Tag Archives: Scenes That I Love

Scenes That I Love: Vito and Michael In The Godfather With Dialogue By Robert Towne

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Yesterday, it was announced that the legendary screenwriter Robert Towne had passed away.  One of the premier talents of Hollywood’s second Golden Age, Towne was rightly remembered as the man who wrote the intelligent and challenging scripts for films like Chinatown, The Last Detail, and Shampoo.

Towne was also a well-known script doctor, one whose work was not always credited but which always contributed to the overall quality of the films to which he contributed.  In 1971, when Francis Ford Coppola realized that he needed a scene for The Godfather that would allow Vito to open up to his son and successor, Michael, Robert Towne was the man who wrote the scene.  The result was one of the best moments in a film that is full of great dialogue.

Scenes That I Love: The Wishmaster Meets A Security Guard In Wishmaster

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Today, the Shattered Lens wish a happy birthday to character actor Andrew Divoff!

Today’s scene that I love comes from 1997’s Wishmaster and features Divoff in his best-known role.  The Wishmaster films were kind of silly but Divoff always made them worth watching.

Scenes That I Love: Karen Black Performs in Nashville

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The great actress Karen Black would have been 85 years old today.

Karen Black does not receive a lot of screentime in Nashville but she definitely makes an impression as the driven, self-centered, and oddly likeable Connie White.  Here she is, performing one of the songs that she wrote herself for the film.  The audience was largely made up of actual Nashville residents, who reportedly very much appreciated Black’s performance.

Scenes That I Love: Cillian Murphy in Dunkirk

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Today, we wish a happy birthday to the most recent winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, Cillian Murphy!

While Murphy won for his lead role in Oppenheimer, he’s been an intriguing cinematic presence for over two decades and, of course, he’s been a long-time favorite of director Christopher Nolan’s.  In 2017’s Dunkirk he had a small but pivotal role as a shell-shocked soldier.  Murphy’s haunting performance serves as a reminder that even the most heroic moments of a war often come at great cost to the soldiers involved.

Scenes that I love: Angels Live In My Town From Boogie Nights (Happy Birthday, John C. Reilly)

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Today is John C. Reilly’s 59th birthday.  This provides me with a great reason to share a scene that I love from 1997’s Boogie Nights.  In this scene, John C. Reilly and Mark Wahlberg star in one of the best films never actually made, Angels Live In My Town.

Brock Landers and Chest Rockwell were quite a team.

Scene That I Love: The Casino Scene From Run, Lola, Run

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Today, we wish a happy 59th birthday to director Tom Tykwer.

Today’s scene that I love comes from Tykwer’s 1998 masterpiece, Run, Lola, Run.  Everyone has their own system when it comes to gambling but I don’t think anyone has ever come up with a system as effective as Lola’s.

Scenes That I Love: Laurence Olivier In Hamlet

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117 years ago today, Laurence Olivier was born in Surrey.  The son of a clergyman, Olivier would go on to become one of the greatest stage actors of the 20th Century.  He would also have a distinguished film career, one that led to him frequently being described as being the world’s greatest living actor.

He is perhaps best-known for his Shakespearean performances.  He won multiple Oscars for directing and starring in 1948’s Hamlet.  Today’s scene that I love comes from that film and features Olivier at his best, as both an actor and a director.

Scenes That I Love: Mr. T Predicts “Pain” in Rocky III

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I saw that today was Mr. T’s birthday and, for a while now, I’ve been reviewing T and T, a Canadian detective show that he starred in for three seasons.  I figured I could have shared a scene that I love from T and T but there really aren’t any scenes from T and T that are worth loving.  Besides, we all know what we immediately think of when it comes to Mr. T.

For today’s scene that I love, here’s Mr. T as Clubber Lang in Rocky III:

Scenes I Love: Jimmy Stewart Sings Somewhere Over The Rainbow in The Philadelphia Story

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Today’s scene that I love comes from the 1940 film, The Philadelphia Story, and it features my favorite Golden Age actor, James Stewart, carrying Katharine Hepburn and singing a song that might sound a bit familiar to our readers.

This is the performance, by the way, that won Stewart an Oscar.  Stewart himself often said that he felt the Academy rewarded him to make up for not giving him the Oscar for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.  That’s probably true but still, this film features Jimmy Stewart at his most charming.  Teaming Stewart up with not just Katharine Hepburn but also Cary Grant makes The Philadelphia Story one of the best romantic comedies to come out of Hollywood’s pre-war era.

(Before the war, Stewart was Jimmy.  After he served bravely in World War II and returned to America, he was definitely James.)