Ten on Tuesday

This was so much fun that I couldn't stop at 10 so I stopped at 20. Consider it parts one and two of my favorite movie moments. 

Ten Favorite Movie Moments

Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.
Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) says this to Robert Redford's Hubbell Gardner in The Way We Were (1973), then brushes his hair away from his forehead.
View scene here: The Way We Were  (3:08)

No dialogue is needed when Diane Lane rides the train to her suburban home after an adulterous tryst with lover Olivier Martinez in Unfaithful (2002).  Lane reveals a gamut of emotions through her facial expressions and through the way she moves her body.
View part of scene here: Unfaithful (1:03)


 

In Out of Africa (1985), Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Meryl Streep) begins a relationship with big-game hunter, Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) only to find that he ultimately belongs to Africa, not to her. On safari, there is a scene where he washes her hair. It is one of the most intimate and sensual scenes in the movie.
View a brief still photograph here: Out of Africa (1:03)


Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer): I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin (Tim Roth): I love you, Honey Bunny.
Pumpkin: All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny: Any of you f***ing pricks move, and I'll execute every motherf***ing last one of ya!

There are so many memorable moments in Pulp Fiction (1994) that it is hard to choose just one. I chose the very first scene because I simply wasn't prepared for the wild, wild ride I was about to take, courtesy of Quentin Tarantino.

View scene here:  Pulp Fiction (warning-language!) (3:40)

When Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) realizes she has been replaced in the Dreams and has lost Curtis (Jamie Foxx), she sings And I Am Telling You. I hate to sound trite but I literally had chill bumps the first time I heard it as she revealed her pain and the longing through her voice. Powerful. View this scene here: Dreamgirls (2004)

In Annie Hall (1977), Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) and Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) are standing in a movie line. This scene is what Allen would like to see happen in real life.
View scene here: Annie Hall

Violet (Lily Tomlin): Why do you think?

Mr. Hart (Dabney Coleman): Because I'm a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot? 

Violet: Bingo.

Violet's fantasy to knock off the boss in Nine to Five (3:23)


You're my knight in shining armor.
Ethel and Norman Thayer (Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda) are preparing to celebrate Norman's 80th birthday on Golden Pond.  In this scene, Norman returns to their cabin after getting lost in a familiar setting.
View scene here: On Golden Pond (1981)






Put the candle back.
A hilarious film by Mel Brooks, this scene features Teri Garr and Gene Wilder.  I think this clip speaks for itself.

View scene here: Young Frankenstein (1974)

Fasten your seatbelts.  It's going to be a bumpy night.
Every scene in which Bette Davis appears is usually a good one.  As Margo Channing, she plays a talented but aging Broadway actress who is befriended by an aspiring and younger actress.
View scene here: All About Eve (1950)

I can't stop at ten!

11. Every scene Steve Martin appears is a movie moment.

12. You're just a kid.  You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. The park scene in Good Will Hunting between Robin Williams and Matt Damon

13. He's a Cinderella boy. Bill Murray in Caddyshack

14. That's so romantic. ~Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon)

*Language* - Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) calling the umpire a c**ksucker in Bull Durham.

15.  I'll dye Easter eggs, if it will works.

After becoming convinced that his slight hearing loss is the result of a brain tumor, Mickey (Woody Allen) begins to look at picking a religion in Hannah and Her Sisters.

16.  I'm telling you, you're coming along at a very dangerous time for rock and roll. The war is over. They won. And, they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it.  

William Miller (Patrick Fugit) recalls being told this by music writer, Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in Almost Famous.

17) You were not.  Amy Adams responding to her new sister-in-law's revelation that she was born in Japan in Junebug. (1:04)

18) LOVE the moment where Bren, Juno MacGuff's (Ellen Page) stepmother played by Allison Janney, rips the ultrasound tech (Kaaren de Zilva):

Bren: What is your job title exactly?

Ultrasound Technician: I'm an ultrasound technician, ma'am.
Bren: Well, I'm a nail technician and I think we both ought to just stick to what we know.
Ultrasound Technician: Excuse me?
Bren: Oh, you think you're so special because you get to play Picture Pages up there? Well, my five year old daughter could do that and let me tell you, she's not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed. So why don't you go back to night school in Mantino and learn a real trade.
19) Another Juno moment:
Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page): What? Cause I got bored and had sex with you and I didn't want to like marry you?
Paulie Bleeker (adorable Michael Cera): Like I'd marry you! You'd be the meanest wife ever, okay?
20) Floor Seven: the media. Sorry, that floor is all filled up.  Woody Allen as Harry in Deconstructing Harry as he descends on the elevator to hell.

And, I could continue.  But, I won't.

Ten on Tuesday is hosted by Yano at yanowhatimean?