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[daisyhall1]

Just watched Long Good Friday again and was mesmerised by the closing scene of Bob Hoskins being driven away at gunpoint.
Wondered if anyone had a favourite moment from Brit films.?

[Fellwanderer]

Originally Posted by daisyhall1 Just watched Long Good Friday again and was mesmerised by the closing scene of Bob Hoskins being driven away at gunpoint. Wondered if anyone had a favourite moment from Brit films.?

They've heard mine so often I needn't bother

[Wolfgang]

I absolutely love drowning scene at start of "Don't Look Now" - that precise moment when Donald Sutherland emerges from that dank vortex of pond water with his daughter.

[ddock54]

Originally Posted by daisyhall1 Just watched Long Good Friday again and was mesmerised by the closing scene of Bob Hoskins being driven away at gunpoint. Wondered if anyone had a favourite moment from Brit films.?

Brilliant ,thats the one ,Monkmans music ,a sinister nappy wearing Brosnan and the look on Harold Shands face a true classic.Apparently Hoskins did,nt know his characters fate at this stage and just let the cameras role.His resigned and bemused look just makes the movie..class

[christoph404]

Originally Posted by ddock54 Brilliant ,thats the one ,Monkmans music ,a sinister nappy wearing Brosnan and the look on Harold Shands face a true classic.Apparently Hoskins did,nt know his characters fate at this stage and just let the cameras role.His resigned and bemused look just makes the movie..class

And apparently Hoskins has never met Brosnan, not during filming or since. Their scenes and reverse angles looking at each other were filmed separately with Hoskins reacting to the film crew in the front seats rather than the gun toting Brosnan.

[silverwhistle]

In Excalibur, the revival of the Waste Land shown by the trees bursting into blossom as the knights ride past, with Orff's setting of the 12-13C Latin song O Fortuna, Velut Luna on the soundtrack.

[Third Man]

Originally Posted by silverwhistle In Excalibur, the revival of the Waste Land shown by the trees bursting into blossom as the knights ride past, with Orff's setting of the 12-13C Latin song O Fortuna, Velut Luna on the soundtrack.

What a beautiful and rousing scene, majestic even. I pretty much like the finale between Arthur and Mordred when they lance each other and Mordred says something like "come father let us embrace", grusome but powerful.

I'll go for the meeting of Harry Lime and Holly Martins at the ferris wheel, the way Lime enters the screen and moves from side to side, reminds me of a rat evading it's enemy to garner its own victim.

Simon

[dremble wedge]

Originally Posted by silverwhistle In Excalibur, the revival of the Waste Land shown by the trees bursting into blossom as the knights ride past, with Orff's setting of the 12-13C Latin song O Fortuna, Velut Luna on the soundtrack.

Completely agree. A great scene in a great film.

[D Cairns]

Babs Windsor's top flying off in CARRY ON CAMPING.

No, strike that, this is better: Alec Guinness's entrance near the start of THE LADYKILLERS.

[BruIrn]

Originally Posted by daisyhall1 Just watched Long Good Friday again and was mesmerised by the closing scene of Bob Hoskins being driven away at gunpoint. Wondered if anyone had a favourite moment from Brit films.?

Brilliant scene in a brilliant film. Never fails to affect me every single time I see it. Same goes for the scene when Edward Woodward sees the Wickerman for the first time.

[batman]

How about this little exchange ....

"I admire your pluck Miss?"

"Trench, Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck Mister?"

"Bond, James Bond"

Bats.

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by Third Man What a beautiful and rousing scene, majestic even. I pretty much like the finale between Arthur and Mordred when they lance each other and Mordred says something like "come father let us embrace", grusome but powerful.

Yes – that was fantastic, although they changed it from the way it is in the book: in the Morte d'Arthur (and its main source, the French Prose Lancelot), it's Mordred who drags himself up the spear-shaft to get within sword's reach of his father. Presumably they reversed it so that Arthur would look more heroic.

[dremble wedge]

Blimey, there's loads. A few that come to mind...

Christopher Lee at the top of the stairs in Dracula.

The closing scene of The Third Man with Valli walking towards the camera.

Richard E Grant soliloquising to the wolves in Regents Park in Withnail & I

Finlay Currie in the graveyard at the start of Great Expectations.

Oliver Reed's death scene in The Devils.

Basil Radford talking to London on the phone in The Lady Vanishes.

The dinner party in Carry On Up the Khyber.

Omar Sharif's arrival in Lawrence of Arabia (actually anything from that).

[Third Man]

Originally Posted by silverwhistle Yes – that was fantastic, although they changed it from the way it is in the book: in the Morte d'Arthur (and its main source, the French Prose Lancelot), it's Mordred who drags himself up the spear-shaft to get within sword's reach of his father. Presumably they reversed it so that Arthur would look more heroic.

Yes, I've heard of the 'hard-done-by' Mordred scenario and very interesting it is too.

Arthur states (in-the-film) that Mordred bore his sins, this is a very poignant and indepth point of view, for not only does this exonerate Arthur but it gives him a will to fight.

The sons willing less to embrace his father at the end compounds those feelings. Father and son shall be one, I was aware of the bias towards Arthur but I think Mordred even in the film came out as the heroic one.

Simon

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