Tag Archives: Scene I Love

Scenes That I Love: The Ending of Breathless

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Today would have been the 92nd birthday of international screen icon, Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Belmondo spent the majority of his career in France, where he was one of the early faces of the New Wave and also a prominent action star, famed for doing his own very dangerous stunts.  In America, he was best-known for his starring turn in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.  In Breathless, Belmondo was the perfect existential outlaw, living life day-by-day and obviously doomed but still so incredibly magnetic and stylish.

In tribute to Belmondo, today’s scene that I love is the final moments of Breathless, with Belmondo and Jean Seberg.

Scene That I Love: Douglas Trumbull’s Stargate Sequence From 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Today would have been the 83rd birthday of special effects maestro, Douglas Trumbull.

Today’s scene that I love come from 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.  The famous stargate sequence was designed by Trumbull and it remains one of the most influential science fiction moments of all time.  In one of their greatest oversights, the Academy neglected to include Trumbull when they nominated the film for its special effects.  As a result, the Oscar only went to Stanley Kubrick.  Trumbull was not happy about that and, sadly, Kubrick and Trumbull did not speak to each other for years afterwards.

Despite not being included in the nomination, Douglas Trumbull’s work has stood the test of time.

Scenes That I Love: The Wheelchair Race From Days Of Thunder

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to the great character actor, Michael Rooker.

For today’s scene that I love, we’ve got a fairly silly scene from a fairly silly movie.  Micahael Rooker and Tom Cruise play racing rivals in 1990’s Days Of Thunder.  In this scene, we see just how dedicated they are to always trying to be the first to make it to the finish line.

Scenes That I Love: Peter Fonda Wants To Have A Good Time In The Wild Angels

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In this scene, from Roger Corman’s 1968 film The Wild Angels, Peter Fonda sets forth a manifesto for living.  It’s not exactly a manifesto for living for a long time but it certainly seemed to work for him.

 

Scenes That I Love: Robert Downey, Jr in Less Than Zero

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Oscar-winner Robert Downey, Jr.

This scene that I love comes from 1987’s Less Than Zero.  It features Downey as the self-destructive drug addict, Julian.  Downey has said that this role wasn’t too far from his real life at the time.  Julian’s father is played by the great character actor, Nicholas Pryor.

Happy birthday to Robert Downey, Jr!  I’m thankful that, unlike Julian, he got a second chance.

Scene That I Love: Jack Webb Sets The Hippies Straight

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Today’s scene that I love comes from a 1968 episode of the iconic cop show, Dragnet.  A group of hippies want to leave the United States and start their own country.  Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) set them straight!

It’s always kind of easy to laugh a little at these episodes of Dragnet because it’s obvious that Webb had never actually met or dealt with any real hippies.  But I don’t know.  This episode, entitled The Big Departure, and this speech still feels relevant, even if I doubt it actually changed the mind of anyone planning on starting their own nation.

 

Scenes I Love: Toshiro Mifune Meets Lee Marvin In Hell In The Pacific

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

In today’s scene that I love, two icons of cinematic cool meet in 1968’s Hell In The Pacific.

In this scene, Lee Marvin comes across Toshiro Mifune on the island on which they have both crashed.  There’s not much dialogue in this scene but, when you’ve got two actors like Marvin and Mifune, there doesn’t need to be much dialogue.

Scene That I Love: Warren Beatty, Jack Warden, and James Mason In Heaven Can Wait

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Today, we wish a happy birthday to actor, director, and producer Warren Beatty!

This wonderfully-acted scene that I love comes from Beatty’s 1978 film, Heaven Can Wait.  In this scene Warren Beatty plays a character who attempts to convince his friend (Jack Warden) that he has come back from the dead and is inhabiting the body of an old millionaire.  (Watch the film, it makes sense.)  James Mason plays the erudite angel that only Beatty can see.