Greatest Film Moments and Scenes

GREAT MOMENTS and SCENES FROM THE GREATEST FILMS

An extensive collection of the most famous, distinguished, unforgettable or memorable images, scenes, sequences or performances, many from the greatest films of all time

Part 36

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Robin Hood (1922) (aka Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood)

This much-filmed classic, with many amazing acrobatic stunts performed by Douglas Fairbanks himself (such as leaping on and off horses, climbing up steep walls, etc.), including this famous scene in which the Earl of Huntingdon/Robin Hood (Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.) rides (actually, he was on a slide) down a 40 foot curtain drape from the balcony to the main floor to elude pursuers, in director Allan Dwan's silent adventure swashbuckler

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

The point-of-view shot of an arrow flying through the air toward its target, the scene of Robin (Kevin Costner) smashing through a chapel window on a length of flag, and the scene of the prolonged death of the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by a dagger in his chest, in director Kevin Reynolds' romantic costume adventure swashbuckler

Robocop (1987)

The scene of the prolonged, horrifying torture/murder of good-guy dystopic Detroit officer Alex J. Murphy (Peter Weller) in the line of duty by sadistic drug gang punks led by Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), and the reassembly of his terminally-wounded body into a half-human, half-robotic crime-fighting super-cop cyborg; and the heart-breaking scene in which RoboCop (Peter Weller) strolled through his former home (now up for sale), and had intermittent, ghost-like flash-backs of his old life as Police Officer Alex Murphy, with the POV shots of his wife Ellen (Angie Bolling) and son Jimmy (Jason Levine) -- at one point Ellen told him intimately: "I really have to tell you something...I love you!"; also the scene of the poorly-performing product demonstration of the incompetent, robotic ED (Enforcement Droid) -209 prototype ("It's just a glitch"); the death scene of bad guy Emil Antonowsky (Paul McCrane) when he melts and liquifies after driving his truck into a tank of toxic waste (the famed Melting Man scene) and staggers around moaning - and the moment his body splatters explosively across the windshield of Clarence's speeding vehicle, in director Paul Verhoeven's gory and violent sci-fi action-thriller film

Rocky (1976)

Philadelphia bum Rocky's (Sylvester Stallone) gritty apartment with two pet turtles (Cuff and Link) and a goldfish (Moby Dick), his touching courtship with shy Adrian (Talia Shire) ("Yo, Adrian!") - especially in the scene on a deserted ice rink when he runs along by her side as she skates (and their discussion about using either one's body or one's brains) - and Rocky's reason for fighting: "'Cause I can't sing or dance", and the scene of their first kiss at the door of his apartment; Rocky's screaming at trainer/manager Mickey (Burgess Meredith), and his later reconciliation with him, shaking his hand (in an extreme long shot), Rocky's morning training regimen montage including one-armed pushups, guzzling a glass of five raw eggs and boxing slabs of hanging meat in a freezer, culminating in a run up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum to the music of Bill Conti's rousing "Gonna Fly Now," and the exciting 15-round world heavyweight boxing fight finale in which champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) won by a split decision - Rocky's bloody face with eyes swollen - and his plea to his trainer to cut his eyelids ("Gotta cut me, Mick"), and his loving embrace with Adrian following the decision - going the distance, in John G. Avildsen's Best Picture-winning boxing classic

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Wholesome Brad Major's (Barry Bostwick) musically vocal proposal ("Dammit Janet") to Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon); the dramatic entrance of fishnet and heels-wearing Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry) while singing "Sweet Transvestite"; Eddie's (Meat Loaf) escape from cryogenic freezing (singing "Hot Patootie") and his subsequent axe-murder by Frank; the dual scenes of Frank's seduction of Brad and Janet, and Janet's seduction of bi-sexual Rocky (Peter Hinwood) while singing "Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" as they are spied upon by Columbia (Laura "Little Nell" Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) with a video monitor; the major production number "The Time Warp"; the exclamation of names in the dialogue following the discovery of Janet and Rocky making love ("Janet!" "Dr. Scott!" "Janet!" "Brad!" "Rocky!", etc.), the floor show in an empty theater in front of an RKO Pictures logo as Frank croons ("Whatever happened to Fay Wray..."); and the finale with Magenta (with a Bride of Frankenstein hairdo) and Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien) revealing themselves to be incestuous siblings from outer space, in director Jim Sharman's ultimate-audience sing-along participation midnight-movie cult-musical film

