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10 memorable movie scenes
Ξ December 5th, 2007

Written by The Zombieslayer

These are my top ten memorable scenes. These scenes went deep into my psyche for some reason or another and stayed there.

01. Dr. Strangelove - Major Kong rides the nuclear bomb like a rodeo cowboy. One of the more surreal moments in film history.

02. The City of Lost Children - “The Octopus,” two evil Siamese twins, are smoking. One inhales the smoke and the other exhales it. If you saw it, very bizarre and almost spooky, as was the entire movie. Terry Gilliam loved this flick, and yours truly’s a big fan of Gilliam, as you probably already know.

03. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch has a way of getting deep inside my psyche. I don’t know if it’s just me, but of all the scary movies I’ve seen, besides Ju-on 2, I find Lynch movies the scariest. I watched this one in the theatre and the dumpster scene made my heart skip a beat.

04. Lost Highway - David Lynch again. Fred Madison is in bed with his wife explaining a recurring nightmare. He says in the nightmare, he’s in bed with his wife and it’s her, but it’s not her. Suddenly, he looks over at her and it’s not her. If you saw the movie, you’ll remember what I’m referring to.

05. Pulp Fiction - Tarantino’s best moment by far. I don’t care what wannabe pretentious film buffs say. This movie’s head and shoulders above Resevoir Dogs. The fact that that dumb movie Forrest Gump won best picture above Pulp Fiction made me lose all respect for the morons who decide who gets Academy Awards. Anyways, I digress. Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace made one of the cutest screen couples ever, and I’ll never forget “Don’t be a Square.”

06. The Producers - “Your hats. Your jackets. Your swastikas.” I saw both versions and enjoyed the musical even more than the original. And I absolutely loathe musicals, so that’s really saying something. I laughed harder at that scene than any other in that movie.

07. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - The three-way shoot out. The best scene of perhaps the greatest American Western ever (even though it was an Italian movie shot in Spain).

08. Clerks - I don’t ever think I’ve laughed so hard in a movie when Dante and Randall are arguing about the morality of blowing up the Death Star, for there were every day workers on it. Imagine, you have to feed your family so you get offered a job on the Death Star to work on the plumbing. Do you deserve to die? The way they answer that question is classic.

09. Once Were Warriors - Grace’s suicide. Yeah, movie suicides are often melodramatic and almost stupid, but this one hit me.

10. Blue Velvet - David Lynch is not my favorite director. He’s just the guy who gets inside my psyche. I love Isabella Rosselini, but the scene I remember the most from this movie was without her. It was when Ben sings Roy Orbison and Frank listens, going from melancholy to rage halfway through the song.

Any film scene buried deep inside your psyche that pops out every now and then but you’ll remember it until the day you die? These are ten of mine.

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