Favorite Scene

[mrs_emma_peel]

Totally agree batman and david
I would also add Bond's escape from Piz Gloria scene where Bond fastens on his skis ... and skis out into the darkened snowscape and is caught in Spectre's spotlight and machine gun fire ... is superbly well done and Barry's music here is magnificent.
New 2007 OHMSS trailer:
YouTube - On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Trailer (2007)

[wadsy]

Again not British but after the crucifixion scene in "Ben Hur". Theres a storm

& he finds his Mother & sister in the valley of the lepers cured by a miracle.

Great Miklos Rozsa score!

[batman]

YouTube - On Her Majesty's Secret Service Full Theatrical Trailer

YouTube - OHMSS theme

YouTube - David Arnold On her majesty secret service

YouTube - THE BOND BAND LIVE - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

[stevie boy]

Originally Posted by john audley I have two The first is the final scene in Brief Encounter when the husband says 'thank you for coming back to me' The other is the final scene in The Third Man when he is leaning upon the flower cart and she walks past without recognition. The very best of cinema art for me.

spooky John, I agree with both

[kawolski]

Francis Barbers Adagio in the final scene of The Elephant Man.
Fail to cry at this and you have no soul.

[batman]

Originally Posted by kawolski Francis Barbers Adagio in the final scene of The Elephant Man. Fail to cry at this and you have no soul.

I think you must mean Samuel Barber's Adagio. A wonderful piece of music also used to good effect in Platoon.

[Steve Crook]

Music and emotion? Well the film that always hits me right in the emotions is A Matter of Life and Death (1946). But for most of it the music is quite subtle, it sneaks up on you.

Check this scene. No brash, obvious music. More like musical sound effects.
And at the end of this (not brilliant quality) clip there's one of the many moments that makes me swallow hard and choke back a tear. The American bomber crew have just arrived in "the other place" led by the redoubtable Bonar Colleano. After they've signed in and collected their wings they go through the door where they see something that we never see, presumably the wonders of heaven. We only ever see the reception area, would you judge a city by it's airport?

As they go through the door, a loud, brash airman says "Boy oh boy, home was never like this". The young farm boy following him drawls "Mine was" <choke>
Bonar follows up the rear but there's nothing he can say after a line like that.


There's also the haunting piano progression that you hear in this clip on the stairway and in other places through the film


Steve

[kawolski]

Originally Posted by batman I think you must mean Samuel Barber's Adagio. A wonderful piece of music also used to good effect in Platoon.

Oops, thanks Bats.
Schoolboy error,
should really try to stop posting while on the phone to me mates.

[Freddy]

Walkabout

Watching JA amongst the concrete,materialism, ambition, a cigarette in her hand, cooking for her husband and then the scenes to what once was and might still have been.

The three of them naked, swimming and laughing, happy. John Barry's score and the camera trails to their school uniforms hanging on a branch and a voice speaks Houseman's 'A Shropshire Lad'

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.


regards

Freddy

[donna]

Originally Posted by D'FunK Hi everyone, I am a sound design degree student who has just started my dissertation the subject is music and emotions in film. So I was wondering what were peoples favorite emotional scenes where they felt that the music really made the scene. Look forward to hearing from you all!! Cheers Dean

oh Top Gun in the pub when he puts on the jukie,and sings to the girl, Youve lost that loving feeling.

[donna]

hey what about Moonglow from Picnic now thats class.

[stevie boy]

Originally Posted by donna oh Top Gun in the pub when he puts on the jukie,and sings to the girl, Youve lost that loving feeling.

that scene is a rip off from the Deerhunter.

[vic pitcher]

My favourite scenes are in "Western Approaches" in the lifeboat when the Scots Sparky
sees that the emergency transmitter batteries are exhausted and continues to send, giving a reassuring grin to the young Cabin Boy, Frankie; later on when the tough Scouse AB, Bob Banner diverts Frankie's attention and surreptitiously pours his own share of water into Frankie's dipper.
The closing scene when the "Jason's" crew are picked up by the "Leander", with Banner climbing over the rail and thanking his rescuers and the meeting of the two Masters who are old shipmates, all to the accompaniment of Clifton Parker's splendid music.

[suzepulcheria]

In no particular order:-

Marlene's last scene in "Dishonoured" where she is about to (and does eventually) face a firing squad. She is offered a blindfold but instead adjusts her lipstick using the young soldier escort's sabre as a mirror. Kitsch and magnificent.

Or the last scene in The Graduate when Dustin and Katharine escape on the bus AFTER her wedding to the other guy.

Or the last scene in Das Leben der Anderen "It's for me".

Or the scream scene in the restaurant between Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur in "You Can't Take it With You".

Or Eric Blore doing his (increasingly manic) bird impressions in "It's Love I'm After".

Or Jack Buchanan and Fred Astaire doing their white tie tap routine in the Band Wagon.

Or (Marlene again) the en travestie number in Morocco, or the Hot Voodoo number where she comes out of a gorilla skin in Blonde Venus.

Or the last Donald Sutherland scene in the remake of the Return of the Body Snatchers.

Or the "Each in its Own Way" scene at the final press conference in Roman Holiday.

Or (Britmovie) Jack Buchanan and gang dancing surreally to "So Green" in the garden in That's a Good Girl.

Or (Britmovie) Jack Hulbert dancing down the street to set the scene to "Where There's You There's Me" in "Jack of All Trades".

Or (Britmovie) Vera Pearce in the Exercise number in Please Teacher.