VGThuy
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I thought I'd create a thread where we share all of our favorite specific movie scenes from some of our favorite films. Don't watch my scenes if you don't want to be spoiled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-XHjechNzMo
This scene from Lady Snowblood I think is a perfect example of using violent choreography to show a character's emotion and motivation in a scene. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by this scene when he created Kill Bill and I think it's obvious what he borrowed from this film.
I'm going to cheat and provide two clips from Frances Ha. I fell in love with Greta Gerwig in this movie and I really do think it's my favorite movie of the past decade. It's the film that has most resonated with me and still stays with me.
This scene of Frances dancing in the street near Chinatown in New York to David Bowie's "Modern Love" is really grabbed my attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9MLbpmyWE
Fun fact: I tried recreating this scene once much to the embarrassment of my husband, little brother, and other friends.
Here's another scene from Frances Ha where she explains what she wants out of life. It's slightly embarrassing, but so winning and so real and something I've felt in the past:
https://youtu.be/x-b2Y8ldxZk
My favorite director Hou Hsiao-Hsien directed two movies that are on my must-see lists. One is from the film Three Times where he directs three short films about love starring the two same actors playing three different characters in 1966, 1911, and 2005. The segments are called "A Time for Love", "A Time for Freedom", and "A Time for Youth". The first segment is is traditional Taiwanese Hokkien, the second segment is almost a complete silent film with the dialogue entirely written out, and the third segment is in modern Taiwanese Mandarin.
The scene I'm going to share is from "A Time for Love" near the end where a man in Taipei comes back from army training and has one day of free time. He looks for a woman who has he has connected with at a pool hall in a small town in Taiwan but finds out she no longer works there. So he spends the rest of the day looking for her. At first he is thwarted and can't find her only to find out where she works at and he finally sees her. The woman is seemingly aloof earlier on, but when she sees he has shown up at the random pool hall in a totally different town that she never told him about, she can't help but be giddy and cannot hide her pure happiness in seeing that he found her. Of course by the time he finds her, it's very late and he's due back at the army base in Taipei at 9am the next morning, but they share a meal and a connection and I am simply in love with this scene:
https://youtu.be/isMhRqNCt6A
The above scene isn't translated but she simply says he missed the last train and they might as well wait for the bus (meaning she probably invited him to spend the night with her). The 1960s song "Rain and Tears" by Aprhodite's Child (with pianist Vangelis) segues into the 1911 story in a brilliant anachronistic way which is a wholly different story of a rich patron and a "flower girl" (high priced prostitute who has semi-monogamous relationships with their patrons) who is practically a slave and can only gain freedom from a rich patron or becoming a concubine.
Fun fact: Three Times was a major inspiration for Barry Jenkins when he made Moonlight with the idea of telling one story in three separate chapters.
And here is my all-time favorite scene, the opening of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Millenium Mambo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNEa6sH-zY
This opening scene is just so hypnotic. This movie was simply Hou's observation of late 90s Taiwan as he saw it and the way the youth were sort of just swimming through life without rhyme and reason.
What are some of your favorite film scenes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-XHjechNzMo
This scene from Lady Snowblood I think is a perfect example of using violent choreography to show a character's emotion and motivation in a scene. Quentin Tarantino was inspired by this scene when he created Kill Bill and I think it's obvious what he borrowed from this film.
I'm going to cheat and provide two clips from Frances Ha. I fell in love with Greta Gerwig in this movie and I really do think it's my favorite movie of the past decade. It's the film that has most resonated with me and still stays with me.
This scene of Frances dancing in the street near Chinatown in New York to David Bowie's "Modern Love" is really grabbed my attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9MLbpmyWE
Fun fact: I tried recreating this scene once much to the embarrassment of my husband, little brother, and other friends.
Here's another scene from Frances Ha where she explains what she wants out of life. It's slightly embarrassing, but so winning and so real and something I've felt in the past:
https://youtu.be/x-b2Y8ldxZk
My favorite director Hou Hsiao-Hsien directed two movies that are on my must-see lists. One is from the film Three Times where he directs three short films about love starring the two same actors playing three different characters in 1966, 1911, and 2005. The segments are called "A Time for Love", "A Time for Freedom", and "A Time for Youth". The first segment is is traditional Taiwanese Hokkien, the second segment is almost a complete silent film with the dialogue entirely written out, and the third segment is in modern Taiwanese Mandarin.
The scene I'm going to share is from "A Time for Love" near the end where a man in Taipei comes back from army training and has one day of free time. He looks for a woman who has he has connected with at a pool hall in a small town in Taiwan but finds out she no longer works there. So he spends the rest of the day looking for her. At first he is thwarted and can't find her only to find out where she works at and he finally sees her. The woman is seemingly aloof earlier on, but when she sees he has shown up at the random pool hall in a totally different town that she never told him about, she can't help but be giddy and cannot hide her pure happiness in seeing that he found her. Of course by the time he finds her, it's very late and he's due back at the army base in Taipei at 9am the next morning, but they share a meal and a connection and I am simply in love with this scene:
https://youtu.be/isMhRqNCt6A
The above scene isn't translated but she simply says he missed the last train and they might as well wait for the bus (meaning she probably invited him to spend the night with her). The 1960s song "Rain and Tears" by Aprhodite's Child (with pianist Vangelis) segues into the 1911 story in a brilliant anachronistic way which is a wholly different story of a rich patron and a "flower girl" (high priced prostitute who has semi-monogamous relationships with their patrons) who is practically a slave and can only gain freedom from a rich patron or becoming a concubine.
Fun fact: Three Times was a major inspiration for Barry Jenkins when he made Moonlight with the idea of telling one story in three separate chapters.
And here is my all-time favorite scene, the opening of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Millenium Mambo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tNEa6sH-zY
This opening scene is just so hypnotic. This movie was simply Hou's observation of late 90s Taiwan as he saw it and the way the youth were sort of just swimming through life without rhyme and reason.
What are some of your favorite film scenes?
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