10. Gladiator (In the Ring)
Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his
own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family
condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family,
and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the
Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is
the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the
eyes of the man who will feel his revenge. In this scene, Maximus takes
on centurions and man-eating tigers.
9. The Departed (The Elevator Scene)
Two just-graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police
Academy follow opposite sides of the law: William Costigan is assigned
to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello to get
evidences to arrest him. His true identity is only known by his
superiors Dignam and Oliver Queenan. The protégée of Costello, Colin
Sullivan, is promoted in the Massachusetts State Police and is the
informer of Costello. Each police officer gives his best effort trying
to disclose the identity of the other “rat”. In this scene, the two
“rats” share an elevator ride you will never forget.
8. Pulp Fiction (Poor Marvin)
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega
are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their
employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to
take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out
of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to
lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are
woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and
uncalled-for incidents. In this scene, Jules and Vincent are taking
Marvin back to see the boss. It’s brief - but cool.
7. Fight Club (Parking Garage)
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel
primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their
concept catches on, with underground “fight clubs” forming in every
town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control
spiral toward oblivion. Here we see our two main characters duking it
out in a parking garage.
6. Natural Born Killers (Mallory Dances)
The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers, and serial
killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic
mass-slaughters not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks.
Glorified by the media, the pair become legendary folk heroes; their
story told by the single person they leave alive at the scene of each
of their slaughters. Here we see Mallory dancing to a jukebox when a
guy decides to join her… big mistake.
5. American Psycho (Huey Lewis)
Patrick Bateman
is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and
living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning
a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends
into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence. In this scene,
Patrick explains the nuances of Huey Lewis to Paul Allen. We also get to hear Christian Bale doing a great American accent too (he is Welsh).
4. Kill Bill (The Bride versus the Crazy 88)
“The Bride” was once part of a group of world class female assassins,
until the group leader, “Bill” and the other assassins turn against
her. Four years later “The Bride” awakens from the coma the assassins
left her in and heads out to seek bloody revenge. Unlike conventional
movies, Kill Bill
is told in chapter format making the narrative flow more like a book
than a film. In this scene, The Bride takes on the gang of the Crazy 88
in spectacular fashion.3. Alien (The famous one)
When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth,
intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under
obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew
members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they
discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship’s computer
deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help. When one of
the eggs is disturbed, the crew do not know the danger they are in
until it is too late. This is probably the most famous scene from Alien
- it needs no further introduction.
2. Clockwork Orange (Billy’s Gang)
In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every
night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys
quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for
the police to find. He agrees to try “aversion therapy” to shorten his
jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but
the rest of his gang members are still after him. In this scene, Alex
and his droogs meet up with Billy’s gang.
1. Psycho (Shower Scene)
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has
treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they
cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in
alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer.
Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion
leaves town and heads towards Sam’s California store. Tired after the
long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and
pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man
called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. This is one of
the most famous scenes from any horror movie in history.
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