Favorite movie scene, 2020

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Whaaat? You have to see it, even just to say you don’t like it! 😉
 
Mark121359 said:
Perhaps the greatest car chase of all time.
“Bullitt.”
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Hollywood has given us a lot of great car chases over the years, but I’ve never seen one to beat the long chase from Lake Wazzapamani to Daley Plaza, in The Blues Brothers.
 
I like to watch old classic films and recently rewatched “How Green Was My Valley” on TCM. It’s a 1941 John Ford directed movie following a Welsh mining family during Victorian times. The cast includes a very young Roddy MacDowell as Huw Morgan the main protagonist along with Walter Pigeon, Maureen O’Hara and character actor Barry Fitzgerald. The scene where Huw goes down into the coal mine after a cave-in searching for his father gives me chills. As the group advances further into the mine, Huw’s voice calls out “DaDa” pleading for an answer and it echoes through out the shaft. The ending has me in a puddle of tears whenever I watch it.
 
I thought of another “Favorite Scene” that I re-watch often, and this one is actually on Youtube.
Band hears its record on the radio for the first time. This film was set back in the days when it was extremely difficult to even get a record made, much less get it onto any radio station.

(It’s way different now - recordings are super easy to make, you don’t even have to make them in vinyl format, and you can just put them on Soundcloud or similar, no one cares about radio.)

 
Interesting response. LOL I loved seeing the Woolworth store at the beginning. We used to shop there often. I miss those places that had a lunch counter, though I never ate at one. 🙂
 
We did not have a Woolworths open when I was a child, but there was a similar store called G.C. Murrphys that had a old fashioned lunch counter, and my mom loved to go there for lunch. She always had a grilled American cheese sandwich with a tomato, and a thin chocolate milkshake. She hated thick milkshakes and that counter was the only place around that made them thin.
 
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She hated thick milkshakes
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I agree. We’ve had shakes at various places that you had to eat with a spoon. If I’d wanted a tall cup of ice cream that’s what I would ask for. Our regular McDonalds no longer offers shakes, which is too bad as they were my favorite.
 
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We had a large department store in Dayton Ohio (Rikes) that had a nice luncheon cafe that had the best malted I ever remember! I love malted shakes better than regular milk shakes! I don’t like them too thick, either…it hurts my cheeks to suck them up the straw and I WANT THEM WITH A STAW. Sorry for shouting a bit there…:hugs:
 
There’s actually a lot to like in “That thing you do.”

Favorite scene? When they replace the unnamed bass player with a professional session musician (played by real life bassist Larry Antonio) who wows the band with a quick riff.

One other aspect of that movie I like? When the band is playing local sets early on they play cheap period instruments. As they get bigger they move up to better quality instruments; Lenny IIRC is playing a nice quality Fender on the Hollywood Television Showcase, and the session bassist has a nice fender bass IIRC, ie exactly what you’d expect in real life.
 
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Yeah, I think whoever made it realized it would draw a lot of music geeks and tried to get the details right.

I was thinking of it recently because Adam Schlesinger who wrote the awesome title song died of COVID around the end of March.
 
Yeah, heard that. RIP. Some record producer said that the song would have been a big hit had it come out in 1964 as depicted.
 
VonDerTann said:
Favorite scene? When they replace the unnamed bass player with a professional session musician (played by real life bassist Larry Antonio) who wows the band with a quick riff.
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Whaddaya mean “unnamed”? He’s right there in the credits:

T.B. Player

😂
 
Another terrific scene from one terrific movie! Hilarious!! The bullying and child abusing teacher gets his proper comeuppance. Thanks for the clip.
 
The poker game on the train in The Sting. The whole scene lasts about 10 minutes. Because the characters — Lonnegan and his sidekicks — don’t know what the audience knows, the tension builds up to a remarkable comic-dramatic climax.

 
If we’re gonna talk Redford-Newman movies, then I’ll go with this one. This scene is in my Top 3 Most Romantic Movie Scenes Ever.

 
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Around the time that movie was made, I was showing off for a girl with my bicycle riding expertise at the local schoolyard until I hit an unexpected hole in the ground and wiped out.

It wounded my pride and a few other body parts. Thank goodness she was compassionate and didn’t laugh me off the playground.
 
Hopefully there was no bull around.

That scene always reminds me of a story my mom told me when I was little about my grandma when she was little. My grandma was told never to cut through a particular field because a bull lived there. One day she disobeyed and cut through the field and got chased by the bull.
 
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