• NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There are several for me.

    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): When Splinter and Danny are talking, and Splinter asks about his parents. And gives a line that’s become even more powerful since I lost my dad last year - “All fathers care for their sons.”

    • Waking Life: Really this whole movie, because it’s just scene after scene of interesting ideas and great dialogue, which, thanks to the way the movie is built, doesn’t need to be super-connected. But I guess the scene i keep coming back to is when Wiley is with an old man in what looks like a bar. It ends with a powerful line: “Which is the most dominant human trait - fear? Or laziness?”

    • Johnny Mnemonic: “I! WANT! ROOM SERVICE!” Just a great delivery and a real show of how he’s gotten to the end of his rope.

    • Midnight in Paris: Hemingway’s introductory scene.

    • Casablanca: The ending especially, but also La Marseillaise vs. the Nazi anthem.

    • The Third Man: The Merry-Go-Round scene. It’s a chilling look into villainy, and the obvious fact that Harry Lime was not always the monster he is in the film - because he can’t look at his victims as people. It’s why The Lives of Harry Lime worked as a radio show.

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      1 year ago

      The Marseillaise scene is an excellent choice - a lot of the actors in that scene were actual refugees from the Nazis, so their emotions were genuine and powerful.