Classic Movie Scenes

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[SIZE=1]Which scenes in whic movies do you find to be classics? Is it the "I am your father" scene in the Empire Strikes Back, or the Mexican standoff in Reservoir Dogs?

This is a place where you can go into as much detail as you like about what your favourite classic scenes are and why.

For example, the first one that immediately springs to mind for me is Tom Cruise's dancing scene from [I]Risky Business[/I]. It's the epitome of doing something at home when nobody is watching - just dancing around to Bob Seger's Old Time Rock and Roll in your underwear. It's a funny scene, and to my mind a classic one.

The next is the whole "you know what they call a quarter-pounder with cheese in Europe?" conversation from Pulp Fiction, and the ensuing conversation in the apartment block corridors. It's so well-written that it could really be a fairly mindless conversation you could overhear on the street, and it's fairly mundane conversation spoken by two unique characters - we are not normally shown hitmen as talking crap all the time.

The third is another scene featuring a hitman, for similar reasons, and it is the opening scene from [I]Grosse Pointe Blank[/I], where John Cusack is preparing to shoot a man with a sniper rifle, while talking casually on the phone with his assistant about his high school reunion. It's such a bizarre inversion of what we would expect from such a situation that it always sticks in my mind.

My fourth and final one (for now) is the scene in High Fidelity when Ray (the man who is currently seeing the main character's ex-girlfriend) comes to the shop to speak to Rob (the main character). It's hilarious watching the possible routes for the conversation to go down, from the polite and amiable conversation, to grabbing Ray and smashing his face in with the telephone, then kicking him relentlessly and ultimately dropping a TV on his head.

Brilliant scenes one and all, and I may be back at some point to add a few more, but for now I'd like you to share your classic movie scenes. Enjoy!
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[Shinmaru]

The first one that sprang to mind was the standoff at the end of [b]The Good, The Bad and The Ugly[/b]. Everything in that scene is just perfect -- the music, the way the actors carry themselves, the cuts from eye to eye (The Man With No Name's hard eyes, Angel Eyes' wary eyes and Tuco's slippery, nervous eyes). Man, if that whole scene isn't the perfect definition of epic, I don't know what is.

[chibi-master]

Oh, that's easy! For me, it has to be in [U]Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid[/U]! I beleive it's along the lines of this, but my memory may be fuzzy...

One guy: JUMP!
Other guy: I can't!
One guy: Why not?!
Other guy: I-I can't swim!
One guy: Are you nuts, the fall will probably kill ya'!

[eleanor]

[font=trebuchet ms] [b]Cinema Paradiso[/b], when at the end [spoiler]the main character watches the reel given to him and he realizes it is every kiss cut out from the movies he saw in his local theatre as a kid[/spoiler]. Very touching, very awesome ending.[/font]

[MaskedRider]

[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn0qHsUQqL0]Greatest Movie Moment EVER![/URL]
You guys are all fired for not mentioning this.

[Boo]

[quote name='MaskedRider']You guys are all fired for not mentioning this.[/QUOTE]
[quote name='DeLarge'][SIZE=1]Which scenes in whic movies do you find to be classics? Is it [b]the "I am your father" scene in the Empire Strikes Back[/b], or the Mexican standoff in Reservoir Dogs?[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
[size=1]lol, major irony.[/size]

[visualkei]

Hey, these movies aren't so old to be considered "classic" but these scenes show up in every other joke.

The scene in Blair Witch Project where the girl is crying into her camera. Didn't care much for the movie, but if you watched t.v. in the 90's, you were probably sick of the parodies.

Then the one from The Sixth Sense where the kid says "I see dead people." Good movie. I still hear those "I see __________" jokes.