Tuesday, January 03, 2006

 

Best scenes ever

I came across someone's top 100 list of movie scenes today. It's not bad, but not complete. Here's the list. Anyway, my additions to the list are (in no particular order):

- The Mount Rushmore scene North By Northwest(1959)
- "Bond. James Bond." - Dr. No (1962)
- The end of "M" (1931)
- "The stuff dreams are made of..." Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Bogie's manners speech in The Big Sleep (1946)
- The "You know how to whistle" scene in To Have and Have Not (1944).
- "I'm Spartacus" Spartacus (1960).
- "You'll shoot your eye out kid." Santa in A Christmas Story (1983)
- Robert Mitchum's good vs. evil speech in Night of the Hunter(1955).
- The hotel room/bees scene in Rushmore (1998)
- "Dowd. Elwood P." Harvey (1950) (or any scene with Josephine Hull)
- "STELLA!" Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- "We rob banks." Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- "They call me MISTER TIBBS!" In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- "These go to eleven." Spinal Tap
- The Danny Boy scene in Miller's Crossing (1990)
- The "I'll be there" speech in Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- The chestburter scene in Alien (1979)
- "I'm walking here!" Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- The Little Tramp getting caught in the gears in Modern Times (1936)
- The fight at the end of The Quiet Man (1952)
- The birds in the playground in The Birds (1963)
- "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- "Nobody's perfect"- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- "You English think you're soooo superior"- A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
- Any scene with Nick and Nora in The Thin Man (1934)
- Hinkel bouncing the globe in The Great Dictator (1940)
- The strange interludes scene, the "One morning I shot an elephant" scene and the "Hooray for Captain Spaulding" scene in Animal Crackers (1930)
- The closet scene in Monkey Business (1931)
- "No, I am your father!" Empire Strikes Back (1980)


Any additions?

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