Lots of great scenes here, too bad I'm all out of Thanks
One scene I've watched many times lately is the final duel from Rob Roy. It's IMO by far the best swordfight ever in cinema. Everything about that scene is just so good. The setup makes sense historically, the fight itself is very realistic all the way through (yes even in the end), it's between two great actors who play the scene great (although Tim Roth almost steals the scene), and of course it's dramatic, exciting and looks good. Looking at this scene it always saddens me that 90% of swordfighting in especially western films is so incredibly poorly done, and the rest tend to be at best okay.
(The actual fight starts around 2 minutes.)
The duel from Seven Samurai is also brilliant in it's own way. It's a great character moment and helps establish the difference between a samurai and a random thug with a sword. (Which is relevant for the rest of the film.)
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Let's add another real vintage scene, from the 7th seal.
Unfortunately there's a major mistake in the subtitles. They are at all times talking about Death, not the Devil. This is obviously a rather significant difference.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Producer and director Dan Curtis is most famous for his TV show "Dark Shadows" that ran from 1966 -1971. He also created the mini series "The Winds of War" and "War and Rememberance".
A production that flew under the radar was a horror film called "Burnt Offerings". It included a rare appearance with Bette Davis and Rex Reed in a horror film role. It seriously creeped me out as a youth.
Oliver Reed drank at my local pub, until he was banned, great actor but a drunken violent mess of a human, his son wasn't much better.
They'd get into fights but then have their minder sort the guys out for them.
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Man, I could post scenes all day here. Let's go with one each from the silent comedy greats.
Chaplin - The boxing scene from City Lights
Lloyd - Safety Last!
Keaton (and I could pick tons of Keaton) - Sherlock Jr.
Just one of many great stunts in that film which is on youtube and is only 45 mins long, so you have no excuse. Full of ingenious scenes, it's one of my son's favourites.
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leaving Hollywood for a moment and going overseas to the great Sergej Eisenstein with two entries
Battleship Potemkin
And the Battle of the Ice from Alexander Nevsky
What's funny is this movie was made in 1938 and was about cruel German Knights invading the Russian Homeland and Alexander Nevsky a Russian Patriot defeated the superior German Knight Army with superior tactics and guile. 3 years later the German's launched their invasion of Russia.
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leaving Hollywood for a moment and going overseas to the great Sergej Eisenstein with two entries
Battleship Potemkin
And the Battle of the Ice from Alexander Nevsky
What's funny is this movie was made in 1938 and was about cruel German Knights invading the Russian Homeland and Alexander Nevsky a Russian Patriot defeated the superior German Knight Army with superior tactics and guile. 3 years later the German's launched their invasion of Russia.
I love that Brian De Palma used the baby carriage on the steps at the station in the Untouchables as a homage to Eisenstein.
