Memorable Movie Moments

Oscar season may be over for another year, but here's a thought: at awards ceremonies prizes are presented for entire films or entire ingredients of, and contributions to, a film. Whatever the overall quality of a movie, of its ingredients and contributors as a whole, there's usually one scene, one moment even, that stands out in memorable excellence, even in movies never nominated for awards. I decided to make a list of the top half dozen scenes/moments which stand out, for me, as classic, from the hundreds or thousands of films I've seen during my life. These scenes needed no struggle at all to remember, even though the movies come from decades past.

My nominations for best moments (in no particular order):

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Ben Hur - Out of all the drama and dozens of memorable scenes, the one I always recall first is a quiet moment, when Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) takes his leave of Esther (Haya Harareet)-
"If you were not a bride, I would kiss you goodbye." She responds with:"If I were not a bride, there would be no goodbyes to be said". What makes the scene so extra special is Miklós Rózsa's wonderful
Love Theme playing in the background....
this is it.

The Victors - The scene nobody who ever saw this movie will ever forget: Christmastime, snow on the ground, no dialogue - it's described by Wikipedia like this"

" ...the detour of one truckload of GIs out of a convoy, for the express purpose of supplying witnesses to the execution by firing squad of a GI deserter (a scene inspired by the real-life 1945 execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik). Depicted in a huge, otherwise empty, snow-covered field near a chateau at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines on Christmas Eve, while the film audience first hears Frank Sinatra singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and then a chorus of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", after the fatal shots are fired. This scene is remarkable for its stark, visually extreme imagery, and the non-combat stress and anguish foisted on GIs during a lull in combat.... The whole film is shot in black and white, and so the black regimented figures of the firing squad and witnesses face the lone man bound to a stake in the midst of a snow-covered plain."

Bridges of Madison County - The scene with Francesca (Meryl Streep) and her husband in their truck, it's raining; they are stopped at traffic lights, Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) is in the vehicle ahead of them. Francesca is struggling with the temptation to leap out of the truck and go with Kincaid as he leaves.




Prince of Tides - The scene towards the end of the film where Tom (Nick Nolte) is driving home. He approaches a long bridge; we hear him narrate as follows:

"At the end of every day, I drive through the city of Charleston and I cross the bridge that will take me home. I feel the words building inside me, I can't stop them, or tell you why I say them, but as I reach the top of the bridge, these words come to me in a whisper.
I say these words as a prayer, as regret, as praise, I say: Lowenstein, Lowenstein".

Cool Hand Luke - Not the famous "failure to communicate" scene, but the scene where Luke (Paul Newman) sings "Get Yourself a Plastic Jesus."

From Here to Eternity - Not that famous beach scene, but the scene where Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) plays "Taps" after the death of Maggio (Frank Sinatra).



Any especially memorable movie moments for readers passing by?