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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 5, 2018 1:43:52 GMT
I'm thinking of one, I wonder if someone will mention the same scene.
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Post by rateater on Jan 5, 2018 2:12:00 GMT
darth vader when he's watching the emperor electrocute luke. until george lucas added nooooooo.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Jan 5, 2018 3:35:19 GMT
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 5, 2018 3:58:30 GMT
This is a silent movie but Conrad Veidt in the Man Who Laughs when he is covering his mouth in depression over his disfigurement. Vincent Price in the Pit and the Pendulum when he (as Sebastian Medina) is showing off his torture instruments. Christopher Lee in I, Monster when he realizes he killed the cat. Number 1: Peter Cushing in Tales From the Crypt after he reads the final Valentine's card from people telling him to kill himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fwi0zrlyqE |
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 5, 2018 4:46:44 GMT
Alicia Vikander conveys a lot with just her facial expression in Testament of Youth. No specific moment comes to mind.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 5, 2018 14:49:13 GMT
Late in Akira Kurosawa’s three-hour epic “The Idiot” (based on the Dostoyevsky novel), Setsuko Hara is pleading with the closed-up and unresponsive title character (Masayki Mori) to love her. The man who is really obsessed by her (played by Toshirô Mifune) stands behind them, listening. Mifune stands perfectly still, almost like a statue of himself, but so tightly coiled that you almost feel like if he lets it all out the explosion would destroy the house they are in. Very tense. Of course, credit also goes to the director who set up and edited all the shots in the scene that led to this confrontation (this is true of all the examples in this thread).
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 5, 2018 15:01:36 GMT
One that sticks in my head is a scene from The Heartbreak Kid (1972)--Audra Lindley is at a restaurant with her husband, Eddie Albert, and her daughter, Cybill Shepherd, listening in on a conversation between Albert and Charles Grodin, who has just met their daughter and wants to date her. Her only requirement in the scene is to sit in the background and smile pleasantly, but somehow, without seeming to move a muscle, her smiling face ever so
gradually turns from pleasantly welcoming, to bemused, to disgusted, to horrified, as she listens to this seemingly nice man explain how he plans to pursue her daughter and won't let the fact that he's currently on his honeymoon get in the way of that plan.
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 6, 2018 4:12:11 GMT
darth vader when he's watching the emperor electrocute luke. until george lucas added nooooooo. The noooo, came later? Probably more powerful before. |
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 6, 2018 4:16:51 GMT
This is a silent movie but Conrad Veidt in the Man Who Laughs when he is covering his mouth in depression over his disfigurement. Vincent Price in the Pit and the Pendulum when he (as Sebastian Medina) is showing off his torture instruments. Christopher Lee in I, Monster when he realizes he killed the cat. Number 1: Peter Cushing in Tales From the Crypt after he reads the final Valentine's card from people telling him to kill himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fwi0zrlyqEUnforgettable! |
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 6, 2018 4:18:11 GMT
Late in Akira Kurosawa’s three-hour epic “The Idiot” (based on the Dostoyevsky novel), Setsuko Hara is pleading with the closed-up and unresponsive title character (Masayki Mori) to love her. The man who is really obsessed by her (played by Toshirô Mifune) stands behind them, listening. Mifune stands perfectly still, almost like a statue of himself, but so tightly coiled that you almost feel like if he lets it all out the explosion would destroy the house they are in. Very tense. Of course, credit also goes to the director who set up and edited all the shots in the scene that led to this confrontation (this is true of all the examples in this thread). Agreed, the director is key. |
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 6, 2018 4:20:07 GMT
One that sticks in my head is a scene from The Heartbreak Kid (1972)--Audra Lindley is at a restaurant with her husband, Eddie Albert, and her daughter, Cybill Shepherd, listening in on a conversation between Albert and Charles Grodin, who has just met their daughter and wants to date her. Her only requirement in the scene is to sit in the background and smile pleasantly, but somehow, without seeming to move a muscle, her smiling face ever so gradually turns from pleasantly welcoming, to bemused, to disgusted, to horrified, as she listens to this seemingly nice man explain how he plans to pursue her daughter and won't let the fact that he's currently on his honeymoon get in the way of that plan. Sounds very memorable, not to mention creepy. |
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Post by alittlebirdie on Jan 6, 2018 4:30:05 GMT
Mine is a little more joyful compared to most in this thread. The girl that takes Scrooge coat in "A Christmas Carol" 1951
And with just a look, is encouraging, happy, and delighted. Of course Alistair Sims is brilliant too.
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Post by ellynmacg on Jan 6, 2018 19:53:46 GMT
In drama: In Witness, when John Book (Harrison Ford), having successfully concluded his mission, is about to leave the Amish community, he exchanges a long, intense look with Rachel (Kelly McGillis). That protracted, wordless exchange tells us everything we need to know about their relationship and any future it might have (which is zero  ) . In comedy: In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the two leading slaves, Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) and Hysterium (Jack Gilford) desperately cudgel their brains to come up with a scheme that will save them from painful ruin. When they hatch a plot that requires a corpse, the following exchange occurs. Pseudolus: Dead, dead--who do we know who's dead? Hysterium: I wish I were. The silent progression of Mostel's face from desperate fear to sudden realization to fiendishly hopeful glee is one of the most hilarious transformations I have ever seen. I'm sitting here cracking up as I type, just thinking about it. |
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Holly Hunter at various times in The Piano.
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Post by shangel on Jan 25, 2018 22:20:05 GMT
My pick is Al Pacino in Godfather 2 when Kay tells him.....
"It was a son and I had it killed because this must ALL end!"
The look of rage, horror, and disbelief that visually plays across his face is classic.
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Post by Honolulu on Jan 26, 2018 3:20:10 GMT
darth vader when he's watching the emperor electrocute luke. until george lucas added nooooooo. Oh yes! That's a great scene. It was so heartwrenching. I wanted to cry for Luke and I was so proud of Darth Vader for finally doing the right thing. |
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Post by darkpast on Jan 27, 2018 7:37:12 GMT
a rape scene?
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Post by dirtypillows on Jan 30, 2018 16:26:55 GMT
I'm thinking of one, I wonder if someone will mention the same scene. That requires no contemplation. Patty Duke as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" When she first puts meaning to an object in the climactic water-pump scene, well... let's just say it really does get the water pumping. Just remembering the scene gives me goosebumps. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Jan 30, 2018 16:37:56 GMT
This is a silent movie but Conrad Veidt in the Man Who Laughs when he is covering his mouth in depression over his disfigurement. Vincent Price in the Pit and the Pendulum when he (as Sebastian Medina) is showing off his torture instruments. Christopher Lee in I, Monster when he realizes he killed the cat. Number 1: Peter Cushing in Tales From the Crypt after he reads the final Valentine's card from people telling him to kill himself. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fwi0zrlyqEThis is a silent movie but Conrad Veidt in the Man Who Laughs when he is covering his mouth in depression over his disfigurement.
That is so weird that you mention this movie. I watched a clip on YouTube this past weekend about old movies that modern audience members would not be able to stomach, and TMWL was on the list. I'd never even heard of the movie, and it certainly looked creepy. That smile! Brrrr..... Kind of a brilliant concept.
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Post by sostie on Jan 30, 2018 17:53:03 GMT
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