Classic Movie Scenes

[TripletDaddy]

Since we are doing some old comedy, here are two scenes from one of the best Peter Sellers movies of all time. Peter Sellers is my favorite all-time movie comic and truly was the master. This movie is a Blake Edwards classic and is unique in that it uses very little film scoring, other than the actual ambient noise in any particular scene. Adds a different vibe to the flick.

The movie is called The Party. If you have not seen it, please rent it asap. It is about a bumbling Indian actor who mistakenly gets invited to a party thrown by the head of a large Hollywood movie studio. Sellers shows up and has all sorts of misadventures. When he shows up at the house, he accidentally steps in mud on his way inside the house. This first clip takes it from that point....



In this second clip, Sellers stumbles upon a home intercom system...

[UtahDan]

BEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[8ballrollin]

'the men we admire'

[mpfunk]

The Boogie Nights deal gone bad scene

[non sequitur]

Annie Hall is also one of my favorite movies of all time. This might be my favorite scene:


My favorite scene from Play it Again Sam:

[il Padrino Ute]

It took a while for me to find this, but this is probably my favorite scene from Apollo 13:



For me, the score is perfect in capturing the drama and awesomeness of the launch.

[TripletDaddy]

I was kind of in a classics mood tonight, and no movie sums up the classics more than Citizen Kane. Yes, I know some do not agree that it is the greatest movie ever made. I dont think it is, either. But I DO think it is an excellent movie, and very important in many respects.

For anyone that has taken a film studies course, you will know that this movie pioneered all kinds of special effects and camera techniques that simply weren't widely used before. One of the coolest effects was tracking while keeping deep focus on foreground and background simultaneously, this telling the audience two stories at once. This particular scene is an excellent example...note how the camera tracks from the outside of the house, through the window, all the way through the home, and winds up BEHIND a desk. Very cool stuff. Midway through the scene, you can still see young Kane outside, in vivid action. All of this occurs in one tracked take, as opposed to multiple camera angles.

From a story standpoint, obviously this scene foreshadows the revelation of one of the greatest movie trivia answers in all modern cinema....Rosebud.

[il Padrino Ute]

I've yet to see Citizen Kane. I probably ought to watch it sometime.

I've never taken any kind of film class. I'm not that interested in film to ever do it. I just know that I am not a fan of movies. I'll watch one occasionally, but it's only one that I know I'll like. Way too much garbage has come out of Hollywood over the last 20+ years to think I'd like anything today.

Sorry - I didn't mean to turn this into one of my movie bashing rants. If I find another clip of a scene that I like, I'll post it and refrain from commentary.

[SeattleUte]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHkNpbGhgU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAdWKiy-sc

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GHkNpbGhgU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAdWKiy-sc

Good ones. That second one was already posted above.

You should try the youtube link and embed the videos. Just copy the youtube video id (i.e., the last part of the link at youtube - everything after the "v=" part) and then insert a youtube tag and then paste in the video id.