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There’s a scene in The Godfather Part 2 that I just love. I don’t know exactly why, except that all the ingredients of the scene make it as delicious as the food the characters are eating looks.

The scene is a flashback scene where Vito, Tessio, and Clemenza are discussing payment to Don Fanucci. To me the scene is just perfect.

Tessio seems to be an easy part to play and is almost simply occupying a chair in the room because Tessio doesn’t really stand out as a strong personality ever, at least in my mind. He’s a major figure in Vito’s organization eventually, probably mostly because he’s a longtime friend of Vito’s.

Vito is approaching what I view as a major moment in his rise to power. It’s what we expect as the audience. This is Vito’s moment in this look back in the family’s history.

The real prize in this scene, to me, is Clemenza. I haven’t read Mario Puzo’s books, and I’m not terribly familiar with much of Bruno Kirby’s other work, maybe aside from his role in City Slickers; however, I just love how he portrays Fat Clemenza in this scene. Clemenza, the man that was shown to be ready to shoot a police officer during a rug heist(?), the man that shoved a sack full of pistols into Vito’s apartment through the window, and from what we’re given- the man that introduced Vito into this type of life in America, is visibly trying to wrap his brain around what Vito is proposing.

Even as the camera shifts to a longer view, showing the trio as they toast to the plan, you can see Clemenza is baffled by what’s happening.

I watch this scene twice just about every time I watch this movie. I can’t explain why it hooked me the first time, other than to say it felt like such a perfect scene. Now it’s definitely a scene that I love.

Is there a movie scene that you love? Why?

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I've got too many to count. Here's one:




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I love the penultimate scene of Legends of the Fall. The image of Alfred aiming the levergun as the music crescendos, the pride of Col Ludlow as if he knew Alfred would come through all along, and then how Alfred jacks another round in the 1873 Winchester just gives me chills. It is one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite films.

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Why? Because it seems to encompass much more than a poignant scene in a good movie.


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I think my favorite is the airboats racing through the bayous in Live and Let Die. Always thought the photography was well choreographed with the music.
 
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Two favorites of mine from True Grit. Both the 1969 original and the Coen Bros. remake:
The shooting of Emmett Quincy in the Dugout.


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Silverado, light through the bullet holes, dunno, just like the whole deal, pretty cool way to start a western.
 
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The opening to Quantum of Solace
V12 manual Aston & an MP5 being chased be a couple V6 Alfas

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Roy Batty's dying speech in Bladerunner

J.L. Chamberlain ordering "fix bayonets" in Gettysburg.


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At the beginning of "Twelve O'clock High," Dean Jagger (playing Maj Harvey Stovall) visits his old bomber base in the UK and has his flashback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTnqdeDrjE
 
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The opening to Quantum of Solace
V12 manual Aston & an MP5 being chased be a couple V6 Alfas


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At the beginning of "Twelve O'clock High," Dean Jagger (playing Maj Harvey Stovall) visits his old bomber base in the UK and has his flashback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTnqdeDrjE

Well played, Sigmund


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I like the courtroom scene from My Cousin Vinny where she explains how the kid’s car could not have made the tire marks.

I like it to start with the voi dere to vet her as an expert.



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"So 1100 men went in the water. 316 men came out. The sharks took the rest..."

Of course it's from Jaws. The sequence in the main cabin of the Orca when Quint and Hooper started bragging about their "battle" scars, then leading into Quint recounting his ordeal being in the water after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

That movie and in particular Robert Shaw's performance of the storytelling during that scene left a lasting impression from the first time I saw the movie back in 1975, and every time I've watched it since.


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Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher…

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The most classic scene in cinematic history.



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So many scenes, but the finale is best



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