APzombie
11-11-2009, 03:44 AM
Entertaining... meaning scenes that cannot possibly get boring no matter how many countless times you view them. Scenes that continue to get richer as you get older. Scenes that always bring a grin to your puss.
personally i've decided not to include musical numbers, i love musicals, but if i'd include them i'm afraid Fred Astare/Ginger Rogers dances, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Singing in the Rain, Fiddler on the Roof and Rocky Horror numbers would take over.
also, these youtube versions don't do the scenes justice, but ya'll know that.
1. Boogie Nights
drug deal gone bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IufPObNZY1Q
No other scene can make me laugh, squirm, get my heart racing or make me absolutely love a performance more so than the drug deal scene in Boogie Nights. It's perfectly timed (the long take on Whalberg is brilliant, even if it was an outtake because he forgot a line), Molina gives a performance so captivating it could only last nine minutes. The music is brilliantly inserted and makes the scene that much more suspenseful. Thomas Jane and John C. Riley are pitch perfect; hilarious, sad, worrying and high. I love it.
2. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
desert tank chase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkfSffU3R2c
There is something about the additional comedy and drama about this chase that makes it better than the truck chase in Raiders. Firstly, Ford and the audience are so comfortable with Jones that they allow him room to really flourish in preforming through action, something Ford is second to none at. This escalates the comedy. Then there's the drama, he isn't after the ark or any artifact. He's after his father, after a relationship thats really just beginning. Not many action films have that kind of McGuffin. The music is pulsating and beautiful, the stunts spectacular, the bad guys bad and the good guys goofy. I might have seen this scene hundreds of times, the Bay's and Greengrass's should take note of how to make a great action set piece.
3. The Great Dictator
globe dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOuoyoMhj8
I had to choose a Chaplin scene, and this was an easy choice for me. The first time i saw this scene i could not stop laughing for the rest of the day. It is positively hysterical. And the fact that it came out when it did just astounds me. He's at the top of his comedic form in this routine.
4. Safety Last
the climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U
No other stunt in my film experience has had my heart race and jaw drop as effortlessly as Harold Loyd's in Safety Last. Even though there apparently were some tricks involved, it certainly fooled me. Seeing him hang from the clock hand (with only eight fingers no less) leaves me speechless.
5. Network
Mad as hell speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew
This scene makes me want to start writing and filming. It's just that energetic and wonderful. Chayefsky , Finch and Lument really did something wonderful here.
what are yours?
personally i've decided not to include musical numbers, i love musicals, but if i'd include them i'm afraid Fred Astare/Ginger Rogers dances, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Singing in the Rain, Fiddler on the Roof and Rocky Horror numbers would take over.
also, these youtube versions don't do the scenes justice, but ya'll know that.
1. Boogie Nights
drug deal gone bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IufPObNZY1Q
No other scene can make me laugh, squirm, get my heart racing or make me absolutely love a performance more so than the drug deal scene in Boogie Nights. It's perfectly timed (the long take on Whalberg is brilliant, even if it was an outtake because he forgot a line), Molina gives a performance so captivating it could only last nine minutes. The music is brilliantly inserted and makes the scene that much more suspenseful. Thomas Jane and John C. Riley are pitch perfect; hilarious, sad, worrying and high. I love it.
2. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
desert tank chase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkfSffU3R2c
There is something about the additional comedy and drama about this chase that makes it better than the truck chase in Raiders. Firstly, Ford and the audience are so comfortable with Jones that they allow him room to really flourish in preforming through action, something Ford is second to none at. This escalates the comedy. Then there's the drama, he isn't after the ark or any artifact. He's after his father, after a relationship thats really just beginning. Not many action films have that kind of McGuffin. The music is pulsating and beautiful, the stunts spectacular, the bad guys bad and the good guys goofy. I might have seen this scene hundreds of times, the Bay's and Greengrass's should take note of how to make a great action set piece.
3. The Great Dictator
globe dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOuoyoMhj8
I had to choose a Chaplin scene, and this was an easy choice for me. The first time i saw this scene i could not stop laughing for the rest of the day. It is positively hysterical. And the fact that it came out when it did just astounds me. He's at the top of his comedic form in this routine.
4. Safety Last
the climb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U
No other stunt in my film experience has had my heart race and jaw drop as effortlessly as Harold Loyd's in Safety Last. Even though there apparently were some tricks involved, it certainly fooled me. Seeing him hang from the clock hand (with only eight fingers no less) leaves me speechless.
5. Network
Mad as hell speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew
This scene makes me want to start writing and filming. It's just that energetic and wonderful. Chayefsky , Finch and Lument really did something wonderful here.
what are yours?