Certain movie moments become so well-known that they manage to eclipse the larger movies in which they feature. Every movie aims to create a poignant moment that will later play a significant role in cinematic culture. Here are few of those lines which have captured attention like never before.
10. Glengarry Glenn Ross (“Put That Coffee Down”)
Glengarry Glenn Ross, a movie with a star-studded cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning play as its foundation, is out now. However, the film’s breakout star was then-newcomer Alec Baldwin, whose one scene does not appear in the original play. While the memory of the movie has partly faded, Baldwin’s strong performance, filled with endlessly quotable lines like, “Put that coffee down!”, “Always Be Closing”, and “F*ck you! That’s my name!”.
9. Basic Instinct (Uncrossing The Legs)
The provocative director Paul Verhoeven creates an erotic thriller in Basic Instinct that amplifies the sensuality and violence elements common to the genre. The finest of them is when Catherine Tramell, played by Sharon Stone, quickly uncrosses and recrosses her legs in front of a roomful of investigators.
8. Risky Business (Home Alone Dance)
Risky Business epitomises the adolescent desire of escaping parental control in numerous ways. The moment Cruise entered the picture while playing Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” while just wearing a shirt, socks, and his tighty-whities, he became an overnight sensation.
7. Up (Carl And Ellie’s Montage)
The Up opening sequence frequently comes up in assessments of the saddest Pixar moments. A masterwork in visual storytelling, the emotional, largely silent montage of Carl and Ellie’s lifetime love appears to cover the whole spectrum of human emotion. The mostly spoken but intensely felt sorrow that hangs over the joyful story gives it additional weight.
6. Deep Blue Sea (Surprise Shark Attack)
A really legendary cinematic death is thought to have been Samuel L. Jackson’s shark bite demise in Deep Blue Sea. The moment when Samuel L. Jackson’s character, the commanding Russell Franklin, gets abducted by a shark in the middle of a stirring and sincere speech in Deep Blue Sea is the film’s one really memorable moment.
5. Mac And Me (Wheelchair Off A Cliff)
The infamous E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial parody Mac and Me has gained a cult following over time. However, because to Paul Rudd’s ongoing practical joke on Conan O’Brien, most viewers will only recognise it for one scene. Every Paul Rudd Conan appearance since 2004 has included a sequence from Mac and Me in which the wheelchair-using protagonist breaks control and falls down a cliff into a body of water.
4. Taken (The Phone Call)
Liam Neeson’s career as an action star was launched by the film, which also (for better or worse) affected the visual style of action films for roughly ten years. Moviegoers often recall and quote the famous phone conversation scene in which Liam Neeson threatens, “I will find you, and I will kill you.”
3. A Few Good Men (“You Can’t Handle The Truth!”)
“You can’t handle the truth!” yells Nicholson’s character in the famous statement. The general presents a striking and convincing defence in a speech that is heartbreaking. It is one of the greatest monologues in cinema history made possible by Nicholson’s stirring performance and Sorkin’s talent for evocative prose. As a result, the monologue inexorably eclipses the rest of the movie.
2. Thelma & Louise (Driving Off The Canyon)
Thelma and Louise famously drive their vehicle off a cliff while evading the police in the film’s climactic sequence, which manages to seem triumphant despite its sombre undertones. For first-time viewers who are aware of the horrible destiny that awaits Thelma and Louise at the conclusion of their journey, the scene’s enormous popularity lends a new depth to the story.
1. Free Willy (Willy Goes Free)
Even though the plot of rescue Willy, about an orphaned child who befriends a caged orca and attempts to rescue him, is fairly cliche and well-known, the sequence where Willy leaps over a stone wall to freedom has an emotional impact that has helped it to endure.
