Please list moments in Cinema that would get people to watch that movie

On The Waterfront: Charlie & Terry
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It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson." You remember that? "This ain't your night"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.


Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.


You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.

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The way he says "It wasn't him Charley, it was you" "and mockingly repeats "This ain't your night" and proclaims "I coulda been somebody" always struck me just as hard if not more so than "I coulda been a contender".


The one person who should have been there for him, was never there for him. Brando argued in favor of just brushing the gun away as opposed to the gun being on him during the scene. Genius man. Brando knew how disappointed Terry would be in his brother at that moment.

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What's the scene that makes your favorite movies great?

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The ending scene of The Godfather. The character Michael seems to be justified in all his actions, sort of like a good guy who’s just forced into doing bad things for his family. But it’s at this point you realize he IS the bad guy. It’s brilliant story telling of a good man becoming evil that has been tried since, Anakin in the prequels would be an example, but it’s just never been duplicated like it was in this movie. This movie is a masterpiece.

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There is a bar scene in Mojave that is excellent

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But it’s at this point you realize he IS the bad guy. It’s brilliant story telling of a good man becoming evil...

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This movie is a masterpiece.

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Several times even the cinematography focuses on the simultaneous darkening of Michael and the lightening of Don Vito.

When Michael finally shows up for Kay in the overwhelmingly colorful, bright, beautiful New England Fall he is wearing an overcoat and hat so black the light is almost sucked into him. LINK
And the Don at the meeting of the Families is lit with a halo almost making an Icon of him. LINK

The theme of the diminishing of Vito and the ascendancy of Michael drives the whole film forward. Paradoxically Vito rises into light as he wanes and Michael descends into darkness as he rises.

In the top five or ten of anyone's greatest films list.

The Battle of Algiers - Bombings scene

Stephen Ambrose's consistent theme in his WWII books was the triumph of the Western Democracies "citizen soldiers" over the armies of Totalitarian Germany, Italy, and Japan. His appreciation of those "citizen soldiers" gave energy and impetus to Ambrose's efforts to establish the now world renown D-Day Museum.

That theme carried over into his involvement with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks taking a small part of his book D-Day and building a film around it. The theme of the "citizen soldier" is perfectly expressed in this scene in Saving Private Ryan.