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Subject: Memorable Scenes - (nf)
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inmet!frankr    Jan 15 23:31:00 1984

These are some of the scenes that I have found memorable. They aren't
really the top ten. They are more like the first ten that came to 
mind....

1. The Graduate. Hoffman is on his first date with Mrs. Robinson's
daughter. He takes her to a exotic dance joint. One of the dancers
with tassels on her pasties stands above our heroine and manages to
do a propellor number with the tassels. As they (the tassels) spin
just above her, occasionally brushing her head, you can feel her humi-
liation build to an almost palpable extent. Katherine Ross played the
daughter.

2. Alien. Weaver has escaped. She beat the company robot and the Alien. She
is exhausted. Relief and fatigue crowd out hate, loss, and despair. She
is alive and she's safe.......

3. Looking For Mr. Goodbar. In the last scene of the film Diane Keaton's
character is brutally murdered. The lights strobe as she is stabbed.
That movie scared the shit out of me.

4. Seven Samuri. In the climatic battle good guys and bad guys are dropping
like flies. The fighting was sooo believable, not at all like almost
everything else where opponents stand toe to toe and fence. I remember
suddenly thinking that fighting with sticks and swords didn't seem very
glamourus.

5. All that Jazz. Now I am not a dance fan but there was a number somewhere
in the middle of this flick well worth the price of admission. I as recall
the performance was to impress a couple of backers for the musical the
dance was supposed to be part of. The lighting, camera work and choreography
combined to make an exceptionaly erotic dance sequence.

6. A Charlie Chaplin short. Sorry, I can't remember the name of the film, but
she was a lost heiress and he was, of course, the Litttle Tramp. There was a 
gypsy wagon that they lived in and while I can't remember much else, the scenes
where he courts her stay with me. He played the quintessential mixture
of waif and knight errant.

7. Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea. Sara Miles plays a lonely widow
trying to raise an adolescent son. Kris Kristoferson plays the sailor who
falls in love with her. At one point he is showing her around his ship. They
step into the engine room. For just a moment you see her poised above a row of
huge pistons. As a demonstration, the engine is turned over. The sight of 
those things rising and lowering takes her breath away.

8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Black Knight scene. The English
certainly have a strange sense of humor. The first time I saw this I was
aghast. Arthur and the Knight played it so straight. When his arm gets loped
off and the blood just spews out, I was shocked. By the time the Knight was
threatening to knaw on Arthur's instep I was laughing hysterically. Damn 
clever, those Europeans.

9. Close encounters of the Third Kind. I liked the opening scene of this one.
That poor interpreter! He was trapped out in the middle of nowhere, sur-
ronded by men who could barely contain their excitement. The things they
said didn't make any sense. The things he saw didn't make any sense. You
could hear an edge of something, not quite hysteria, creep into his voice
as he shouted over the roar of the of the circa 1945 war planes , "I don't
understand!"

10. harold and maude. Wow! Remember when he set himself on fire while his
mother was interviewing his date? Remember the traffic cop? How about the
analyst? "Everyone wants to make love to their mother, Harold. What I can't 
understand is why you want to make love to your *grand*mother!" "When I think
of your young flesh....co-mingling...." And the ending, do you remember how 
you felt the first time you saw the ending?!

These from my girlfriend:
Romeo and Juliet. The bedroom scene where you get to see Romeo's ass.
The last scene of Doctor Zhivago when he loses her forever.
The Last Tango in Paris. The scene where they f--k standing up.
The march to the sea scene in Ghandi.
The national anthem (French vrs the Germans) scene in Casa Balanca.
The love scene Liana.


Franklin Reynolds
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