I thought the gunfight at the end of Open Range was rather amazing. Hardly any music was played during it, and it just had a realistic pace and feel about it.
The Duke of Kent on the rack in the Scofield/ Brook King Lear (filmed in corkscrewing pan away from above): "Fortune good night, Smile once more, Turn thy wheel."
The scene in "Searching for Bobby Fischer" when Max Pomeranc disobeys Ben Kingsley's prohibition on playing speed chess in the park with Laurence Fishburne with Joe Mantegna watching. The rapidfire back-and-forth dialogue and music captures the joy of the moment better, I think, than any book could have.
That and "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"
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The ending of Casablanca when Bogie tells Ingrid she needs to be with her husband because "The lives of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in ths crazy world".
An absolute Classic!
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Godfather II, when Pacino (finally) smacks Keaton across the chops.
Maybe, but the scene where Keaton comes to see the kids, is denied access and is standing at the kitchen door and, with no dialogue, Pacino closes the door is even more affecting, I thought.
Both the scenes that I mentioned, the one in The Godfather and the one in Godfather II had minimum or no dialogue and all the acting was in their eyes. Harder to do than lines and actions, IMO.
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Plainview: Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli. Eli Sunday: No... Plainview: You slithered out of your mother's filth. Eli Sunday: No. Plainview: They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantlepiece. Where were you when Paul was suckling at your mother's teat? Where were you? Who was nursing you, poor Eli- one of Bandy's sows? That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose.
I almost listed this. The whole bowling alley scene is awesome.
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Just about every John Woo Hong Kong gangster flick has a scene in which Chow Yun Fat flourishes two very large pistols and starts shooting both at once. The scenes are so similar, I sometimes think Woo shot the sequence once and then inserted it into a dozen or so different movies. My favorite version is the one where the gangster reaches across his chest with both arms, so the gun in his left holster is pulled by the right arm, and vice-versa. I couldn't find the scene, so this one from "Hard Boiled" will have to do:
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