Roman Holiday (1953)

The scene of runaway Princess Ann's (Audrey Hepburn) preparation for bedtime (in a sleep-sedative stupor) in undercover news reporter Joe Bradley's (Gregory Peck) apartment and her regal command ("You have my permission to withdraw"), the sequence of the incognito Princess' 24 hour tour around Rome including her haircut, a motorcycle ride, the 'Mouth of Truth' stone sculpture scene (in which Joe pretends to have his arm bitten off in the mouth - followed by Ann's surprise and laughter), the inscription wall, and dancing on a barge, the attempts of photographer Irving Radovich (Eddie Albert) to get some candid shots, the night-time parting scene, and the final press conference scene in which the Princess says farewell to the newspapermen and to Joe Bradley and they both have to pretend that they don't know each other - it is one of the most bittersweet endings of any film - found in William Wyler's charming romantic comedy

Romancing the Stone (1984)

The film's funny opening prologue - a Western fantasy featuring sexy blonde Angelina (Kymberly Herrin) - the heroine of romance-starved New York romance novelist Joan Wilder's (Kathleen Turner) books; the action-filled, joke-rich repartee between daredevil drifter-mercenary Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) and Joan while experiencing dangers in South American Colombia, such as the famous waterslide scene, in which Jack ends up face-first between Joan's legs and howls with delight: "This has turned out to be one hell of a morning!" - and later adds: "One hell of a morning has turned into a bitch of a day!"; the villainous characters including wisecracking, greedy treasure hunter Ralph (Danny DeVito in a star-making role) and the menacing, despicable General Zolo (Manuel Ojeda); Jack's funny line of dialogue that distracts him from saving Joan from a poisonous snake - when he finds a Rolling Stone magazine: ("Dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up! Shit! When did that happen?"); the startling scene in which a man-eating crocodile bites off the hand of Zolo while clutching the much-sought-after gigantic emerald (the "stone" of the title), and the romantic finale in which Jack dives into the ocean to fetch the crocodile who ate the stone, and later reappears outside Joan's apartment with a sailboat and wearing crocodile shoes - and the romantic exchange as they embrace: (Jack: "Yeah, that poor old yellow-tailed guy... developed a fatal case of indigestion. He died right in my arms" Joan: "I can't blame him. If I were to die, there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be") followed by a passionate closing kiss on the boat: (Jack: "I even read one of your books" Joan: "Then you know how they all end"), in Robert Zemeckis' ultimate cliff-hanger and tongue-in-cheek romantic action-adventure film

Rome, Open City (1945, It.) (aka Roma: Citta Aperta)

The shocking, realistic scene in which pregnant widow Pina (Anna Magnani) runs after a military truck hysterically screaming the name of her lithographer fiancee and underground leader Francesco (Francesco Grandjacquet), when she is abruptly machine-gunned and killed on her planned wedding day, in front of her ten year-old son Marcello (Vito Annichiarico) and brave parish priest Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi), in Roberto Rosselini's landmark, neo-realistic post-war classic

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

The two young teenage leads, especially the beautiful Olivia Hussey as Juliet, Romeo (Leonard Whiting) and Juliet's first meeting at the Capulets' dance and their "palm to palm" dialogues; the classic balcony scene, the rousing crowd and realistic fight scenes; the wedding scene at the altar of the chapel and their controversial nude scene during their honeymoon; and the tragic ending sequences including Juliet's potion speech, Romeo's pre-poisoning speech ("Why art thou yet so fair?") and Juliet's "happy dagger" suicide; and the climactic ending with the double funeral procession and tolling bells, in director Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespearean romance-drama of star-crossed lovers

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

The scenes of vapid blonde S. Californian Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and empty-headed Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) dancing at the club, reminiscing about their high school years while looking through a yearbook, and the bragging monologue (a faux business-woman tale to be told at Sagebrush High School's 1987 ten-year reunion in Tucson, Arizona) to the A-listers about how she and empty-headed Michele invented Post-It Notes, in director David Mirkin's buddy comedy

A Room With a View (1986)

The character of young feisty, passionate and ravishing Britisher Miss Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) whose heart and sexuality were awakened during a chaperoned trip to Florence with her spinister chaperone Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith) - and who faced a choice between sensuous passion (after an unexpected impetuous kiss in a wheat field) with handsome and intense free-spirited admirer George Emerson (Julian Sands) and an engagement to prissy suitor Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis); also the scene in which Lucy discovers George, her brother Freddy (Rupert Graves) and overweight Rev. Mr. Beebe (Simon Callow) swimming naked in a pond and cavorting around, in director James Ivory's elegant adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1908 novel

