Ping-pong ball trick (Children of Men)
Revenge on the Easter Bunny (Mallrats) YouTube
String of saliva (Cruel Intentions) YouTube
Dance sequence (Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion)
Chainsaw High Noon (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)
Tracking shot turns out to be in mirror (Contact) YouTube
Wake-up speech (Aliens)
Intimidating the stoners (Brick)
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23 thoughts on “Great Little Moments In Cinema”
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The talk between Luke and Darth Vader while a space battle continues in the distance out a window. AHHH
Mallrats has many fine moments. I like the ‘fly, Fatass, fly!’ scene too.
“Turn to the right!” the courtship in Raising Arizona.
The bank heist shootout in ‘Heat’
Mallrats is a generally underrated movie. Much like ‘Last Action Hero’
Ok maybe thats not a little moment.
Martin:”I should have brought my gun…”
Debbie:”What?”
Martin:”This should be fun!”
The cup over the keg pump signifying the end of the party in ‘Dazed and Confused’.
The opening subway sequence in ‘Jacobs Ladder’: The scary figure waving from the window at the end of the subway train. It’s the wave that does it.
Cheers
Malcolm
From John Carpenter’s They Live.
Roddy Piper plays Nada (which is a great character name in my opinion) who has discovered aliens amongst us controlling the media and politics.
“I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
Swimming pool.
Wild Things.
Hmm… ‘little’ moments.
Reservoir Dogs; “Yeah. Give me the bear claw.”
Sonny paying off his credit card debt with the money he’s just robbed from the bank in Dog Day Afternoon.
One of the exchanges between Renault and Rick in Casablanca: “We know there are many exit visas sold in your cafe, but we know you never sold one. That is why we allow you to remain open.” “I thought it was because we let you win at roulette.” “That too.”
First to mind: Lost in Translation; the whispered last word between Bill & Scarlet; a moment which made a film I could otherwise take or leave.
And, another Bill Murray moment, courtesy of Jim Jarmusch: the spiraling epiphany with which Broken Flowers concludes. Oracular.
Personally I love the scene in the last of the mohicans where she jumps off the cliff – fantastic. Love the end scene of Brazil. The rabbit scene in Repulsion and when we meet Norman’s mummy in Psycho.
S
A few unscientifically chosen:
Models happily douse each other in petrol – Zoolander
The “lifeline” class in Donnie Darko
Piano solo by the bartender before they cut to Vietnam in Deer Hunter.
Labyrinth when she walks into the wall, discovering it is just an optical illusion.
Scene in Wild Bunch just before the famous march, when Pike is sitting with his whisky sadly watching the mexican prostitute, and you just know he is deciding to go to his doom.
i like really little moments. tiny. usually where the main characters are shown to be somewhat vulnerable. eg:
in the sound of music where captain von trapp looks at maria when she is all wet after falling out of the boat (honestly, i melt)
when danny looks at sandy, ashamed for being an ass, in the reunion scene in grease.
the sex scene in dirty dancing
in mermaids where winnona licks the lead guy’s leather jacket due to lust.
in moonstruck where nicholas cage gives his jonny has his arm, jonny has his life speech (again with the melting on my part)
and every single moment slash frame of brokeback mountain.
Gremlins 2
When the camera pans past the gremlins in the office, they are on the phones yelling “sell sell, buy buy”.
and when the elevator jams and the heroine asks the intelligent lift to “sound the alarm”.
comedy gold.
“Let’s get some fucking french toast!”
And most every line of the same movie.
The look on Darth Helmet’s face after ludicrous speed.
When Uncle Rico walk in with hurt balls, and says the time machine doesn’t work in Napoleon Dynamite.
David Caruso in “Jade.”
And recently, the demise of The Departed’s William Costigan Jnr. Usually a fairly subdued witness of film, this was one of those rare occasions that the cinema hears me. I had a hunch he should have taken the stairs.
Seeing the film as Scorsese’s eye witness account of contemporary America, this was the pulling of the trigger on a fairly bleak moral tale. A kind of Nietzchean Hero’s Journey.
Pulp Fiction in 30 seconds by bunnies
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Lee Marvin eating dinner with Sissy Spacek (Prime Cut).
Robert De Niro using the phone (Jackie Brown).
Tony Leung giving Maggie Cheung a taste of his mustard (In the Mood For Love).
The theft of the victim’s diary (Blood and Black Lace).
Jennifer Jason Leigh plugging in Jude Law (eXistenZ).
Gremlins 2 rocks. From the Bat gramlin leaving the batman logo hole in the wall to the intelligent building dialogue:
“Hey BUDDY. You’re in the MENS room”
“Fire. Mans oldest enemy. Destroyer of forests, bringer of warmth. Yes, this building is on fire”
Or something like that.
Inspired.
When Meg ryan slaps her daughter Jessie in ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’
When Emma Thompson opens her christmas present from her husband and it isn’t the jewellery she knows he bought in ‘love actually’
The scene with crows and snow, when Jude Law dies in ‘Cold Mountain’
Playing ‘chicken with tractors – footloose
Eyelid Love You (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
OMG! All of Mr Darcy in the BBC version of Price and Prejudice!! How could I forget????????
A chick strokin a cat in a lecture theatre in Inferno.
A dude holdin a radio over his head in Say Anything.
A chick takin a taxi in the rain in Suspiria.
A chick eatin french fries with ketchup in Showgirls.
Chick: “hold me” Dude: “I can’t” – Edward Scissorhands.
If you’ve seen the movies you know what I mean.