Usual Suspects
Kujan realises he's been conned...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The final shoot-out and freeze frame
Saving Mr Banks
Let's go fly a kite
The Godfather
"Make him an offer he can't refuse"
Dr No.
"Bond, James Bond"
The Third Man
The reveal of Harry Lime
No Country for Old Men
The coin toss
Bridge on the River Kwai
"Stand fast in the ranks!." & "Madness, Madness"
The Usual Suspects
Kujan realises he's been conned...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The final shoot-out and freeze frame
Saving Mr Banks
Let's go fly a kite
The Godfather
"Make him an offer he can't refuse"
Dr No.
"Bond, James Bond"
Beautiful cinematic moments? For me, it's hard to beat Giuseppe Tornatore and two of his films - Malena and Cinema Paradiso.
Any five seconds of the gorgeous Monica Bellucci in Malena is worth a shout... indeed any five seconds from 2.22 to 3.12 of this little compilation of shots...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh1CsRQJv5k
In Cinema Paradiso there is one lovely piece of directing. The story is of an Italian film producer, Salvatore Di Vita, who learns that on old friend has died in his home town on Sicily. He returns home for the first time in decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPkBtr4vz0
2:02:25 to 2:02:45 - unravelling of the wool, panning outside to the taxi leaving and finishing on Salvatore Di Vita with his mother. Fabulous directing.
Any five seconds of the gorgeous Monica Bellucci in Malena is worth a shout... indeed any five seconds from 2.22 to 3.12 of this little compilation of shots...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh1CsRQJv5k
In Cinema Paradiso there is one lovely piece of directing. The story is of an Italian film producer, Salvatore Di Vita, who learns that on old friend has died in his home town on Sicily. He returns home for the first time in decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPkBtr4vz0
2:02:25 to 2:02:45 - unravelling of the wool, panning outside to the taxi leaving and finishing on Salvatore Di Vita with his mother. Fabulous directing.
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