Rope (1948)

The unique technique of long periods of uncut action (basically eight 10-minute takes) appearing to make the film one continuous take - with clever splices between takes, in Alfred Hitchcock's first film in color

Rose Marie (1936)

The lovely scenic backdrops, and the beautiful celebrated duet "Indian Love Call" between Sgt. Bruce (Nelson Eddy) and Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald), in W.S. Van Dyke's musical romance

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Rosemary's (Mia Farrow) constant torment regarding her pregnancy and her guilt regarding her lapsed Catholicism, including her hallucinatory recollection of a rape by the devil ("This is no dream - this is really happening!"); the creepy neighbors Minnie Castevet (Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and Roman (Sidney Blackmer); her first viewing of the child ("What have you done to its eyes?") amidst the neighboring Satanic cult, and her nurturing/maternal response toward the black-draped baby crib and her baby Adrian (Satan's son or the Anti-Christ?), in director Roman Polanski's effective horror film - based on Ira Levin's novel

Roxanne (1987)

The marvelous retort/monologue that long-nosed, witty modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac - Washington State fire chief Charlie "C. D." Bales (Steve Martin) - answers to a boorish bully in a bar, challenging him to think of a better, more imaginative insult for his big nose: ("Obvious: Excuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face?... Humorous: laugh and the world laughs with you; Sneeze: and it's Goodbye Seattle"), in director Fred Schepisi's comedy updating of the 17th century soldier with a giant nose

Royal Wedding (1951)

The amazing, most spectacular dance scene ever created - after being lovestruck by Anne Ashmond (Sarah Churchill) - Tom Bowen (Fred Astaire) tap-dances energetically in the number "You're All The World To Me" on the walls and ceiling of a London hotel room [the set was devised as a rotating cube that rotated at the same speed as the strapped-down camera], in director Stanley Donen's romantic musical

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

The scene of a slightly drunken Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton) in a Western barroom masterfully reciting Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" to an audience of cowhands and bar drinkers, the film's climactic high point, in director Leo McCarey's western comedy

The Rules of Attraction (2002)

The scene in which the camera tracks a single delicate snowflake as it descends and lands on the corner of just-rejected lover Sean Bateman's (James Van Der Beek) eye - and melts into a tear, after Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon) has broken up with him, in director Roger Avary's love-triangle romantic comedy

The Rules of the Game (1939, Fr.) (aka La Regle du Jeu)

The setting of a weekend hunting party at La Colinière - a French chateau at the start of World War II - for this dark upstairs-downstairs bedroom farce concerning the affairs of the aristocrats and the lowly servants; the frequent use of the catchphrase, spoken by director Renoir himself: "Everyone has their reasons"; the much celebrated, darkly disturbing "Dance Macabre" by the servants of the house, dressed as skeletal figures with umbrellas, who perform a grotesque dance of death and cavort among the rich audience, eerily foreshadowing the cold murder of lovelorn, philandering pilot André Jurieux (Roland Totaine); and the incredible dolly shot from left to right as Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio) shows off a large-sized music box on a stage; and the sweet, heart-breaking scene in which upper-class heiress Christine de la Cheyniest (Nora Gregor) admits she loves her close friend - the clownish, middle-aged, low-brow Mr. Octave (director Jean Renoir) in a greenhouse where they kiss each other passionately and hopelessly, knowing their love affair is an impossibility; and the most famous key scene - the graphic slaughter of pheasants and rabbits - and the metaphoric meaning behind the vivid killings, in director Jean Renoir's great classic - a satirical observation of bourgeois life and the social class system

Run Lola Run (1998, Ger.)

