Your favorite single movie scene of all time.

The assassination attempt on Leo in Miller's Crossing, sometimes called the "Danny Boy Scene". Perfectly choreographed to the second, a funny and bloody tour de force. "The Old Man's still an artist with the Thompson."

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This changes every now and then for me, but here's my current answer:



This movie is the golden standard on how to handle dread and this scene is about as perfect a build up to the final act that the film could've possibly had. Every shot in it - the various main/side characters, the barren shots of the town, Frank's accomplices - it's all utterly perfect. I've rewatched this scene far more times than I'd care to admit.

Here are some runner-ups which I either still love now or which used to be among my favorites:

Apocalypse Now: Ending.
Battleship Potemkin: Odessa Steps.
Blade Runner: Tears in Rain
Children of Men: Cease Fire
Come and See: Shooting Hitler's Portrait
Eraserhead: In Heaven
Johnny Got His Gun: Ending
Magnolia: Frogs
Manhattan: Opening
Man With a Movie Camera: Ending
The Mirror: Burning Barn
No Country for Old Men: Coin Toss
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Ending
Paris, Texas: One-Way Glass
Paths of Glory: Ending
Saving Private Ryan: Omaha Beach
The Shawshank Redemption: Escape
Stalker: Ending
The Tree of Life: Cosmos
2001: A Space Odyssey: Stargate

I'm probably missing a bunch more.

Can't be just one. Apart from the ones mentioned above.


Lootera
Climax Scene
Aamis
The cooking montage
Godfather
Baptism scene
Godfather 2
Vito following Fannuci
Blade Runner 2049
Mesa
The Place Beyond the Pines
Both the scenes of the father & son on their bikes on that curvy road.
Garden State
Infinite Abyss
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Come on Eileen dance scene
Sideways
Miles meeting his ex wife
Inside Out
The Bing Bong Scene
Gangs of Wasseypur 2
The bike chase scene
The Big Fish
Climax scene

I'm with Death Proof...how do you narrow it down to a single scene? For my money, pretty much impossible.

I had this in my post, but while thinking about it I figured "I bet Holden puts this one up," so I left it off my list. Easily one of my favorites also. I just watched this again a couple of moths ago when we were laid up with COVID. Magnificent film!

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I love so many, and so many great ones have been revealed. But for me, to quote a certain 80s movie, "There can be only one!" It's the one in my signature, where Scout sees the "boogeyman" she feared who turned out to be a hero

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Duel scene in Barry Lyndon is one that comes to mind.

There's a scene or two in Chaplin's Modern times that gives me that feeling in my heart. .

One that comes to mind:

Gideon

I'm not sure how you narrow down all the great scenes to one you prefer over all the others.

I've done it for myself by asking which scene I keep coming back to watch and never tire of watching. In this case I judge mainly by script, acting, and the significance of the subject matter.

Here is a case in point: Orson Welles in "Compulsion."

The scene from "Compulsion" is near the end of the movie and lasts ten minutes and can be found at YouTube.

You can't really take it out of context, but the scene where the two children play in the attic in An Event.

Then there's that great Ferris Wheel scene between Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in THE THIRD MAN

So, we're shown a Thompson submachine gun with a 50 round drum (which has already been fired (that burst from the floor to the bed) being seized and fired continuously for 20 seconds. Thompsons, depending on the model, fire at a rate between 800 and 1,500 rounds per minute. Even if we assume that he magically reloaded before taking the gun and assume the lower rate of fire 800 rounds per minute, that's 266 rounds needed to sustain 20 seconds of continuous fire. He would have had to have reloaded with five additional 50 round drums to make that happen. And then he mag dumps into the fleeing car? With what? Bad intentions?





Unless that drum magazine has the capacity of the TARDIS, there is no way he would made it through the first segment blasting that man in the window!

I mean, if that's "perfection" then the Dukes of Hazard was "perfect" in showing us the General Jumping over hills and bridges!

This is the first thing I thought of that I actually felt has some truth. My favorite Alien movie might be the second, but this is the best scene in the whole franchise and the scariest ****ing thing I've ever seen.

ALIEN is all about the chestburster and the spacejockey. That stupid giant in that big chair made the film seem real, ancient and expansive. It solidly purchased our suspension of disbelief. It is one of those great unanswered questions which should never have been answered (i.e., Who are they?). The chestburster is a payoff. It is the "explosion" of horror in the film. It is violent, maternal, sudden, and definitive. That scene got to everyone who saw it. The film was made because one of the producers read the script (and was largely unimpressed), but bought in because of that scene.

And it was the start of a constant exercise in pure terror, which lead to the two in that scene to be more than just horror victims. It was outright murder by the hands of a demon.

Ha! I noticed the same thing. The continuous firing was so obviously wrong that I thought it must have been satire.
Actually if they'd have had him reload with additional drums, the pauses would have made it even more dramatic.