Greatest Movie Scene of All Time - Nominations Thread

[Mattrick]

I don't know which scene you mean, Bill. If you mean when you posted five scenes in a row without saying you were nominating any of them, or you posting "Is it okay if I just nominate the merovingian scene" were not following protocol, actually, you didn't follow any of the protocol and in no way indicated they were actual nominations. Did you see how everyone else is posting their nominations, with what number of nomination/second it is, with the year and the director? That tells me and everyone else what is a nomination and what isn't, which cuts down on the confusion. Was you quoting a scene with three thumbs up icons supposed to be a second? I don't know.

Well, you agreed that I made a valid nomination. What's up with that? I think I also made a "valid" second. Can I get anything recorded?

No, I agreed your Lord of the Rings nomination was valid. It is the only thing you've said you're nominating. You didn't make a valid second because you didn't wait for five nominations/seconds before you seconded.

[Merlin1958]

I see!!!


So, the other nominations in your failed threads do not count?

[mae]

"Duck Nipples", I LOVE it!!!!

I'm shocked that it turns out I'm not the only human on the planet who likes the Howard the Duck movie. My favorite scene is unquestionably this:

[needfulthings]

"Duck Nipples", I LOVE it!!!!

[Merlin1958]

Love it!!!!!

[Mattrick]

I see!!!


So, the other nominations in your failed threads do not count?

There is only one other thread.The nominations/seconds which were legitimate and weren't out of turn counted. The ones which were out of turn, in that list you copy and pasted above, are not included and listed so people could re-nominate them if they chose to.

[Mattrick]

Okay, since this got derailed so people don't have to search through it all to count, the last five noms/seconds from oldest to newest were (including my post below):

Merlin1958
NeedfulThings
T-Dogz
amd013
Mattrick

Both the second and the third for Howard the Duck were out of turn.

[Mattrick]

Nomination #5

The Sandstorm - Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Director: George Miller

Spoiler:

[needfulthings]

O.K. I have made my one nomination (ROPE) & then now I have to wait until 5 other people make a nomination before I can 2nd someone else's nomination?

[Mattrick]

nomination or second.

[mae]

I love Rope, it's one of my favorite Hitchcocks, but it's not a scene. Also, it was not shot in one take, that would have been technically impossible at the time, so there are cleverly hidden cuts in the film. But it's an amazing film. Not a scene, though.

[Tommy]

Nomination #6

Scene: The Slap Heard Round the World
Film: In the Heat of the Night
Director: Jewison
Year: 1967

Spoiler

[needfulthings]

I love Rope, it's one of my favorite Hitchcocks, but it's not a scene. Also, it was not shot in one take, that would have been technically impossible at the time, so there are cleverly hidden cuts in the film. But it's an amazing film. Not a scene, though.

Did you read my comment on the film? This film was edited together to give the appearance of being one CONTINUOUS SCENE & only because of the restriction of the amount of film that could run thru the camera at that time was it edited to give it that appearance. Today he could & would have done it in one take.
From The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky.

I stand my ground ROPE is indeed a one scene movie! I also find if interesting that if ROPE is one of your favorite Hitchcock films. Why you don't understand the premise behind it's filming?

[mae]

Yeah, I know how it was made, sure.

Nomination #7: Opening scene from A Clockwork Orange (1971), directed by Stanley Kubrick:

One of the best opening scenes ever, that music and that pull-back shot. Pure genius.

[Mattrick]

Wouldn't that make Birdman or Irreversible all one scene then too? I disagree that just because a movie is made to seem like one long shot, doesn't make it one scene. Then you could also make the case that films like Carnage, The Interview, and 12 Angry Men are one scene since they all take place in seeming real time in one location, or that certain films like Phonebooth or Pontypool, which primarily all take place at the same location with the same situation, are comprised of only a few scenes. I haven't seen Rope, but if it is like other seemingly one take films or single location films, there are still individual scenes or segments in it which separate the narrative with distinct events, changing of cast, moving to different rooms, etc.

I'd just pick the best segment from Rope and change your nomination to that.

[Tommy]

Wouldn't that make Birdman or Irreversible all one scene then too? I disagree that just because a movie is made to seem like one long shot, doesn't make it one scene. Then you could also make the case that films like Carnage, The Interview, and 12 Angry Men are one scene since they all take place in seeming real time in one location, or that certain films like Phonebooth or Pontypool, which primarily all take place at the same location with the same situation, are comprised of only a few scenes. I haven't seen Rope, but if it is like other seemingly one take films or single location films, there are still individual scenes or segments in it which separate the narrative with distinct events, changing of cast, moving to different rooms, etc.

I'd just pick the best segment from Rope and change your nomination to that.

Sometimes it is hard to tell when one scene ends and another begins. Russian Ark is a great one take film as well.

[needfulthings]

Doing more research I have discovered that there are 19 actual one shot movies & 7 edited to appear as one shot movies & ROPE was the first of this type in 1948 & it was not until 34 years later that the next one was made. So my nomination stands AS IS!
If anyone wants to nominate any of the other 26 feel free.

[Mattrick]

It was the first edit "to appear" as one take. Just like Birdman. The first actual one take film was Macbeth in 1982.

[frik]

I will only be making one nomination for BEST SCENE...It was directed by one of the worlds best known & respected directors & has to be one of the most complicated going from day to night with clouds floating across the skyline & the city lights turning on (and all before CGI) plus this scene presumably starts from the films opening title until the end title card in a single take.
So my NOMINATION FOR BEST SCENE is......

Spoiler:

plus walls had to be moved during shooting so the camera could roam around the set. I assume in todays digital age he would have shoot it in a single take.

Bruce, I have no idea what your nomination is. imageshack is blocked for me at work (and I think a lot of other people too), can you please provide a link to a clip?

Pretty sure Bruce meant this as a joke (??) as Hitchcock shot the complete movie as one continuous shot, without any cuts...So one long scene.....
(Of course there were cuts, but Hitchcock tried to make them unnoticeable..)

sk

[frik]

Second #4
"I'm Home" - Planet of the Apes.

I believe that has already been thirded...I could be wrong. I'll update the lists after I make/eat dinner.

It was, by me - see post #21.

sk

[frik]

O.K. I have made my one nomination (ROPE)

So not a joke!
This must be the most original nomination so far!
(It's high on my to-be-nominated list)

sk

[needfulthings]

This nomination was certainly NOT a joke! as the Hitchcock book states "The total effect of ROPE was of one continuous shot, the length of the film being actual time of the action of the story" To the 1948 unsophisticated audience this film would appear to have been shot as one scene.
Just list ROPE as my NOMINATION & let it sink or swim on it's own merits (or should that be LIFEBOAT where the entire movie takes place inside a boat...but that was NOT done in just one take.)But Wait! That movie WAS shot in B/W & one of the voters will not even watch B/W films. I guess that fucks 95% of anything that is FILM NOIR?


Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1973 Hitchcock program. and I was there.



OH SHIT! Did that say It was designed to look as if it had been filmed in one continuous take?

[needfulthings]

I really wanted to nominate the montage at the beginning of Up, but it's not really a scene.

I don't remember a montage in the beginning of that film.

[Sai Sheb]

#3 NOMINATION
film, silence of the lambs
Scene, it rubs the lotion...
https://youtu.be/QRqXBsgnYok

[becca69]

#3 NOMINATION
film, silence of the lambs
Scene, it rubs the lotion...
https://youtu.be/QRqXBsgnYok

#5 Second