Friday, March 5, 2010

Movie scenes

I always wanted to do a top-X in some category but did not find something that is already done to death. Finally zeroed in on this. Let me have a go (btw this is not ranking but just listing of my top 10 in a random order)...

1. DCH: The scene in which Akshaye Khanna runs home to get his painting equipment after Dimple Kapadia agrees to get a portrait done. The running part in which he is shown to pick up pace gradually and reaches full speed is an awesome scene. For guys who cannot recall what I am talking about, here.

2. Pursuit of happyness: When Will Smith gets to know he got an offer and goes down to the street and clasps in happyness with tears in eyes. My respect for Will has grown immensely after the movie. "This part of my life is called, Happyness!"

3. Gladiator: The hero's hand waving on the grass as he reaches heavens to meet his wife and kid. The background music makes it an amazing scene. Russell Crowe's ending words and action keeps you mesmerized. Super climax!

4. Blood Diamond: When the guy goes to lectern to make a speech in the ending. Beautiful background music again. The intro words initially are also very good.

5. Men of Honor: When Cuba Gooding Jr takes 12 steps to prove his fitness to get back to navy diving after losing a leg. Robert De Niro totally aces this scene.

6. Dark Knight: The chase scene. Even though the whole movie is as gripping, this scene stays in the memory for a long time.

7. The Patriot: The ambush properly planned by Mel Gibson with his young sons to rescue eldest one (Heath Ledger actually!). One can get a glimpse of Mel Gibson level of gore, but the planning he does using limited resources and the revenge seeking make a great scene.

8. Up: One of the best animation movies I have ever seen. The married life part and the background music is just awesome. No wonder the music got the Oscar. Simply beautiful!

9. Forrest Gump: The movie does not need a description (on a different note, do you know that Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction all released in the same year?). This scene stands out in memory.

10. Hera Pheri: One of the rare hindi movies that are genuinely funny and makes you laugh out loud. Every scene has the hallmark of Paresh Rawal stamped on it. The climax fighting scene makes audience go nuts! You can say slapstick, but comes in the category of movies that you just want to watch without taxing your brain much.

List of movies I have watched is by no means exhaustive, but these scenes definitely come to my mind when I think of best I have watched. I am sure I have missed some greats like Shawshank, GodFather etc.. but just cudnt picture a specific scene that captures the awesomeness of these movies.


2 comments:

Ajit said...

Stud list. Usually find background scores extremely critical to create the effect.

Hridesh said...

nice picks... the dark knight scene is studd but the link points to a video with an added soundtrack... I prefer the original one from the film... I think http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=aXpDE7aNN50&feature=related is as in the film...