The three breath-taking attempts of short red-haired Lola (Franke Potente) to help her drug-dealing boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) by running and acquiring replacement cash of $100,000 marks in 20 minutes so that he doesn't have to rob a grocery store - and have them suffer fateful consequences; also notable for the film's techno/industrial soundtrack and the use of a mix of visual styles, and Manni's reassuring words to Lola at the film's end after a third successful attempt, asking her: "Did you run here? Don't worry. Everything's okay. Come on", in director Tom Tykwer's relentlessly-thrilling hit film

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Robin Hood (1922) (aka Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood)	This much-filmed classic, with many amazing acrobatic stunts performed by Douglas Fairbanks himself (such as leaping on and off horses, climbing up steep walls, etc.), including this famous scene in which the Earl of Huntingdon/Robin Hood (Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.) rides (actually, he was on a slide) down a 40 foot curtain drape from the balcony to the main floor to elude pursuers, in director Allan Dwan's silent adventure swashbuckler
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)	The point-of-view shot of an arrow flying through the air toward its target, the scene of Robin (Kevin Costner) smashing through a chapel window on a length of flag, and the scene of the prolonged death of the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by a dagger in his chest, in director Kevin Reynolds' romantic costume adventure swashbuckler
Robocop (1987)	The scene of the prolonged, horrifying torture/murder of good-guy dystopic Detroit officer Alex J. Murphy (Peter Weller) in the line of duty by sadistic drug gang punks led by Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), and the reassembly of his terminally-wounded body into a half-human, half-robotic crime-fighting super-cop cyborg; and the heart-breaking scene in which RoboCop (Peter Weller) strolled through his former home (now up for sale), and had intermittent, ghost-like flash-backs of his old life as Police Officer Alex Murphy, with the POV shots of his wife Ellen (Angie Bolling) and son Jimmy (Jason Levine) -- at one point Ellen told him intimately: "I really have to tell you something...I love you!"; also the scene of the poorly-performing product demonstration of the incompetent, robotic ED (Enforcement Droid) -209 prototype ("It's just a glitch"); the death scene of bad guy Emil Antonowsky (Paul McCrane) when he melts and liquifies after driving his truck into a tank of toxic waste (the famed Melting Man scene) and staggers around moaning - and the moment his body splatters explosively across the windshield of Clarence's speeding vehicle, in director Paul Verhoeven's gory and violent sci-fi action-thriller film
Rocky (1976)	Philadelphia bum Rocky's (Sylvester Stallone) gritty apartment with two pet turtles (Cuff and Link) and a goldfish (Moby Dick), his touching courtship with shy Adrian (Talia Shire) ("Yo, Adrian!") - especially in the scene on a deserted ice rink when he runs along by her side as she skates (and their discussion about using either one's body or one's brains) - and Rocky's reason for fighting: "'Cause I can't sing or dance", and the scene of their first kiss at the door of his apartment; Rocky's screaming at trainer/manager Mickey (Burgess Meredith), and his later reconciliation with him, shaking his hand (in an extreme long shot), Rocky's morning training regimen montage including one-armed pushups, guzzling a glass of five raw eggs and boxing slabs of hanging meat in a freezer, culminating in a run up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum to the music of Bill Conti's rousing "Gonna Fly Now," and the exciting 15-round world heavyweight boxing fight finale in which champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) won by a split decision - Rocky's bloody face with eyes swollen - and his plea to his trainer to cut his eyelids ("Gotta cut me, Mick"), and his loving embrace with Adrian following the decision - going the distance, in John G. Avildsen's Best Picture-winning boxing classic
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)	Wholesome Brad Major's (Barry Bostwick) musically vocal proposal ("Dammit Janet") to Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon); the dramatic entrance of fishnet and heels-wearing Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry) while singing "Sweet Transvestite"; Eddie's (Meat Loaf) escape from cryogenic freezing (singing "Hot Patootie") and his subsequent axe-murder by Frank; the dual scenes of Frank's seduction of Brad and Janet, and Janet's seduction of bi-sexual Rocky (Peter Hinwood) while singing "Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" as they are spied upon by Columbia (Laura "Little Nell" Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) with a video monitor; the major production number "The Time Warp"; the exclamation of names in the dialogue following the discovery of Janet and Rocky making love ("Janet!" "Dr. Scott!" "Janet!" "Brad!" "Rocky!", etc.), the floor show in an empty theater in front of an RKO Pictures logo as Frank croons ("Whatever happened to Fay Wray..."); and the finale with Magenta (with a Bride of Frankenstein hairdo) and Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien) revealing themselves to be incestuous siblings from outer space, in director Jim Sharman's ultimate-audience sing-along participation midnight-movie cult-musical film
