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BBM DVD WATCHING Habits and Reactions: THINKIN' OUT LOUD... POWERFUL FILM SCENES
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: kirkmusic on May 21, 2006, 07:54:26 am ---Fernanda Montenegro in the final scenes of Central Station - one of the great performances by any actress ever.
I remember loving Kate Winslet's Ophelia in Hamlet as she's sitting against a wall singing. So tragic.
Call me crazy but my heart breaks for Clint Eastwood when he reaches for the whiskey bottle after hearing of Ned's murder and is pushed back over the edge in Unforgiven.
And you want to talk about emotionally effective subtlety? How about Anthony Hopkins in every frame of The Remains of the Day?
And finally, the singlemost thrilling, joy producing movie moment I can recall: Dash's head thrown back laugh when he discovers he can run on water in The Incredibles. I'm serious! That movie shares the same being-true-to-yourself theme that Brokeback has, only it ends well, and that moment is the best example of the turnaround one experiences when one comes into themselves and starts living life to the fullest. O0
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I agree with all of this! I love The Incredibles! And for the very reason you cited - that it's about being true to yourself. I laugh out loud with pure joy every time I see Dash realize he can run on water. Buddy was bound to fail because he was always trying to be something he was not. I loved Edna - "What are you talking about?! YOU ARE ELASTIGIRL!!!" She was like the Jack of the piece - the catalyst of everyone else's coming to terms with what they are.
My favorite bit was Edna's montage of all the superheroes who were killed by their capes - that last one "sucked into a vortex" makes me about spit I laugh so hard every time.
This movie is one of the reasons I'm so grateful to have a toddler right now - I may never have seen it if not for him.
On a completely different note, another one for me is Ralph Fiennes in Quiz Show, when he's eating chocolate cake in his parents' kitchen at the height of his anguish over faking out everyone on Twenty-One and shaming his family's name and telling him that it makes him remember coming home from school, getting a piece of chocolate cake and a big glass of cold milk from the fridge, and how he can't imagine ever being so happy again. And his father says, "Not until you have a son." The look on his face right there - all the blood draining out of it. The first time we watched it at home, Ed said "Fuck me in the heart." He doesn't say much. But he gets his point across. ;)
Sheyne:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 21, 2006, 08:22:46 am ---I agree with all of this! I love The Incredibles! And for the very reason you cited - that it's about being true to yourself. I laugh out loud with pure joy every time I see Dash realize he can run on water. Buddy was bound to fail because he was always trying to be something he was not. I loved Edna - "What are you talking about?! YOU ARE ELASTIGIRL!!!" She was like the Jack of the piece - the catalyst of everyone else's coming to terms with what they are.
My favorite bit was Edna's montage of all the superheroes who were killed by their capes - that last one "sucked into a vortex" makes me about spit I laugh so hard every time.
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Yes, Edna is one of the funniest characters in that film.. the line that will stay with me forever "this project has comPLEETely confiscated my LIFE, dahhling".. :laugh: :laugh:
And:
"Go! Fight! WIN! And call me when you're done, dahhling, I miss our chats."
serious crayons:
Oh, are we naming ANY powerful moments? Duh, I guess that's what the thread's title says. For some reason, I thought they had to be sad.
In that case, here's one. In "Casualties of War," Sean Penn's best buddy has just been gruesomely blown up on the battlefield as Sean watched. Now he's back at the camp, shaving in closeup, with the other soldiers talking behind him (the shot is set up like the bathing/peeling potatoes one in BBM, for different purposes). The other guys are talking about the dead buddy; I can't remember what they say. But overhearing it causes Sean, who is their sergeant, to change. As he listens, his face subtly but perceptively hardens before our eyes. We see him transform from a tough but basically honorable man into someone capable of committing a horrifying atrocity.
It was this scene that made Sean Penn probably my favorite actor ... until now.
kirkmusic:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 21, 2006, 08:22:46 am ---
On a completely different note, another one for me is Ralph Fiennes in Quiz Show, when he's eating chocolate cake in his parents' kitchen at the height of his anguish over faking out everyone on Twenty-One and shaming his family's name and telling him that it makes him remember coming home from school, getting a piece of chocolate cake and a big glass of cold milk from the fridge, and how he can't imagine ever being so happy again. And his father says, "Not until you have a son." The look on his face right there - all the blood draining out of it. The first time we watched it at home, Ed said "Fuck me in the heart." He doesn't say much. But he gets his point across. ;)
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Just went and watched that scene again. Yep, that's a keeper. Ed sounds like a keeper too.
rtprod:
I love all of the scenes you great movie buffs have mentioned, particularly Emma Thompson's in Sense and Sensibility.
NOW HERE'S A KEEPER:
Annette Bening's extended close-up in Bugsy after learning that he's been killed. She goes through EVERY emotion in the book in a shot that stays on her face, wordless, for maybe 50 seconds or so. It's one of the great actor's moments of all time, and a director who trusted his actor to hold the camera and us. Then later trusted her to hold everything.
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