Link of Note: Greatest Film Scenes Ever

The Guardian asked several directors which were their favorite film scenes of all time. The picks:  The car chase in The French Connection, the bicycle scene in Jules et Jim, Bill's birthday party in All About Eve, the skeleton fight in Jason & the Argonauts, the wacky final scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the mirror scene in Taxi Driver, the bloody prom prank in Carrie, and the opening scene of Rear Window.

Feel free to post your own favorite in the comments.

4 comments:

Aaron said...

One of my favorites is the scene in The Shining between Jack Torrance and Delbert Grady in the blood red bathroom, where Jack finds out he has "always" been the caretaker.

If I ever went into a bathroom that looked like that, I would have to duck into one of the stalls real quick, because I would shit my pants.

Allen Grindley II said...

The drug deal/robbery gone wrong at Rahad Jackson's house in Boogie Nights comes to mind. It screams bad idea even before they walk into the joint, and the tension just grows and grows from there.

It's a firework-lighting, crack-smoking, Rick Springfield cranked to eleven, adrenaline rush that knocks me out every time.

Aaron said...

We want what's in the safe. I want what's in the goddamn safe in the goddamn master bedroom, in the fucking floor, in the goddamn fucking floor safe! That's all.

Allen Grindley II said...

He's got coke and he's got cash, in that safe, in that bedroom and if we leave here without it, man we're fuckin' idiots, man! We came here to motherfuckin' do something and we can fucking do it, alright?