NSFW Can you paint a scene of a movie moment that you never forgot?

I think the one scene that does stick in my mind and has done since I was a kid was Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Ark where he is in the marketplace and the girl has been swept away in a basket and he is of course doing his best to look all spectacular. (I have no idea where the link between archaeologist and spectacular came in as I do not know any and I am one myself)

Anyway he is in the crowded marketplace and the master swordsman appears all dressed in black and looking like a giant with him then doing all of this fancy sword stuff and I remember watching it and thinking…well that’s Indi in trouble now!! for him to pull out his gun and simply shoot him. For some reason that still makes me laugh today no matter how often I see it and it was all done as a spur of the moment as Harrison Ford was ill that day (I think the flu) and he had no strength left to do the actual fight scene.

I think I will need to visit YouTube.

It’s the squirrel scene from Rat Race. They stop to ask Kathy Bates for directions, She offers Whoopie Goldberg and daughter a squirrel. They refuse and then follow Kathy’s directions until they crash in the desert right next to a sign that reads “You should have bought the squirrel.”

@marinelife loll Life changing !!!

I’ve never forgotten Alex Baldwin’s ‘motivational’ rant to the real estate salesmen in the film Glengarry Glen Ross.

“Let’s talk about something important. Are they all here? … Well, I’m going anyway. Let’s talk about something important. Put that coffee down. Coffee’s for closers only. Do you think I’m fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I’m here from downtown. I’m here from Mitch and Murray. And I’m here on a mission of mercy. Your name’s Levene? … You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch? … You certainly don’t pal. ‘Cause the good news is you’re fired. The bad news is you’ve got, all you got, just one week to regain your jobs, starting tonight. Starting with tonight’s sit. Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. ‘Cause we’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired. You get the picture? You’re laughing now? You got leads. Mitch and Murray paid good money. Get their names to sell them. You can’t close the leads you’re given, you can’t close shit, you are shit, hit the bricks pal and beat it ’cause you are going out…”

@flutherother I know this! I used it in a Sales Development program I was doing. I loved it too!!

The one that sticks with me had no specific dialogue. It was watching Vivienne Leigh, as Scarlett O’Hara, in the movie of “Gone with the Wind” making her way through wounded and dying soldiers. The sounds and calls of the soldiers, bloody and in pain and the expressions of her taking in the ghastly scene with horror and helplessness was unforgettable.

There are plenty of movie moments that come to mind, but none are earth-shattering.

The best story comes from the father of a friend. The dad was just out of school, and he took a date to the movies. It was_The Graduate_. After the scene where a man advises Dustin Hoffman to get into the plastics business, my friend’s father turned to his date and said, “Plastics” with a big smile. He started his own company making plastic molds for local industries. The business took off. Oh, and he ended up marrying his movie date.

@Shippy Those lines from Trainspotting are still no BS “spot-on”.

Unforgettable moment? ET, Elliott and their friends lifting off in their bikes! Whew and whoa!
The rousing speech in Braveheart
( to name a few )

At the end of Memento, during Leonard’s monologue. He says that, “I have to believe my actions still have meaning.” Just knowing that, even after all that’s happened in that movie, to know that he won’t remember any of it again blows my mind. The fact that he won’t even remember the epic monologue he goes on at the end, too, blows my mind.

I don’t have an answer right now, unless you want everything from Halloween II, but if you liked the movie Trainspotting, I highly recommend that you read the book. It’s fantastic.

There is a scene at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, where Marion and Indy are tied to a lamp post, screaming, while they are circled with flames and the Angel of Death.
It is simply the best moment in cinema history.

The scene I call the “Transition” in Mulholland Drive. Won’t make any sense out of context, but here it is:

Betty and Rita return from their experience at Club Silencio. A blue box has appeared in Rita’s purse; they now know this box must fit the blue key they had earlier. They enter the dark apartment; it’s the middle of the night. Betty walks over and places the blue box on the bed; the camera pans to Rita, who is fumbling through some boxes in the closet to retrieve the key from its hiding place. She finds it and turns around and sees that Betty is gone. We have not heard any footsteps. She says “Betty?”. No response. Again “Betty?” and then she looks around obviously creeped out and says in a quiet shaky voice ”Donde estas?”. She walks into the dark part of the bedroom and calls out for Betty again, but no response. She then walks over to the blue box and puts the key inside. It opens to reveal black nothingness. The camera goes inside the box into the blackness and the box falls to the ground. Rita is gone.

Next, Betty’s Aunt Ruth enters the dark bedroom and looks around, as if she just heard something suspicious. The camera pans to the floor; the blue box is gone. Aunt Ruth leaves. The scene attempts to shift, but fails. The scene attempts to shift again and this time, goes through and we see a sleeping woman on a bed in a different room.

What this scene is, is a transition between non-reality and reality, the end of a dream essentially. The dreamworld literally starts to disappear and fade. It’s fascinating, creepy, bizarre, surreal, and it’s my favorite scene in any movie I’ve seen.