Roman Holiday (1953)	The scene of runaway Princess Ann's (Audrey Hepburn) preparation for bedtime (in a sleep-sedative stupor) in undercover news reporter Joe Bradley's (Gregory Peck) apartment and her regal command ("You have my permission to withdraw"), the sequence of the incognito Princess' 24 hour tour around Rome including her haircut, a motorcycle ride, the 'Mouth of Truth' stone sculpture scene (in which Joe pretends to have his arm bitten off in the mouth - followed by Ann's surprise and laughter), the inscription wall, and dancing on a barge, the attempts of photographer Irving Radovich (Eddie Albert) to get some candid shots, the night-time parting scene, and the final press conference scene in which the Princess says farewell to the newspapermen and to Joe Bradley and they both have to pretend that they don't know each other - it is one of the most bittersweet endings of any film - found in William Wyler's charming romantic comedy
Romancing the Stone (1984)	The film's funny opening prologue - a Western fantasy featuring sexy blonde Angelina (Kymberly Herrin) - the heroine of romance-starved New York romance novelist Joan Wilder's (Kathleen Turner) books; the action-filled, joke-rich repartee between daredevil drifter-mercenary Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) and Joan while experiencing dangers in South American Colombia, such as the famous waterslide scene, in which Jack ends up face-first between Joan's legs and howls with delight: "This has turned out to be one hell of a morning!" - and later adds: "One hell of a morning has turned into a bitch of a day!"; the villainous characters including wisecracking, greedy treasure hunter Ralph (Danny DeVito in a star-making role) and the menacing, despicable General Zolo (Manuel Ojeda); Jack's funny line of dialogue that distracts him from saving Joan from a poisonous snake - when he finds a Rolling Stone magazine: ("Dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up! Shit! When did that happen?"); the startling scene in which a man-eating crocodile bites off the hand of Zolo while clutching the much-sought-after gigantic emerald (the "stone" of the title), and the romantic finale in which Jack dives into the ocean to fetch the crocodile who ate the stone, and later reappears outside Joan's apartment with a sailboat and wearing crocodile shoes - and the romantic exchange as they embrace: (Jack: "Yeah, that poor old yellow-tailed guy... developed a fatal case of indigestion. He died right in my arms" Joan: "I can't blame him. If I were to die, there's nowhere on earth I'd rather be") followed by a passionate closing kiss on the boat: (Jack: "I even read one of your books" Joan: "Then you know how they all end"), in Robert Zemeckis' ultimate cliff-hanger and tongue-in-cheek romantic action-adventure film
Rome, Open City (1945, It.) (aka Roma: Citta Aperta)	The shocking, realistic scene in which pregnant widow Pina (Anna Magnani) runs after a military truck hysterically screaming the name of her lithographer fiancee and underground leader Francesco (Francesco Grandjacquet), when she is abruptly machine-gunned and killed on her planned wedding day, in front of her ten year-old son Marcello (Vito Annichiarico) and brave parish priest Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi), in Roberto Rosselini's landmark, neo-realistic post-war classic
Romeo and Juliet (1968)	The two young teenage leads, especially the beautiful Olivia Hussey as Juliet, Romeo (Leonard Whiting) and Juliet's first meeting at the Capulets' dance and their "palm to palm" dialogues; the classic balcony scene, the rousing crowd and realistic fight scenes; the wedding scene at the altar of the chapel and their controversial nude scene during their honeymoon; and the tragic ending sequences including Juliet's potion speech, Romeo's pre-poisoning speech ("Why art thou yet so fair?") and Juliet's "happy dagger" suicide; and the climactic ending with the double funeral procession and tolling bells, in director Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespearean romance-drama of star-crossed lovers
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)	The scenes of vapid blonde S. Californian Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and empty-headed Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) dancing at the club, reminiscing about their high school years while looking through a yearbook, and the bragging monologue (a faux business-woman tale to be told at Sagebrush High School's 1987 ten-year reunion in Tucson, Arizona) to the A-listers about how she and empty-headed Michele invented Post-It Notes, in director David Mirkin's buddy comedy
