Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Friday, April 4, 2008

Silence of Lambs Screaming Lambs Scene





The Silence of the Lambs was the last suspense-horror film to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

In this scene, the tension is so thick, you can cut it with a knife. Its absolutely mesmorizing. Look at the anxiousness in Clarice as she paces back and forth in the room. It shows her perspective looking at Hannibal as well as well as Hannibal's perspective looking at Clarice. It just helps start this anxious scene.

Also look at, Anthony Hopkins face throughout that scene. His eyes don't even blink! Its like he has no body. Its just a voice and a mouth working. The rest of his body seems suspended. And how can you not love his delivery of the lines. Its so elegant yet incredibly. The topper is when he hands her the file and just brushes her hand. Here is a sociopathic, cannibalistic murderer having his first contact with a woman since being imprisoned. If that doesn't creep you out. I'm afraid nothing will.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Pulp Fiction - The Adrenaline Shot Scene




WARNING: If you are a little squeemish of needles you might not want to click play.

Pulp Fiction is a massive, epic story of the LA underworld. It involves, gangsters, rapists, thieves, and every other kind of low life you could think of. All the stories intertwine. You could name about a thousand movies that copied this formula after 1994.

Prior to this scene, Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) has accidently mistaken Vincent Vega's heroin for cocaine and snorts the heroin, which causes her to have an overdose.

The next scene (the one above) Vincent hurries to his local drug dealer, Lance (Eric Stoltz) to get an adrenaline shot so they could sace Mia's life.

The scene handles realy dark tones with this very uncomfortable It's kind of saying to us "should we really be laughing at this?" Check out some Quentin Tarrantino (director) does with some of these. Just look at how uncomfortably close he gets to the faces of Travolta, Stolts, the needle. It adds to the heightened sense suspense. You have a hard time watching it, but you're absolutely fixated on what's going to happen.

PS I just love the body language of Lance as he watches Vincent drive his car right through his lawn. It's just so "Look at what this asshole is doing".

Glengarry Glen Ross - Alec Baldwin ABC Scene



In the film Glengarry Glen Ross, you have legendary actors such as Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, and Jack Lemmon. Bur it's Alec Baldwin who steals the whole move in about 7 minutes.

The movie was written by David Mamet. His dialogue just has so much bite and backbone. His script shows the dispair of the lives of struggling real estate salesman so perfectly.

In this memorable scene, Alec Baldwin plays a big wig for the real esate brokerage company. He comes in to give the salesmen a "pep talk". He is absolutely vicious. I can't imagine how much this hurt the recruitment of realtors :)



Taxi Driver - You Talking to Me?



Arguably Robert De Niro's most famous scene. And that's saying something! He brings such an incredible intensity to every role and this certainly was no exception.

Introduction

Welcome everybody! In this blog, I will be showing some of the greatest scenes in film history. I will be showing all those scenes that we memorize backwards and forwards. The scenes that have become part of our popular culture.