A Room With a View (1986)	The character of young feisty, passionate and ravishing Britisher Miss Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) whose heart and sexuality were awakened during a chaperoned trip to Florence with her spinister chaperone Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith) - and who faced a choice between sensuous passion (after an unexpected impetuous kiss in a wheat field) with handsome and intense free-spirited admirer George Emerson (Julian Sands) and an engagement to prissy suitor Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis); also the scene in which Lucy discovers George, her brother Freddy (Rupert Graves) and overweight Rev. Mr. Beebe (Simon Callow) swimming naked in a pond and cavorting around, in director James Ivory's elegant adaptation of E.M. Forster's 1908 novel
Rope (1948)	The unique technique of long periods of uncut action (basically eight 10-minute takes) appearing to make the film one continuous take - with clever splices between takes, in Alfred Hitchcock's first film in color
Rose Marie (1936)	The lovely scenic backdrops, and the beautiful celebrated duet "Indian Love Call" between Sgt. Bruce (Nelson Eddy) and Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald), in W.S. Van Dyke's musical romance
Rosemary's Baby (1968)	Rosemary's (Mia Farrow) constant torment regarding her pregnancy and her guilt regarding her lapsed Catholicism, including her hallucinatory recollection of a rape by the devil ("This is no dream - this is really happening!"); the creepy neighbors Minnie Castevet (Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and Roman (Sidney Blackmer); her first viewing of the child ("What have you done to its eyes?") amidst the neighboring Satanic cult, and her nurturing/maternal response toward the black-draped baby crib and her baby Adrian (Satan's son or the Anti-Christ?), in director Roman Polanski's effective horror film - based on Ira Levin's novel
Roxanne (1987)	The marvelous retort/monologue that long-nosed, witty modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac - Washington State fire chief Charlie "C. D." Bales (Steve Martin) - answers to a boorish bully in a bar, challenging him to think of a better, more imaginative insult for his big nose: ("Obvious: Excuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face?... Humorous: laugh and the world laughs with you; Sneeze: and it's Goodbye Seattle"), in director Fred Schepisi's comedy updating of the 17th century soldier with a giant nose
Royal Wedding (1951)	The amazing, most spectacular dance scene ever created - after being lovestruck by Anne Ashmond (Sarah Churchill) - Tom Bowen (Fred Astaire) tap-dances energetically in the number "You're All The World To Me" on the walls and ceiling of a London hotel room [the set was devised as a rotating cube that rotated at the same speed as the strapped-down camera], in director Stanley Donen's romantic musical
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)	The scene of a slightly drunken Marmaduke Ruggles (Charles Laughton) in a Western barroom masterfully reciting Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" to an audience of cowhands and bar drinkers, the film's climactic high point, in director Leo McCarey's western comedy
The Rules of Attraction (2002)	The scene in which the camera tracks a single delicate snowflake as it descends and lands on the corner of just-rejected lover Sean Bateman's (James Van Der Beek) eye - and melts into a tear, after Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon) has broken up with him, in director Roger Avary's love-triangle romantic comedy
The Rules of the Game (1939, Fr.) (aka La Regle du Jeu)	The setting of a weekend hunting party at La Colinière - a French chateau at the start of World War II - for this dark upstairs-downstairs bedroom farce concerning the affairs of the aristocrats and the lowly servants; the frequent use of the catchphrase, spoken by director Renoir himself: "Everyone has their reasons"; the much celebrated, darkly disturbing "Dance Macabre" by the servants of the house, dressed as skeletal figures with umbrellas, who perform a grotesque dance of death and cavort among the rich audience, eerily foreshadowing the cold murder of lovelorn, philandering pilot André Jurieux (Roland Totaine); and the incredible dolly shot from left to right as Robert de la Chesnaye (Marcel Dalio) shows off a large-sized music box on a stage; and the sweet, heart-breaking scene in which upper-class heiress Christine de la Cheyniest (Nora Gregor) admits she loves her close friend - the clownish, middle-aged, low-brow Mr. Octave (director Jean Renoir) in a greenhouse where they kiss each other passionately and hopelessly, knowing their love affair is an impossibility; and the most famous key scene - the graphic slaughter of pheasants and rabbits - and the metaphoric meaning behind the vivid killings, in director Jean Renoir's great classic - a satirical observation of bourgeois life and the social class system
Run Lola Run (1998, Ger.)	The three breath-taking attempts of short red-haired Lola (Franke Potente) to help her drug-dealing boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) by running and acquiring replacement cash of $100,000 marks in 20 minutes so that he doesn't have to rob a grocery store - and have them suffer fateful consequences; also notable for the film's techno/industrial soundtrack and the use of a mix of visual styles, and Manni's reassuring words to Lola at the film's end after a third successful attempt, asking her: "Did you run here? Don't worry. Everything's okay. Come on", in director Tom Tykwer's relentlessly-thrilling hit film